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Metro Exodus from 4A and Deep Silver has officially released for Linux

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While it was playable with the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, 4A Games and Deep Silver have today officially released Metro Exodus for Linux.

"Metro Exodus is an epic, story-driven first person shooter from 4A Games that blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in one of the most immersive game worlds ever created. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the depths of nuclear winter."

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Game Features:

  • Embark on an incredible journey - board the Aurora, a heavily modified steam locomotive, and join a handful of survivors as they search for a new life in the East
  • Experience Sandbox Survival - a gripping story links together classic Metro gameplay with new huge, non-linear levels
  • A beautiful, hostile world - discover the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness, brought to life with stunning day / night cycles and dynamic weather
  • Deadly combat and stealth - scavenge and craft in the field to customize your arsenal of hand-made weaponry, and engage human and mutant foes in thrilling tactical combat
  • Your choices determine your comrades’ fate - not all your companions will survive the journey; your decisions have consequence in a gripping storyline that offers massive re-playability
  • The ultimate in atmosphere and immersion - a flickering candle in the darkness; a ragged gasp as your gasmask frosts over; the howl of a mutant on the night wind - Metro will immerse and terrify you like no other game…

As a reminder here's the specifications suggested for the Linux port:

Since Metro Exodus supports Ray Tracing on Linux, expect to need a powerful GPU to get good framerates in it.

Giveaway (CLOSED)

To go along with the release, a kind reader has offered up three copies to give away! These will be sent as a Steam Gift, so once winners are picked they will need to provide their Steam account for us to friend and then gift the copies. How to enter? Simply make it clear in your comment you wish to win a copy and winners will be picked Friday, April 16. Note: giveaway now closed!

Note: as of right now, it looks like they haven't sorted out all the key depots on Steam, meaning not everyone will actually be able to download the Linux version until they attach it all up correctly on Steam. It's a common pitfall we wrote about before to help developers. Update: this should now be solved.

If you find you have some audio popping, adding this as launch option may solve it:

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command%

You can buy it on Fanatical (on sale), Humble Store, and Steam

Here's some initial footage from the Linux port running on Ultra at 1080p. Recording did reduce the performance:

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SystemShock Apr 16, 2021
Played "Metro Exodus" under Proton until yesterday.
Actually I assumed that a huge download will be necessary to play it in the native version...
But far from it !
I had to download only about 195 MB and could then immediately play the native Linux version. Apparently only the part with the engine is exchanged, the assets remain the same, that's really clever solved.
The performance is really good, everything is damn smooth.
I am very satisfied, thanks 4A Games. :-)
murlakatamenka Apr 16, 2021
That's a kind gesture , I'll take part in the giveaway too.
Pando Apr 16, 2021
Hi, I'm quite new to Linux and gaming. My Linux system isn't the fastest, but I'd still enjoy it nonetheless! (:
CheetehZ Apr 16, 2021
No way, Metro, what a cool game. I'd like to enter the raffle. I've been a Linux gamer all my life ever since I was born
Samsai Apr 16, 2021
Update to Wayland situation: it seems like you can get the game running on Wayland after all if you enable vsync. I have no idea how enabling vsync makes it work, so I imagine the game is doing something weird somewhere, but if you can tolerate vsync that seems to make it start at least.

The file is located in "~/.local/share/Steam/userdata/<steam-id>/412020/remote/user.cfg" and the value you must set is "r_vsync 1".
kokoko3k Apr 16, 2021
Quoting: SystemShockPlayed "Metro Exodus" under Proton until yesterday.
Actually I assumed that a huge download will be necessary to play it in the native version...
But far from it !
I had to download only about 195 MB and could then immediately play the native Linux version. Apparently only the part with the engine is exchanged, the assets remain the same, that's really clever solved.
The performance is really good, everything is damn smooth.
I am very satisfied, thanks 4A Games. :-)

That's great to hear.
Does it run any better?
Out of curiosity, do you know if is it still using some libdxvk.so in the linux build like it does on stadia?
kokoko3k Apr 16, 2021
Quoting: OrkultusThis game is running at a full 60FPS at default settings on my Manjaro system with a Intel I5-4690K, 16GB ddr3 ram, and a Nvidia GTX 980. No issues what so ever...i haven't tried turning up the graphics, but i dont think i need to. The game looks and runs beautifully.
I think you probably can.
As far as i'm seeing, the game could be constrained by the cpu, and since your cpu isn't *that* fast (i'm on 4590, about 5% slower than yours), maybe you can squeeze some performance more by balancing cpu and gpu usage.
Maybe check with mangohud.

...or just enjoy :-)


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Ehvis Apr 16, 2021
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Quoting: kokoko3kOut of curiosity, do you know if is it still using some libdxvk.so in the linux build like it does on stadia?

If the ray tracing actually works on Linux (haven't seen any tests on that yet), then they must have worked from the DX12 path and dxvk wouldn't have been helpful. It actually makes me wonder if they implemented a whole Vulkan backend for their engine. Which would also explain why porting it took a while.
Liam Dawe Apr 16, 2021
Thanks for all entries, giveaway now closed. Winners being picked.
Tuxee Apr 16, 2021
Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoSO, no benchmark tool included?

There is one on the command line, but according to Phoronix it's currently not working properly.
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