Speculation: It's looking like Rocket League may finally arrive on Linux in September

Still playing it with friends every other day. A release would considerably cut down the amount of reboots I have to do. However a program I'm using every week recently stopped working for me under Linux... sooo maybe not as much as I'd like.

Boo... Boo...
Boo...

Well since it came free with the controller I'll try it out but my expectations are dirt low and I bet it will be a shiznit port too with teribad quality - a big fsck you to the linux community.

On the off chance its not shiznit I'll be like eh ok. But man they really screwed up and are terrible at time management and persuing goals

So because a game was delayed, you're just going to completely ignore it? That's such a sad attitude to take.

I can understand him. It's a pure multiplayer title - and even it's player base seems to be in good health right now, in my opinion such title have a shorter lifecycle then singleplayer titles (Witcher 3 for example). The shorter livecycle applies to the payed DLCs too, of course! My friends on windows have played and trained many many hours - it will be hard or nearly impossible to catch up with them. Even it will be a lot of fun, it would have been much better to play with them from the beginning. Lastly I don't like the information policy (for the Linux version) on this game - even now, it's just a speculation! I can't see a (good) reason for this.

I'm waiting for this game from the day I got my Steam Controller so I'll definitely give it a try - but I wouldn't buy it now because of the reasons named above.

Still playing it with friends every other day. A release would considerably cut down the amount of reboots I have to do. However a program I'm using every week recently stopped working for me under Linux... sooo maybe not as much as I'd like.

You're under the, possibly false, impression that you're going to be able to connect with your Windows friends from inside the Linux version, after the amount of multi-player games that have had no cross compatibility I'd say it's highly likely to follow that trend as well & you'll still have to reboot to play it with them even after the Linux port finally arrives.

Hopefully I'm wrong as that would seriously be the final nail in the game's coffin for a lot of people.

I don't think it won't have cross-platform multiplayer... they said that they would allow even console players to play together with PC users if it was allowed by the console companies, IIRC... so there is no reason to lock Linux users out of, at least, the PC multiplayer.
Not to mention that such a port would be useless simply because our community is just too small. We HAVE to play together with Windows users, otherwise we would only play with bots and very rarely with other players, but all-human matches would be very rare indeed. That's the truth: We're few, and even fewer of us want to play this game and even fewer of those will keep playing it for a while, especially after seeing how hard it is to find a match.
Yeah, I think that a good enough reason for cross-platform multiplayer. Surely they wouldn't have bothered working on the port for that long if this was not to be added and the port was doomed to fail.


Last edited by 1mHfoksd1Z on 29 Aug 2016 at 7:15 am UTC

now that everyone has moved on and all the major tournaments are done.... good timing

I don't think it won't have cross-platform multiplayer... they said that they would allow even console players to play together with PC users if it was allowed by the console companies, IIRC... so there is no reason to lock Linux users out of, at least, the PC multiplayer.
Not to mention that such a port would be useless simply because our community is just too small. We HAVE to play together with Windows users, otherwise we would only play with bots and very rarely with other players, but all-human matches would be very rare indeed. That's the truth: We're few, and even fewer of us want to play this game and even fewer of those will keep playing it for a while, especially after seeing how hard it is to find a match.
Yeah, I think that a good enough reason for cross-platform multiplayer. Surely they wouldn't have bothered working on the port for that long if this was not to be added and the port was doomed to fail.

I don't think it will be a case not putting it in, more a case of not being able to get it to work like the other ports that suffered from it. Then again that might be why it's taken so long, they've spent all this time trying to get iot working.


Last edited by lucifertdark on 29 Aug 2016 at 8:05 am UTC

I can guarantee you it will have cross platform multiplayer :)

now that everyone has moved on and all the major tournaments are done.... good timing

There will obviously be more, lots more considering how popular the game is.

way too late, not going to play anymore

And that's only on my main account! Got a couple hundred more hours on my work account!

Edit: What I meant is: if it releases for Linux, ogh boy I can only think of the all-nighters at home!


Last edited by Zapa on 29 Aug 2016 at 9:46 am UTC

So because a game was delayed, you're just going to completely ignore it? That's such a sad attitude to take.

It's not that the game is one month late and i go full "i hate those guys, let's block/boycott everything from them". It's far from that. I am a professional software developer myself and i know the trouble of releasing software. But if you're one year late – of a potential one day all platform release – i just lost interest. It's not that i actively have them on my naughty list, but if i read one month after another of potential releases and a somewhat poor information policy of the publisher my threshold changes. After all my windows friends played the shit out of this game in the last year and moved on to the next cool shit – i see myself not in the position of a high Likelihood to want this game anymore. It just so happens that i ignore this game now – i just go on – next please ... :( other games catched my attention and my list of "games to play" i have in my steam lib is longer than i have time to play them. I am feeling sorry for rocket league but that ship sailed a long time ago ...

@pythoneer, the game hasn't lost interest, there is still 100k+ people playing it every evening. Even if it's released in september the game will be enjoyable.

I never said that. I said, that i lost interest in the game.

I don't think it won't have cross-platform multiplayer... they said that they would allow even console players to play together with PC users if it was allowed by the console companies, IIRC...

It is allowed. Consoles players are playing alongside Windows players. Don't know if Xbox plays with PlayStation, but they both play with Windows.

I can guarantee you it will have cross platform multiplayer :)

now that everyone has moved on and all the major tournaments are done.... good timing

There will obviously be more, lots more considering how popular the game is.

With a guarantee like this I wonder if this article is a little more than speculation.

I don't really understand why playing the game soon after release is better than playing it later... I mean, it's still the same game! Actually it's not the same, it's more than that, because it got many updates and they are still improving it.
There's also a lot of people playing it so it's not like you're gonna have trouble finding matches to play.

But you're gonna have huge troubles if you'd like to choose the people you want to play with from your reallife friends. If - and only if they're still into it (which is not very likely after such a long time), they'll be godmasters and matching against them won't make sense anymore.

For people that won't mind playing with strangers it shouldn't matter, as long as no none-linux-successor of the game is released.

Concerning the updates: I wouldn't expect any support at all from dev's that have the linux version on the very very bottom of their priority list. I've seen terrible supported linux AAA releases too often to still be optimistic about that.

I'm still addicted to this game after a year. The linux port will save me many windows boots.

Don't care anymore. The game was interesting when it was released. Totally lost interest in it – to be honest i really forgot the game altogether and i don't care in the 12th "soon to be released news" anymore. I am throwing my money at people who deliver – not just promising. If they finally release it – i don't care anymore.

So because a game was delayed, you're just going to completely ignore it? That's such a sad attitude to take.

I own the game, but I think his stance is fair. For any product, there is a window. For many, that window is closed. Not his/her duty to actually give it consideration at this point. I don't find it to be a sad attitude at all. To each their own.

Also, I don't think it will ship next month. I'll believe it when I see it and I won't be shocked if the Linux release still doesn't happen in 2016 or if ever. It's not anyone's prerogative to care either way at this point. It's just another game that missed it's window and it has closed for many. We've all seen this movie before, why do we behave as if this is different?

Well since it came free with the controller I'll try it out but my expectations are dirt low...

Ditto.


Last edited by Storminator16 on 29 Aug 2016 at 6:23 pm UTC

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Also, I don't think it will ship next month. I'll believe it when I see it and I won't be shocked if the Linux release still doesn't happen in 2016 or if ever.

You shut up, a man can dream /s

I preordered the Steam Controller way back when it was announced, but it doesn't look like Rocket League was bundled with that preorder.. Depending on price I'm not sure if I'll buy it if/when it arrives.

It's a bit awkward time now with titles that has been in production the last 3+ years, using Unreal Engine 3. Seems to be a lot of trouble on Linux. I really look forward to when UE3 is deprecated in favour of UE4, since Linux support should be more straight forward, but with development times on modern games it'll take minimum a year before we see the effect of that, and longer before UE4 is the norm. Unfortunately it is no guarantee that we'll see Linux support on all UE4 titles - even if hypothetical everything works with a push of a button, Vulkan and all, there are still developers/publishers who won't release for Linux because it is "non-PC" :P Though thankfully it seems like that mentality is slowly changing.

Took long enough.

Now I've gotta purchase a larger SSD just to install RL, XCom and Football Manager.

Better late than never I guess (if it happens).


I was in the 30s when I found out this was coming to Linux. I'm now level 66 Legend. Sheesh.