Download OpenRA Playtest 20150118

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. Playtest 20150118 was released a few days ago, a development version. The main improvements made to this can be found below.

Playtest 20150118

The main focuses of this release were improving stability and performance, as well as implementing some of the missing features that make Dune 2000 unique.

These playtest builds provide a snapshot of our current development for feedback by our testers. You can help shape the future of OpenRA by testing them and reporting bugs or simply letting the community know what you think.

Some highlights in this development build are:

• Added carryalls and sandworms to the Dune 2000 mod
• Added countries (with their own unique abilities) to the Red Alert mod.
• Added an often requested lobby option for disabling the “Short Game” mode.
• Improved performance and memory usage across the board.
• Added hardware cursors support for smoother mouse movements.
• Added new missions: GDI 03, Soviet 01 as well as Survival 01 and 02.
• Fixed Fort Lonestar and the Dropzone minigames not starting.

see the changelog for more details on the playtest changes and bug fixes.

The playtest-20150118 build is available from the Download page.

We have put a lot of work into streamlining our development and release process, which included a shake-up of our Linux packages. We now provide distro-specific RPM via the openSUSE Build Service, but recommend that most users install OpenRA from their main distribution repositories. We have also fixed the “bad quality” package warning that occurs when installing our Ubuntu package.