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Quoting: CorbenIt's not (yet) officially advertised as a SteamOS title, is it?
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.

No, this is mentioned twice in the article.

Something is wrong with this article: this game is actually not available on Linux officially on Steam. It's only on Windows and MacOS, that's it!

So do you mean that if we purchase the game, it will be available on Linux magically? Will it count as a Linux purchase?

Sorry, but this article is very misleading...

I'm saying that because I'd like to buy and play this game, but only on Linux, if not, I'll ignore it...

There is nothing misleading about it. Try reading it again, perhaps a bit slower.

If you are struggling, let me quote a key part for you:

Quoting: me, the articleI've checked myself and it does download and launch.

It is on Linux, just not officially advertised. Quite a few games do this, that doesn't make my article misleading, when I clearly mention it:

Quoting: hi, me again, the articleThere's no official announcement yet, but it's very much available and working really quite well.

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Quoting: CorbenIt's not (yet) officially advertised as a SteamOS title, is it?
At least I see only a Windows and macOS icon.

No, this is mentioned twice in the article.

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Quoting: rkfgLinux users also tend to run this OS on higher-end systems, so optimization is typically not as big of an issue as it is with Mac devices.
Uhhh, please don't make this an excuse for badly performing ports, pretty please!

That's not what I got from it, it read more like optimization is harder the lower the specifications = Mac's end up being trouble there.

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Quoting: aluminumgriffinIn Bv:H it is downright common to aim your missiles at one type of ships, your projectiles at another and having your lasers take down support ships. Having an "auto-attack" would be very annoying then (for instance - you wouldn't want your slow reload but very damage-intense nukes go after the fast but easily killable scouts [which often are the enemy ships that are close by])

Indeed, I had it in my head right but wrote it down wrong in the article, I've slightly adjusted the text to be clearer.

For me, it's a bit too much micro.

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One of the programmers has been using Unity on Linux and said how it works just fine. Hearing that, fills me with hope about the future on Linux as a development platform as well as a gaming platform.

I hate to nitpick... especially on a topic that is not quite in the theme of this site... But, linux as a development environment has been strong for quite some time. I believe that I can safely say that linux is far stronger for development needs than it is for gaming needs.

For game development, Linux has not historically been a great platform, since the major game engines have hardly ever supported it. Not only that, but the middleware has also historically had poor support for Linux. Only recently have their editors been available on Linux.

Nitpick all you like, but even now it's still pretty rare to find people developing full commercial games on Linux.

Edit: Food for thought, in the many years I've been doing this less than 30 people have ever said they used Linux to make their game. I'm probably over-estimating that number too.

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Quoting: wleoncioI was quite excited until I saw the video and saw it contained none of the humor of the original, which IMHO is what made the game. To this day I make "Bloaty Head" jokes with my brother.

Indeed, I do think they should inject a bit of humour into it. Otherwise it could fall into a trap of being too bland.

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Quoting: razing32Is it confirmed for Linux though ?
The trailer only shows Windows and Apple logos and can't find any concrete info on their site.

Yes, we've also been offered early access and Linux is confirmed.

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Well I think it's also that each game will take a different amount of time to port. Anyone remember the delays with Mordor? That's on top of the extra time to get their Vulkan support ready. Even so, the titles Feral have ported this year have been pretty incredible for us.

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Quoting: MohandevirI would like to have a report form Feral about the number of games they ported in 2016 and in 2017.

Yeah, would love to know that too, plus some info about which titles where (financially) successful for Feral or not.

Ask and you shall get stuff...this took me a while to compile...

About Feral...

2016
Total War WARHAMMER
Total War: WARHAMMER - Realm of the Wood Elves DLC
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Mad Max
Warhammer 40,000®: Dawn of War II®, Chaos Rising and Retribution
Life Is Strange
XCOM 2 - Shen’s Last Gift DLC
XCOM 2 - Alien Hunters DLC
XCOM 2 - Anarchy’s Children DLC
F1 2015
Tomb Raider
Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces DLC & Ardennes Assault DLC
Company of Heroes 2 - the Mac vs Linux multiplayer update
Medieval II: Total War Collection

2017
HITMAN GOTY Update
HITMAN
F1 2017
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen DLC
Dawn of War III
Total War: SHOGUN 2 and Fall of the Samurai
DiRT Rally
Total War WARHAMMER - Norsca DLC
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past DLC
Mad Max - Vulkan
+ One still on their radar for Linux

I think that's about right.

So yeah, they had more overall last year, even when removing DLC. However, for this year I imagine moving their pipeline to Vulkan took quite a bit of time, but we have to remember that is laying the groundwork for future ports as well. It went from a Mad Max beta, to Dawn of War III (both OpenGL & Vulkan) to F1 2017 (just Vulkan) and maybe their current teaser will be Vulkan only too.

On top of that, I have no doubts that Feral have Linux ports lined up for 2018. I don't have any confirmation from them (speculating here), but considering how things are going something incredibly drastic would have to happen for 2018 not to be another good year for Feral's Linux port.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: ShmerlWait, I thought BioShock Infinite was ported by Virtual Programming? Too bad it never came out DRM-free.

But it is.

To MacOS by Aspyr , to Linux by VP.

Bingo, so it's still an Aspyr game. Aspyr likely won't get any money from Linux purchases, it would either go to VP or the original developer (depending on how they were contracted for it % of sales or single payment or whatever).

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