This is fantastic news, Life is Strange 2 is confirmed to be coming to Linux with the porting from Feral Interactive once again. This has replaced the "AURORA" teaser on their Port Radar.
From the press release just sent to us:
Feral Interactive today announced that Life is Strange 2, the next instalment in the much loved narrative adventure series, is coming to macOS and Linux in 2019. Originally developed by DONTNOD Entertainment and published by Square Enix on Windows and console, this is the much-anticipated sequel to 2015's BAFTA Award-winning Life is Strange.
After a tragic and mysterious incident in Seattle, brothers Sean and Daniel Diaz run away from home and head for Mexico. Life on the road is tough, and responsibility for his much younger brother soon brings Sean to the realisation that the decisions he makes on their journey south will impact their lives forever...
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Sadly though, we will have to wait until 2019. The most likely reason, is Feral waiting until the game is essentially finished with all episodes out. I can understand why this will be an issue for some, since you will miss out on the discourse and hype surrounding the release of each episode. Hopefully it will be as soon after the final episode's release as possible. I'm glad they're announcing this quite early though, hopefully it means more people will hold off on buying it to support their continued Linux ports. Given the quality of their ports and their top-notch support, I'm happy to hold off on a single-player game.
The news comes not long after Feral also confirmed Total War: THREE KINGDOMS. It seems like their previous teaser that mentioned Thursday this week, was simply about reflecting on these announcements.
Since Feral have confirmed multiple times they're happy for people to purchase a game once a port is announced (as long as you hold off to play it on Linux) you can find it on Humble Store and Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
I'll personally be waiting until 2019, though. Never liked that "do a single episode, then wait" thing. Binge play ftw! :D
I find these "teasers" immature and childish. While they try to be cute, they may lose sales just because people have no idea a game they want is about to be ported.
As soon as they finalize the legal paperwork of acquiring the porting rights, just say so. Don't play guessing games.
Sorry for the rant.
I will now delay my Life is Strange 2 purchase so I can order it directly from Feral.
I'm currently running Walking Dead perfectly there, and aren't these games built on more or less the same engine?TWD is on its own engine, LIS2 is on UE4.
As for the game itself, I'll wait until episode 2 comes out to decide whether to be happy about the port or not. For now it looks like something I don't like a single bit and it's very sad.
LiS2 also has Denuvo so it's unlikely to work well if at all. Captain Spirit launches fine but crashes after a minute or so, it also has Denuvo and UE4.Eh? None of that has anything to do with Feral though.
As for the game itself, I'll wait until episode 2 comes out to decide whether to be happy about the port or not. For now it looks like something I don't like a single bit and it's very sad.
Yeah, I was referring to this:LiS2 also has Denuvo so it's unlikely to work well if at all. Captain Spirit launches fine but crashes after a minute or so, it also has Denuvo and UE4.Eh? None of that has anything to do with Feral though.
As for the game itself, I'll wait until episode 2 comes out to decide whether to be happy about the port or not. For now it looks like something I don't like a single bit and it's very sad.
These games won't run on Proton most likely.I'm currently running Walking Dead perfectly there, and aren't these games built on more or less the same engine?TWD is on its own engine, LIS2 is on UE4.
LiS2 also has Denuvo so it's unlikely to work well if at all. Captain Spirit launches fine but crashes after a minute or so, it also has Denuvo and UE4.Captain Spirit crashes with SteamPlay probably due to old Wine 3.7 in Proton. It works fine with the newest version of Wine.
I can understand why this will be an issue for some, since you will miss out on the discourse and hype surrounding the release of each episode.
Unfortunately for Feral, this is exactly the case for me. For the first game, a significant part of my enjoyment was community discussion, guesswork and speculation after each episode. I'm not willing to give that up for idelogical reasons.
Oh well, maybe I can gift it to someone after the Linux version is launched.
Arehandoro Oct 1, 2018
1) If you buy a Windows only game and run it with Proton, it counts as a Linux sale - discussed here:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/some-thoughts-on-valves-new-steam-play-feature-and-what-it-means-for-linux-gaming.12412
2) From the time that Feral announce a game, they get included in Linux related sales - so it must include Proton.
archtoasty Oct 1, 2018
Hope they port Captain Spirit as well.
LIS2 and Captain Spirit both work just fine with new wine, so Lutris winesteam works for both, But if you buy LIS2 now, and play it now they wont get any money for it. You will have to hold off on like they said here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/9kf2wf/life_is_strange_2_is_coming_to_linux_in_2019/ You can still buy the game but not play it?
Kimyrielle Oct 1, 2018
archtoasty Oct 1, 2018
Great News. About people playing this on Proton before the Linux release (Reports show it's Borked currently), I think Feral will get the money anyway, for 2 reasons:
1) If you buy a Windows only game and run it with Proton, it counts as a Linux sale - discussed here:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/some-thoughts-on-valves-new-steam-play-feature-and-what-it-means-for-linux-gaming.12412
2) From the time that Feral announce a game, they get included in Linux related sales - so it must include Proton.
Although #1 is true, Feral has said more recently that they won't get the money if you play it before it is released for Linux. Unfortunately the Denuvo Drm prevents it from working with proton atm so if you buy it and play it now they won't get the money, Check out the link in my other post.
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