Our modding community has continued to be a major focus, driven in a large part by active discussions with and Pull Requests from the modders themselves. A sneak-preview of the new download page featuring Linux AppImages. We will be retiring our deb packages and OBS repository as part of this change, but fear not because stable OpenRA releases are also available on Flathub if you prefer a “proper” installation that integrates more closely with your system. AppImages can exist alongside normal distro packages and even other versions of OpenRA, which makes it perfect for trying out playtest versions without overwriting the stable release. Our solution to these problems is to adopt the AppImage packaging format, which allows us to distribute a portable version of OpenRA that should work on most modern Linux distributions. Another long-standing issue on many distros is the (lack of) support for installing playtests and releases at the same time, as players are able to on Windows and macOS.
This has worked well in most respects, but sometimes delays in updates would strand players on older versions, stopping them from playing online. For many years we have automatically generated a deb package, but then relied on downstream packages for other distributions. One big change affects how we package and distribute our “official” OpenRA builds on Linux. We hope to ship these plus many other changes in a new playtest series starting in a few weeks. I wanted to write something to bridge the news gap until our next official news post, so here’s a brief update on a couple of recent projects. Development has slowed down a lot recently, but OpenRA is far from dead.
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