Here’s the news you have been desperate to hear, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided [Official Site] is officially heading to SteamOS & Linux and it’s being ported by Feral Interactive.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is coming to Mac and Linux this year. Embrace what you've become. pic.twitter.com/0AS5HCQpaI
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) September 15, 2016
They have confirmed the game will release this year, but they aren’t being any clearer than that right now. Could it be my early Christmas present? Oh please say it is–although even sooner than that would be great!
From the Press Release:
Quote“Over the past 16 years, the Deus Ex games have been leaders in game design, expertly blending innovative storytelling and gameplay within a compelling game world,” said David Stephen, Managing Director at Feral Interactive. “Deus Ex: Mankind Divided takes it to the next level, giving players an unprecedented degree of freedom in a spectacular cyberpunk setting, where their actions shape both narrative and gameplay.”
They will announce the required PC specifications closer to the launch date.
Incredible news! I played through the previous game years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. So I am already a fan of the series.
It’s worth noting that reviews for the game overall on Steam are "Mixed", mainly due to microtransactions and an apparent abrupt ending. As usual though, I reserve all my thoughts on it until I actually play it.
It’s not cheap at £39.99, so at release you may need to dig a little deep into those pockets of yours. It also has a £24.99 season pass, so hopefully given that price it means extra actual story content will come too.
It’s also one of a select few games that you can buy bundled with a Steam Controller, so if you don’t own one it’s a chance to get some money off buying them together.
About the game
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.The year is 2029, and mechanically augmented humans have now been deemed outcasts, living a life of complete and total segregation from the rest of society.
Now an experienced covert operative, Adam Jensen is forced to operate in a world that has grown to despise his kind. Armed with a new arsenal of state-of-the-art weapons and augmentations, he must choose the right approach, along with who to trust, in order to unravel a vast worldwide conspiracy.
Quoting: Comandante oardoHow do you run Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood under WINe?Install the game under wine and run? New Order's Steam version has platinum rating in appdb, should be pretty straightforward.
Comandante Ñoñardo Sep 16, 2016
Quoting: ShmerlI don't think Feral have much say in this matter, it's decided by the publisher. And while Square Enix aren't against Linux versions, when DRM is concerned they are still in the dark ages. Kind of ironic, that a game which explores power corruption and its effect on society in dystopian / cyberpunk settings, is plagued by the same disease.
Just like with Tomb Raider and Life is Strange, Feral IS the publisher of the Linux and Mac versions, so they can choose... and they choose DRM...
And the most irritating part is that, for Feral, Steam is not a DRM and never has been.
Quoting: Comandante oardoJust like with Tomb Raider and Life is Strange, Feral IS the publisher of the Linux and Mac versions, so they can choose... and they choose DRM...
Are you sure about that? They are just porting the game, they don't own it. If they indeed could choose, and they chose not to release it DRM-free, then it's worse and it's their fault.
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Quoting: Comandante oardoJust like with Tomb Raider and Life is Strange, Feral IS the publisher of the Linux and Mac versions, so they can choose... and they choose DRM...
They still have to answer to the Windows publisher.
Quoting: Comandante oardoQuoting: ShmerlI don't think Feral have much say in this matter, it's decided by the publisher. And while Square Enix aren't against Linux versions, when DRM is concerned they are still in the dark ages. Kind of ironic, that a game which explores power corruption and its effect on society in dystopian / cyberpunk settings, is plagued by the same disease.
Just like with Tomb Raider and Life is Strange, Feral IS the publisher of the Linux and Mac versions, so they can choose... and they choose DRM...
And the most irritating part is that, for Feral, Steam is not a DRM and never has been.
Porter, publisher are not content owners. Whoever has rights to the content (the game) can dictate the terms. If they insist on DRM, the only thing Feral can do to prevent it is not port it. They can try and negotiate, but all they can do is try. I don't know how hard they try, I don't think content owners are concerned about DRM as much after a game has been out for a year. In these situations I would prefer a year delay to getting DRM'd. When we start having to enter root (or sudo) credentials to install games, it will be a sad day!
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Quoting: boltronicsQuoting: m2mg2I think a lot of people are blaming OpenGL for performance issues that aren't really a problem with OpenGL. The biggest problem is that no one is really coding for good performing OpenGL, they are coding for DirectX.Exactly this.
You know who is coding really good performing OpenGL? Id Software. Forget Doom as it's unplayable DRM junk, but Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood run great under Wine since it can pass through the bulk of the OpenGL calls directly. The performance of these games under GNU/Linux is amazing. Far better than many native GNU/Linux releases!
If Id software made GNU/Linux games, they'd be 1st class. Too bad they aren't interested.
Strange Bethesda don't publish for SteamOS really. I can understand Ubisoft and EA since they have their own DRM client/stores they would have to port and support as well, but Bethesda really have nothing holding them back and the work to port games that already work flawlessly under Wine would be almost nothing. It's like they don't like money or something.
Bethesda does not realize how much money there is here. Doom would be a cinch for them to port. And the amount of Linux/SteamOS users who would pick it up would more than make up for the porting effort of a few days. Heck, it's even Vulkan ready.
It's like you said, they either don't like money or are nuts.
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RussianNeuroMancer Sep 16, 2016
Quoting: valguskQuoting: throghThis will be another DRM-release on Steam, so no chance to buy this one for me. :)
I agree that everybody has their principles, but Linux users are so good at their pickiness that it makes me wonder why devs even bother trying to port their games. DRM, microtransations, paid DLC, ...
Not only we are less in numbers, but 7bigger part of us reject purchases too easily. I don't like these problems either, but I will always buy a great game made for Linux even when devs can see the community hostility that clearly. DRM? Their right, people do pirate games too much. Microtransactions? Just don't buy them, thats the best way to battle them. Paid dlc? You are offered something that was rejected from original games most likely due to lack of time/money - profits like these are better than making the game 1.5x more expensive and you don't have to buy them either.
Why not just buy games we want to play for now until Linux is stable as a dev choice and then battle secondary wars?
That's easy to answer but just also my perspective: When accepting all the modern rules and so-called standards I turn my installation of Linux in nothing more but another Windows. DLC? DRM? Microtransactions? Blobbed drivers and protected software within repositories? That's ruining the games and Linux at all, making especially the games to nothing more but a nice looking demo. And the forced online connections turns the fun in nothing more than an amusement park where I have to pay for every step, even watching an attraction costs money. Even not to mention that modern hardware is the opposite of freedom - UEFI anyone, protected firmware on NVidia-cards. So better to stay at old games for me, following up principles: DRM? Not with me! :) Otherwise the so-called "battle" is lost before it even has begun already!
Quoting: throgh... protected firmware on NVidia-cards.You're free to stick to your principles, but all major CPU and GPU vendors run proprietary firmware/microcode in their hardware, not just Nvidia. Your choice of drivers makes no difference either.
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