Medal of Honor: Allied Assault open source remake gets its first beta version

The day has arrived! Medal of Honor: Allied Assault including the Spearhead and Breakthrough expansions can be easily played on modern systems, with several improvements thanks to the OpenMoHAA project.

Version v0.80.0 beta has just been announced, in which they said: “Since all the features of the original game have been implemented and stability has increased, the project is moving from alpha to beta.” – so it may finally be time to jump in.

More: “OpenMoHAA’s main goal is to ensure the future and continuity of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault on all platforms/architectures by providing new patches/features. Thanks to the ioquake3 project and the FAKK SDK, OpenMoHAA has already achieved more than half of its goal: an open-source version of MoH:AA (based on version 2.40) that is fully compatible with the original game (in terms of protocol, resources and scripts).”

Pictured – OpenMoHAA on Linux, taken today

There are quite a few improvements to the game, such as full 64-bit support, an SDL2 backend, OpenAL sound support, cross-platform support, many bug fixes, demo recordings, smoother animations, server bots, server IP bans and so on. on.

For anyone who’s tried it before, highlights of what’s new in the beta include:

• For simplicity, 3 launchers have been added to initiate Allied Assault, Spearhead or Breakthrough
• Display

  • Better lighting
  • Stickers/level markers are now displayed
  • Dynamic lights are now displayed correctly, no more issues with flashing on the ground when firing missiles
  • Entities are now better illuminated by orb lights (some artifacts are still present)
  • Solar flares are now displayed

• AI solutions (animations, logic, looking through windows, holding turrets, voice animation…)
• Animation fixes + smoother animations
• Improvement of the audio system
• Better FX
• Briefing videos from Spearhead and Breakthrough and the game intro work
• Crashes resolved
• Demos are now supported using +set com_target_demo 1 start the command line
• Fixed an issue where mods were not loading correctly
• Fixed strange motion artifacts when running the server on ARM
• Fewer crashes
• Network profiling
• Script engine fixes + better mod support

You can purchase the original game with the necessary data files on GOG.com.

See more about the GitHub project.

Running it on Linux was quite easy. I used the Heroic Launcher to download the game from GOG, then put the OpenMoHAA release files into the installed folder and launched it.

Article courtesy of GamingOnLinux.com.