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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Plintslîcho Apr 30, 2015
Nice. Since I already own this game (but never finished it) I'm interested in giving the game a whirl on Linux.
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Quoting: fishxzQuoting: melkemindinteresting, because i also think it will be activision blizzard :)Quoting: fishxzso 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!
Oops, I have to correct myself. Apparently, Activision is the distributor (not publisher) of Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved, which has a Linux version.
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Quoting: GuestI don't have a gaming machine and BIoshock Infinite crashed only once in the first ten minutes if I remember. Played it (and the DLCs) without a problem since. Witcher 2 on the other should have never seen the light of day in this state. On one part of the map I had to save every few meters because it kept crashing and crashing. While it's a beautiful game and interesting story (I saw a streamer yesterday who could not run with 60 fps and he has a beast machine), the port is garbage. I picked up Spec Ops free on a sale and I'll be waiting for it. We need more single player games on Linux (and even more!)The Witcher port right now is just fine.
Unfortunately it has a bad start and that permanently altered the opinion about past, present and future VP ports.
While it will never reach the same perf as in Windows (for obvious reasons), as long as you have a reasonable good machine (what we usually call a gaming machine) it will run fairly well. Don't forget that it needs a good machine in Windows as well.
On my machine (and is not what I would call a beast machine) I can play this port at well above 60 FPS while recording it also at 60 FPS.
Without recording the game hovers around 100 FPS with all max settings (minus ubersampling).
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