Quoting: Janhttps://www.holarse-linuxgaming.de/news/aspyr_ver%C3%B6ffentlicht_heute_die_linux_version_des_cyber_punk_horror_titels_observer

They asked Aspyr. Answer: Observer Linux is Steam only. WTF?!?

That's just stupid:

The game is now released and at Steam for download with almost 8 GB ready. Unfortunately the game needs a steam connection when entering the menu. As Aspyr told us on demand, the Linux version will not be available at GOG, although the game is available there for Windows and OS X.

Why can't Aspyr make a GOG release? Needing Steam connection is just bunk. Windows version doesn't need it somehow.

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Quoting: JanGerman Linux gaming site Holarse is claiming Observer for Linux (and Mac) won‘t come to GOG at all! This would mean the only DRM-free version is for Windows users only. Oh, the irony.

Can you link to the source please?

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By the way, why is it missing Linux release on GOG? Does it have any multiplayer features that would rely on Galaxy?

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Looks like the game is using Unreal Engine 4, so possibly those issues are related to problems UE4 had with older Mesa (which are resolved with recent one). I agree, this lack of details from developers is not helping at all.

It's kind of strange though, that developers needed a porting company for UE based game.

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Great news indeed! Looking forward to playing it.

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Did they describe the problem they had with AMD? Not supporting it today is pretty fishy. As usual, they should have filed Mesa bugs. I don't see any that mention Observer title.

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Quoting: throghWell? For a "dead" project PlayOnLinux releases even continous new versions of WINE, static built. But hey, the "dead" seems to live longer?

When was the last time the code itself updated? It's using GTK2, and seems to be frozen. Their effort to rewrite it in Qt is stalled as well I think. Forums are mostly deserted. I suspect the development has ceased altogether.

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Lately I wrote a few scripts, which manage Wine prefixes and allow using different Wine versions. Kind of what PlayOnLinux does, but just in shell. And winetricks can be used in combination with that to install extra components. POL looks stalled if not dead project, so that prompted me to make something custom. Though I usually make a launcher script for each title semi-manually.

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Quoting: GuestArch/Antergos/Manjaro had a problem with a dependency (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-gamers-on-arch-may-want-to-hold-off-on-updating-due-to-openssl-breaking-some-games.9557 [External Link]) so he went back on Ubuntu so he wouldn't have to deal with those.

Debian has the same issue, so Ubuntu won't escape it. It's really up to games to use updated libraries in the end.

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GNOME Shell with a customized layout is now Ubuntu's official desktop environment. I've been on it since release and it's very stable, but I did install the normal GNOME Shell session to customize it as I like.

Antergos with KDE didn't work out for you?

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