Sad news, I was really looking forward to playing The Vanishing of Ethan Carter but it looks like I won't get a chance. The developers have come across too many issues.
They had come across some issues a few days back:
@AngryPenguinPL Still looking, but first attempts were not encouraging, sadly :( (lots of heavy visual errors etc.)
— Adrian Chmielarz (@adrianchm) January 23, 2016And now it's on hold:
QuoteSorry to keep you all waiting for so long. We did some tests with Linux and we experienced a lot of difficulties. Because of that, we put the port on hold for now but may return to it at some point.
Adrian Palma,
Support Manager,
The Astronauts
Source
Looks like Unreal Engine 4 has ways to go to fix up their Linux support properly.
I hope none of you were silly enough to buy it based on their comments about looking into it before, as you know we have a hard stance here: Don't buy it until it's on Linux and playable. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Looks like Unreal Engine 4 has ways to go to fix up their Linux support properly.
I completely disagree. I think it's *their* code that doesn't work and is badly (inportable) written.
I've been in the Linux Game Testing for The Mean Greens - and I can say: They basically just built it and threw it out -- and it worked.
Yes, some maps were darker and had some issues. The water shader didn't work.
BUT: This was fixed rather easily and it's now fully playable and quite performant.
They themselves spoke positively about how the UE4 was easing their port.
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BabaoWhisky Jan 31, 2016
They don't want to spent more time to port on Linux. They want to give up this project so they found these issues.
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Looks like Unreal Engine 4 has ways to go to fix up their Linux support properly.
I completely disagree. I think it's *their* code that doesn't work and is badly (inportable) written.
I've been in the Linux Game Testing for The Mean Greens - and I can say: They basically just built it and threw it out -- and it worked.
Yes, some maps were darker and had some issues. The water shader didn't work.
BUT: This was fixed rather easily and it's now fully playable and quite performant.
They themselves spoke positively about how the UE4 was easing their port.
I am in the testing too and as much as I remember, we should not discuss any of this in public until its released.
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Someone asked more specific what we are allowed and there were some restrictions on it. That's why I wasn't too specific about things (and they feared more negative news than positive, I guess ;-))
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Plintslîcho Jan 31, 2016
Sad news indeed. I still find this game quite interesting and it would've been great to have it for Linux as well. But then again, so many great games coming to Linux these days, I don't really feel like it's a loss.
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Someone asked more specific what we are allowed and there were some restrictions on it. That's why I wasn't too specific about things (and they feared more negative news than positive, I guess ;-))
Agreed, It was for the original testing regards footage and what not, after the last patch it runs on par with boarderlands now, thats on AMD to boot. Must admit I've kept quiet about it. pity they didn't have a forum solely for those testing it .
So I agree with the census here, their excuse is BS, every other unreal powered game has not only run fine but well too!
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So I agree with the census here, their excuse is BS, every other unreal powered game has not only run fine but well too!
Now now, no need to throw insults around. They are having issues with their game, the UE comment was clearly my own.
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So I agree with the census here, their excuse is BS, every other unreal powered game has not only run fine but well too!
Now now, no need to throw insults around. They are having issues with their game, the UE comment was clearly my own.
There want an insult thrown, though I admit I miss read it and read as they said UE4 has a ways to go.
I Apologies to the devs/forum members !
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I have the feeling this one will make its way to Linux with a UT engine 4 port, in the end.
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lucifertdark Jan 31, 2016
I'll buy it if it's ported, if not I have plenty of games to keep me busy without it.
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I has a sad. :( Oh well, there's no lack of games for me to play in the immediate future.
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PublicNuisance Jan 31, 2016
Sad news. I've been putting off playing my copy hoping for a Linux version. You win some you lose some.
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Sad news. I've been putting off playing my copy hoping for a Linux version. You win some you lose some.
I'm glad you're up front that you've already bought it.
It really doesn't help that quite a few folk on Steam forums come out with "do a Linux port, then I'll buy it", when there's a pretty obvious icon next to their name that highlights the fact that they've already bought it. It happens in a lot of the "Please give us a Linux version" threads I'm subscribed to.
Some devs might do a Linux version out the kindness of their heart, but most studios will want to see some kind of return on effort. So a thread with 200 pleas to make a Linux version will lose a lot of credibility when 50%+ of those posts have already bought it.
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Yeah, I've seen that too Scaine.
Also folks, remember that even if you buy it on Linux, if it doesn't have a Linux version yet it will be a Windows sale no matter what.
Stop buying games before they are on Linux, it's that simple.
Also folks, remember that even if you buy it on Linux, if it doesn't have a Linux version yet it will be a Windows sale no matter what.
Stop buying games before they are on Linux, it's that simple.
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I won it in a giveaway on GOG. I too have been putting off trying to play it waiting on the Linux version.
Hopefully it still happens one day.
Hopefully it still happens one day.
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DamonLinuxPL Jan 31, 2016
Leszek Godlewski (ex The Farm51) who port to Linux Painkiller H&D and Deadfall Adventures, working after quit from Farm51 in The Astronauts on Ethan. Now Leszek quit from The Astronauts and now woking in People Can Fly. So maybe this is reason why we can get Ethan port for Linux?
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Segata Sanshiro Jan 31, 2016
Oh, that sucks :(. I was really looking forward to this one... Guess I'll have to take it off the wishlist then.
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I'm sure it will sooner or later... most likely later, when the UE4 engine is updated for Vulkan.
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Leszek Godlewski (ex The Farm51) who port to Linux Painkiller H&D and Deadfall Adventures, working after quit from Farm51 in The Astronauts on Ethan. Now Leszek quit from The Astronauts and now woking in People Can Fly. So maybe this is reason why we can get Ethan port for Linux?Isn't Flying Wild Hog?
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@dubigrasu you're right - it's Flying Wild Hog.Leszek Godlewski (ex The Farm51) who port to Linux Painkiller H&D and Deadfall Adventures, working after quit from Farm51 in The Astronauts on Ethan. Now Leszek quit from The Astronauts and now woking in People Can Fly. So maybe this is reason why we can get Ethan port for Linux?Isn't Flying Wild Hog?
Anyway, as far as I remember Leszek left the whole porting business after starting to work on Darksiders port for Nordic Games (Source. He did not leave gaming industry, but does not work on porting games to Linux. However I can see on his Linkedin account that he was working on Vanishing of Ethan Carter (but does not work anymore). So I don't understand what did @DamonLinuxPL mean while saying:
So maybe this is reason why we can get Ethan port for Linux?Fact that Leszek does not work on Vanishing of Ethan Carter anymore makes it less possible that we receive port of this game.
Last edited by wojtek88 on 31 January 2016 at 10:58 pm UTC
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