Paradox confirm no Linux support for Prison Architect 2 but investigating Steam Deck
Paradox confirm no Linux support for Prison Architect 2 but investigating Steam Deck
Prison Architect 2 from Double Eleven and Paradox Interactive was recently revealed with an entirely new look, and while the original has full Native Linux support, the sequel will not.
Native Linux support was often problematic because too many developers would use a third party to port the game and then fail to maintain it.
I absolutely love the Steam Deck and I’ll easily take the trade offs that Proton gives us. Maybe one day Linux will gain enough market share to justify more first party native support.
The idea of a "Prison Architect" series of games is just conceptually wild to me. I wonder if in a hundred years this will have the same ring to it that a game like "Slave Plantation Architect" would have today. Just remarkably crass and tasteless.
They do try to show the problems inherent in the US prison system. That said, there is a similar game about building a cult compound, which is also fun.
That said, how is this worse than the whole slew of games about US soldiers killing people across the world, almost always portrayed as the cool protagonists?
It's just a fun game. There are also games about war, does that mean they must not be fun?
I'm sure Rapelay was fun too.
does that mean they must not be fun
Whether or not someone finds this or any other game fun is not something I really care about. Nor does it have anything to do with my observation.
No Linux support won't even be the worse thing about this game.
I sadly bought Cities: Skylines 2, a simulation game like this from the same publisher and they got caught faking the simulation in it.
Why? CS2 was shit from the start
I am a big fan of city building games and took a chance. Fuck me for wanting a new game to play after work I guess.
My understanding is that the simulation isn't faked, just buggy. That's not that much better, but buggy means it'll probably be fixed eventually.
With proton there's no need to Wine about it
It may be controversial point of veiw, but good proton support right after release is better for us then just broken native Linux version after three months, which will never be fixed.
PDX games have always worked for me with Proton. That should be fine.
Yeah, I agree, they're mostly working fine, even with mods. Their client is crap though.
I can get that AAA FPS Shooter does not benefit much from Linux user-base (statistics-wise) but in this case it sure seems like a big missed opportunity.
If your stuff runs on Proton with minimal performance penalty, why put resources into not-proton?
Not to mention, as stated above, native ports are often not maintained so when the libraries required for them eventually break API, proton is your only option anyway.
Paradox doesn't really bother.
Even the games that have native Linux ports regularly have massive issues. Currently you can't play CK3 multiplayer since it immediately goes out of sync, works fine with proton though. The Linux version also crashes much more.
Similar story with Stellaris, where every other update the clients become completely incompatible.
Or the buggy Bloom effect in Cities Skylines, Stellaris and Surviving Mars that would cause flicker and a weird black screen. Pretty sure they never bothered to fix that.
ah damn. I probably wouldn't play it anyway, but still.
These are the people that made Stellaris. I'm not surprised.