Google confirm EA games coming to Stadia, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds out now and free for Pro

For whatever reason I get better input response (less lag) on PUBG than on Destiny, is actually surprisingly good, even with the mouse. That being said, is good that (on Stadia) the game is only cross-platform with consoles, no way to stand a chance against PC players.
The video quality is...not bad, I've seen worse. But...PUBG on Linux, that's pretty big, isn't it? How many times it was asked for?
Granted, yes, playing through Stadia is not exactly what "we" asked for, but is better than nothing I guess. Enough to scratch that itch if you really want it.

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Quoting: scaineIt absolutely kills me that games like Destiny 2 and PUBG can now run on Linux, but I can't play them, except through Google's proprietary bandwidth hog.

Kills. Me.

I mean, great that people can benefit and play it. Especially until the end of May while it's still free. But I have zero interest in this model of gaming. And it hurts. It really hurts! :)

To each their own. I've paid a flat fee each month, got a bunch of big games to play and now PUBG too and I can play them all basically anywhere and on Linux. It's pretty nice.

Does it work with a Steam Controller?

Yes. Any gamepad Chromium/Chrome picks up correctly should work.

Nice... I was in doubt since outside of Steam the SC defaults to K+M emulation. I was wondering if you need something like Kozec's driver?


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Quoting: dubigrasuFor whatever reason I get better input response (less lag) on PUBG than on Destiny, is actually surprisingly good, even with the mouse.

I noticed this too. It's very responsive, especially compared to D2.

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Quoting: detroutI thought most of the reason big companies don't want to support Linux is they don't want to deal with the support costs of a fragmented ecosystem.

Shipping software to a managed compute environment is easier, and I bet Google is probably handling the end user support. (Google might even have paid EA some to get them to provide games too)

Two reasons
- Developers only target the hardware Google has, far less support costs
- Stadia has full backing from Google of course, and clearly already has a market - the Linux desktop basically has Valve and they're now focused on a compat layer

I can add a third one for games like PUBG:

No more anticheat software required.

Gave stadia a quick check yesterday. Still a completely subpar experience for me, so I'm not even interested in trying the free stuff any more.

Edit: I find it somewhat amusing that so many UE4 games are making it to Stadia. Even though we know that the Vulkan (and all other non-DX11 renderers) are not exactly great performers. If Stadia would become bigger, they (whoever "they" may be) might actually be inclined to change that.


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Quoting: GuestWhen Google introduces a option to Download the games not just streaming i might consider using it.

Not sure how this would work. Since they have and use Linux builds, the option to download the game would mean nothing to the vast majority of their users. And even for us, those exact Linux builds might not work at all.

What is required to get up and running with Stadia for this? I do not own credit cards and I don't put my payment information online. Can I sign up with a gift card that some $ on it?

What? PUPG natively on Linux? Without Easy Anticheat, as you cannot cheat on Stadia? Or how does that work? I mean if you connect to the PUPG servers, they are checking if the client runs EAC, aren't they? Maybe the Linux native EAC client.
But the PUBP devs already said, no native Linux support, at least not for end users... so I guess they won't release it on Steam.

Quoting: RafiLinuxWhat is required to get up and running with Stadia for this? I do not own credit cards and I don't put my payment information online. Can I sign up with a gift card that some $ on it?

Nothing actually. I never gave any payment information and have never given any to Google in the past either.

Quoting: CorbenWhat? PUPG natively on Linux? Without Easy Anticheat, as you cannot cheat on Stadia? Or how does that work? I mean if you connect to the PUPG servers, they are checking if the client runs EAC, aren't they? Maybe the Linux native EAC client.
But the PUBP devs already said, no native Linux support, at least not for end users... so I guess they won't release it on Steam.

They probably just exempt all the clients connecting from Google servers’ network from the anticheat check. Or all clients with some secret key that is present only in the Stadia builds. Or something like that. Anyway, I would guess that the Stadia clients don’t have any client-side anticheat software and the PUBG servers just let Stadia clients, and only Stadia clients, connect without it.