Well this is confusing and aggravating, it seems the Linux version of Project Cars is officially never going to happen.
@gamingonlinux There are no plans for a Linux version right now.
— Project CARS (@projectcarsgame) August 7, 2016
I pointed out a link on their own website that is still up here:
QuoteFurthermore, Project CARS will also be coming to Valve’s Steam OS, extending an existing partnership with Steam that has already allowed tens of thousands of WMD members the ability to download and play builds of the game during its development and allow specific multiplayer and social features that are only possible using this unique platform.
No reply on that yet, but I will update this if we get anything back as it was only recently sent to them.
Sadly, it's another game to join the growing list of games that promised a Linux/SteamOS version to drop support at some point without telling anyone. I've tried to get in touch with the developer numerous times. It's pleasing to get closure, but it took a long time to get it out of them.
They did at least stop taking any funding way before announcing SteamOS support, so if you purchased it once it released when there was still no sign of their previously promised support, well, you probably know by now not to pre-order.
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No surprises there, the developers announced PC2 shortly after the first game was released, considering they're a small studio it should be expected they'll drop any work on the first game besides critical hotfixes in order to allocate more resources to the second game.
Hopefully they learned their lesson and are building PC2 ground-up to be crossplatform so we get a native Linux version at release.
Hopefully they learned their lesson and are building PC2 ground-up to be crossplatform so we get a native Linux version at release.
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Quoting: TuxeeQuoting: ZeloxQuoting: TuxeeDid anyone seriously think that Project Cars would ever see the light of day on SteamOS? The announcement was more than vague. There are a far more "outspoken" candidates out there which still have to deliver - Rocket League comes to my mind. And to spare you some future disappointment: If Star Citizen ever will be finished, we still won't see a Linux version. As with Kingdom Come: Deliverance (which reminds me, that I should finally get my refund from those bastards).
Star citizen is coming to Linux, and its been confirmed mutliple times.
Also the game is expected to be released by the end of the year.
The reason we dont have a port is because OpenGL are missing stuff along with cryengien.
But they will work on it.
Ofcourse they could probably back out, but I doubt it.
You can just ask the support what the exact problem are at the moment and Im sure they give u a strait answer.
About as confirmed as HL3.
There has never been an explicit confirmation of a Linux version ("looking into it", "some time after release", etc). If I'm wrong: Send pix to prove it. For a start: Why did they pick Cryengine which Linux support is spotty at best, and was de-facto non-existent when RSI decided upon it.
I dont really have to show you anything.
Cry engien was picked cause of its realistic style and it hade nothing to do with Linux. What you can do is to read on the forums, watch there youtube channel and I think it even was an article about it here on GOL, Chris Roberts spoke about vulkan, linux and cry engien. And you can contact the support if you want a strait answer, I can give you my answer I got from the support:
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Kraiklyn (Cloud Imperium Games)
Jun 22, 16:12 BST
Hey there.
Thanks for getting in touch with the crew, here at Cloud Imperium Games.
I was checking out your query concerning a Linux client, and this has been discussed a lot within the community. At the moment there are no solid plans in place, as focus is largely on getting the game developed and on a Windows OS.
This might be something we address later on, but we will have to wait and see, it is definitely further down the road though, in the grand scheme of things. Should you need assistance with anything else in the meantime, please feel free to get back in touch.
All the best,
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I mean its not even hard to find information about it, they seem intressted in doing vulkan and Linux.
But Its no garantee, and it was probably wrong for me to say its confirmed to linux.
But its been a very debated topic among devs if you compair it to other dev teams.
And regarding HL3 I dont think we will see that in my lifetime. Judging from what Valve them self have said about it.
And unlike HL3, Star citizen is coming by the end of the year, with or without a Linux client.
And incase you dont know what they have said about HL3, its basicly, they dont want to release it cause they are afraid its to over hyped. And because the hype is to big, they can never live up to it.
Edit: I think we gonna have to need a forum thread if we going to keep talking about SC.
Im afraid Liam or any mods might bring the smite hammer and smite us all :P
Last edited by Zelox on 9 August 2016 at 6:28 am UTC
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Yeah guys, try to steer the convo towards PC, if you wanna chat about that pop up a forum post and link it, it helps keep it together.
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Quoting: c600411Steam OS is not finished, Steam OS is not Linux, Valve is not doing anything for Linux lately because they are developing VR and Linux is shit for VR.
GoL should stop hyping "ports" and criticize more, ass licking and circlejerking will not get us anywhere.
Android is arguably not Linux--it's certainly not Gnu/Linux. Chrome OS is a bit off the track of what many would consider a normal Linux. But Steam OS? Steam OS is a bog-typical Linux distro. The only thing remotely odd about it is that it boots into a particular program by default (Steam big picture mode). Aside from that, it's like any other somewhat-specialized Ubuntu derivative.
. . . Why exactly would Linux be shit for VR? The claim doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
As to that last line . . . grow up.
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