Into the Breach, the second title from Subset Games (previously the excellent FTL), has today gained an official Linux build. It's been a long time coming, after originally releasing in 2018 but they always said they would do it and here it is. Fantastic!
"The remnants of human civilization are threatened by gigantic creatures breeding beneath the earth. You must control powerful mechs from the future to hold off this alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game from the makers of FTL."
Check out the original release trailer below:
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In their update announcement post on their official forum, they simply said "There is now a fully native Linux version of Into the Breach! If you already own the game on any storefront that normally supports Linux (Steam, Humble, or GOG), you should soon have the Linux version available for download.". More came with it though including new language support: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Polish, Brazilian-Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese.
There's also now touch-screen support, updated game engine tech and some adjustments to modding support.
Buy Into the Breach from Humble Store and Steam. Hopefully the GOG version will see the Linux build soon.
If you have Steam Play enabled, you may need to force the Steam Linux Runtime container (right click -> properties see here) to get it to download the Linux version, otherwise it defaults to Proton as it's on Valve's whitelist. Updated: this should no longer be needed.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Avehicle7887 20 Apr 2020
Interesting line from their v1.2 release log:
Engine Update - This part of the update will hopefully be invisible. The tech that Into the Breach was built on was ancient, and in order to help guarantee support far into the future we spent some time modernizing the backend engine.
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 20 Apr 2020 at 2:16 pm UTC
Edit: Redeemed on Steam, Steam store page says linux, but installing and launching and it says it's using Steam Play? Am I just too early?
Last edited by brokkr on 20 Apr 2020 at 3:29 pm UTC
I’m curious if they will nag because the game doesn’t sell well on Linux, without considering the "hype" is gone.
It can still be a good game, but in 2 years many other games came out, and maybe i don’t want it anymore today.
Picked it up, but the linux build isn't on Steam yet? Wants to launch with proton.
Yeah, same here. The Linux icon was there, I hoped Steam will pick up the native version, but it didn't. Any idea how to switch?
Picked it up, but the linux build isn't on Steam yet? Wants to launch with proton.
Yeah, same here. The Linux icon was there, I hoped Steam will pick up the native version, but it didn't. Any idea how to switch?
I've just learned that once you force the "Steam Linux Runtime" as "Steam Play compatibility tool" you will get the Linux version.
So soon ? Nice...
I’m curious if they will nag because the game doesn’t sell well on Linux, without considering the "hype" is gone.
It can still be a good game, but in 2 years many other games came out, and maybe i don’t want it anymore today.
Yeah, c'mon. There's no way that they did this expecting Linux sales. After two years? This was a simple consequence of them updating the back-end engine, I'm sure...
Yargh. Proton, I have sound. Native build, no sound. :/Sound works without issue here on Manjaro in the Linux build.
Last edited by Ehvis on 20 Apr 2020 at 7:22 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 20 Apr 2020
No problems here either. Everything is very smooth and it adapts to ultrawide like a pro!
Can you upload a screenshot of that? I wanna spoil myself before buying the game ;)
No problems here either. Everything is very smooth and it adapts to ultrawide like a pro!
Can you upload a screenshot of that? I wanna spoil myself before buying the game ;)
Well, to be fair, most of the game doesn't actually use the space because there's nothing to fill it with. But the backgrounds and message bars stretch out to the sides as they should. No black bars, or even worse, random stuff.
The title screen did adapt all it's elements and animations to fit perfectly. So who knows what will come later.
Maybe I should coincidently think more often of promised native ports... a well I've used this magic now up for quite a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And I honestly had written that one off.
It is always nice to be wrong in my pessimistic expectations for a change. ^_^
Yargh. Proton, I have sound. Native build, no sound. :/
I just got a game update on Steam, sound works now here with the native version.
Funny, what a coincidence, just today Into The Breach came into my mind, if the native port will still come as the devs promised, when they said Proton would not be the kind of quality they want to deliver
Maybe I should coincidently think more often of promised native ports... a well I've used this magic now up for quite a while ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haha, me too! :O
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