Download OpenRA 20160508

A new stable release of OpenRA has become available. OpenRA is an open source and cross platform clone of Dune 2000 and the Command and Conquer titles Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert. The basic parts, which are sufficient to play the game, can be downloaded from the internet. You do need the original CD for all parts such as music and videos. OpenRA has some improvements over the original games. For example, they can be played in a higher resolution and multiplayer games can be played against players on other platforms. The release notes for this release can be found below.

Release 20160508

Development for this release started about six months ago, and in this time 50 developers contributed a total of 1,232 commits that added more than 14,000 lines of code. So what has changed?

A lot of work went into fixing minor bugs and omissions to make the game experience more pleasant:

• Nod units in the Tiberian Dawn campaign finally use their original silver coloring.
• Starting a game after installing a map no longer causes the player to be kicked from the server.
• The lobby color validator will no longer complain as much as it used to.
• Walls now reliably stop bullets.
• Husks blocking refineries can now be targeted and destroyed.

We have also added the much-requested feature to restart missions and skirmish games, but this does not yet extend to multi-player games. Furthermore, the minimap radar will now also make use of team colors if those are enabled. Health bars can be set to only appear when the unit is damaged. Finally, the “Fragile Diplomacy” option has been removed. UI-wise, issues with the left-click orders have been fixed. Additionally, it is now possible to zoom using Ctrl/Cmd+Scrollwheel (the spectator view and map editor offer two additional zoom levels). Two new modifier keys allow disabling line-building of walls (hold Shift during placement) and canceling an entire build queue (hold Ctrl when clicking). But besides all of that, the biggest changes have been under the hood of OpenRA. We already addressed these topics in the playtest news posts [1] [2]and wiki pages covering them have been updated or written from scratch, but to summarize them again:

If you are interested, the wiki also has the full changelog which lists all of the changes included in this release.