Observer: System Redux was announced, as the standalone definitive edition of the award-winning cyberpunk thriller from Bloober Team.
"The year is 2084. In a dark cyberpunk world shattered by plagues and wars, become a neural police detective and hack into the jagged minds of others. Make use of anything they felt, thought, or remembered to solve the case and catch the elusive killer."
With the Observer: System Redux standalone it's going to bring in three new side-cases to explore to dive deeper into the world, expanded gameplay mechanics, new secrets, redesigned stealth, additional interrogations, quality of life improvements, upgraded textures, new animations—the full works.
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After being asked about Linux for OSR on Steam, a developer replied with a clear message, "We plan to make OSR for Linux too.". With the original Observer that was available on Linux, which Bloober Team did in partnership with porter and publisher Aspyr Media, we were waiting to see if they would get Observer: System Redux on Linux too. It's interesting, as Bloober haven't worked with Aspyr Media for a while now and their previous game Blair Witch, was published by Lionsgate. So it will be interesting to see if they're doing Linux in-house this time.
If you own the original on Steam, you get an 80% discount until September 15 for pre-orders.
You can follow Observer: System Redux on the Steam page. There's no exact date for release yet but later this year.
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This game really had a great atmosphere and story, but the narrow fov, view bobbing and light strobing really gave me a headache and some motion sickness that I _never_ get in 3d games. Not fun.
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ewertonurias Aug 28, 2020
I also asked the "Dungeons of Edera" developer, he replied "will look into it depending on demand".
If anyone else is interested, and wants to support the discussion:
Discussion: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1131240/discussions/0/2921102177245280984/
Store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131240/Dungeons_of_Edera/
If anyone else is interested, and wants to support the discussion:
Discussion: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1131240/discussions/0/2921102177245280984/
Store: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131240/Dungeons_of_Edera/
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"we plan" =\= "we'll do"
No preorder for me, my queue is big enough to avoid the risk.
I've still to play the first and in the meantime they put it free on epic store...
No preorder for me, my queue is big enough to avoid the risk.
I've still to play the first and in the meantime they put it free on epic store...
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I have mixed feelings about this. I'm not a fan of studios that rehash a recently released game and then charge owners of the original edition again, and even then owners only get a discount until it releases. >Observer_ was released in 2017 and that version isn't even available for purchase on Steam any longer. This feels like something that should have been an upgrade to the original, for previous owners, and maybe with the content split off as a DLC. I have several games in my library where the studio did just that, upgraded existing owners for no additional charge and/or added the content as DLC. >Observer_ had been on my quite long wishlist up until now. I almost bought it during the last Steam Summer sale, but I'm glad I held off. I want to see how they play this out.
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I have mixed feelings about this. I'm not a fan of studios that rehash a recently released game and then charge owners of the original edition again, and even then owners only get a discount until it releases. >Observer_ was released in 2017 and that version isn't even available for purchase on Steam any longer. This feels like something that should have been an upgrade to the original, for previous owners, and maybe with the content split off as a DLC. I have several games in my library where the studio did just that, upgraded existing owners for no additional charge and/or added the content as DLC. >Observer_ had been on my quite long wishlist up until now. I almost bought it during the last Steam Summer sale, but I'm glad I held off. I want to see how they play this out.
*edit* Only for preorders, so not as good a deal as I thought.
Last edited by Eike on 28 August 2020 at 7:30 pm UTC
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The article seems to indicate that owners only get this deal until the game officially releases.I have mixed feelings about this. I'm not a fan of studios that rehash a recently released game and then charge owners of the original edition again, and even then owners only get a discount until it releases. >Observer_ was released in 2017 and that version isn't even available for purchase on Steam any longer. This feels like something that should have been an upgrade to the original, for previous owners, and maybe with the content split off as a DLC. I have several games in my library where the studio did just that, upgraded existing owners for no additional charge and/or added the content as DLC. >Observer_ had been on my quite long wishlist up until now. I almost bought it during the last Steam Summer sale, but I'm glad I held off. I want to see how they play this out.
Well, for owners of the original, it also has got the price of an upgrade and DLC (5 bucks here).
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What about GOG? The base game is there: https://www.gog.com/game/observer
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The article seems to indicate that owners only get this deal until the game officially releases.I have mixed feelings about this. I'm not a fan of studios that rehash a recently released game and then charge owners of the original edition again, and even then owners only get a discount until it releases. >Observer_ was released in 2017 and that version isn't even available for purchase on Steam any longer. This feels like something that should have been an upgrade to the original, for previous owners, and maybe with the content split off as a DLC. I have several games in my library where the studio did just that, upgraded existing owners for no additional charge and/or added the content as DLC. >Observer_ had been on my quite long wishlist up until now. I almost bought it during the last Steam Summer sale, but I'm glad I held off. I want to see how they play this out.
Well, for owners of the original, it also has got the price of an upgrade and DLC (5 bucks here).
Oops, you're right! :-/
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I'm not an fps guy, I didn't play single fps game, but damn, this looks so promising!!
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I'm not an fps guy, I didn't play single fps game, but damn, this looks so promising!!
It's first person, but no shooter.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Aug 28, 2020
I played the DEMO via Proton and is playable, but it doesn't show the ending cinematics.
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This game really had a great atmosphere and story, but the narrow fov, view bobbing and light strobing really gave me a headache and some motion sickness that I _never_ get in 3d games. Not fun.
FoV was fixable via config files as well as unlocking the framerate and removing the stupid chromatic abberation.
It was then playable. View Bobbing didnt bother me after tweaking those settings.
I really liked this game. Nice to see the continued Linux support
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slaapliedje Aug 28, 2020
This game really had a great atmosphere and story, but the narrow fov, view bobbing and light strobing really gave me a headache and some motion sickness that I _never_ get in 3d games. Not fun.Yeah, this is one of those games I really wanted to love.
I mean it has Rutger Hauer in it!
Hopefully they manage to fix some of its shortcomings.
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TheRiddick Aug 29, 2020
It says they added ray tracing, I do wonder if that is from RTX package or DXR, and how that can be done on Linux. Obviously Vulkan and Nvidia now support ray-tracing under Linux, but so far we haven't seen a single game use them even when the Windows version does.
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Last edited by TheRiddick on 29 August 2020 at 1:05 am UTC
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So if they blow it and it releases without Linux, can you get a Steam refund if it's months later?
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I lost faith in Bloober considering neither Layers of Fears 2 or Blair Witch have so far received Linux versions. Those games also would have needed ports, even with workarounds (of the technically illegal mfplat kind) Blair Witch is not fully functional with Proton. I really enjoyed that game as far as I could play it anyway, so I still hope it gets a port.
The Pre-order price is tempting though, but I don't know... I feel like many developers just say they plan on a Linux version but never actually deliver. If the demo had a Linux version that would have been more reassuring, I would have pre-ordered it right away.
Edit: Also the store page says "DirectX: Version 12", that gives bad vibes when it comes to multiplatform support
Last edited by awesam on 29 August 2020 at 3:48 pm UTC
The Pre-order price is tempting though, but I don't know... I feel like many developers just say they plan on a Linux version but never actually deliver. If the demo had a Linux version that would have been more reassuring, I would have pre-ordered it right away.
Edit: Also the store page says "DirectX: Version 12", that gives bad vibes when it comes to multiplatform support
Last edited by awesam on 29 August 2020 at 3:48 pm UTC
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slaapliedje Aug 29, 2020
It says they added ray tracing, I do wonder if that is from RTX package or DXR, and how that can be done on Linux. Obviously Vulkan and Nvidia now support ray-tracing under Linux, but so far we haven't seen a single game use them even when the Windows version does.Quake II RTX works under Linux just fine.
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