Deep Silver and 4A Games have just revealed Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition and they've confirmed that Linux support for Metro Exodus is still happening.
A lot of the work they're currently doing is on supporting the newer consoles, and while it already supported Ray Tracing, they decided to do a "radical" overhaul of their proprietary 4A Engine to improve the Ray Tracing found using more advanced and better techniques.
For the PC version (they probably mean Windows), it will be free for anyone who owns Metro Exodus as a standalone application and will release "later this spring". Thankfully, Linux has not been forgotten about. After confirming their continued commitment to release Metro Exodus for Linux in November last year, this big announcement also once again confirmed that the Linux version will appear a bit later this year (sometime after March when it lands for macOS).
Last but not least – back in November, we also confirmed our commitment to Mac and Linux versions of Metro Exodus.
We’re happy to confirm that the Mac version is expected to release on the Mac App Store, Steam, and Epic Games Store in March, with the Linux version set to follow a little later in the year on Steam!
Hopefully the Linux version won't miss out on some of these Ray Tracing boosts. Vulkan now has official Ray Tracing support so it would be great to see it in properly.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
RussianNeuroMancer 15 Feb 2021
Linux support for the original game is great of course... but the way that press release reads, ME:Enhanced for PC sure seems to be Windows only.
Yeah I understand it the same way as you do ... I hope we are proven wrong.
This is Deep Silver as the publisher. I wouldn't expect them to support anything besides Steam...
Why not? They support GOG with Windows versions.
PublicNuisance 15 Feb 2021
But . . . but that's impossible! Didn't Proton kill native releases?!?!
Considering it's not out yet you may be jumping the gun here. Not to mention one game doesn't shift the balance regardless. If the percent of games that see a native release is less than it was before Proton does it matter if we get a specific native release of this game ?
This is Deep Silver as the publisher. I wouldn't expect them to support anything besides Steam...
They're also the publisher of Wasteland 3 and yet the Linux/macOS versions are on GOG...
Mohandevir 15 Feb 2021
But . . . but that's impossible! Didn't Proton kill native releases?!?!
I'm wondering if Stadia isn't responsible for the fact that 4A decided to maintain Linux support in their in-home game engine? Otherwise, I don't know if they would be willing to put that much effort in upgrading their Linux support, considering that the game already runs pretty well via Proton... Just a question mark I have.
Still no GOG release?
Actually, there is still no Linux release for Exodus ;-)
DaiKaiser93 15 Feb 2021
This is Deep Silver as the publisher. I wouldn't expect them to support anything besides Steam...
They're also the publisher of Wasteland 3 and yet the Linux/macOS versions are on GOG...
The Linux versions for the Saint Rows games and the first 2 Metro games are still missing from GOG.
Last edited by DaiKaiser93 on 15 Feb 2021 at 10:40 pm UTC
considering this runs very well in proton.i mean if it runs better native then cool.
Yeah, too bad the game itself is kind of meh. Why did they have to cramp in all that open-world and crafting nonsense? Really feels like a me-too game now, while the older parts where just a solid (linear) single player experience.
Oh and that entire "girlfriend and her father" thing? Really cringe worthy :(
Last edited by Julius on 15 Feb 2021 at 10:50 pm UTC
Actually, there is still no Linux release for Exodus ;-)
I mean still no even an announcement of GOG Linux release :) They mentioned Steam.
Comandante Ñoñardo 16 Feb 2021
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