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Spring: 1944 is a gratis WWII themed 3D multiplayer game with non-free assets (see License.txt file) based on the libre SpringRTS Engine. A game as realistic as possible, while still being fun and accessible to play.
Games on average take 40 minutes and feature up to 8 factions battling to the last man standing. All factions are complete with several types of infantry, towed and self-propelled guns, normal and rocket artillery, tanks, aircraft and littoral naval assets. The game supports big matches with thousands of units and double-digit player counts.
The latest version of the game lets you play either as one of the axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary), or one of the allies (Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States), or even the Swedish neutral faction. Of course, you can team all of them together as there is no limit to which factions can play in the same in-game alliance.
Spring: 1944 is a full-featured game with complex in-game mechanics. To learn more about, peruse the commented replays here.
4 simple steps are required to start playing Spring:1944:
SpringLobby is the official Spring lobby client. It will handle downloading Spring:1944 and everything else. Windows users may download and install it from the web page, while almost all GNU/Linux users can install it directly from their distro repositories. For instance, in Debian based distributions (like Ubuntu or Mint) you may type:
sudo apt-get install springlobby
Or in Arch-Linux based distributions (like Antergos or Manjaro) you may type:
sudo pacman -S springlobby
After SpringLobby is installed and launched, you can create a new spring lobby user account:
In the Edit menu, pick "Autojoin channels" and add "s44" to the list of channels. Press "OK" and you will join the chatroom.
There are usually at least one official room for playing Spring:1944. You can join by double-clicking on one of them:
SpringLobby will ask for confirmation to download the engine, game and map:
And will join the game-room! Be patient as SpringLobby downloads the appropriate engine and game versions and the required map. While waiting for the downloads to complete (about 300 MB), you can check out our official website.
If you have problems downloading, check your antivirus. In any case, inform us in the s44 channel, that you joined earlier.
Now you must wait for other players. Sometimes it would take some time… Don't despair… it'll come, eventually…
If you are forever alone, seek us out during European evenings or on the s44 channel (in Tools → Join channel type "s44").
After you joined one of the official rooms, Springlobby has already downloaded the game and a map, so you can play a skirmish. To this end, go to the Skirmish tab and select the latest Spring: 1944 game from the Game list, an arbitrary map from the list, and the 105.0 Engine:
After that click on "Add bot...", and add one or more C.R.A.I.G. bots. Do not try to use any other kind of bot!
Before start, you can take a look to the Options tab, where the difficulty of the bots can be tweaked.
- Official website: https://spring1944.net
- IRC (live help): #s44 on freenode (irc.freenode.net) click here (webchat)
- Matrix (live help): Matrix channel s44 click here for webchat
- Forum: our dedicated forum and the springrts community subforum
- Wiki: https://github.com/spring1944/spring1944/wiki
- GitHub: link
- Game demo repository: here bulk downloads here
- Mid-range x86 64-bit game machine built in the last 8 or so years.
- GNU/Linux, Windows or (depending on your skill level - manual engine downloads on the forum) macOS.
If you find yourself to be alone, come to our lobby chat channel and do not hesitate to ask for a game. To achieve that you can use SpringLobby IRC client, by clicking Tools/Join Channel…:
To make SpringLobby auto-connect to the channel right away, use Edit/Autojoin channels:
After joining the channel, you can chat at tab Chat.
We can usually be found every evening (GMT) in the development room where you can join us in testing two new factions: Hungary has been added to the axis team and Sweden is available to those who would rather not to pick sides in the war.
Some versions of SpringLobby have an annoying error making it impossible to launch the game, reporting the following message on a constant basis:
The spring executable version "was not found at the set location", please re-check.
To fix that, just restart SpringLobby. If you are about to start an online game, don't worry, after that, you can join the same room, and press the Start button to enter the game again.
Some Spring settings can be directly tweaked at SpringLobby, by clicking "Edit/Spring settings":
However, it is strongly recommended to use the in-game menu, by pressing escape and selecting configure graphics:
- You can, of course, use other lobbies like Weblobby or flobby (GNU/Linux only).
- If you cannot zoom, type
/viewtainto in-game chat or press Ctrl+F2. - To players using Radeon cards: If you experience crashes, try turning off "forced shaders" in springsettings.
Developing: First install Spring. Then, in your Spring data directory (~/.spring/ or Documents & Settings/Games/Spring), clone this repo into games/S1944Main.sdd. Use "Tools" → "Reload maps&games" and select "Spring:1944 dev-$VERSION" as the game. Hack away!