Quoting: SlyvanThe linux .so library is missing again... i hope this will be checked more often. I hate the fact that no one tests for linux/the steamdeck. This happens so frequently that i almost think it's on purpose...

Epic & EA are involved... it very likely is on purpose.

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I've been running it flawlessly on an Ryzen 9 5950X & Radeon 6950XT, DX12 enabled.
The trick was to use GE-proton7-47.

Though when I wanted to play the Pentagon mission, it wouldn't start it. Don't know if that bug is triggered through the use of proton or not.

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Wrote to them about two months ago and received the same useless answer about them maintaining their console port...
Funny thing about that is, consoles aren't Windows PC's.
If I'm not mistaken, the ps4 even runs on some fork of BSD. So there likely already is a native *nix build out there.

It doesn't seem logical that publishers of a game with such a small player base wouldn't be on the lookout for ways to get more people hooked, even if it's only 1% of Steam's user base.

To quote this site; "1,396,640 estimated "monthly active users" for Linux+Steam". This is by no means a small number of potential customers to simply discard in favor of a console port that doesn't even seem that popular.

Also, according to this article [External Link], the game's development and marketing budget has already been recovered.

So, economically speaking, I think proton support is definitely feasible.
They owe a chunk of the first game's success to its native Linux-support, and have a fair shot of being redeemed for coming back on a promise of Linux support prior to launch.

I bought a couple of games from New world interactive since Insurgency thinking they would at least support proton eventually... But since that ship has sailed, so has my desire to buy any other games coming from them.

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"For some reason, an i386 version of a package was never published on Launchpad. Steam being an i386 package, when trying to install it, it had to downgrade that package to the Ubuntu version to resolve dependencies, which removed Pop!_OS packages.".

One thing System76 has now done to prevent such almighty breakage in future, is to patch APT (the package manager), in Pop to prevent users being able to see the "Yes, do as I say!" prompt by default.

I wonder how this is a solution to the problem though, the installer script for steam should automatically enable 32-bit support, and perform a system update before attempting to install steam.
Now you'll have users getting more confused even after they managed to find their way into the terminal.
Apt has had the problem of being of little to no support in case something goes wrong, for years now.

"Package x depends on package Y, but it is not going to be installed..."
"You have held broken packages..."

I'm sure many of us have encountered these before and sometimes gave up on entire distro's because of things like this.

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The game doesn't allow for a change of keyboard controls.
I happen to not live in a place on this world where QWERTY is the standard...

It has potential, I'm sure, but it needs fixing.

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Good graphics ( 3D ) is what sells graphics cards and consoles though... I didn't spend several hundreds of € on a gaming pc to run minecraft or sega genesis-era games.
Though probably not a popular opinion, mine is that 2D-games or retro-games are more of a handheld-thing and triple-A 3D-games should be "left to the big boys" like PC and PS4/XBOX etc...
I too am a bit disappointed to see so little native triple-A & graphically more demanding games. If I'd show a linux-library full of indie, 2D or retrogames to people, I doubt anyone would be persuaded to give linux gaming a try.

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Metro Exodus... Awesome game, using Steam/Proton on Fedora 29.

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Quoting: Maweki I think we have the culprit. The Facebook page states an Xbox-Release. So additional Microsoft money is quite a possibility.

And there it is...
The only logical reason the Linux support was dropped. imho

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