According to Deep Silver the new editions of Dead Island are not coming to Linux

Weird - at least I don't care too much. Not my kind of game.

I had big hopes with these re-editions. I was wishing to play Riptide in Linux-native, but with this news I'm very disappointed. I don't understand why devs hyped Linux-community with Steamdb

I don't understand why devs hyped Linux-community with Steamdb

This stuff isn't even supposed to be public, SteamDB just hooks into stuff to show it publically. SteamDB isn't an official Valve site.

Really sad news. We know Techland can do the ports themselves, and they are delivering good and playable ports. I reached out to the devs some time ago, after I've watched their Dying Light port report (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFdgOBniQB4), asking if they would port Dead Island Riptide, too.
Unfortunately the devs don't know nor are allowed to disclose any informations.

Deep Silver is very Linux-friendly though, so it's a bit odd they have no plans in releasing Linux versions for the Dead Island Definitive edition. Especially as Dead Island has a Linux version. I would have bought the Definitive Edition.

Let's hope they reconsider, maybe by showing them our interest in a Linux version of the Dead Island Definitive Edition.

Here's hoping for those crossed wires because not having them on Linux (with these new graphics) would suck immensely for me.
I was planning to play those games again (played them on PS3) because they were both good.
I know that many/some gamers were disappointed by DI, but I was definitely not (really enjoyed the crafting part) and I really had a blast playing them.

For everyone ignoring these games because of negative reviews and so on; please don't. You need to play them and make your own mind, you might have a nice surprise.

I dont know if that is the official deepsilver twitter account but as far as I know this one is the official twitter

https://twitter.com/deepsilver

Maybe that Twitter UK account is just for marketing purposes and maybe the guy who handles the twitter dont know much about the game technical details?

Their official webpage
https://www.deepsilver.com/us/home/

Liam, You owe me 3.99 Euro! I wouldn't support them if I didn't believe in Linux port! ;)

Anyway, at least answer my question about Total War: Warhammer in this article (BTW. It looks it is impossible to get the link to the comment on Chrome on Android)

Deep Silver may be Linux friendly, but Techland is not so much. Their ports are really bad, like Virtual Programming bad. To this day I cannot launch the original Dead Island in my gaming rig (bought it before Steam allowed refunds), while all other Deep Silver games I have work just fine.

People will point out that I use a non supported setup (AMD+OSS drivers) but I can play every other Deep Silver game I have, and the performance is good. Even Liam, with a monster rig (GTX 980ti) have performance problems with Dying Light, and after several updates things are still not good enough.

I'm not touching another Techland game.

Well Valve seem to think they are as they're listed under SteamOS on my machine.

edit: Of course they would be as SteamDB has them listed too. My excuse is I'm not well today, should probably just go back to bed.


Last edited by lucifertdark on 26 May 2016 at 11:49 am UTC

I dont know if that is the official deepsilver twitter account

It is an official account.

Anyway, at least answer my question about Total War: Warhammer in this article (BTW. It looks it is impossible to get the link to the comment on Chrome on Android)

I don't follow comments on every article or it would take too much time. If I had news, as always, I would post about it.

Well both games appear in my SteamOS/Linux games list. Considering that they're also removing the old games aswell, I'm hoping that the guy on Twitter is wrong.

A shame, if this is correct. While I would be satisfied with the standard edition of "DI" for linux I was hoping that these new editions would bring "DI-Riptide" to linux.

Imo. a very enjoyable game, quite a bit more entertaining than the original DI, just as Dying Light was more entertaining than both of them.

I don't follow comments on every article or it would take too much time.

That's technical issue - you should receive notification when I mention your username. And I was sure it works this way. Can I request such a functionality?

I don't follow comments on every article or it would take too much time.

That's technical issue - you should receive notification when I mention your username. And I was sure it works this way. Can I request such a functionality?

It does not work that way, GOL runs custom software.

Ugh, so, if true, not only would Deep Silver not make the new editions available for Linux, but they would snatch away my beloved Dead Island? I love DI! Ooooooo, I bet Microsoft bought off Deep Silver, the rat finks!

P.S. Liam, any chance of talking you into changing the headline to According to Some Schmuck at Deep Silver . . . ? ;)


Last edited by Nanobang on 26 May 2016 at 1:42 pm UTC

Pfft, Techland e_e It wouldn't surprise me if they just didn't bother telling their publisher, or maybe they don't know it's being worked on themselves cause it's Techland. Bitter? Moi? Probably; I never got over Dying Light, as it was my first day-one $60 purchase on Linux. Then there's Dead Island, which at least was playable, but if I recall had major bugs the first few months of release.

Granted, the games themselves aren't really my cup of tea, very BorderLands-y, at least the BL people arranged for proper support.

I don't follow comments on every article or it would take too much time.

That's technical issue - you should receive notification when I mention your username. And I was sure it works this way. Can I request such a functionality?

It does not work that way, GOL runs custom software.

I understand. And as a programmer, I think that writing an interceptor that kicks in on message send, interprets all the occurences of words starting with '@' character, verifies if such a user exists and if so sends information about mention to recipient (if recipient does not exists, informs user about wrong mention) is not so hard. What's more - opening autocomplition when you start to type with '@' is not so hard as well. You would be able to do such a validation client side as well.
No rocket science from my point of view.

That's why I asked, can I request such a functionality. If you think that this is too much effort with not so big gain I understand. I just think this would be valuable.

interprets all the occurences of words starting with '@' character

We are not on Twitter though.

To use @ to refer to users on forums happened many many years before Twitter existed.

They are marked as windows + linux on steamdb so it's really a sad news if they won't be available.
Dead Island is a GREAT game, unfortunately the native port sucks so bad and also on wine isn't that great.
Luckily Riptide runs great on wine so we can play it anyway, no big deal..

Let's see how this goes on, i'm crossing my fingers

Well I hope I'm not about to waste 15Gb of bandwidth as they're downloading ready for release right now.