Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: Beamboom... And this is exactly what the pessimists were worried about.

And it's also what the optimists were hoping for. Instead of maybe just giving up Linux support completely, the developer now looks out for Steam Play compatibility at least. What's the harm in it? If you want the game, you will be able to play it on Linux.

Problem is , what kind of compability they would be looking for?

Using Wine / Proton just as a surface for not dealing Linux specific things but using OGL or Vulkan in their game , not including crazy drm etc
OR
Just hoping it works alright with existing Windows version?

There is a huge difference between them.

"By "official support" for Proton we mean that if issues specific to Proton occur we will work on fixing them, not just write them off to "well it's a weird emulator on Linux we don't support that"."

Is that sounds realistic to you? Seriously , devs who can't deal with native build will fix issues on Proton side things which i'm sure they never used Wine before.

Eventually, all they can do will be reporting issues to Wine tracker in order to get them fixed

I'd say if that's really so, we're better off with a Proton version all the more.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: Nevertheless

Quoting: Beamboom... And this is exactly what the pessimists were worried about.

And it's also what the optimists were hoping for. Instead of maybe just giving up Linux support completely, the developer now looks out for Steam Play compatibility at least. What's the harm in it? If you want the game, you will be able to play it on Linux.

Problem is , what kind of compability they would be looking for?

Using Wine / Proton just as a surface for not dealing Linux specific things but using OGL or Vulkan in their game , not including crazy drm etc
OR
Just hoping it works alright with existing Windows version?

There is a huge difference between them.

"By "official support" for Proton we mean that if issues specific to Proton occur we will work on fixing them, not just write them off to "well it's a weird emulator on Linux we don't support that"."

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Quoting: Beamboom... And this is exactly what the pessimists were worried about.

And it's also what the optimists were hoping for. Instead of maybe just giving up Linux support completely, the developer now looks out for Steam Play compatibility at least. What's the harm in it? If you want the game, you will be able to play it on Linux.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThey should have delayed the Windows version by half a year. I guess that would have doubled our market share right there. :D

Funny idea, but I'm very happy Valve does not really use such leverage methods to enforce Linux usage.

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With this update Bards Tale 4 finally seems to work with a reasonable performance. I wonder what games also take advantage of this Nvidia / AMD personification solution...

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I always thought one reason Valve invests in VR technology is to protect their busyness against such streaming services. You'd need a really great internet connection to be able to stream VR. Impossible with current tech.

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Quoting: pb

Quoting: NeverthelessBards Tale 4, Battletech

Aren't those coming to Linux pretty soon?

Exactly! And when I finished the native games, they will have made Steam Play perfect.

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Haha... when I'm through with Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Bards Tale 4, Battletech, Insomnia, Frozen Synapse 2.... I'll have all Windows titles out of the box.. ;-)

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Quoting: Luke_NukemGeez, the gameplay plus the music made me feel like I just fell in to a '90s time travel.

Oh yes! It's quite consequently retro. It even plays a disc drive sound at the beginning.

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Quoting: TcheyThe game is currently broken.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/832710/discussions/0/3397295779078491120/ [External Link]

Hi,

Linux version is currently broken, with a "missing executable" error.

Looking at local files, i only see one folder, with only one packed file : package.nw

Inside this file, there are numerous other files, ogg, png, and some .js too.

A fix would be great !

They are working on it!
https://steamcommunity.com/app/832710/discussions/0/3397295779078491120/?tscn=1539631683#c3397295779079182170 [External Link]

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