Ubisoft have announced that Prince of Persia The Lost Crown is finally coming to Steam on August 8th, making it much easier to play on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. No more screwing around with Epic Games Store or the Ubisoft Launcher as now it will be click and play thanks to Proton.
It will, however, still require a Ubisoft Connect account to be played. It also has Denuvo Anti-Tamper.
"Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is an action-adventure platformer that takes place in Mount Qaf, an imaginary world inspired by Persian mythology, where the player will live an epic adventure to save the Prince and restore world balance. Embodying Sargon, a young gifted Persian warrior in the cursed mythological heart of Persia, player will explore diverse biomes and fight challenging enemies by combining unique Time Powers and Super Abilities."
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Features:
- Gain strength and find new powers as more and more of the world opens up to you.
- Use your time powers, combat and platforming skills to perform deadly combos and defeat time-corrupted enemies and mythological creatures
- Acquire and equip new amulets to adapt your play style to any given situation or to simply express yourself in and outside of fights.
- Make use of the unique Memory Shards to take a snapshot of your world and remember what exactly it was you want to come back to later.
- Adjust the difficulty level freely to one that matches your skill at any moment of the game.
- A whole set of accessibility options to give everyone the possibility to play and enjoy this fantastic story.
You can follow it on Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: scaineQuoting: sarmadCan someone explain what's wrong with Denuvo? Does it work on Linux/Proton or not?
Denuvo works okay on Linux under Proton. So far. Who knows if they'll break things in future, like anti-cheat does.
There are several issues with Denuvo:
1. Cost - protecting a game with Denuvo costs the publisher $25K per month. There is also a one-off fee of $0.5 per activation. So if your game sells 100K copies, that's a $50K up front fee, plus the $25K every month you keep Denuvo on there. This is all money that isn't going into development, QA, DLC, paying staff, or advertising your game.
2. Performance. Mixed reports on this, but there's a perception that Denuvo encumbered games will perform worse. Reports on how much worse vary wildly, from a few frames to (e.g. Resident Evil Village) 50% performance. When there's a big hit, the publisher is often forced to remove it (e.g. Village, Rage 2).
3. What it's designed to do, which is prevent you "activating" the game more than 5 times. Probably not a huge issue normally, but if you play about with different versions of Proton, every time you delete your prefix (the PFX folder), you're re-activating the game on a "new PC", which will eventually lock you out of the game.
4. The principle its based on, which is that it "protects" sales, by forcing would-be pirates to buy the game. There are two issues with that. First, would-be pirates are proven in a couple of studies (such as this that they wouldn't buy the game anyway, if they can't pirate it. So it's not protecting sales. In fact, piracy can actually encourage game sales, where the pirates download cracked versions as "demos", and if they're impressed, they buy legitimately. Second, Denuvo encumbered games are often cracked anyway, and pirated anyway. So, in those cases, money wasted.
5. It's anti-consumer. That is, it provides the paying customer a worse experience than if you pirated the game. It "protects" the publisher by punishing the very people the publisher relies on to succeed. It treats paying customers as untrustworthy scum.
...which is why I never buy anything encumbered by Denuvo.
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I thought Denuvo was an anti-cheat tool for online gaming rather than an anti-hacking tool. Many of those methods that tend to improve sales only does the opposite. I remember being on a visit to the US and trying to rent a movie from YouTube only to be prevented from doing so because my Gmail account is not US based. I ended up simply pirating the movie with no remorse.
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Quoting: EriIf it's on the Ori spectrum, works for me. From your PS I understand that no background from other games is needed, right?
Yes, as far as I can tell you wouldn't need the background from previous entries in the series.
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Quoting: JustinWoodSeeing that it's 40% off on Switch currently, I'm curious, how's the performance? Any reason I should avoid this version over other platforms?
Sorry for the late response. The performance is fine I guess. I didn't measure frames but it went pretty smoothly for me. If I'm not mistaken the game was originally developed for the Switch and then ported to other platforms.
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