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widelands
- recommendations - settlers like games?
- Ja, du kennst alte Spiele… aber bist du soo alt?!
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Commodore Amiga – The Settlers / Serf City: Life Is Feudal (1993)
There's an open source game called Widelands (https://www.widelands.org/) that is very similar in aesthetics to Settlers 2.
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'The Settlers - New Allies' releases on PC on 17th February
Time to move on to widelands.
- Suggest me some game for linux mint
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5 free games updated in the last 60 days
Widelands- Technically a Settlers II clone, it has probably deviated enough now to be its own game. Classic RTS, economy sim.
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Free alternatives to Factorio?
Widelands - https://www.widelands.org/ (Open Source game inspired by Settlers II)
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Can anyone share project files of 2D strategy games?
City builder: https://github.com/widelands/widelands
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Alternative to Banished
None that I am aware of. Closest thing I can think of is Widelands https://www.widelands.org/
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Ask HN: Favourite Open Source Game?
A link for people who might be interested: https://www.widelands.org
MechEngineer
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Mod query
You could just use Mech Engineer on its own, but even that recommends RogueTech or BTA so that you will have ready access to all the components that you need.
- Quirk Idea: Imbalanced crit slots. Is it even possible?
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This game is so replayable. This one is neat because I got options to buy 3 parts of Atlas AS7-D's for like $3.x Million, twice, early. I know I'm slow, but but if you couple this with Master Tactician and a Battle Computer on a Cyclops, they act in turn 3. Then I put MASC on everything.
You might want to pick up one of the mods that includes Mech Engineer for greater tinkering. As the description mentions, both Battletech Advanced (BTA3062) and RogueTech include it, with the latter being more significantly different from vanilla. Lots more customization possible, and both of those mods include a lot for stuff to customize (RT moreso, like... 2600+ mechs/variants, vs ~1800 in BTA).
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Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game
I can heartily recommend BattleTech Advanced if you don't want to go as far as Roguetech. It's definitely tougher, but not as impenetrable as Roguetech is. (Plus there's lots of difficulty sliders so you can probably tweak it to be about as forgiving as vanilla).
I really enjoy the MWO-style mech customization that both of these add (the https://github.com/BattletechModders/MechEngineer mod); one critique I have of vanilla Battletech is that they simplified the mech construction mechanics a lot, and stripped out some of the tradeoffs that make mech design interesting in the canon. In vanilla, you just optimize for free tonnage, and can put jump jets on everything, so there are just a few chassis in each weight class that are strictly optimal for most loadouts; this makes it quite boring as there's little reason to pick other chassis. In BTA/Roguetech you can take an XL engine to shave off a lot of weight, but that means your mech will die if you lose your side torso. Lots of meaningful trade-offs, with no "best solution".
I will admit that my eyes glossed over when I first started the game and looked at all the new part types I had to learn though...
What are some alternatives?
Rootex - An advanced C++ 3D game engine powering an in-production game yet to be announced
endless-sky - Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
etlegacy - ET: Legacy is an open source project based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released in 2010 under the terms of the GPLv3 license.
OpenTTD-patches - OpenTTD - http://www.openttd.org/ - with additional patches
7kaa - Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries - Go to the main source repository at https://sourceforge.net/projects/skfans/ for source code and builds
warzone2100 - Command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has been nearly destroyed by nuclear missiles. A 100% free and open source real-time strategy game for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD+
OpenTTD - OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe
OpenDiablo2 - An open source re-implementation of Diablo 2
PINCE - Reverse engineering tool for linux games
0ad - Git mirror of the 0 A.D. source code (http://trac.wildfiregames.com/browser)
OpenRA - Open Source real-time strategy game engine for early Westwood games such as Command & Conquer: Red Alert written in C# using SDL and OpenGL. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD and Mac OS X.