Creative Assembly have said to PCGamesN that a port of Total War: Rome II to Linux to support SteamOS gives them no worries.
So strategy fans it looks like quite a beefy title is heading our way! Creative Assembly the team behind the Total War series visited Valve's offices to play with the Steam Controller and talk about SteamOS/Linux, they then spoke to PCGamesN on it all.
Hopefully if Rome II goes well for them then they will look at porting their older titles over to Linux as well.
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So strategy fans it looks like quite a beefy title is heading our way! Creative Assembly the team behind the Total War series visited Valve's offices to play with the Steam Controller and talk about SteamOS/Linux, they then spoke to PCGamesN on it all.
QuoteWe’ve certainly got no worries about Linux as a platform, and as you know, we’ve appeared on the SteamOS page, and our intention is absolutely to support the OS.
Hopefully if Rome II goes well for them then they will look at porting their older titles over to Linux as well.
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- Plan your conquest of the known world in a massive sandbox turn-based campaign mode (supporting additional 2-player cooperative & competitive modes). Conspiracies, politics, intrigue, revolts, loyalty, honour, ambition, betrayal. Your decisions will write your own story.
- Build vast armies and take to the battlefield in real-time combat mode. Put your tactical skills to the test as you directly control tens of thousands of men clashing in epic land and sea battles.
- Play for the glory of Rome as one of three families or take command of a huge variety of rival civilisations – each offers a notably different form of gameplay experience with hundreds of unique units from siege engines and heavy cavalry to steel-plated legionaries and barbarian berserkers.
- See exotic ancient cities and colossal armies rendered in incredible detail, as jaw-dropping battles unfold. Detailed camera perspectives allow you to see your men shout in victory or scream in pain on the frontline, while a new tactical cam allows a god’s eye view of the carnage to better inform your strategic decisions.
- Extremely scalable experience, with gameplay and graphics performance optimised to match low and high-end hardware alike.
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And here I was thinking the reason why people were celebrating was because they no longer felt compelled to dual boot...
My sentiments as well.
While I will definitely try out SteamOS, I don't want to have to drop my preferred distro for it.
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I dont think that seems to be a problem at the moment, most Linux systems have some minor differences but have allot of common packages. So far id say every distro can run steam and most games with little to no tinkering involved. In nature Linux is the kernel(and ofc gnu) and you decide what you want to stick on top of it(looking at you arch :)) but at the end of the day there has to be some common thread since theres countless way of doing things, and some distros will probably have to adapt if so that will hardly be the end of the road.if some games will work in SteamOS and not in other distros, what is the problem? SteamOS will be free, so we can continue with our preferred distro (Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, etc...) and install it too
And here I was thinking the reason why people were celebrating was because they no longer felt compelled to dual boot...
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I dont think that seems to be a problem at the moment, most Linux systems have some minor differences but have allot of common packages. So far id say every distro can run steam and most games with little to no tinkering involved. In nature Linux is the kernel(and ofc gnu) and you decide what you want to stick on top of it(looking at you arch :)) but at the end of the day there has to be some common thread since theres countless way of doing things, and some distros will probably have to adapt if so that will hardly be the end of the road.
Yes, and I agree with that, which is why there is concern over Mir in this thread, as it breaks that common thread.
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Mir most certainly is a potential source of problem I agree with you, but even if steamOS is based of Ubuntu I fail to see why they would want to invest their time in it at this point atleast. But then agian maybe it to soon to tell what the outcome till be of mir/wayland on the desktop side of things since none of em are out yet in full fury, I think X is going to be around for another couple of years as the backbone.I dont think that seems to be a problem at the moment, most Linux systems have some minor differences but have allot of common packages. So far id say every distro can run steam and most games with little to no tinkering involved. In nature Linux is the kernel(and ofc gnu) and you decide what you want to stick on top of it(looking at you arch :)) but at the end of the day there has to be some common thread since theres countless way of doing things, and some distros will probably have to adapt if so that will hardly be the end of the road.
Yes, and I agree with that, which is why there is concern over Mir in this thread, as it breaks that common thread.
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if some games will work in SteamOS and not in other distros, what is the problem? SteamOS will be free, so we can continue with our preferred distro (Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, etc...) and install it too
And here I was thinking the reason why people were celebrating was because they no longer felt compelled to dual boot...
I agree.
However, I'll dual-boot another distro any day of the week over a paid-for commercial OS (though UEFI secure boot can be an annoyance, regardless).
If we see studios willing to take on Linux porting in general, as long as they consider SteamOS to be one of multiple Linux targets, is a nice thing to see. To that end, we have seen some developers claim to have chosen to take on Linux porting, in addition to SteamOS, because of SteamOS, and when that happens it makes me happier. Of course, there are some who have taken on Linux porting, but do so for Steam exclusively, which makes me less happy.
To me, a developer's choice to exclusively develop for SteamOS is only slightly worse than developing for Linux exclusively on Steam (i.e., no direct purchases, Desura, or other DRM-free store). Either way, it's tied to Steam, which has so far offered little that I'm interested in, personally.
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Offtopic:As far as I remember, it will be based on Debian.
wait the SteamOS is confirmed to be based on Ubuntu?
Last time i heard about it, it seemed that they were basing it to gentoo
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To me, a developer's choice to exclusively develop for SteamOS is only slightly worse than developing for Linux exclusively on Steam (i.e., no direct purchases, Desura, or other DRM-free store). Either way, it's tied to Steam, which has so far offered little that I'm interested in, personally.
Yes, and again I agree.
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