Sadly it seems like Insurgency: Sandstorm is not one you'll be enjoying on the Linux desktop or Valve's Steam Deck any time soon, even with Epic Games supporting Easy Anti-Cheat with Wine / Proton.
A game that originally planned Linux support, which New World Interactive decided not to do while also cancelling the planned story campaign back in 2019. The last hope was Steam Play Proton but it appears the developer will not be enabling support for it in EAC.
Writing in their recent patch notes, the developer said this:
The Linux Situation
Hello penguin pals, this message is being written for you by someone who has in their lifetime been a self-described Linux-head. Yes, we are very much aware that EAC announced Proton and Wine compatibility. Please understand however that we would still need to do quite a bit of development work to properly support Linux, and at this point in time we do not have that capacity. Thank you for your understanding!
Perhaps they, like we expect others to, may change their mind once the Steam Deck is out and they might see more players asking them to support it. That, or people just go elsewhere and find a different game. I'm sure there will eventually be no shortage of first-person shooters that you will be able to play online.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
hardpenguin Dec 17, 2021
TheRiddick Dec 17, 2021
Unfortunate.
Luckily many competitors that are looking ALLOT better then Sandstorm are coming out these days so if the developer of IST insists on keep EAC disabled for Linux users then people will just move to other shooter games! and so they should!
Last edited by TheRiddick on 17 December 2021 at 11:23 am UTC
QuotePlease understand however that we would still need to do quite a bit of development work to properly support Linux
Not that I care for this game personally but what development work?! Isn't the whole point that devs don't have to do the heavy lifting Proton does... or are they just saying they cannot be bothered to toggle EAC support on
Quoting: libgradevNot that I care for this game personally but what development work?! Isn't the whole point that devs don't have to do the heavy lifting Proton does... or are they just saying they cannot be bothered to toggle EAC support onThis has been discussed before, and it's just like telling developers to "export to Linux" without doing any testing, it's not going to be great. For EAC, developers first need to go and upgrade the Epic SDK used, which means it also then needs testing again on their main platform. Then it needs testing on Linux, to make sure it works and continues working with Proton.
Things are rarely a button to hit and be done with it.
TheRiddick Dec 17, 2021
rustybroomhandle Dec 17, 2021
Feels more like developers just going "ew, Linux will give us cooties, avoid, avoid".
EduardoMedina Dec 17, 2021
Porting to Mac is much more expensive than adapt to Proton, but many developers prefer to port to Mac instead of supporting Linux through Proton. This is not an economic question, it's a political question.
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