Link to the response: https://steamcommunity.com/id/takinalisa/recommended/1934780/
Talk is cheap. It’s been “planned” for Tarkov since before I started using Linux.
Last time I played it offline it would crash after a min of playing Streets (the new map at the time). Might be stuff needed updating or my hardware.
Tbf most devs probably want to do it, they just can’t justify it financially. Most games’ programmers are computer nerds, and they would be the ones in charge of implementing that kind of stuff. They’d happily do it because obviously, as computer nerds they love Linux, but even if they accept to do some unpaid overtime just because they really want to implement this, it might get blocked by the publisher because they don’t want that kind of stuff to bypass QA especially since it has a chance of affecting all users, and when looking at the numbers, it’s just not profitable to them.
Now the steam deck could change that dynamic because it has a decent market share, and I would love to see the actual numbers but I’d be willing to bet that most deck owners buy more games than the average player.
Source: am games’ programmer, computer nerd, and steam deck owner
Tarkov is in a different much more complex situation. It uses some Battleye addons that are custom made for the game that Battleye will not port to work on Linux.
If it was an issue on the user’s end then it’s possible 3rd parties could fix it (as Wine/Proton has for every game not designed for GNU+Linux). BattleState Games have decided they don’t want to host servers without BattlEye for us to play on and that we’re not entitled to host our own servers.
I did consider installing Windows on a machine just for Tarkov but install and using modern Windows looks like hell. I’d rather install Windows XP than Windows .
I want to be optimistic, bit honestly this to me reads like the non-commital “thanks for your concern, we’ll look into it” consumer service style non-answer.
I hope it ends up somewhere, but I can also see it remaining in their ticketing system for eternity.
I think the Steam Deck is a platform that devs are aware of, and I’m sure they don’t want to alienate that segment of their sales. They also want to avoid negative reviews.BattlEye is also supported in other games on Linux, including native versions, so it shouldn’t be a big deal to ensure its functionality.
Isn’t Balleye on Windows kind of a rootkit? How does that work on Linux? You have to run it as root?
The issue isn’t even that BattlEye doesn’t work under Linux, because it does. It’s that a lot of studios that use it, namely Bungie and Ubisoft, explicitly refuse to enable support for it. Somehow they allowed Division 2 to run, but even then it only appears to be the Steam version, because my Uplay copy does not have the necessary files in the bundle
This might be a stupid question but is it possible to copy the files you need to your Uplay install? It doesn’t guarantee that the game will use them but worth a try I suppose.
Also you have Division 2 on Uplay and Steam? Why?
No, I don’t. I got it on a whim through Epic, when it was on like a 90% sale, and that’s the only game I own there, but it’s installed through Uplay itself. The reason I know about the files, is because they appear in a steamdb manifest
Theoretically would you’ve said could work, but since we’re talking about modifying critical files, they might just slap me with a ban, and I don’t really feel like doing that. They probably check the hashes of the included bundle immediately
the year of me being able to run literally any game on linux is fast approaching.
I just refunded the stanley parable because I couldn’t easily get it to work on my arch system. Though I suspect the fault lies somewhere between hyprland and wayland, as I tried all other fixes I could dig up, but I can’t easily get X on my system to test, so I just ended up requesting a refund.
Apart from that things have just worked. Funny how a title that is supposed to run native is one that gave me a headache (proton also just flat out refused to launch it).
I can’t easily get X on my system to test
This can’t be true. If you are on Arch, this should be very easy to do. I’ve had a backup i3 session available on my system for years alongside sway. It should be as easy as installing an X based DE and then selecting that session from the display manager
Some places do eventually listen. Crytek stealth dropped easy anticheat support for Hunt Showdown a few versions ago.
