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Considering the original is one of my favourite games, I was hoping they would eventually confirm it for Linux again. Sadly though, they haven't yet made a decision.
Here's what they said to us when we emailed them:
About your question: I am afraid it is too early to give the definitive answer yet as our development team is working hard on Dying Light 2. Confirmed platforms are Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, but knowing that we have devoted Dying Light community on Linux, this version is definitely in their consideration.
So if you do want it on Linux, you should probably let them know.
You can see some gameplay below:
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Linux port or not, I'm gonna play this game.
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I thought that by now, devs would have started programming with multiplatform in mind from the very start.
Not doing so, shows where MAC and GNU/Linux are at.
Last edited by bolokanar on 29 Jun 2018 at 9:45 am UTC
Not doing so, shows where MAC and GNU/Linux are at.
Last edited by bolokanar on 29 Jun 2018 at 9:45 am UTC
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They really should be starting out thinking of Linux.
It will be much harder to add it later on from what I've seen of other games that just decide to add Linux support in as a topping.
It will be much harder to add it later on from what I've seen of other games that just decide to add Linux support in as a topping.
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Luke_Nukem 29 Jun 2018
Ah come on! The said they were releasing it on PC. I have two PC's: a MacOS PC and a Linux PC.
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Ok... Wow. Just, wow. That was visuals to die for.
May be YT's compression but cant say it's that impressive tbh.
Kinda moot though if it don't come to Linux ;(
Will this be using Vulkan do we know ?
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Dying Light is the most captivating game I have ever played, and I also tremendously enjoyed the DLCs. I really do hope for a Linux port. It's an instant buy for me.
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eddie-foss 29 Jun 2018
If they really want us it's better to ask a real Linux professionals like Aspyr and Feral to port since their half-baked products didn't followed FOSS tendencies and neither DyingLitch nor DeadIsland it's working with latest Mesa, I own both, I love play both but without Techland wish to fix my money turned garbage because it's no more playable, if someone here have some kind of direct contact with them please send my advice to them :D
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Nevertheless 29 Jun 2018
With Chris Avellone as narrative designer this MUST be even better than part 1.
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In case they'll not port it to Linux we have WINE + DXVK ;)
Yes, but we should only pay if the hard work is made by the developer...
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lucifertdark 29 Jun 2018
In case they'll not port it to Linux we have WINE + DXVK ;)And will just give them the excuse they need to not port it to Linux.
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Perkeleen_Vittupää 29 Jun 2018
Just sent them email about it, even though this is not my type of gamer at all. Would still buy if for Linux to show appreciation
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You can see some gameplay below:
Oh no I won't!! Lol. I've got just a smidge fewer than 250 hours in the first one and still go back into completed games just to run about cleaving zombies. It's therapeutic. Watching anything about DL2---without Techland's assurances that it'll be coming to Linux---is simply too painful for me to contemplate.
Last edited by Nanobang on 29 Jun 2018 at 12:24 pm UTC
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Never had any problem playing Dying Light on my Linux rigs. Played on Debian and Mint Linux, using a range of Nvidia graphics cards ( GTX960, GTX970, GTX1070, GTX1080TI ). In my early days of playing it, I was using an AMD FX8350 processor, and it was one of the most graphically stunning and smoothest games on that processor. The FX8350 is 8-core and suited to well-threaded code, whereas many (other) games favour a very fast single core, where the FX processor is pretty underwhelming compared to Intel's core processors. Thankfully, AMD's Ryzen processors do a good job of redressing the balance and are amazing for multi-threaded code.
Currently play Dying Light on Ryzen 5 1600, GTX1080TI, 4K resolution, and maxxed out graphical settings. Thumbs up Techland for all your hard work on it. Really want the new game to come to Linux.
My own perspective on games which don't come to Linux - I don't buy them until they are *very* reduced in sales, e.g. 80% discount. So, if you want full money off me, make sure it comes to Linux. (I'm looking at you, Flying Wild Hog - Shadow Warrior 2 - still not bought that yet.)
Currently play Dying Light on Ryzen 5 1600, GTX1080TI, 4K resolution, and maxxed out graphical settings. Thumbs up Techland for all your hard work on it. Really want the new game to come to Linux.
My own perspective on games which don't come to Linux - I don't buy them until they are *very* reduced in sales, e.g. 80% discount. So, if you want full money off me, make sure it comes to Linux. (I'm looking at you, Flying Wild Hog - Shadow Warrior 2 - still not bought that yet.)
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I bought Dying Light one year ago. Actual play time 0 minutes, it never worked on my machine, neither with Mesa or Mesa-git. So if they release it for Linux, they hopefully make it work as well. Otherwise I can't see what's the difference to a Windows only release. I paid the full price for this game, but so far I got 0 fun and 0 service. Technology wise I hope they go Vulkan only for Dying Light 2 to reduce bugs.
Did you change the Launch Options in Steam to "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.5 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=450 %command%"? This is needed for it to start on Mesa since it tries to open v4.5 of the compat profile instead of the proper core profile.
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I rly hope that DL2 comes with Linux support, I love 1st and its DLC and have played it through few times on co-op with my friend.
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I bought Dying Light one year ago. Actual play time 0 minutes, it never worked on my machine, neither with Mesa or Mesa-git. So if they release it for Linux, they hopefully make it work as well. Otherwise I can't see what's the difference to a Windows only release. I paid the full price for this game, but so far I got 0 fun and 0 service. Technology wise I hope they go Vulkan only for Dying Light 2 to reduce bugs.
Did you change the Launch Options in Steam to "MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=4.5 MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=450 %command%"? This is needed for it to start on Mesa since it tries to open v4.5 of the compat profile instead of the proper core profile.
Yes, I did. But it doesn't help, there is just a black loading screen. And in some days in mesa-git this workaround will be obsolete :-)
Strange, I had that exactly that black loading screen until I changed the launch options... Don't remember if I did anything else, since you are on mesa-get I believe that you are on 18.x since they also did some workaround in 17.x to get Dying Light to work.
It's a really buggy game though, currently I'm stuck near the end of The Following since the game crashes as soon as I reach a certain point (the granary) which apparently also happens for people on Windows and PS4 so not even with a better port it would be completely stable.
edit: btw do you have this section in /etc/drirc:
<application name="Dying Light" executable="DyingLightGame">
<option name="allow_glsl_builtin_variable_redeclaration" value="true" />
</application>edit2: seams like others on Arch also have problems with this game: [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2766/post_id=15355](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/2766/post_id=15355)
Last edited by F.Ultra on 29 Jun 2018 at 1:39 pm UTC
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