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Take this with a grain of salt for now, but it's possible that BATTALION 1944 [Steam, Official Site], a competitive WW2 FPS will come with Linux support.

You can see their original trailer here:

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About the game:

Battalion 1944 recaptures the core of classic multiplayer shooters and revives ‘old school’ FPS for the next generation. Focusing on 5v5 infantry based combat, where precise flick shots with your Kar98, covering fire with your thompson and and fluid player movement are key to clutching every round for your team. Band together and Fight with your team in the premiership of competitive WW2 FPS.

Battalion is currently in development alongside the community, reconstructing Unreal Engine 4 to reintroduce classic FPS quirks and create a modern shooter that feels like an old school classic. This heart-thumping multiplayer experience is being crafted by designers who have grown up playing competitive Call of Duty, Enemy Territory and Counter Strike; alongside community feedback from professional FPS players and over 10,000 backers who have been shaped by the same gaming experience.

One of our followers on Twitter (thanks hex), pointed out that on Steam, BATTALION 1944 shows up as coming soon for Windows and SteamOS/Linux. I checked and it does indeed:

SteamDB also shows it with a Linux icon, so for this to happen it must have some form of Linux configuration done, which has to be done manually by developers.

I've reached out to the developer on Twitter and Steam, since they have no proper contact information on the game's website or their company website which is a little frustrating.

Obviously this could be an accident or it could drop Linux support before the Early Access releasing, but the signs are promising. Hopefully we will get an answer soon.

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ravenmocker Jan 12, 2018
Early access drops on 1st of February, I don't know if it will be day one Linux support,or Linux support at all for that matter.
holzi Jan 23, 2018
any news on this?
Liam Dawe Jan 23, 2018
Quoting: holziany news on this?
Afraid not. They have so far not replied me on on twitter, discord, reddit, email, steam or their own forum. I have exhausted all methods of asking.
ravenmocker Feb 28, 2018
Game is almost dead now with only a few thousand players at peak times and only a few hundred the rest of the time. The development team was so focused on making the next big E-sport game that they forgot to make a playable bug free game. The Cart before the Horse
scaine Feb 28, 2018
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Cracks me up to hear that "a few thousand" players is "dead". That's five times more than both Tanneberg and Verdun put together! Similar figures, to, say Street Fighter 5 or Tekken 7, both of which are still considered the top of their genre.

Someone recently suggested that Insurgency was also "dead". It averages about 2500 players. Sure, that's a tenth of the numbers playing something like Paladins, but hardly "dead".

These games are only dead if you compare them to PUBG, DOTA2, Football Manager or CS:GO.

(Fun Fact: Borderlands 2 still has about 7500 players daily, compared to the later Presequel which tends to peak at around a thousand! More too than Killing Floor 2, which is an actual multiplayer game, as opposed to a game where you can join a friend as you play...)
ravenmocker Jun 1, 2018
well when the game can't even break 200 players world wide over the past 24 hours i would say it a dead, especially when it had over 16K when it was released. With a 50K tournament coming up soon to


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