Rocket League is way overdue, we all know that, but honestly I am fully expecting it to arrive with the patch due in September named the 'Rumble Update'. This update will come with a bunch of stuff including a new game mode.
I'm speculating of course, so don't take this as solid confirmation of anything. The evidence is starting to come together though and I will be extremely surprised if Linux isn't released with the Rumble update next month.
Every time Rocket League is updated on SteamDB, the Linux depot is now also updated and this has been true for about two weeks now. This is the single most activity the Linux side of RL has ever seen being pushed into branches on Steam.
Originally the Linux version sat in its own "steamos" branch, but it seems like it has been finally put into their main testing branch named "psyonix". Why else would this happen if not to ready it for release? You can see the named branches on this SteamDB page.
On top of that, the Director of Development at Psyonix tagged me in a tweet about the Linux version recently too:
@darkgallium @RocketLeague @thenaughtysquid We're working on it, can't reveal the date yet
— Thomas Silloway (@Fuzzhead93) August 13, 2016
They are still being careful not to give any indicators after their previous failures to get it out.
I'm going to be honest, due to how long we have been waiting my patience for it started to wear thin. Considering how much activity it's seeing on SteamDB right now I am getting excited again! I just hope my own excitement for it doesn't get squashed again.
The game still has a crazy amount of people playing, right now there's around forty-four thousand people playing. So at least we aren't getting the game when it's dead, we are getting a still very popular game.
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: adolsonObviously, I hope it finally does release, even if I won't play it much. However, if it doesn't release with that update, I hope like hell that this is the last time the game gets a post on this site until the release actually happens. It doesn't deserve all this attention when there's never anything solid to actually report.Like now, if I feel there's something worthy of reporting or some supporting evidence I will post about it.
A game with tens of thousands of players coming to Linux, that sure does deserve attention in my book.
Edit: Spelling error.
When was the last ACTUAL news? There's been nothing besides delays reported since the first "it's coming to Linux" announcement. This post isn't even based on anything except your suspicions. Or, you have inside info and are dressing it up as intuition.
Like I said, I do hope it's actually going to release this time. But how many other times has it been posted that it was coming soon, just a few weeks/months now, any day now, it has to be here soon, and on and on?
And if it doesn't come this time, guess what? We'll all keep having this same discussion every time it's posted about, until the time that - hey, whaddyaknow, it finally released, at which point you can say, "see, I was right! [This time.]"
All this hype has historically lead only to more waiting and disappointment. The waiting isn't even that bad. It's the insurmountable fanboy hype I see all over the place (not just here, and not just you). It's everywhere. And thanks to that, my expectations initially shot up way high. But after the umpteenth delay, the hype propelled my expectations too close to the sun. Now the wax has melted and the wings fallen off, and it's due to crash through the floor any day now. One more delay ought to kill that last tiny bit of care I have for this one.
But then, I'm not much of an online gamer to begin with, so... It is what it is.
GustyGhost Aug 30, 2016
2. Others have already had years to practice. If you planned to jump in and be able to compete above the casual level, there is a lot of catching up to do. Hopefully not too late.
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