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Not quite as bad news as the Rocket League delay, but Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition for Linux & SteamOS is being held up by some memory corruption issues.
Originally Swen stated they wanted to release it last week (in that same twitter conversation), but it seems they haven't been able to nail it down yet.
About the game (Official)
Gather your party and get back to the roots of great RPG gameplay. Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see.
You take on the role of a young Source Hunter: your job is to rid the world of those who use the foulest of magics. Embarking on what should have been a routine murder investigation, you find yourself in the middle of a plot that threatens to destroy the very fabric of time.
Update: You can see it at the start of their new video
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Not quite as bad news as the Rocket League delay, but Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition for Linux & SteamOS is being held up by some memory corruption issues.
@wstephenson @tesfabpel @israndomasis We're fighting some elusive random memory corruption - once we find it, we'll release.
— Swen Vincke (@LarAtLarian) December 18, 2015Originally Swen stated they wanted to release it last week (in that same twitter conversation), but it seems they haven't been able to nail it down yet.
About the game (Official)
Gather your party and get back to the roots of great RPG gameplay. Discuss your decisions with companions; fight foes in turn-based combat; explore an open world and interact with everything and everyone you see.
You take on the role of a young Source Hunter: your job is to rid the world of those who use the foulest of magics. Embarking on what should have been a routine murder investigation, you find yourself in the middle of a plot that threatens to destroy the very fabric of time.
Update: You can see it at the start of their new video
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Quoting: tmtvlEDIT: Note, I backed the game on kickstarter, so I've been waiting as long as anyone here.So you know that it's been A YEAR AND A HALF.
Excuse me if my patience has worn thin.
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Quoting: tmtvlI'm also a software developer and I know that when you take money for product that you promise on multiple platforms, you do QA on all of them from the very beginning. So you code using API that is supported on all of them, not an API that works on one platform and after everything is finished on one platform you port it to other. But even if you decide to go with porting route, you don't work on other stuff until you deliver promised ports.Quoting: NyamiouThis type of bug can take anywhere from 5 minutes to an eternity to fix, I hope it wont be an eternity.
At least someone here is familiar with software development.
I cannot forget, that Larian Studios 1,5 year ago promised Mac and Linux port "just after" Windows version, then lied that they want to provide us Enhanced Edition (but what they wanted to do was ps4 and xone ports) and now they just give us excuses. It's pathetic.
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Storminator16 Dec 19, 2015
I think we'll see this sooner than later. This game isn't on my radar but if it's just memory corruption issues, this may not take them much longer to figure it out. I'm thinking 1/2016.
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Well memory corruptions can be very tricky to debug (also experienced them). But from them I'd consider it more as an excuse than anything else...
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Does anyone know what the "Linux status" is for the upcoming sequel to this game?
Because I can't see much reason to bother with this game, if the studio has removed Linux from their plans completely after this debacle. (I still bear an old and strong grudge against MS for releasing Halo 1&2 to windows but keeping Halo 3 an "xbox exclusive")
Because I can't see much reason to bother with this game, if the studio has removed Linux from their plans completely after this debacle. (I still bear an old and strong grudge against MS for releasing Halo 1&2 to windows but keeping Halo 3 an "xbox exclusive")
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Quoting: FeistDoes anyone know what the "Linux status" is for the upcoming sequel to this game?
Because I can't see much reason to bother with this game, if the studio has removed Linux from their plans completely after this debacle. (I still bear an old and strong grudge against MS for releasing Halo 1&2 to windows but keeping Halo 3 an "xbox exclusive")
This is taken from their Kickstarter for number 2:
QuoteBelieve us, it's not that we're not interested in producing a version for Mac/Linux/Console, it's just that we want to get the gameplay and world fleshed out in all the detail that it needs first. Once we have the game fully worked out, we'll start looking at porting it to other platforms. That’s not something that’ll happen during the Kickstarter or indeed this year.
But - and it’s an important but - we do have most things in place to support several other platforms, since we are starting work from the Divinity: Original Sin- Enhanced Edition engine. We just don’t want to make any promises yet.
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voyager2102 Dec 19, 2015
Quoting: NelAnd soon, they'll find out that elusive random memory corruption was actually hiding a larger conflict with random critical API that forces to redesign the entire engine from scratch.You think they already started to write actual code?
You know...
delay...
computer stuff...
Elusive Random Memory Corruption: Somebody keeps steeling post-its from the interns' fridge.
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please guys, stop giving us (linux users) a bad name, and put the hate aside.
even if you can't play it for the christmas holidays, the main thing is we get it down the line. everybody needs a break, and we're not lacking backlog.
even if you can't play it for the christmas holidays, the main thing is we get it down the line. everybody needs a break, and we're not lacking backlog.
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Quoting: TheBossThis is taken from their Kickstarter for number 2:
QuoteBelieve us, it's not that we're not interested in producing a version for Mac/Linux/Console, it's just that we want to get the gameplay and world fleshed out in all the detail that it needs first. Once we have the game fully worked out, we'll start looking at porting it to other platforms. That’s not something that’ll happen during the Kickstarter or indeed this year.
But - and it’s an important but - we do have most things in place to support several other platforms, since we are starting work from the Divinity: Original Sin- Enhanced Edition engine. We just don’t want to make any promises yet.
Thanks!
It does sound like Linux is a distinct possibility for the sequel maybe it's even likely...
Still, not sure if I'm willing to bet on "we'll start looking at porting it to other platforms", as a guarantee for a continuation of the series on linux, which means I'll most likely put this game on hold until something more substantial is said by Larian Studios.
Last edited by Feist on 19 December 2015 at 12:15 pm UTC
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