Download OpenTTD 0.5.0 RC1

The folks behind OpenTTD today – just before Christmas as the developers state – released the first release candidate of the highly anticipated 0.5.0 branch. The test version can be downloaded via this page be downloaded for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, among others. ‘Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe’ builds on the idea of ​​Transport Tycoon Deluxe, on which the open source variant of the game is based, and also includes new and improved features, including larger levels and multiplayer. Although OpenTTD is open source, the game does require some files from an original copy of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Those files contain copyright material and can therefore not be used in an open source game. What exactly has been changed and added in RC1 can be read in this topic on the OpenTTD forum. For your convenience, below is a brief overview of the changelog:

You have waited a long time..well some of you have, but now; it’s done! We are proud to give you the first release candidate of 0.5.0! There have been a huge number of changes since the last true release (0.4.5) as can be seen from this massive changelog. Let me just name a few of the highlights of this release:

• YAPF: a lean-mean C++ pathfinder with far superior performance to NPF and the original pathfinder
• TGP: a customizable random country generator
• UTF8: full unicode support throughout opentd (display, input and output)
• NewGRF: newstations, newsounds, I18n and many more fixes and features
• I probably forgot quite a few

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