GNU/Linux (Steam OS) support?

Oh and! If you took a look at Linux two years ago and dismissed it as a gaming OS, look again! With Steam pushing Linux the landscape has changed radically. There are enough good quality native Linux games now to keep you busy quite a while. Just not a hardcore circuit racer yet.

 

I think that it's more likely that AC1 will gain rain and night support rather than Linux / SteamOS.

In addition, have you played a game on Linux that has proper FFB? I don't recall seeing that (and I've run Linux for a long time).
I've tried ETS2 under Linux, but with the dead feel in the wheel, it's just no fun.

Due to the console support it might be that AC is a bit better prepared these days compared to the state 2 years ago, but afaik PS4 uses an API that is not available on Linux, so you could still question if the effort would be justified.

Don't get me wrong, as a Linux user, I would absolutely love this. Just have strong doubts it'll happen.

 

Actually makes ten times more sense than to port to a platform which probably has less than 1 % of the gamers world wide. Actually, it would be very bad for the other 99 %, because time, money and effort would have to be spent, which has to be subtracted from the effort flowing into the more popular platforms.

 

I'd say they have exactly equal opportunities to happen exactly the same number.

 

That was what I wanted to say with that.

 

You are bad guise
Some day will be de "year of the linux desktop".
BTW the PS4 run a modified version of FreeBSD, so the AC runs also over a good OS, not GNU/Linux but a lovely Unix.

 

Yeah, but they got their own APIs afaik and those aren't available on normal BSD or Linux.

 

Are you saying that we are going to have a native Linux version of AC AND night/rain?

 

I think (know) he's saying that cows will grow wings and starts flying before AC will get any of those features.

 

That's a shame. Any reason why you so categorically refuse the implementation of wet weather? I know that a lot of people want it, in any sim.

 

it has been explained at least 1 million times and it boils down to: it never was an intended feature for AC 1.x . I have absolutely nothing against any feature including rain, night, snow or anything else you might think about.

 

AC 2.0: The Great Flood

Due to overwhelming demand, AC 2.0 features rain. A lot of rain.

Featuring advanced engine flooding physics.

 

Alright, so i figure that it'd be too complicated to implement in AC? Sorry for asking a millionth time, but, i'm not frequenting this forum so much that i ever read an official statement about it.

 

AC2: Your Sailing Simulator
... where did I hear that before?

 

do you read any official statement from other companies about why they don't have every feature that people ask in their software that has been out for 4 years?

 

Well, why post something in the first place then, or post sarcastic memes about how the implementation of wet weather is as likely as a Linux version of AC?

If you don't want to talk about it, or it's a sensitive topic for you, ok, understood. I can understand that it becomes annoying to answer the same question again, and again. But, maybe you understand that it is a popular request. At least ten times more popular than *cough cough* a Linux version.

 

because this thread was having a relaxed and entertaining time until you came here, and even if you got your answer you decided to be butthurt about it demanding some sort of "official answer" as if one was required.

 

pouring rain (obviously in the middle of the night) will be the only option

 

Looking forward to the advanced water evaporation physics. Particularly noticeable when the rain interacts with the heat of the headlights, illuminating the rising steam.

Equally as exciting is the wiper blade degradation, can't wait to burn through a new set of Bosch's.