While it was playable with the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, 4A Games and Deep Silver have today officially released Metro Exodus for Linux.
"Metro Exodus is an epic, story-driven first person shooter from 4A Games that blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in one of the most immersive game worlds ever created. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the depths of nuclear winter."
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Game Features:
- Embark on an incredible journey - board the Aurora, a heavily modified steam locomotive, and join a handful of survivors as they search for a new life in the East
- Experience Sandbox Survival - a gripping story links together classic Metro gameplay with new huge, non-linear levels
- A beautiful, hostile world - discover the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness, brought to life with stunning day / night cycles and dynamic weather
- Deadly combat and stealth - scavenge and craft in the field to customize your arsenal of hand-made weaponry, and engage human and mutant foes in thrilling tactical combat
- Your choices determine your comrades’ fate - not all your companions will survive the journey; your decisions have consequence in a gripping storyline that offers massive re-playability
- The ultimate in atmosphere and immersion - a flickering candle in the darkness; a ragged gasp as your gasmask frosts over; the howl of a mutant on the night wind - Metro will immerse and terrify you like no other game…
As a reminder here's the specifications suggested for the Linux port:
Since Metro Exodus supports Ray Tracing on Linux, expect to need a powerful GPU to get good framerates in it.
Giveaway (CLOSED)
To go along with the release, a kind reader has offered up three copies to give away! These will be sent as a Steam Gift, so once winners are picked they will need to provide their Steam account for us to friend and then gift the copies. How to enter? Simply make it clear in your comment you wish to win a copy and winners will be picked Friday, April 16. Note: giveaway now closed!
Note: as of right now, it looks like they haven't sorted out all the key depots on Steam, meaning not everyone will actually be able to download the Linux version until they attach it all up correctly on Steam. It's a common pitfall we wrote about before to help developers. Update: this should now be solved.
If you find you have some audio popping, adding this as launch option may solve it:
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command%
You can buy it on Fanatical (on sale), Humble Store, and Steam
Here's some initial footage from the Linux port running on Ultra at 1080p. Recording did reduce the performance:
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Quoting: XpanderFoV increased from the cfg file
Nice!
What FOV have you set ?
Don't think I'll get to try it tonight though, IT'S HUGE!
she said.....
Quoting: pete910Quoting: XpanderFoV increased from the cfg file
Nice!
What FOV have you set ?
Don't think I'll get to try it tonight though, IT'S HUGE!
she said.....
i set it to 80 but i think its a bit too much.. its not the regular number.. 80 feels like 100+ in other games
i think 70 should be better match at least for 16:9 screen
r_base_fov 80.conf file is in (thanks dpanter)
~/.local/share/Steam/userdata/xxxxxx/412020/remote/user.cfg
wvstolzing Apr 14, 2021
Quoting: XpanderSpoiler, click me
Spoiler, click me
Edit: played for about five minutes, got an OOM. Game used ~21GB of RAM. Might have more luck when I don't have a Arch build chroot setup in tmpfs taking up an additional 12G of memory but wow. Even the "extreme" system requirements only called for 16GB of memory. Suspect a memory leak, but I'll see if I can reproduce it.
Last edited by WorMzy on 14 April 2021 at 9:44 pm UTC
Count me in for the giveaway :)
DigitalSin Apr 14, 2021
I would like a key :)
Now to sift through a whole lot of comments to see if someone actually managed to get RT to work. :)
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