Well this is confusing, but still awesome. Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition supporting Linux/SteamOS is now 100% official.
From their update here:
QuoteWe are happy to announce that Dead Island Definitive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Definitive Edition now supports Linux & SteamOS!
And don't forget: As a Steam owner of either the original Dead Island, Dead Island Riptide, or both titles, you’ll also automatically receive a loyalty discount of up to 85% off the respective Definitive Edition of the game(s) you own, as well as a discount on the Definitive Collection bundle based on whether you own one or both.
Happy hunting!
Confusing, because Deep Silver told me directly this wasn't happening. I shot them an email early this morning (with no reply as usual) pointing out their tweet and how the Linux/SteamOS versions were actually on Steam. Now hours later it's all official.
Great news. As usual though, proper communication to us would be nice.
Thanks for letting me know zerodogg. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Confusing, because Deep Silver told me directly this wasn't happening.
Well, I am not going to complain about this. ;)
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leillo1975 Jun 3, 2016
Thank you, I have been much less worried
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metro2033fanboy Jun 3, 2016
Loved both games, not as much as Dying Light(same dev)...still a great reference of zombie open world games!
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I figured it would happen this way. They probably wanted to ensure no major problems. Released it working and waited to see if we would report any major issues. Has anyone tested online multiplayer?
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linux_gamer Jun 3, 2016
What a surprise!
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I think it's a case of the right hand not knowing what the left is doing. You'd think that the person behind the twitter account would check their information before outright denying something though!
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Comandante Ñoñardo Jun 3, 2016
As I said in the Steam forum: Deepsilver must fire their Twitter CM.
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psycho_driver Jun 3, 2016
they probably didn't want anyone knowing it was coming over to linux and put it as a suprise,welll suprise!!! lol
Nah just a lot of confusion. About a month ago they did announce that linux would be supported when the DE's launched. It was around release day when people were getting told there wouldn't be a linux version, even though it was available to download and play immediately.
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Kuduzkehpan Jun 3, 2016
can i play it under linux ? rest is just an smack talk. ! keeep paying playing for the cause of linux gaming!
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Really great news.
But there is a drop of bitterness for me... as a german customer I can't buy the Dead Island series through the steam store. So even though I own the original games, I can't get the advantage of the discount :-(
But there is a drop of bitterness for me... as a german customer I can't buy the Dead Island series through the steam store. So even though I own the original games, I can't get the advantage of the discount :-(
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as a german customer I can't buy the Dead Island series through the steam store.
Maybe someone can provide a secure proxy. In fact, you may even be able to get it done through a sourceforge shell.
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But there is a drop of bitterness for me... as a german customer I can't buy the Dead Island series through the steam store.
I just bought a steam key for the Dead Island - Definitive HD Collection from www.okaysoft.de, absolutely legal, been buying games from that store for more than ten years now. You have to send them a copy of your ID card once though (games 18+).
(and I didn't care for the discount) ;)
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This is weird, it won't launch on my rig, with latest nVidia drivers... 
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marcelomendes Jun 3, 2016
It has some quirks. The audio never works out of the box, I always have to run pulseaudio -k, and alt+tab back to the game screen. The overlay screen makes the game crashes when I click on settings (probably other links as well). Nevertheless, my initial walk through was a, almost, "bug free" experience. I'm curious about the coop, but I've no plans to buy the "DI" remastered because I finished it already (with lots of coop issues), and none of my friends have DI: Riptide definitive edition.
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And again, it doesn't work with mesa drivers.....I was going to ask for that, when I saw your post :'( :(
I'm downloading it right now :'( :'(
Ready to make a backup :(
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