Warzone 2100

Warzone 2100 is an 100% free, cross-platform and open source 3D real-time strategy (RTS) game where the player commands its units in a battle to reconstruct the entire planet after Earth has been hit by nuclear missiles. Being developed by Pumpkin Studios, the game has been published by Eidos Interactive, and its gameplay can be easily compared with the one from the Earth 2150 game.

Features over 400 technologies and 2000 units

Key features include over 400 technologies, over 2,000 units, three big campaign maps, 24 fast play mission maps, intelligent display, interactive message system, fast play interface, quick screen navigation, fast find system for structures and units, single-player and multiplalyer skirmish modes, an extensive tech tree.

Getting started with Warzone 2100

This is a mature game, which means that it is distributed as a quite big file, so installing it from the source package is out of the question for many users who don’t have the time to install all of its runtime dependencies and wait at least 10-20 minutes for the compilation process ti finish.

Therefore, we strongly recommend to install Warzone 2100 using the Software Center app of your GNU/Linux distribution. Most major Linux kernel-based operating system have the Warzone 2100 game in their official software repositories.

Start the game from the Games section of your desktop environment’s Start Menu. You will be presented with a main menu, from where you can start a new single-player campaign, initiate a multi-player game, view a very instructive tutorial about how to play the game, as well as to set various options.

Runs on Linux, Windows and Mac

Another interesting feature is that the Warzone 2100 game runs on all mainstream operating systems, including GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is also compatible with the FreeBSD operating system, and supports 32 and 64-bit computer platforms.

What is new in this release:

• General:
• Fix: Rescale body points if players have different armour levels when transferring units (d0934ff3ad, #4554)
• Fix: Occasional crash when entering host game menu (03d494d366, #4567, #4564, #4546, #4361 and others)
• Fix: Game freeze on clicking on start game in menu (382077800b, #4566)
• Fix: Never put scavengers on human teams by accident (a691778a5f, #4563)
• Graphics:
• Add: We now support higher than 8x MSAA, if supported by driver - do not show 8x if not supported (33057c24ed)
• Change: Optimizing graphics rendering (92b50b7665, c1f697f28a, a70920985e, 486dd8e9c0)
• Change: Increase default resolution to 1024x720 rather than 640x480 (9b0fa9e79a)
• Fix: Avoiding some techniques to hopefully run with more drivers (8a2ff4499d, 4134f82d22, 871fa31c80)
• Fix: Fix clipped letters (9c04d4ad6b)
• Fix: Fix text rendering blend mode, makes progress bar more readable (0bfd217940, #4569)
• Fix: Still/moving helicopter/VTOL animations were reversed (fb9bea5e0a, #4489)
• Fix: Prevent structure turret stretching again (f79286dc13, #4537)
• Campaign:
• Change: Lots of initial campaign ported to Javascript. Discuss these changes in our new porting forum here: viewforum.php?f=51
• Scripting:
• Add: donateObject() works on structures. findResearch() works on other players (839e0b0f5c)
• Add: New function hackDoNotSave(global name) to prevent variable from being put in savegames (ff57dc5733)
• Add: Add setHealth(object, health %) to set a game object's health (62a7c96168)

What is new in version :

• Campaign loading & offworld transport missions should be working again.

What is new in version 3.1.4:

• Loading games with teams & alliances now works again.
• Starting games in alliance mode now always works.
• Order of 'go to transport' now works again.
• Template checks & error messages.

What is new in version 3.1.3:

• Features & Changes:
• Config Dir - the config directory is now named after the version number and located inside the main 3.1 directory.
• On Linux, for example, look in .warzone2100-3.1/3.1.3/
• Rank is no longer displayed.
• We plan on revisiting this when the lobby supports registered players.
• Custom Backdrops - Custom backdrops and credit screens are now supported.
• Backdrops are chosen randomly from files in the base/texpages/bdrops/ folder. File names start with 'backdrop' or 'credit' depending on their intended role. (backdrop*.png, credit*.png ). Image format is PNG.
• In Multiplayer, PING times are now only displayed to the host
• Code stuff:
• We have stomped a bunch of bugs and fixed some crashes.
• A number of problems were found and fixed thanks to static analysis tools

What is new in version 3.1.2:

• This is another release that unfortunately again, has been a very long in coming, and brings along some bug fixes and improvements.

What is new in version 3.1.1:

• This release has been very long in coming, and brings along tons of of bug fixes and improvements, too numerous to list in the change log.

What is new in version 2.3.9:

• General
• Change: Show damage on all buildings
• Change: Use Ctrl-V instead of Tab to paste in edit boxes
• Change: Mouse wheel scrolling in research and build menus
• Fix: Make units follow their orders better
• Fix: Make sure files in sequences.wz override included ones, so localized videos are always used
• Fix: Maps can never override game data
• Fix: Make mod savegames work properly
• Fix: Prevent VTOLs from getting stuck on buildings
• Fix: Properly update player colours in the map preview
• Multiplayer
• Change: Some AI improvements from master
• Translations
• Update: Dutch
• Update: Turkish
• Update: German
• Update: Hungarian
• Update: Spanish
• Update: Brazilian
• Update: Simplified Chinese
• Update: Danish

What is new in version 2.3.7:

• Multiplayer rebalancing
• New top level AI templates
• Bugfixes and translation updates

What is new in version 2.3.6:

• Bug fixes and updated language files.

What is new in version 2.3.5:

• bugfixes
• game balance changes

What is new in version 2.3.4:

• The minimap shows impassable cliffs, and burning oil wells
• When run the first time, use the desktop resolution instead of 640x480
• Fix fire damage to take armour into account
• Optionally use the middle (or left+right) mouse button to rotate the view
• A new 4 player map, Pyramidal, and fixes to two of the included maps
• Lots of other small changes and bug fixes, among those a memory corruption bug present in all previous 2.3 versions

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• New maps and bugfixes

What is new in version 2.3.1:

• General:
• Change: Add the Playstation music track (r10905)
• Change: Put date and time in screenshot file names (r10951)
• Fix: If setting the chosen fullscreen video mode fails, retry in windowed mode (10683)
• Fix: Power calculations (r10770, r10772, r10794, r10885)
• Fix: Crash when loading saved games with different mods than currently loaded (r10531, r10723)
• UI:
• Change: Draw subtitles with shadows (r10681)
• Change: Add "scout" and "disembark" cursors (r10723)
• Change: Improved AI slider (r10725)
• Change: Fast build queueing by holding down shift (r10795)
• Change: Improved map preview (r10901, r10944, r10947, r10962)
• Change: Show backdrops with correct aspect ratio, cut off the part that doesn't fit the screen (r10945, r10948)
• Change: Show videos with correct aspect ratio, with black borders (r10946)
• Change: Show an optional description for challenges (r10950)
• Fix: Subtitles menu option works again (r10682)
• Fix: Make double-click interval game-speed independent (r10736)
• Fix: Display "build" cursor while building (r10764)
• Multiplayer:
• Fix: New improved scav script that operates scavengers individually, helps when they are station in multiple scav bases (r10717)
• DyDo AI (r10773, r10774, r10775, r10776, r10786):
• Update to 2.1.4: Improved initial building sequence and speed, improved the way trucks are moved between groups (r10786)
• Challenges use maps included in the game
• NTW (r10762, r10800, r10872):
• More range for for twin assault cannon, less mg damage against all buildings, a slower tank and cyborg production at start (r10861)
• 1.10 balance:
• Less hit points for artillery, they are all on 25-35% now (r10879)
• remove the lancer rof upgrades to keep the old balance (r10953)
• Translations:
• Fix: Make subtitles translateable (r10685, r10686)
• Change: Disable translations below 50% (r10919)
• Updated: Ukrainian (r10696), German (r10711, r10733), French (r10738, r10768), Spanish (r10742), Italian (r10777), Brazilian (r10785, r10887, r10949), Estonian (r10792), Polish (r10864, r10881), Croatian (r10915), Russian (r10942, r10957)

Requirements:

• gawk
• SDL
• SDL_net
• OpenAL
• Ogg Vorbis
• MAD
• OpenGL