Medal of Honor: Open source remake of Allied Assault gets first Beta

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

The other day the v0.80.0-beta version was announced and they said: “As all the features of the original game are implemented and stability increases, the project is moving from alpha to beta.” – so it might finally be time to step in.

Read 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 much more than half of its goal: MoH: An open source version of AA (based on version 2.40) that is fully compatible with the original game (in terms of protocol, assets and scripts).

Image – OpenMoHAA on Linux, taken today

The game has a lot of improvements such as full 64-bit support, SDL2 backend, OpenAL audio support, cross-platform support, many bug fixes, demo recording, smoother animations, bots for servers, IP bans for servers. Open.

For those who have tried it before, here are the highlights of the new features in Beta:

• Added 3 launchers for simplicity to launch Allied Assault, Spearhead or Breakthrough
• Processing

  • Better lighting
  • Decals/level markers are now rendered
  • Dynamic lights are now rendered properly, no longer flashing on the ground when firing rockets
  • Entities are now better illuminated by orb lights (some artifacts still exist)
  • Sun rays are now displayed

• AI fixes (animations, logic, seeing through windows, holding turrets, conversation animation…)
• Animation fixes + smoother animations
• Sound system development
• Better FX
• Briefing videos and game trailer from Spearhead and Breakthrough are in the works
• Crashes fixed
• Demos are now supported using +set com_target_demo 1 start command line
• Fixed mods not loading properly
• Fixed strange motion artifacts when running the server on ARM
• Fewer crashes
• Network profiling
• Scripting engine fixes + better mod support

You can purchase the original game for the data files it needs. GOG.com.

See more about the project GitHub.

It was pretty easy to run on Linux. I used Heroic Launcher To download the game from: GOGthen drop the version files from OpenMoHAA into the installed folder and launch it.

Cited article GamingOnLinux.com.