I am waiting for DOTA 2 to be ported on Linux; this would really help the Linux Steam platform taking off.
Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
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Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#32I loved Half-Life 2. I loved Counter-Strike 1.5 (and 1.6 too). I loved Portal. Valve has done a good job of making games. But I reeeeally wish some other developers would step up to the plate and port as well. I'm thinking Borderlands, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and others. Those two already have Mac ports so I doubt it's unfeasible to move things over. Wine typically works well enough --assuming you're willing to ei…
Sorry little off topic : Is anybody working on HALF-Life 3 ? I was really looking forward for this, I am old now but not old enough for HL3.
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Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#33I loved Half-Life 2. I loved Counter-Strike 1.5 (and 1.6 too). I loved Portal. Valve has done a good job of making games. But I reeeeally wish some other developers would step up to the plate and port as well. I'm thinking Borderlands, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and others. Those two already have Mac ports so I doubt it's unfeasible to move things over. Wine typically works well enough --assuming you're willing to ei…
Valve indeed has done a good job so far, though I'm hoping they do the same with DotA 2 soon...
Dota 2 seems like it's something that would be a flagship title for Steam for Linux. Dota 2 already uses the source engine though, so maybe it is coming soon. One can only hope.
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#34I loved Half-Life 2. I loved Counter-Strike 1.5 (and 1.6 too). I loved Portal. Valve has done a good job of making games. But I reeeeally wish some other developers would step up to the plate and port as well. I'm thinking Borderlands, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and others. Those two already have Mac ports so I doubt it's unfeasible to move things over. Wine typically works well enough --assuming you're willing to ei…
Yeah, surprisingly (or unsurprisingly, depending on your POV) there have been very few major players stepping in to convert their historical or recent titles for Linux. They are probably waiting and wondering if there's any good reason to do it... If the Steambox ever sees a release based on a Linux environment, I would expect things to change, though.
I think the weirdest thing is that id Software have all their games ported for Linux (Excluding Rage) but haven't released them yet.
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#35I know this is only HL2 beta - but unfortunately it doesn't run nearly as fast as HL2 on wine. I'm on ubuntu 12.10, 2010 mac mini (nvidia graphics)
Steam on Arch Linux here, old Core 2 Duo 3 GHz, but I added a nVidia GTX550Ti (2GB) card a few months ago and HL2 is running amazingly.
Playing it on a 46" TV at 1080p. Smooth as hell and looks fantastic.
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#36I loved Half-Life 2. I loved Counter-Strike 1.5 (and 1.6 too). I loved Portal. Valve has done a good job of making games. But I reeeeally wish some other developers would step up to the plate and port as well. I'm thinking Borderlands, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and others. Those two already have Mac ports so I doubt it's unfeasible to move things over. Wine typically works well enough --assuming you're willing to ei…
Sorry little off topic : Is anybody working on HALF-Life 3 ? I was really looking forward for this, I am old now but not old enough for HL3.
It's presumed (and pretty much a given) that it's being worked on. However there has never been a full confirmation from Valve/Gabe Newell on anything specific.
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#37I loved Half-Life 2. I loved Counter-Strike 1.5 (and 1.6 too). I loved Portal. Valve has done a good job of making games. But I reeeeally wish some other developers would step up to the plate and port as well. I'm thinking Borderlands, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and others. Those two already have Mac ports so I doubt it's unfeasible to move things over. Wine typically works well enough --assuming you're willing to ei…
Sorry little off topic : Is anybody working on HALF-Life 3 ? I was really looking forward for this, I am old now but not old enough for HL3.
Between the Steam Box, porting everything in their catalog to Linux, Dota 2, and scrambling like madmen to make the ten thousanth TF2 hat, I assume Valve has a lot on their plate right now.
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#38Will not buy, HL1 is still full of bugs: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues?labe... They should at least fix the bugs which affect gameplay, so I won't end up with a library of broken games.
Half life 2 works OK on my Intel HD4000. The only bugs are graphical glitches, and they're not very noticable. (Keep in mind that Half Life and Half-Life 2 use completely different game engines; one's bugs don't necessarily translate to the other.)
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#39Wow, I'm going to go try this! Portal runs "surprisinly well" (eg. great performance but it has occasional graphical glitches) on my machine (Arch x64, Intel HD 4000), so I'm curious to see how HL2 runs. I understand Valve hasn't gotten the bugs out quite yet, but this is an excellent start. Edit: Oh man, "Half-Life 2 (Beta)", "Half-Life 2: Episode One (Beta)", "Half-Life 2: Episode Two (Beta)", and "Half-Life 2: Los…
I assume you have 32-bit (multilib) support installed in order to install Steam?
Or is there some trick I'm not aware of to get native x64 Steam going under Arch?
Re: Half-Life 2 released for Steam on Linux
#40Erm. Wasn't Half-Life 2 already out? Pretty sure I've had it in my library for months.
For linux? It wasn't in my library last week. Perhaps you got lucky and were chosen for a fancy linux beta test period?