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Widelands 1.2 Released (www.widelands.org)
submitted 7 months ago by Essence_of_Meh to c/games
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Widelands is a Settlers II inspired RTS with single and multiplayer modes. It has Windows, Mac and Linux builds.

Release highlights:

  • UI Plugins support
  • Naval Warfare preview
  • Soldier garrisons for ports and headquarters
  • Balancing changes to the Amazon economy
  • Fifth scenario for the Frisian campaign
  • More settings in the game setup screen
  • Diplomacy handling for the computer players
  • Stick pinned notes onto map fields to mark important points
  • Hyperlinks let you navigate within the encyclopedia and to the online help
  • Easy maps publishing inside the editor
  • High-resolution images for many more units
  • Accessibility enhancements for many user interface components
  • Expose more functionality to the add-ons and scenario scripting interface
  • Fixed many crashes and hangs and enhanced error handling
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Dang, I haven't heard of this before and I still play Settlers II via Return to the Roots. Genuine thanks for sharing.

[โ€“] Essence_of_Meh 7 points 7 months ago

That's exactly why I posted this! There are so many open source and decompilation projects it's impossible to know about all of them.