Deus Ex: Mankind Divided looks like it may be getting a Linux & SteamOS release

its an instanbuy for me

Instabuy for me for full retail price on Steam if Linux version will come.
With Windows only version I'll wait for "special g2a sold out edition"

Quoting: liamdaweI don't have any to hand and don't fancy trawling months of Facebook, as if I did I can tell you now I would have a lot more posts here on GOL for Feral, but I don't consider Feral telling people they are taking port request feedback as news. Of course they are.

General port requests are one thing, that's just chitchatter. But here they did a specific one for Deus Ex, as you see if you follow the link to Facebook.

I do believe I've seen it on other titles too - I'm quite sure of it - but it's not very common. Hence it'd be really interesting to see what other titles they did these specific posts on.

If anyone recalls?

Quoting: robvvWhilst I am very excited about the possibly of a Linux release of this game, there are some interesting comments on the DE:MD Steam forum about one-shot microtransactions!

Reviews are turning into an outrage: DLC, regardless if bought after release or as a preorder bonus, only work for the play-through they are activated on, not on other play-throughs. There is an in-game shop to buy items like praxis kits and to enable two otherwise inaccessible augmentations. Those purchases are of course limited to your current game as well, not new games you start afterwards or have started otherwise.

Mouse acceleration cannot be turned off in the game, just as motion blur cannot be disabled (but you can at least turn it down). There are also reports that there are gfx options that make the game crash on cards with less than 6GB RAM. And while Square Enix recommends playing in windowed mode to lessen the chance of crashes in the train station, they contradict this advise by telling everyone to play in 1980x1080 resolution at full screen to counter performance issues.

So I guess we should hope that some of those issues get sorted by porting. Or that some features (like the shop for example ;) ) prove impossible to port, so they are cut from the Linux release. Or we should wait for the GOTY version to give them time to fix the most broken parts first.

Erk, do not want.

Oh man I hope they haven't broken an otherwise great game with microtransactions... If so I will never forgive Square Enix!

Small tip: Giveaway here, if you're interested.

From what I read, on the Feral Facebook page, Grid Autosports, Batman Arkham Knight (that was droped for reasons out of Feral's control) and Company of Heroes are all coming from the requestinator.

There is hope for Deus Ex... :)

Depth Charge would be a good match for the whole Bioshock Remastered edition that's coming September 13.

https://blog.2k.com/news/bioshock-the-collection-announcement

That would be nice too!

Edit: Added the link


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Quoting: BeamboomOh man I hope they haven't broken an otherwise great game with microtransactions... If so I will never forgive Square Enix!

Yes and no. The microtransactions apparently don't apply to the main game but just a weird "assault" mode that apparently is just kind of crappy in general (so, yes microtransactions but most people probably won't notice or care). However if you got the pre-order DLC all of the consumables (praxis kits, ammo, health, etc) are one time use only. You keep the preorder weapons across saves/new games but only your first playthrough in which you redeemed the DLC gets the consumables. And that's just terrible. Both silly and terrible.

Because, come on, there will definitely be hacks and trainers and such for this game at some point. What's the benefit to Square Enix? Someone isn't going to buy the DLC again.


Last edited by Mblackwell on 25 August 2016 at 1:18 pm UTC

I wonder where it stores that consumables are consumed information. If it's local, then a thorough delete can give you another shot (which would likely result in easy to use tools). I fear it's the server based kind though. Since it needs that for its microtransaction (and drm) stuff anyway.

If only people were smart enough to NOT spend any money in the store, then that crap would die a quick death.

Quoting: Mblackwell

Quoting: BeamboomOh man I hope they haven't broken an otherwise great game with microtransactions... If so I will never forgive Square Enix!

Yes and no. The microtransactions apparently don't apply to the main game but just a weird "assault" mode that apparently is just kind of crappy in general (so, yes microtransactions but most people probably won't notice or care). However if you got the pre-order DLC all of the consumables (praxis kits, ammo, health, etc) are one time use only. You keep the preorder weapons across saves/new games but only your first playthrough in which you redeemed the DLC gets the consumables. And that's just terrible. Both silly and terrible.

Because, come on, there will definitely be hacks and trainers and such for this game at some point. What's the benefit to Square Enix? Someone isn't going to buy the DLC again.

Thanks a lot for that clarification!

Quoting: TemplateRBefore Square Enix is thinking about a SteamOS-/Linux-Version of "DeusEx Mankind Dvided" , they should port the predecessor "Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut" first.

I think they should release this one first, officially, because it already runs, albeit badly:

"Deus Ex The Fall", uses Unity 4.3.4f1, needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH for libsteam.api.so; Wwise sound engine wrong version, playable

Quoting: thelimeydragonWell doesn't look like history will repeat itself.

'Deus Ex' was the game Loki Software was in the middle of porting to Linux before they went bankrupt back in 2001.

So.. My favorite game in the world could have been on Linux. Why is this world so unfair? :(

I want to play this game on Linux omg instant buy if they release it

The world is no longer being unfair. In fact, fairness is what's driving the gaming platform on Linux today.

We just need more people to realize that Windows alone isn't the answer. To be fair to Microsoft as well, multi-platform is the way to go.

The fact that the usage is rising when more games are coming onboard shows that it's as viable a platform as any.

Any most MS users today.. they'll say, oh if it can play this game, i'd love to switch. And that's becoming a reality.

And for development. Hands down. Python will just be there and all the environment variables set. Windows, i have to do all that shit myself.


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Quoting: Seegras

Quoting: TemplateRBefore Square Enix is thinking about a SteamOS-/Linux-Version of "DeusEx Mankind Dvided" , they should port the predecessor "Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut" first.

I think they should release this one first, officially, because it already runs, albeit badly:

"Deus Ex The Fall", uses Unity 4.3.4f1, needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH for libsteam.api.so; Wwise sound engine wrong version, playable

Let's clarify something - How do you run Deus Ex: HR on Linux?

EDIT: Ok, I guess you were talking about Deus Ex: The Fall. I had no idea such a game exists.


Last edited by wojtek88 on 28 August 2016 at 4:31 pm UTC

I'm a big fan of Deux Ex, nice.
Instant buy if its rly coming to Linux :)

Well... nice fairytale :) But since this game is more demanding than Batman Arkham Knight (fixed long time ago), realistically i don´t see posibility for this game to come to Linux. You must have quite powerful GPU. Even GTX 970 is barely usable on Windows and Linux port will degrade performance 40-50% so you will need GTX 1080 to play this on "High" preset at 1080p @ 40-50 FPS on Linux. So how many Linux gamers have latest, high-end rig? This port would make no sence financially, but the same applies for Mac port with their laughable laptop-grade GPU´s and yet, they still have better games. So if they want to do it, they will need to degrade graphics greatly. Feral and Aspyr should port their older games to Linux. Older Deus EX HR-DC, Batman games, Bioshock 1+2 or Rage.. and then they can reconsider Arkam Knight and maybe Mankind Divided, when it is fixed and complete edition out, sometimes next year..

I have a lot more faith than you do.

Quoting: X6205Well... nice fairytale :) But since this game is more demanding than Batman Arkham Knight (fixed long time ago), realistically i don´t see posibility for this game to come to Linux. You must have quite powerful GPU. Even GTX 970 is barely usable on Windows and Linux port will degrade performance 40-50% so you will need GTX 1080 to play this on "High" preset at 1080p @ 40-50 FPS on Linux. So how many Linux gamers have latest, high-end rig? This port would make no sence financially, but the same applies for Mac port with their laughable laptop-grade GPU´s and yet, they still have better games. So if they want to do it, they will need to degrade graphics greatly. Feral and Aspyr should port their older games to Linux. Older Deus EX HR-DC, Batman games, Bioshock 1+2 or Rage.. and then they can reconsider Arkam Knight and maybe Mankind Divided, when it is fixed and complete edition out, sometimes next year..

I agree 100000000000%

But maybe this is an inhouse port made by Eidos itself and not by a third company...