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Woah! Holy Sh...Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks like it may be getting a Linux & SteamOS release which has literally blown my tiny little mind.

There's a rather large bit of info here on SteamDB, where you can see stuff like this:
Quotelaunch/9/config/oslist: linux
launch/9/executable: DeusExMD.sh
launch/9/type: none

And this:
Quote337001/encryptedmanifests/domesticated_mac_linux_sync/encrypted_gid_2: 973A3491BA8BBFE16CAF17F204300E1B


Obviously no word on a release date and this is not confirmed anywhere. It's good supporting evidence though.

Reminder: We have seen Linux pop up on SteamDB before and a port never happened. Just something to keep in mind.

Exciting either way though, as the game is being very well reviewed all around from what I can see. I actually played and finished the one directly before this and loved it. You can bet I will play the crap out of it if/when it's released for us.

About the game
The year is 2029, and mechanically augmented humans have now been deemed outcasts, living a life of complete and total segregation from the rest of society.

Now an experienced covert operative, Adam Jensen is forced to operate in a world that has grown to despise his kind. Armed with a new arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations, he must choose the right approach, along with who to trust, in order to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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STiAT Aug 24, 2016
What the hell are they statically linking to the linux binary? That's insane :D.
melkemind Aug 24, 2016
Quoting: 0aTTI already expected this. Not to publish for Linux and Mac means simply to lose money. It's maybe not a lot of money, but money is money. Such games are very expensive to develop. You want to issue as many copies as possible. Therefore I think big games like Deus Ex are still designed from the outset to be portable.

And yet there still probably won't be a Wii U version. :D Who would've thought Linux would have one up on Nintendo?
blendi-93 Aug 24, 2016
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Quoting: STiATWhat the hell are they statically linking to the linux binary? That's insane :D.
anything they could find ;)

i want it NOW, or at least in 4houres.
Mblackwell Aug 24, 2016
Quoting: subJudging but what I've read about the hardware requirements and the inefficient renderer, I guess a Linux port will be overly disappointing - performance wise.
But let's see...
Quoting: melkemind
Quoting: subJudging but what I've read about the hardware requirements and the inefficient renderer, I guess a Linux port will be overly disappointing - performance wise.
But let's see...

That's why I'm hoping they wait on the DirectX 12 version and port to Vulkan (probably wishful thinking though). You're right. If the game requires 8 GB of RAM and an i3 for minimal performance and an i7 and 16 GB of RAM recommended, it might not run at all on most machines using Feral's "IndirectX" OpenGL translator thingamajig.

The renderer isn't inefficient... people just keep turning on 8xMSAA and Contact Hardening Shadows (which is kind of future tech and can have visual glitches for some people at this point) and declaring the game broken.

Additionally reading some forums you find out that the benchmark is WAY more demanding than the game.
pedrovay2003 Aug 24, 2016
Quoting: ShmerlPretty interesting, but a pity it's Square Enix. Low chances of it coming out DRM-free.

It may not be totally DRM-free, but it'll hopefully drop Denuvo.
Eike Aug 24, 2016
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Quoting: STiATWhat the hell are they statically linking to the linux binary? That's insane :D.

That must be a self-extracting complete minimal Linux!
One moment...
No, foget the "minimal". :D
Mohandevir Aug 24, 2016
Lots of action in the Linux SteamDB entry. The Linux depots are getting updated nearly hourly.
I don't know what to make of this, but I think it looks good.
thelimeydragon Aug 24, 2016
Well doesn't look like history will repeat itself.

'Deus Ex' was the game Loki Software was in the middle of porting to Linux before they went bankrupt back in 2001.
Eike Aug 24, 2016
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Anything on Feral's radar that might match?
[email protected] Aug 24, 2016
No.. but subid 57646 in the Depot is for Feral CD keys.

https://steamdb.info/depot/413373/subs/
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