Well I do love SteamDB, as it appears STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ II - The Sith Lords™ has a Linux icon added, so it looks like the previous ESRB leak about a Linux version could be true after all.
I would like to direct you attention to this update on SteamDB:
QuoteChange #1132106
Added linuxclienticon – 2b31bbf605989e9085d4813de5e58ea002ec8fbe
Added clienticns – 63d5d9d867d49a5e0d16255c70a4ec6cd0e0a040
Changed changenumber – 1132087 › 1132106
Oh, and let's not forget this SteamDB update too:
Quote383207/config/oslist: linux
383207/name: Linux Content
383208/config/oslist: linux
383208/name: Linux Executable
383209/config/language: english
383209/config/oslist: linux
This is all unconfirmed stuff right now, as usual with SteamDB changes, but it does generally indicate something is coming. We will keep our eyes transfixed to the SteamDB page for any more changes.
About the game (Official)
Five years after the events from the award winning Star Wars® Knights of the Old Republic™, the Sith Lords have hunted the Jedi to the edge of extinction and are on the verge of crushing the Old Republic. With the Jedi Order in ruin, the Republic’s only hope is a lone Jedi struggling to reconnect with the Force. As this Jedi, you will be faced with the galaxy’s most dire decision: Follow the light side or succumb to the dark…
It's a great game, and a must have for STAR WARS fans like myself. I really do hope this comes true. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Great news, but they have to find a way to make the community fixes usable in Linux as well. The base game is broken.
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Alex V.Sharp 25 Jun 2015
I always liked the first game better. :P
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leillo1975 25 Jun 2015
I have a premonition with this game (and KOTOR I). I emailed to Aspyr and they said me that the don't have plans to port this games to Linux. If they can port to Android....
http://www.aspyr.com/games/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-mobile
Macbeta... hummm
https://steamdb.info/app/32370/history/
http://www.aspyr.com/games/star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-mobile
Macbeta... hummm
https://steamdb.info/app/32370/history/
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These classics deserves a visual upgrade, just some texture upgrades would take us a long way.
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Segata Sanshiro 25 Jun 2015
Again, STAR WARS BATTLEFRONT please ;)
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Mass Effect Trilogy please -.- (I Know it's from Obsidian, not from Bioware :P)
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Nice. IMO, KoToR II was the better than the first game, even without the fan fixes. I hope we get to see some other obsidian titles come to linux, such as Neverwinter Nights 2 and Fallout New Vegas.
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I always liked the first game better. :P
Nah, second one is better with the content patch. I just wish they could make an official one, rather then the community one that we got now.
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Great news, but they have to find a way to make the community fixes usable in Linux as well. The base game is broken.
I was basically going to ask/say the same thing. The Community update makes this game really shine, especially the end parts.
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Great news, but they have to find a way to make the community fixes usable in Linux as well.
Unless they change around things a lot, TSLRCM should still work. It doesn't modify the EXE, just the resources. Or rather, for the most part, it doesn't even modify the original resources, but adds new archives that override the old ones (since a "foo.mod" archive apparently overrides a "foo.rim" archive in priority) and new plain files to the override/ directory (which, yes, overrides stuff from the base archives).
I hope we get to see some other obsidian titles come to linux, such as Neverwinter Nights 2
Neverwinter Nights 2 is really quite unlikely to ever come to Linux, at least not without major porting efforts (*). While the first Neverwinter Nights game, and also the two KotOR games, were quite portable from the start, with an OpenGL renderer even, NWN2 is very Windows-y, and the renderer was pretty much rewritten from scratch with Direct3D in mind. There's also various middleware in use that might be problematic. Miles and Bink won't be a problem, but both Granny and SpreedTree might, especially since the versions it uses are nearly 10 years old now.
(*) Well, or [xoreos](https://xoreos.org/) :P
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This raises two questions for me:
Will KOTOR 1 get the same love? They both use the Odyssey engine, so porting 2 should get you a long ways towards having 1 ported.
Will the Linux versions make their way to GOG - I own both there.
Will KOTOR 1 get the same love? They both use the Odyssey engine, so porting 2 should get you a long ways towards having 1 ported.
Will the Linux versions make their way to GOG - I own both there.
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I actually haven't played KOTOR 2 much, as it glitched out on me when I tried it some 5 years ago. However, first one is absolute classic. It's something beyond RPG and SW license that made it bench play till the end. Crazy.
If they both come on Linux, instant buy and bench playing again.
If they both come on Linux, instant buy and bench playing again.
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Interesting. The game is from 2004 and made with Odyssey engine. Does it mean the engine is being ported to Linux now?
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You guys know that all the aurora/odyssey engine games are being ported to Linux via xoreos right? http://www.xoreos.org I've been speaking/hanging out with those guys on IRC and they are dead serious about getting them ported. They also worked on the GemRB engine port and at least one of their devs got hired by Beamdog.
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Correction, none of the GemRB people work on xoreos. I do have friendly connections to them, though, mostly through the existing history/cross-polination between ScummVM and GemRB. But you probably shouldn't bug them about xoreos. :P
And yes, AFAIK, some GemRB people got hired by Beamdog. Which I think is a bit of a shame, because that means they can't work on GemRB anymore. But if they're okay with that, who am I to judge.
And yes, AFAIK, some GemRB people got hired by Beamdog. Which I think is a bit of a shame, because that means they can't work on GemRB anymore. But if they're okay with that, who am I to judge.
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coryrj19951 26 Jun 2015
Well, this is cool, now I can finally try this game that every one loves so much ^_^
Any idea who might be doing the port?
Any idea who might be doing the port?
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If its going to be ported it would be a shame that the company behind it did not contribute to xoreos. However I know that it runs really well in wine. Could be a wrapper port clap your hands.
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If its going to be ported it would be a shame that the company behind it did not contribute to xoreos. However I know that it runs really well in wine. Could be a wrapper port clap your hands.
That would be a bad idea, even if something they added was "clean room code", the fact they have the source code will make it look dodgy. It's like when the Windows source code a few years back got released, WINE developers stayed the hell away from it for the same reason.
KOTOR II native would just mean once less game for xoreos to worry about (but will no doubt support anyway because that's how open source rolls).
If anything, fingers crossed KOTOR 1 is coming. When this is out I'll buy a couple of copies and donate to this site.
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