Just a heads up, a new Dying Light patch is now available. Sadly it broke the game for me on my main Ubuntu install
I have emailed and tweeted the developers, so hopefully they will fix it. Some people have reported it works okay for them, but it's completely broken for me.
Shame, as Dying Light is a great game when it actually works. Looks like the problem is my end this time though. I tested it on SteamOS and it works, so there's something not right with it on my Ubuntu install. If I figure it out, I will let you all know.
Update: Found the source of my issue.
The patch doesn't do anything major, but it enables The Following content for the mod tools.
About the game
Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition takes parkour-fueled zombie survival to a whole new level. Enjoy the definitive Dying Light experience with the brand-new Legend system, improved visuals, major gameplay enhancements, and more. This package comes with all the available bonus content, including Be the Zombie, Cuisine & Cargo, Ultimate Survivor Bundle, and The Bozak Horde. Last but not least, travel beyond the walls of Harran to discover a vast, dangerous new region in Dying Light: The Following – a massive story-based expansion that brings mysterious characters, deadly new weapons, unexpected quests, and fully customizable and drivable dirt buggies.
Dying Light is a first-person, action survival game set in a vast open world. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious epidemic, scavenging for supplies and crafting weapons to help defeat the hordes of flesh-hungry enemies the plague has created. At night, beware the Infected as they grow in strength and even more lethal nocturnal predators leave their nests to feed on their prey. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: DamonLinuxPLI do not know what the problem is. You write that game after the release did not work on AMD? So, note that dota 2 from Valve also did not work on AMD - repaired a few days later. What is interesting in future patches again it's spoiled. Someone was crying and wailing? No. Dying Light is not a game of perfect, no mistakes on both Windows and Linux, but the developers are trying to fix.Dota 2 may had issues, but at least the game works well now. Dying Light did not even launch correctly until December last year not speaking about performance that won't go above 20FPS no matter what settings i set. Low or Maximum.
Just like in other games. There is no game without errors.
See that all the errors that appear in the Dying Light have been improved, some other slower faster, but always repaired.
I remember there was a strange bug with missing faces NPC and ambient glow, despite the great difficulties trying to fix it, and this despite the fact that the defect lay in AMD drivers. Other developers like to do? They had submitted that it was not their fault only AMD and their grievances. However, they worked and were looking for solutions until they found.
Is that no one sees?
The issue of Vac is not the fault of the developer. Many games use it, and somehow nobody laments. Players themselves asked for his impelement because in the multiplayer there were many cheats.
You write that they should give away game to the Feral?
What if they work out cheaper to create port alone, by these two workers?
What if they could not, and so give away sources Feral or Aspyr? There are countries where the law is very complex, where the company is listed on the stock exchange, and the shareholders do not accept such actions. You can not throw everybody and everything into one bag.
PS. Not Sure if you know, but both Feral and Aspyr not make native games ... make like Virtual Programming ... Did you know?
Another thing on my second Linux PC meets the minimum requirements of the game and still play at medium detail no problem with FPS above 30FPS.
Even today, when the alleged game is not working, I start it and play. So what's the problem? Because today there is no problem, and developer Techland poured wrongly slop.
So for me Dying Light working fine, maybe should work even better but still is fine ( still better than most linux games).
I think that a big injustice meets the developer and the opinions are issued too quickly.
The support tickets are waste of time, they just ask generic questions and even forget that I run Linux several times in the same freaking thread, and no info at all other than "Did you try to reinstall the game?".
Hell they can't even fix the mouse working correctly in the game. And yes i know what VP, Aspire, Feral do but at least all their games I tried work at launch or after couple of patches that come up pretty quickly and the performance is not way off. Witcher 2 now works pretty well and I was always able to play it and support was outstanding with quick response and quick fixes for issues like multimonitor support, crashing, mouse issues etc.
And yes people did ask for VAC in _multiplayer_ not in singleplayer, and the bans started days before the date set and no info at all from Techland. Did you even look in the VAC thread on steam forums where Valve had to step in with information and started unbanning people?
Game was unplayable at launch, and still is no matter what settings I throw at it almost 1 year after, so no injustice this is not. I never had these issues with _any_ game i ever owned, even EA games running on Wine, hell I had better support from CCP's EVE - Online where Wine isn't even "officially" supported and only got 1 dev making it work well through Wine.
Last edited by Commander on 18 February 2016 at 10:32 pm UTC
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It launches and plays great on my Fedora 23 box. But it froze on quitting the game...
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Actually this should have been a forum post not a main post...
Accusing the developer on a main post because the distro you have installed or your computer cant run Dying Light is not very appropriate.
In the past also you were accusing other games that were not running fine in your own machine , for example BOMB.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bomb-who-let-the-dogfight-exits-early-access-released-for-linux-its-terrible.5798
other people could run fine this game without any graphical corruptions or glitches.
Please, I respect your personal opinion and your honest reviews but double/triple check any game that is not running in your machine with other people or another machine before accusing any game developer or give bad reviews because it was not running so well or not all from your computer.
A good or a bad review plays a huge role before buying a game and a lot of people are trusting GOL for its reviews.
Last edited by wolfyrion on 19 February 2016 at 9:15 am UTC
Accusing the developer on a main post because the distro you have installed or your computer cant run Dying Light is not very appropriate.
In the past also you were accusing other games that were not running fine in your own machine , for example BOMB.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bomb-who-let-the-dogfight-exits-early-access-released-for-linux-its-terrible.5798
other people could run fine this game without any graphical corruptions or glitches.
Please, I respect your personal opinion and your honest reviews but double/triple check any game that is not running in your machine with other people or another machine before accusing any game developer or give bad reviews because it was not running so well or not all from your computer.
A good or a bad review plays a huge role before buying a game and a lot of people are trusting GOL for its reviews.
Last edited by wolfyrion on 19 February 2016 at 9:15 am UTC
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Quoting: wolfyrionA good or a bad review plays a huge role before buying a game and a lot of people are trusting GOL for its reviews.This. GOL is a huge and trustworthy source for many Linux gamers. I expect it to stay the same and not to become a FUD source. DL has many flaws (while being a great game nevertheless!) but proclaiming any unique quirks as Techland's fault that broke the game for everyone SO DON'T UPDATE FOLKS UNTIL THEY FIX THEIR SHIT — that's just unfair, highly subjective and reduces the GOL's credibility. Please, please double check such claims, it's not like there are many competing Linux gaming sites so you have to publish as fast as you can to get views first.
BTW, the update was for the Steam Workshop content. Maybe it's also good&fair to change the title of this article? Doesn't look good on the main page...
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Odd, my first comment didn't go through.
Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the feedback.
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Thank you for listening! I hope you'll solve that issue of yours.
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Quoting: rkfgThank you for listening! I hope you'll solve that issue of yours.
I am only human, and I do respond to feedback. I want GOL to be an honest source, if I'm wrong I always try to correct things.
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