Dying Light 2, the massive new open-world game from Techland is looking awesome and going by SteamDB, it may actually come to Linux.
Get your heavy dose of salt ready, treat this as completely speculative until we get something harder. On SteamDB, earlier today Techland began adding more details. The interesting update is this, which specifically mentions "Added oslist – windows,linux" which seems to indicate it will support Linux. That is, unless it was done by accident…although you would think these things would be checked more than once before submitting, but you never can be too sure on such things.
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If this really does turn out to be true, 2020 is going to be fun. Dying Light is one of my favourite games, so to have the second supported on Linux would be pretty incredible.
I've emailed Techland to see if they are able to tell us what's happening. I will update you if/when I get anything or if the SteamDB page gets updated again to remove any mention of Linux.
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Luke_Nukem Jun 9, 2019
Fook that looks intense. I can feel the adrenaline rush already.
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I probably played the first one once it got stable (or not so stable for a Mesa user, but at least it was playable), it was a pity the lack of support but it is a terrific single player game!
If it has Linux support and works as expected with Mesa drivers, I'll definitely pay the release price.
If it has Linux support and works as expected with Mesa drivers, I'll definitely pay the release price.
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maybe they bring it for stadia too and if they already have a linux version.... put it on steam
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maybe they bring it for stadia too and if they already have a linux version.... put it on steamYeah, that's entirely possible.
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I bought the original a couple of years after release I guess. I only had a couple of crashes, so didn't notice any "bad support" issues. I had a great time with this game, so much so that it's one of only two games I've bothered to write a Steam review for. I haven't played the DLC yet though, or done all the side quests. So many games, so little time.
It'll be interesting to see what new mechanics playing as some kind of demi-infected brings.
It'll be interesting to see what new mechanics playing as some kind of demi-infected brings.
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Lack of support? What the flipping hell are you people on about...
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Are you talking about the same Techland that STILL releases content and patches for Dying Light, almost 4,5 years after release? Still going with the weekly bonus dockets, still having events like the current Double Exp during E3, still active in the Steam forums, the Discord, the subReddit. No?
Every game can have problems, sorry if your experience was bad. I have played with lots of people over the years, both when using the Linux version and later with Proton. It has been nearly flawless. AMD GPU users have had a rough time with DL native and that's due to a bad port. Before I repeat myself too much, I'll link my own comment here.
And yes, I'm hella stoked for Dying Light 2! <3
(Bloody teaser trailer got my blood pumping)
Last edited by dpanter on 10 June 2019 at 9:27 am UTC
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Are you talking about the same Techland that STILL releases content and patches for Dying Light, almost 4,5 years after release? Still going with the weekly bonus dockets, still having events like the current Double Exp during E3, still active in the Steam forums, the Discord, the subReddit. No?
Every game can have problems, sorry if your experience was bad. I have played with lots of people over the years, both when using the Linux version and later with Proton. It has been nearly flawless. AMD GPU users have had a rough time with DL native and that's due to a bad port. Before I repeat myself too much, I'll link my own comment here.
And yes, I'm hella stoked for Dying Light 2! <3
(Bloody teaser trailer got my blood pumping)
Last edited by dpanter on 10 June 2019 at 9:27 am UTC
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Salt dosed. Breath bated. Fingers Crossed. PleasepleasepleasepleasePLEEEEEAAAASSSSSEEE!!!
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Lack of support? What the flipping hell are you people on about...
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Are you talking about the same Techland that STILL releases content and patches for Dying Light, almost 4,5 years after release? Still going with the weekly bonus dockets, still having events like the current Double Exp during E3, still active in the Steam forums, the Discord, the subReddit. No?
Every game can have problems, sorry if your experience was bad. I have played with lots of people over the years, both when using the Linux version and later with Proton. It has been nearly flawless. AMD GPU users have had a rough time with DL native and that's due to a bad port. Before I repeat myself too much, I'll link my own comment here.
And yes, I'm hella stoked for Dying Light 2! <3
(Bloody teaser trailer got my blood pumping)
You should not be so passionate and research what was going on when they released the game:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/dying-light-major-patch-released-still-abysmal-on-linux.4969
Linux gamers still seem to be unable to play co-up, the motion blur when running is still there when turned off (not as bad as it was), and performance is still utterly abysmal. I have relayed my feedback to Techland as usual in the hopes they fix it up.
Also, for AMD users the scenario was worst as we weren't able to play the game until Mesa 17.2 (in fact, I bought the game on 2016 and had to refund).
Either case, after all patching and Mesa improvements, the game become completely playable and one of the must-have titles for every Linux Steam gamer.
Last edited by x_wing on 10 June 2019 at 1:35 pm UTC
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Yeah it had issues, but they eventually sorted it and the Linux native version (at least on NVIDIA) does work reasonably well. Sure, better on Steam Play, but that's true of a lot of older ports.
I hope they do a bit better with Dying Light 2 if it is indeed coming but I enjoyed the crap out of DL1.
I hope they do a bit better with Dying Light 2 if it is indeed coming but I enjoyed the crap out of DL1.
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The first E3 I feel like linux users are involved =). Excited for this! Havent completed the following!
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I wonder if they're doing a Stadia build targeting Vulkan + Linux, if so it would make sense to release a native version on Steam as well. We can hope anyway =).
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Research? Hell, I lived it. 
I had at least one AMD card back when it didn't run at all on Linux/Mesa, despite people seeing some success with GL shader version overrides and whatnot. Being forced to use Nvidia wasn't exactly an ideal solution, but it was at least a solution until the actual problem was identified and resolved.
IIRC; for a long time on the Store page, Techland even said that AMD cards were not supported. They are now, obviously.
I'll remain passionate about Dying Light, thank you very much.
(Not even going to respond to that pathetic 'personal attacks' accusation).
I had at least one AMD card back when it didn't run at all on Linux/Mesa, despite people seeing some success with GL shader version overrides and whatnot. Being forced to use Nvidia wasn't exactly an ideal solution, but it was at least a solution until the actual problem was identified and resolved.
IIRC; for a long time on the Store page, Techland even said that AMD cards were not supported. They are now, obviously.
I'll remain passionate about Dying Light, thank you very much.
(Not even going to respond to that pathetic 'personal attacks' accusation).
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gardotd426 Dec 3, 2019
Research? Hell, I lived it.
I had at least one AMD card back when it didn't run at all on Linux/Mesa, despite people seeing some success with GL shader version overrides and whatnot. Being forced to use Nvidia wasn't exactly an ideal solution, but it was at least a solution until the actual problem was identified and resolved.
IIRC; for a long time on the Store page, Techland even said that AMD cards were not supported. They are now, obviously.
I'll remain passionate about Dying Light, thank you very much.
(Not even going to respond to that pathetic 'personal attacks' accusation).
Seriously? You're not going to respond to his "pathetic" personal attacks "accusation?" And yeah, the accusation needs quotes because it wasn't an accusation, it was an objective statement of fact. You literally said they must be on drugs because they were gonna wait to get excited about Dying Light 2, because of WELL-PUBLICIZED issues regarding support for Dying Light 1 at release. Like, there WERE objectively legitimate support issues, that weren't resolved for a while. They never said that EVERYONE experienced them, only that THEY did, and therefore they would be waiting until the game comes out to see if the devs do a better job this time. That's literally the most reasonable thing they could have said. And you insulted them, acted like they were an idiot, and then proceeded to say they were on drugs. Are you kidding me?
*snip* - don't be rude to other members - LiamD
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 3 December 2019 at 4:19 pm UTC
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I started playing the First game very recently and I think the development is active on Linux for the first game.
If this is true, it would be a great news indeed.
If this is true, it would be a great news indeed.
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