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Into the Breach from Subset Games (FTL) now supports Linux

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Into the Breach, the second title from Subset Games (previously the excellent FTL), has today gained an official Linux build. It's been a long time coming, after originally releasing in 2018 but they always said they would do it and here it is. Fantastic!

"The remnants of human civilization are threatened by gigantic creatures breeding beneath the earth. You must control powerful mechs from the future to hold off this alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game from the makers of FTL."

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In their update announcement post on their official forum, they simply said "There is now a fully native Linux version of Into the Breach! If you already own the game on any storefront that normally supports Linux (Steam, Humble, or GOG), you should soon have the Linux version available for download.". More came with it though including new language support: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.

There's also now touch-screen support, updated game engine tech and some adjustments to modding support.

Buy Into the Breach from Humble Store and Steam. Hopefully the GOG version will see the Linux build soon.

If you have Steam Play enabled, you may need to force the Steam Linux Runtime container (right click -> properties see here) to get it to download the Linux version, otherwise it defaults to Proton as it's on Valve's whitelist. Updated: this should no longer be needed.

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Liam Dawe Apr 20, 2020
Quoting: garpuYargh. Proton, I have sound. Native build, no sound. :/
Sound works without issue here on Manjaro in the Linux build.
Ehvis Apr 20, 2020
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No problems here either. Everything is very smooth and it adapts to ultrawide like a pro!


Last edited by Ehvis on 20 April 2020 at 7:22 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 Apr 20, 2020
Quoting: EhvisNo problems here either. Everything is very smooth and it adapts to ultrawide like a pro!

Can you upload a screenshot of that? I wanna spoil myself before buying the game ;)
Ehvis Apr 20, 2020
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Quoting: EhvisNo problems here either. Everything is very smooth and it adapts to ultrawide like a pro!

Can you upload a screenshot of that? I wanna spoil myself before buying the game ;)

Well, to be fair, most of the game doesn't actually use the space because there's nothing to fill it with. But the backgrounds and message bars stretch out to the sides as they should. No black bars, or even worse, random stuff.

The title screen did adapt all it's elements and animations to fit perfectly. So who knows what will come later.

sprocket Apr 20, 2020
Yay! Been waiting for a Linux build for awhile.
Corben Apr 20, 2020
Funny, what a coincidence, just today Into The Breach came into my mind, if the native port will still come as the devs promised, when they said Proton would not be the kind of quality they want to deliver
Maybe I should coincidently think more often of promised native ports... a well I've used this magic now up for quite a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Alm888 Apr 20, 2020
Wow!
And I honestly had written that one off.
It is always nice to be wrong in my pessimistic expectations for a change. ^_^
jens Apr 20, 2020
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Quoting: garpuYargh. Proton, I have sound. Native build, no sound. :/

I just got a game update on Steam, sound works now here with the native version.
stuff Apr 20, 2020
Quoting: CorbenFunny, what a coincidence, just today Into The Breach came into my mind, if the native port will still come as the devs promised, when they said Proton would not be the kind of quality they want to deliver
Maybe I should coincidently think more often of promised native ports... a well I've used this magic now up for quite a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Haha, me too! :O
Cyril Apr 20, 2020
Awesome news! Linux version + new languages (French for me)! Waiting for the GOG release! <3


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