Don't be anti-Linux with the PC port

[jolly eagle]

A few companies in recent history have actively gone out of their way to make the PC versions of their games impossible to run on Linux, despite the game working without problems through wine or other Windows emulation methods simply by removing said system designed solely to prevent the game on running on anything except Windows.

In some cases, it was instead just making the anti-cheat directly tied to the Windows Kernel, which obviously doesn't work since Linux doesn't have said kernel.

You don't have to make an official Linux release, the people over on this side of things will find a way to get it running unmodified as long as there isn't something actively blocking them out.

[hasty depot]

Unfortunately too few Linux users so when they make decisions about implementing anti-cheat they never consider them

[languid haven]

I highly doubt an anticheat of that form would be implemented

[jolly eagle]

It's not common, but it's worth mentioning since all of Mihoyo/Hoyoverse's games do that as well as a few popular shooters.

[jolly eagle]

It takes very little additional effort to just not choose/make an anti-cheat that's directly tied to the system kernel, I just wanted to mention it sense the market does exist (especially since the Steam Deck runs on Linux).

[jolly eagle]

That's why I said "don't be anti-linux"; unless there's something I'm missing, the game should be able to run without any problems as long as the anti-cheat itself doesn't prevent the game from running

No optimizations directly for Linux are needed

[jolly eagle]

Update: thank you for not being anti-Linux, it works as long as the end user does some extra setup

[mossy viper]

iirc installing some extra .NET Framework modules next to the default wine ones makes the game somewhat playable

apologies for being late

[swift yarrow]

it works on linux and steamdeck, thankfully