Techland show how hilarious it is when a Linux port has no quality control with Dying Light (updated)

I'm surprised the port even works half the time, it feels like it's held together with sticky tape, same with Dead Island. I had the problem where I'd "open" the doors of certain cupboards, and only the handles would move instead of the doors. There was one hilarious moment where a cupboard was supposed to reveal a hiding person, and then spent 5 mins conversing with some oak-coloured MDF. Don't even get me started on Dead Island.

Enjoyed the game thoroughly though, despite it's graphical weirdness and uninspiring story. Let's just hope this enhanced edition and DLC don't make all the zombies black cubes or something :P.

EDIT: Also, the reason I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt is that they've been on the platform for about a year now and pretty sure Dying Light was the first AAA game to have day 1 support for Linux (correct me if I'm wrong). They may be pretty spazzy sometimes, but show good initiative. Giving everyone a big free upgrade next month is pretty damn cool too considering most games nowadays would sell you their own mother in DLC form if it meant an extra buck.


Last edited by Segata Sanshiro on 9 Dec 2015 at 7:04 pm UTC

@LIAM, I have the same issues also in previous patch! I use AMD GPU with Catalyst driver. So they not broken it in this new patch but in one previous.

This looks really funny. Waiting for a game where all ppl are headless and 'transparent' :D

Segata, didn't Borderlands The Pre-Sequel have day one release also?? I think it did.

@LIAM, I have the same issues also in previous patch! I use AMD GPU with Catalyst driver. So they not broken it in this new patch but in one previous.

It was not a problem for Nvidia until now.

You might say the developers have lost their heads...
Ok, I'll be leaving now :-p

At least they're being transparent.

This happens to me all the time when playing Force Unleashed in wine.

I had the problem where I'd "open" the doors of certain cupboards, and only the handles would move instead of the doors.

I encountered this last night. It took me a moment to realize what had happened.

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

I had a bug where i walked into a room and the frame rate plummeted from it's stellar 25 all the way down to 7 exactly, and it stayed that way for the rest of the game. Rebooting/reinstalling did nothing. At least my headless NPCs are now back to glorious 25fps! /s

i had a bug where in the story mode the jeep was in motion on a cut sequence and the wheels were rotating around the car as it drove about 10 meters in front

same thing for me.

Lets see it that way, other devs/publishers would charge 10$ for headless DLC, and we get it for free xD

I haven't updated yet, do I have to stay in offline mode to prevent this patch?

i had a bug where in the story mode the jeep was in motion on a cut sequence and the wheels were rotating around the car as it drove about 10 meters in front

I had that bug too, was quite a sight seeing the wheels bugger off.

Same problem here, since last update, with nvidia also :P

This is not the only issue that this game has,
The Multiplayer is also completely broken for a long time now. When you join a game you are getting instant kicked.

It seems that there is no maintenance anymore on the Linux version for a long time, are the 2 Linux Devs on Techland still working there?


Last edited by Bons on 9 Dec 2015 at 8:13 pm UTC

I am 100% sure this is a returning bug. It was like this for me at one stage earlier, back when the frame rate were unbearable too.

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Yeah, less to render = moarrr performance!!! :D