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If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
The Plea of the People: Linux Please
Verus
Member, Alpha Two
Vaknar and team, this is just a post to support and reiterate generally the plea of the people:
We beseech thee, at some point during Alpha development, pronounce our piteous but pious plea to the diligent developers. The Alpha of Ashes is, for many, the sole anchor keeping a pernicious partition of Windows on our PCs. Once Ashes enables Linux support with the existing frameworks allowable in EAC and Unreal Engine, we will be unshackled. Only then, unfettered from the malevolent malaise of Microsoft, will be be free to operate from our home partition.
We are aware that this has long been on the team's radar, but our suffering compels us to lament and implore. Thank you for noting this sentiment in your internal chats. From what is visible to the public eye regarding Easy Anti Cheat and Unreal Engine, it would hopefully not be too laborious of an undertaking to reap such positive player sentiment from allowing Linux users to play. Thanks!
We beseech thee, at some point during Alpha development, pronounce our piteous but pious plea to the diligent developers. The Alpha of Ashes is, for many, the sole anchor keeping a pernicious partition of Windows on our PCs. Once Ashes enables Linux support with the existing frameworks allowable in EAC and Unreal Engine, we will be unshackled. Only then, unfettered from the malevolent malaise of Microsoft, will be be free to operate from our home partition.
We are aware that this has long been on the team's radar, but our suffering compels us to lament and implore. Thank you for noting this sentiment in your internal chats. From what is visible to the public eye regarding Easy Anti Cheat and Unreal Engine, it would hopefully not be too laborious of an undertaking to reap such positive player sentiment from allowing Linux users to play. Thanks!
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There are dozens of us! Dozens I say! I've been playing on Linux since phase 1. If they could fix the launcher button we'd have a less jank setup but in game works fine. See: https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/62094/linux-tips-tweaks-and-troubleshooting-thread/p1
Oh so you can actually, just not natively for now?
Yeah, so natively isn't really needed. It works via Wine. EAC is working if you launch via Steam, something to do with Steams Proton Wine that makes it work.
The process now is to launch the launcher, then open steam and separately launch the AoC client and pass it the launcher port.
It would be nice if eventually the Ashes launcher worked for Linux. It doesn't throw an error. The launch game button just doesn't work. There's definitely bigger bugs and issues than that for now but even a little love before beta would be nice.
Particularly with the advent of Steam's Proton and the growth of other platforms such as Lutris, most games are very easily playable without any fiddling necessary. Enabling the existing engine's Linux support should not be a daunting challenge, and its benefits will be seen to outweigh the effort. The engine and anti-cheat they use is already Linux-compatible, so the remaining consideration is if any extra exploit-protection measures can be put in place in accepting Linux natively.
Tall to people that work in tech support for any game thst supports Linux and Windows.
90% of the tech support they offer is for the less than 1% of players the game has using Linux.
From an outright business perspective, it does not make sense to support Linux.
If Intrepid were planning on launching on Steam, they could use some of Valves resources to ease that issue - but they aren't.
If Intrepid do eventually support Linux, they will regret it.
I remember the Twitter thread that those numbers come from. It specifically had to do with bug reports by Linux users accounting for "90%" (or something large and scary) of their bug reports despite being 1% of sales/revenue. It was one developer and everyone that's never used Linux but is scared of computers likes to quote it.
If the numbers are actually accurate, the dev was complaining that Linux users were submitting more bug reports than Windows users for his game. Without context we have no idea why this was the case. Was the game a port of a Windows version and half baked so there were still issues? Were the Linux users just more likely to submit bug reports that their Windows counterparts? Of those 90% of bug reports, how many issues affected both Windows and Linux?
Why would Intrepid regret it if they made a native client? The game already works on Linux.
Blown past falling sands…
Installing Ashes on Linux on Kali - no longer use Kali for gaming
Running Ashes of linux on Kali (when realms are down)
Ashes fully running on linux using the previous video methods and on Nobara Linux
Just a little note:
I could not get the game to run 100% in Kali. It would get to the splash loading page in the game, get to the 75% section. PC would freeze and crash. This was on Kali.
Ubuntu - same thing
Fedora - Managed to get in the game OK. Instability within the game caused me to quite numerous times and game crashing.
Fedora. Game works 100%. No crashing, works as good as Windows.
You may need to do a new install of Nobara. I used the main ISO and then installed the Nvidia stuff after. The only thing I dont like Nobara is that it defaults to wayland. So (i know it has bugs with gaming) if you want to get rid of this, you may want to install xorg and then switch to that instead.
Have fun