Not much being said in public about the Arma 3 Linux port, but it seems it is progressing and could become a reality.
If you remember, it was only started as an experiment to see how it would perform with an external porter (Virtual Programming).
The developer replied to a user on twitter to say they have been testing it:
@d10sfan Hi. We've been testing the experimental ports as Beta in-house and it's looking promising. More details coming up!
— Arma 3 (@Arma3official) August 3, 2015I will be very interested to see how it performs, and can't wait to give it a test run. It will be great to see the developer share some more details soon.
About the game (Official)
Experience true combat gameplay in a massive military sandbox. Deploying a wide variety of single- and multiplayer content, over 20 vehicles and 40 weapons, and limitless opportunities for content creation, this is the PC’s premier military game. Authentic, diverse, open - Arma 3 sends you to war. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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metro2033fanboy Aug 3, 2015
Ha ha...I'm just hoping VP gets its sweet hands on fallout 4
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Awesome (I am playing Arma 2 right now, so I am very curious about this port)
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Mountain Man Aug 3, 2015
What do you expect them to say? "We're testing the port, and it sucks"? Not likely.
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Quoting: Mountain ManWhat do you expect them to say? "We're testing the port, and it sucks"? Not likely.
They could have said "no new information" like most do. This sounds much more promising.
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Mountain Man Aug 3, 2015
Yeah, but saying that it's "promising" sounds good without actually telling us anything. For all we know, it could mean that it didn't instantly crash when they ran the executable, and a coder muttered, "Well, that's promising."
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Quoting: Mountain ManWhat do you expect them to say? "We're testing the port, and it sucks"? Not likely.They could have said the usual "The game is mostly running fine but there is still some major issues we need to fix so the release have to be delayed for an undefined amount of time again" that we get quite often for a lot of developers that promised a Linux release but don't deliver.
Also, they did say that the port is in beta, so most of the work is probably done (the game is probably mostly playable) and they are working on finding and fixing issues (which can take quite a long time depending on the game).
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Quoting: Mountain ManYeah, but saying that it's "promising" sounds good without actually telling us anything. For all we know, it could mean that it didn't instantly crash when they ran the executable, and a coder muttered, "Well, that's promising."And it could also mean that it runs so well that they might actually releasing it soon.
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Interesting. Maybe VP have improved their wrapper yet still. Honestly, I'm very curious about their ports and wrapper, as I see them as the only realistic way for most Windows games to find their way to Linux.
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Mountain Man Aug 4, 2015
Quoting: dubigrasuUnlikely. Saying that something is "promising" means it has some degree of unrealized potential.Quoting: Mountain ManYeah, but saying that it's "promising" sounds good without actually telling us anything. For all we know, it could mean that it didn't instantly crash when they ran the executable, and a coder muttered, "Well, that's promising."And it could also mean that it runs so well that they might actually releasing it soon.
Like I said, it was PR fluff that doesn't actually tell us anything.
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Quoting: Mountain ManNo, it could mean a lot of things, from: "we managed to start and play the game for 5 minutes before it crashed" to "the port is working really good but we still have some issues to resolve ".Quoting: dubigrasuUnlikely. Saying that something is "promising" means it has some degree of unrealized potential.Quoting: Mountain ManYeah, but saying that it's "promising" sounds good without actually telling us anything. For all we know, it could mean that it didn't instantly crash when they ran the executable, and a coder muttered, "Well, that's promising."And it could also mean that it runs so well that they might actually releasing it soon.
Like I said, it was PR fluff that doesn't actually tell us anything.
Other that " promising" we know too little to go "Likely" or "Unlikely".
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