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.
ut if you buy LIS2 now, and play it now they wont get any money for it.
Basically, what has been stated before. They get paid after it's announced, provided it's a Linux sale. Which means you shouldn't install it until two weeks after purchase. This may be different if it works with SteamPlay though, since valve stated that is also seen as playing on Linux.
I don't mind waiting. At least the whole thing will be out. In fact, I'll have to make a new plan now. Play both LiS and LiS:BtS before LiS2 is released!
Finally, a sensible approach to announcing future porting plans by Feral. There are games that I am eager to play upon release, even if it means booting into Windows. However, if I knew the game was to be ported native to linux, I would delay my purchase so I can order it directly from the porting studio and let them keep all the money.
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.
This. Now that they've announced it, I won't buy it until Feral gets the money. It's really in their best interest to announce it as soon as possible.
Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 1, 2018
What is the schedule for the game's chapters?A full two weeks between episode if they manage to keep to schedule.
Two WEEKS? That's insane! That probably means they already have the game completed and just release the episodes one by one so it feels like series. [LiS 1 had 2 months between episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Strange). Same for BtS.I just double checked actually one month between each episode.
Episode two will be out on October 20th .
Then third saturday of november for episode 3
Then third saturday of December for episode 4
Also you need to bear in mind that the entire team B that was in charge of developing Vampyr for Focus Home Interactive , is now free and will probably constitute massive reinforcements.
Dontnod with the succcess of the first life is strange manage to triple in size and have a team A , B and C now .
So they went from 200 employees working on the game proprer to around 600 (again working on the game projects directly so not counting marketing team and administrative folk , just coders and artists )
Team C is busy with their mystery title that we have only been teased about.
But team B is done with Vampyr so they probs don't sit idly by and probs give a hand to team A.
Last edited by TheSyldat on 1 October 2018 at 4:16 pm UTC
Yup That's the one I don't want to see anything else after seeing the teaser I will just wait and hope for it to be ported on Linux as well .Team C is busy with their mystery title that we have only been teased about.
Twin Mirror
For Vampyr I don't even dream about it happening given that now Focus is owned by the guy who founded Cyanide. And as far as linux gamers are concerned we can all go eat a big bag of dicks ( his words not mine )
Last edited by TheSyldat on 1 October 2018 at 5:17 pm UTC
Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 1, 2018
I just double checked actually one month between each episode.
Episode two will be out on October 20th .
Then third saturday of november for episode 3
Then third saturday of December for episode 4
hmm.. If that is accurate, then January 2019 (in the last days of the Steam Xmas sales) will be a good release date...
More after than that isn't OK...
I mean, with Deus Ex MD, they did a good job with the release date: Just one month after the windows release..It seems, then, They worked simultaneously with the windows version devs.
hmm.. If that is accurate, then January 2019 (in the last days of the Steam Xmas sales) will be a good release date...Given the game is Unreal Engine 4 it probably will be a quick release after they're done with releasing all episodes.
More after than that isn't OK...
I mean, with Deus Ex MD, they did a good job with the release date: Just one month after the windows release..It seems, then, They worked simultaneously with the windows version devs.
Finally, a sensible approach to announcing future porting plans by Feral. There are games that I am eager to play upon release, even if it means booting into Windows. However, if I knew the game was to be ported native to linux, I would delay my purchase so I can order it directly from the porting studio and let them keep all the money.
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.
This. Now that they've announced it, I won't buy it until Feral gets the money. It's really in their best interest to announce it as soon as possible.
I'm pretty sure they know this ;)
Comandante Ñoñardo Mar 22, 2019
I jumped to this conclusion because the Episode 5 will be available on 3rd December and Feral has the habit to port games after the Windows release... But thanks to Proton, this game can be enjoyed on Linux right now.
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