Corben wrote in to let us know that Diluvion [Steam], a deep-sea exploration game with RPG elements looks like it might be coming over to Linux.
I think it looks fantastic! Love the visual work, especially when it's dark and they find stuff that glows. Could be an awesome game to get lost in and just explore away.
On the Steam forum the developer recently said this:
If you would actually buy it, be sure to give your support in that forum topic. No sense in doing so if you won't buy it, as that does more harm than good.
About the game
Explore the dangers of the depths in this beautifully realized flooded world, and unearth untold riches and glory. Discover the remnants of civilization in numerous unique towns and learn their local lore, trade stories and treasure, and hire crew new members.
Continuously improve each of the game’s 9 unique pilotable submarines using a deep upgrade system, and gain access to new areas and loot. Discover numerous types of cannons and torpedoes to help you overcome the dangers of the deep, and assemble your own unique crew to brave it alongside you. Whether you wish to play as a silent hunter or a guns blazing dreadnought, arrange your crew members and weapons to fit your playstyle. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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On the Steam forum the developer recently said this:
QuoteTo update, we're considering supporting Diluvion in the main Linux branches, but not all of them. No estimated date for that yet.
If you would actually buy it, be sure to give your support in that forum topic. No sense in doing so if you won't buy it, as that does more harm than good.
About the game
Explore the dangers of the depths in this beautifully realized flooded world, and unearth untold riches and glory. Discover the remnants of civilization in numerous unique towns and learn their local lore, trade stories and treasure, and hire crew new members.
Continuously improve each of the game’s 9 unique pilotable submarines using a deep upgrade system, and gain access to new areas and loot. Discover numerous types of cannons and torpedoes to help you overcome the dangers of the deep, and assemble your own unique crew to brave it alongside you. Whether you wish to play as a silent hunter or a guns blazing dreadnought, arrange your crew members and weapons to fit your playstyle. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Luke_Nukem 14 Feb 2017
Because of Ubuntu being outdated most of the time, I kind of wish devs would target fedora stable releases as well / in replacement of.
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we're considering supporting Diluvion in the main Linux branches, but not all of them
What does this mean?
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Luke_Nukem: Only rarely you want to support the most cutting-edge options and not anything else.
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Ah, yes, I remember asking during their kickstarter about Linux support. They were honest about being a small studio and not having resources during that time for proper testing but it was something they would look into down the line. They mentioned how hopefully newer versions of Unity might make the porting easier for them since they had lots of issues with their previous game, Ballpoint Universe. It'd be nice to have this on Linux, since the game looks pretty neat.
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Mountain Man 14 Feb 2017
That really reminds me of an old game called Sub Culture.
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linuxjacques 14 Feb 2017
I would buy it. It seems right up my alley.
edit: and I remember Sub Culture! I loved that game.
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edit: and I remember Sub Culture! I loved that game.
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That trailer looks cool, but it gives me absolutely no idea about what the gameplay will be like.
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Hey Liam: GOG has also a release of this game. Do you know if there is a version planned?
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Reminds me of Aquanox, and I saw it was released on GOG. Good to know, that Linux version is possible.
What does "main Linux branches" mean by the way? May be they wanted to say, they'll support common distros?
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What does "main Linux branches" mean by the way? May be they wanted to say, they'll support common distros?
Last edited by Shmerl on 14 Feb 2017 at 11:23 pm UTC
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Hey Liam: GOG has also a release of this game. Do you know if there is a version planned?I don't make a habit of auto-linking to GOG, as they often see a delay. No word on it, this is all I have atm.
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soulsource 15 Feb 2017
Because of Ubuntu being outdated most of the time, I kind of wish devs would target fedora stable releases as well / in replacement of.
What we users benefit most of is developers working on/supporting older/conservative distributions. Almost all libraries on Linux follow the rule of changing the soname when they change their ABI in an incompatible way. This of course does not mean that the libraries cannot get additional functionality with newer releases, as long as they don't break the old ABI by this. So, if one develops an application relying on newer functionality of a new version of a library, it will not run with older versions of the same lib. The other way around, developing the application with an older library version, and running it with a newer one (of the same soname), should always work, though. Problems only arise if applications ship their own libraries and do not read the documentation of said libraries (for instance Steam devs never read the libstdc++ ABI doc, otherwise they would not ship a copy of said lib together with Steam, causing breakage whenever the system-installed libstdc++ is newer than the useless Steam-supplied copy...), or if applications use an old, no longer supported ABI version of a library (for instance the old GTK 1, which is not shipped by distributions any more).
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Luke_Nukem 15 Feb 2017
..snip..
That's a really good point. One I didn't give much thought to. Thanks for taking the time to write.
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