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I’m really looking forward to SpecOps: The Line, and now that it’s official I couldn’t be happier! We don’t have many great looking third person shooters, and VP’s porting has come a long way.
I’m cautiously optimistic about SpecOps: The Line as it looks like a great game, but due to my hard crashes with VP’s port of Bioshock, I don’t want my wee heart broken.
The developers now list it on their website directly as a Linux port in the “alpha” stages.
About the game
Spec Ops: The Line is a new original title from 2K Games that features provocative and gripping Third-Person modern military Shooter gameplay designed to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of unspeakable situations where unimaginable choices affecting human life must be made. Features include, a gripping, storyline reminiscent of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness but set in a ruined Dubai, tactical squad-based Delta Force gameplay throughout a horizontally and vertically oriented world, devastating sandstorms which can be used in combat, a variety of multiplayer modes and maps, and deep support featuring two factions.
Check out Spec Ops: The Line on Steam, but remember kids, don’t buy it until the Linux version is released to make sure VP get their share of the monies.
How does everyone feel about Virtual Programming doing another port?
Thanks Berillions Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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great news.
witcher 2 and bioshock infinite are perfect for me without issues and superb framerate. (probably lot lower than windows versions, but got enough hardware to overcome that).
witcher 2 and bioshock infinite are perfect for me without issues and superb framerate. (probably lot lower than windows versions, but got enough hardware to overcome that).
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so many ports. im beggining to asking me who will be the last. ea, activision, bethesda or ubisoft :o
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great news.your are lucky. bioshock runs bad for me. windows version runs atleast 2 times better, if not more. feels a bit like playing on wine...
witcher 2 and bioshock infinite are perfect for me without issues and superb framerate. (probably lot lower than windows versions, but got enough hardware to overcome that).
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I played Spec Ops: The Line on a friend's console a few years ago. It's a game with an interesting story but is rather linear and probably not worth playing through again. It's good that it'll come to Linux but I think I'll pass on this one.
Good on VP for improving their technology. I think there's a lot of older games that developers/publishers don't care about anymore that they could port competently but I'd just as soon not see wrappers for newer games. I'd rather see newer games ported ideally in-house but if not by either Aspyr or Feral who have generally delivered consistently good ports.
Good on VP for improving their technology. I think there's a lot of older games that developers/publishers don't care about anymore that they could port competently but I'd just as soon not see wrappers for newer games. I'd rather see newer games ported ideally in-house but if not by either Aspyr or Feral who have generally delivered consistently good ports.
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Beta Version 27 Apr 2015
So there is another good game, that will never get a native port? I hate you, VP.
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I've seen some kind of memory leaks with the VP ports I have, except for Stronghold 3 which works well. Bioshock Infinite starts to go slower and slower after a while, until it crashes.
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I went to check out the game and i already own it... how cool is that?
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Great news. It looks like Steam Machines will launch with far more AAA games than the PS4 launched with. Can't wait for November.
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Segata Sanshiro 27 Apr 2015
Bioshock was such a good port that I don't mind another one from them, as long as they keep the quality the same.
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Great news. It looks like Steam Machines will launch with far more AAA games than the PS4 launched with. Can't wait for November.It would be a lot nicer if we were looking at some brand spanking new AAA games for the launch. I can only hope that happens.
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I don't mind more VP ports of relatively old games that wouldn't otherwise get ported at all. I might have to skip this one though. War games rarely float my boat.
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Oh, man... Both Witcher 2 and Bioshock Infinite are unplayable for me because of the input lag. It looks good and is smooth, but it feels like some sort of replay. I move a mouse, and it smoothly and accurately repeats my movements on screen, but after I have already finished the movement. I am not playing competitively, and do not care about milliseconds, but this here is ridiculous.
And why do they keep doing action games where this stuff is so important? Just makes me sad that publishers keep falling for this kind of stunt. Probably because it is cheaper than a native port.
My specs, just for fun: Intel Core i7-4702HQ CPU, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M GPU, 16GB RAM.
Me sad. :(
And why do they keep doing action games where this stuff is so important? Just makes me sad that publishers keep falling for this kind of stunt. Probably because it is cheaper than a native port.
My specs, just for fun: Intel Core i7-4702HQ CPU, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M GPU, 16GB RAM.
Me sad. :(
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If people have issues with Bioshock Infinite, make sure you log them here:
https://github.com/virtual-programming/bioshockinfinite-linux
https://github.com/virtual-programming/bioshockinfinite-linux
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Oh, man... Both Witcher 2 and Bioshock Infinite are unplayable for me because of the input lag. It looks good and is smooth, but it feels like some sort of replay. I move a mouse, and it smoothly and accurately repeats my movements on screen, but after I have already finished the movement. I am not playing competitively, and do not care about milliseconds, but this here is ridiculous.Weird that you get input lag, I have no such problems. A low latency kernel might help with input latency issues, though sometimes at the cost of a few FPS.
And why do they keep doing action games where this stuff is so important? Just makes me sad that publishers keep falling for this kind of stunt. Probably because it is cheaper than a native port.
My specs, just for fun: Intel Core i7-4702HQ CPU, NVIDIA Quadro K1100M GPU, 16GB RAM.
Me sad. :(
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so many ports. im beggining to asking me who will be the last. ea, activision, bethesda or ubisoft :o
Technically, we already have at least one Ubisoft port in Outland, which, unlike other Ubisoft games, doesn't require Uplay. Sometimes it seems like EA barely even supports Windows, and like Ubisoft, we probably won't see their games until there's a port of their wannabe Steam client (Origin). Bethesda? Who knows?
I think Activision Blizzard will be last. The day Call of Duty and WoW players switch to Linux in droves will mark the End of Days. I'm pretty sure that's written in a holy book somewhere.
Anyway, bring on SpecOps!
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interesting, because i also think it will be activision blizzard :)so many ports. im beggining to asking me who will be the last. ea, activision, bethesda or ubisoft :o
Technically, we already have at least one Ubisoft port in Outland, which, unlike other Ubisoft games, doesn't require Uplay. Sometimes it seems like EA barely even supports Windows, and like Ubisoft, we probably won't see their games until there's a port of their wannabe Steam client (Origin). Bethesda? Who knows?
I think Activision Blizzard will be last. The day Call of Duty and WoW players switch to Linux in droves will mark the End of Days. I'm pretty sure that's written in a holy book somewhere.
Anyway, bring on SpecOps!
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I don't mind more VP ports of relatively old games that wouldn't otherwise get ported at all. I might have to skip this one though. War games rarely float my boat.
Do *not* skip this game. It's not like any other military shooter you've played. It's very story-based, and its story is hard-hitting and beautifully depressing. It's one of those games that makes you really question the "good" guys ... and it really doesn't have much positive to say about anyone in the conflict. There's a point that really makes you feel awful for something you did, and everything after that just makes you less trusting of everything in the game.
Seriously good game - one of the best to come out in a long while. And it's all because of the story elements.
I'm not the only one who hates military shooters but loved this one, either - checkout Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation "review" of it:
View video on youtube.com
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Comandante Ñoñardo 28 Apr 2015
I already have this game on my Steam library...
Let's wait and see the difference between this and the Win Xp version.
Let's wait and see the difference between this and the Win Xp version.
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camoceltic 28 Apr 2015
My thought process: "Oh, cool! Spec Ops: The Line is coming to Linux! I've heard a lot of cool things about it. Oh, wait. A VP port? Nope, gonna pass on that."
The state of Witcher 2 when it was first released on Linux makes me really second-guess any port they've had their hands on. The game itself might be worth it, but the crap I had to put up with to play it when it dropped seriously killed my hype for it. VP may have, and probably have, gotten better, but that first impression was not at all good.
The state of Witcher 2 when it was first released on Linux makes me really second-guess any port they've had their hands on. The game itself might be worth it, but the crap I had to put up with to play it when it dropped seriously killed my hype for it. VP may have, and probably have, gotten better, but that first impression was not at all good.
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I don't mind more VP ports of relatively old games that wouldn't otherwise get ported at all. I might have to skip this one though. War games rarely float my boat.
I don't know if it makes a difference for you, but as I've heard, this is an anti war game, unlike most other shooters.
I probably will skip it for VP though.
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