Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony: New version 3.0 available for GZDoom

Taking advantage of the fact that yesterday, we released the latest good news of the FPS game called "Unvanquished", today we will announce the call "Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony".

"Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony" it is an interesting and fun FPS game created as a doom ii mod set in the Second World War, which has currently reached its final version, the number 3.0.

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But before we get into the news and technical details about "Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony", it is important to note that to play the same game on GNU / Linux, you should make use of the gamer app call Gzdoom, which according to one of our previous entries is:

"Gzdoom is a graphics engine for Doom based on ZDoom. It is created and maintained by Christoph Oelckers and the most recent stable version released is 4.0.0. For those of you unfamiliar with ZDoom, this is a port of the original ATB Doom and NTDoom code. An open source project maintained by Randy Heit and Christoph Oelckers in this case. After stopping its development, Christoph decided to create the new GZDoom project". GZDoom 4.0.0: new release with experimental support for Vulkan

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And to learn to download, install and use GZDoom, we recommend exploring this other previous entry:

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Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony: A World War II-style Doom II mod

What is Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony?

According to official website of «Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony», it is described as:

"An FPS Game with history. Inspired by the WWII shooters of the 1990s and early 2000s such as Wolfenstein 3D, Medal of Honor, and Call of Duty, but with faster gameplay in the spirit of Doom. The game can be played independently using the GZDoom engine as a base." Section About the Game (About)

What is the game about? The history

The Game developers explain the development of the game's story with the following description:

"It's 1942, and the war is nearing its peak. The United States has joined the Allied forces and the Soviets are pushing back the front in the east. The tides of war are turning, and Hitler's victory seems increasingly out of reach. But the Nazis, who refuse to capitulate, have become obsessed with human experiments and hidden artifacts, in which they see a possible way out of their final doom. Allied leaders reject this possibility as nonsense; however, some continue to fear what the Führer may be up to. The situation is nebulous, however, and little is certain."

"You are the Cpt. William "BJ" Blazkowicz, an allied spy, a daring intrepid and the best soldier to take up arms in World War II. However, your role has changed: You have retired from active duty and are now running operations as a systems analyst. You thought it would be the right choice (to lead and motivate instead of doing the dirty work), but lately you've been getting restless. At least until a few days ago, when you received an encrypted message from your old friend and comrade Cpt. Douglas Blake, calling you back to service ..."

What's new in this latest final version 3.0?

At Official blog of «Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony», specifically in the post called «Blade of Agony unleashed!«, its creators point out that, after a long time (6 years, 1 month and 20 days), they have managed to release the final version of "Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony". Which they consider is their own vision, under their creative freedom, of how it could have been an official sequel to Wolfenstein 3D, inspired by games like "RTCW, Call of Duty and Medal of Honor", but with a twist.

And in this final version offer a unique experience with many rare features in this type of game, among which the following can be mentioned:

30 playable and unique levels in 3 different chapters (plus secret maps).
Orchestral quality game music.
Voice acting and environmental soundscapes.
Available in 10 different languages (en, de, es, ru, pt, it, tr, fr, cz, pl).
A nice recreation of a retro gaming experience.
Devastating weaponry from the battlefields of WWII.
Interactive NPCs that support the progress of the twisted plot and help you understand the game.
Improved enemy AI to make fighting more dynamic and challenging.
Beautiful special effects and modern post-processing shaders.

In addition, they add the following:

"The "Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony" development team has worked hard to create an experience dedicated to all old school gamers born in the 80s and 90s; not only when it comes to the visuals and gameplay, but also to the easter egg hunt and references, the retro feel, nostalgia and attention to detail. There is much to discover for you, and we really hope you enjoy what has cost us a lot of sweat, nerves and time to live. Make it as fun to play as it was for us to create!"

Download, installation, use and screenshots

Download

As we have said above, "Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony" run over Gzdoom. Therefore, once GZDoom is installed and configured, as we explained in our previous mentioned related publication, we only have to download the file corresponding to Gzdoom from the Download Section.

Installation

Once downloaded and unzipped, we only have to according to official indications, copy the file «boa.ipk3 » to our GZDoom folder, launch the GZDoom engine and choose "Wolfenstein - Blade of Agony" like our favorite game (IWAD).

For our actual case study, about our Respin (Live and Installable Snapshot) custom named Miracles GNU / Linux which is based on MX Linux, we have done the following:

We copy all the content of the folder created from the extraction of the downloaded compressed file, without overwriting any files, that is, excluding the existing ones, in the path «/opt/gzdoom» and we configure the same within the existing configuration file in the path «/home/$USER/.config/gzdoom/gzdoom.ini», including the following routes: «Path=/opt/gzdoom», «Path=/opt/gzdoom/soundfonts» y «Path=/opt/gzdoom/fm_banks».

Use

Then we just run the Gzdoom, and it has started without any problem, directly, since it did not have any other games configured.

Screen shots

And I was able to start the game, as seen below:

For the rest, you just have to follow the story of the game and enjoy it!

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