Kingpin: Life of Crime is being remastered with 3D Realms recently announced Kingpin: Reloaded bringing new life to the Quake II engine classic.
Originally created by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay Entertainment back in 1999, it's being given a fresh look by Slipgate Ironworks with 3D Realms publishing who will be enhancing it with a new quest system, Ultrawide and 4k Support, classic and enhanced modes, controller support, a no violence mode (but all the profanity stays), multiplayer and more.
It was announced earlier this month, with a release due this year but we've only today got confirmation for Linux. I managed to speak to a rep from 3D Realms, who didn't beat around the bush in giving me an answer with "In regards to your question, the answer is YES! Kingpin will be on Linux as well.".
Check out the reveal trailer below:
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Truthfully, I never played the original. I had heard of it but I was only about 10 at the time, this was back in 1999 so I was probably busy playing Total Annihilation as one of the few full games I actually owned then on PC (I had a ton of Amiga stuff though…). So for me, remasters like this are really great to see.
There's already a Steam page up which you can follow it on.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Hamish 3 Feb 2020
export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000A lot of older Quake engine games struggle with the amount of OpenGL extensions that are now exposed.
slavezeo 4 Feb 2020
Try this command in a terminal before launching the game:
export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000
A lot of older Quake engine games struggle with the amount of OpenGL extensions that are now exposed.
I already deleted my experiment with it but i'll reinstall this weekend and let you know how it goes. Thanks for the advice.
slavezeo 9 Feb 2020
Try this command in a terminal before launching the game:
export MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000
A lot of older Quake engine games struggle with the amount of OpenGL extensions that are now exposed.
I got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)
Hamish 9 Feb 2020
whizse 11 Feb 2020
I got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)Broken 32bit drivers?
FWIW, the GOG release works fine in Wine (with MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000).
slavezeo 20 Feb 2020
I got around to installing Kingpin again. I tried the the export with no love. I'm still got the black screen and hard lock. Guess I'm waiting for the remaster :)Broken 32bit drivers?
FWIW, the GOG release works fine in Wine (with MESA_EXTENSION_MAX_YEAR=2000).
I'm using an image of the original disc. I'm sure it's woefully outdated compared to the GoG release. GoG is great about updating little things here and there to help games work a little better on modern hardware. I'll have to keep my eye out for when Kingpin goes to sale on GoG. And for the remaster, of course.
I'm pretty sure my 32-bit drivers are ok as everything else 32-bit runs fine. I can't say with 100% certainty it's ok, but they seems to be.
Thanks for kicking around on this with me. It's always fun to bounce ideas back and forth.
whizse 24 Feb 2020
http://download.kingpin.info/index.php?dir=kingpin/patches/official/
To get around the hard lock, try using software rendering with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
slavezeo 24 Feb 2020
slaapliedje 29 Jul 2020
Whoops! I wanted to link to the [liflg.org](https://liflg.org/) (Linux Installers for Linux Gamers) project for their mojosetup Kingpin installer based on the unofficial port by Xatrix but noticed they moved to GitHub and somehow only Kingpin got lost in the move. I got them to upload it there a few days later but subsequently forgot about this again.Guess that means I should track my CD down!
So five months later, here it is: [https://github.com/liflg/kingpin_1.20-english_x86](https://github.com/liflg/kingpin_1.20-english_x86).
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