Impressive free and open source RTS 0 A.D. gets an essential patch update

0 A.D. is a free and open source RTS game that saw a first release in years back in January, now an important bug fix patch is out now. This aims to clean up the most pressing issues, as part of their new workflow to get releases out much quicker.

The game has often been compared to the likes of Age of Empires, actually starting life as a concept mod for Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings. It's a full free standalone strategy game like the classics.

See the previous update trailer for some footage on it:

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Here are the changes included in A27.1:

• A fix for the large performance issue observed by some players on older hardware.
• Several small performance improvements in the calculation of simulation hashes (related to multiplayer stuttering).
• Fixed support of Windows 7.
• A fix for modifying your lobby password when you have an uppercase letter in your username.
• A fix for the distorted 3D models with GPU Skinning.
• Fixes for crashes with Vulkan and/or with GPU Skinning.
• A fix for changing player perspective in replays.
• A fix for an out-of-memory crash in the JS engine when generating random maps.
• A fix for the game crash on pressing Fn key.
• A fix for a crash in Atlas when the map generation fails.
• A fix for a memory leak in the renderer.
• Fixes for multiplayer port forwarding.
• Package fixes for Linux desktop environments.
• Various build fixes for Linux (some sent by package managers).

It's compatible with players who do not have the release, as it's just a small essential update while they work on the next major version.