Not that I give a crap about Fortnite, but what an asshole.
A terrifically hard audience to serve given the variety of incompatible configurations.
If your game doesn’t work with my fully functional operating system (while others do), isn’t it literally your game that’s “incompatible?”
Plus He’s talking about the steam deck here. That’s 1 configuration. And Rocket League is already on steam for those who bought it before epic did, runs fine in proton. The dude is full of shit and making up excuses, it’s obvious this is a business agreement and nothing to do with practicality and in lying about it he’s hurting his reputation.
My kids, unfortunately, love the game, so I’ve kept up with performance a little bit. It seems they’re trying their best to make it run like trash. They can’t even support the few operating systems it does run on. I haven’t noticed any mind blowing graphics updates, but fps is around a third of what it used go be. Such a garbage company.
The cartoonish artstyle might hide it a bit, but Fortnite is basically Epic’s showcase of all the newest Unreal Engine tech. The move to UE5 a couple years ago brought with it all those new features and a huge leap in graphics. Fortnite has been around for a long time now, so the minimum performance targets are probably changing as tech and average system hardware improve. I don’t actually play it, but it’s pretty much a different game now compared to when BR mode was first released.
This from the man who thinks he’s “competing” with Valve?
Valve is figuring out how to run games they didn’t even develop on Linux, while Epic complains it’s too hard to do for even their own games…
That’s rich.
No it isn’t, I didn’t claim it was, and Valve is doing a good bit more than mere pre-configuration.
Valve is contributing efforts to improve Wine, DXVK, VK3D, shader-cache management, and making their use simple and easy.
If I figure out how to use Bottles, then in a literary sense it is completely correct to say: I figured out how to run windows software on Linux.
The sentence doesn’t suddenly become false if I didn’t write every line of code, from kernel to compatibility layer, that my PC is executing to do it.
DXVK is sooo good now I install it for half my games on my Windows machine just for the performance gains
This is why I don’t give Epic and any exclusives on it’s store any money. I know 0% of it is going back into making linux gaming better.
I don’t give a rats ass about their market share, epics never going to pass steam, but they still have to pay devs to give away those games, and with a lot of the games being indie titles, I’m perfectly happy for some free money to go into a devs pocket
To add on to this: steam was dog shit before epic came along. A lot of people are either unaware or have forgotten how bad steam actually was until it got some real competition
Why is a 2 year old article being posted now?
Maybe there should be a feature that warns us if the article is more then 6 months old. Our maybe a bot could do it.