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The Witcher 2 Massive RPG Looks Like It Will Be On Linux

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This is completely unconfirmed, but "The Witcher 2 Linux Beta Retail" is now an entry on SteamDB as of today.

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Thanks to the new, ultra-modern REDengine, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings features both beautiful graphics and sophisticated in-game mechanics, drawing players into the most lively and believable world ever created in a video game.

Defining new standards for realistic, non-linear game narration, The Witcher 2 spins a mature, thought-provoking tale to produce one of the most complex and unique RPGs ever released on consoles. In addition to its epic story, the game features a complex combat system that uniquely combines dynamic action and tactical depth.

This is crazy, it's a fantastic looking game and I am so full of excitement right now it's unreal.

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edmondo Mar 19, 2014
Again, fantastic week of great news!
pb Mar 19, 2014
Can't wait to buy The Witcher trilogy for Linux. ;-)
DrMcCoy Mar 19, 2014
Quoting: GuestIf they could release The Witcher 1 too

With my somewhat vested interested in games based on BioWare's Aurora engine, I'd be quite interested in that as well. :P

I'd especially like to see how they'll handle the Lua scripts. The Windows version was released with compiled Lua scripts, which are quite icky to work with.
Shmerl Mar 19, 2014
How is Xoreos project doing by the way? It was supposed to target Witcher 1 too.
killx_den Mar 19, 2014
Meh and I just got it running on wine 2 days ago :/
But this is awesome news, will wait and play it native then :)
DrMcCoy Mar 19, 2014
Quoting: ShmerlHow is Xoreos project doing by the way? It was supposed to target Witcher 1 too.

I started changing the codebase to use Ogre (*) (ogrewip branch in the public repository on GitHub), but it's unfortunately stalled again at the moment, as my RL takes up time.

In either case, The Witcher is a potential target, yes, but it's not in anyway close to even consider the work to have been started. That said, resource loading works; videos, sound and music plays; and I even started reading the model files. But that's about it: currently, xoreos only shows a model and plays a sound when starting The Witcher.


(*) Something I'm still not all that happy about. I keep having to write around Ogre idiosyncracies, and apart from the general Ogre issues unrelated to OpenGL, I also lack the OpenGL knowledge to know whether what I'm doing makes sense there.
Shmerl Mar 19, 2014
@DrMcCoy: Thanks for the update on the project.
Shmerl Mar 20, 2014
QuoteThis is crazy, it's a fantastic looking game and I am so full of excitement right now it's unreal.


If you didn't see it, a promotional video made with in-game Witcher2 engine

52 and a half:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMc1ySC6Qao
Soltrumman Mar 20, 2014
The Witcher 2 turned up in my Linux-library on Steam today. Seem to be able to download it as well, not sure if it works when downloaded though.

It's a good game and it's great to see it on Linux.
godlike Mar 20, 2014
Quoting: SoltrummanThe Witcher 2 turned up in my Linux-library on Steam today. Seem to be able to download it as well, not sure if it works when downloaded though.

It's a good game and it's great to see it on Linux.

Cool! If it works let us know :)
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