and Epic Games stance on Linux gaming is known
RIP in peace Rocket League.
It was crippled years ago. Guess they want to end it’s misery.
When I remember I played native Linux version of Rocket League… 😿
It’s the only reason I bought that pile of shit. Them dropping support and then selling out to Epic left a sour taste.
on that note, but at a bit of a tanget: apparently SuperTuxKart has football mode now
I haven’t checked it out yet, but it apparently came out in the fairly recent 1.5 patch - and it looks pretty similar, might scratch the same itch. Dunno how active the playerbase is.
Imagine supertuxcart overtaking rocket league. Ah well. One can dream.
Is that… Pepper as a playable character?
seems like it, it’s one of the mascots shown on their website: https://supertuxkart.net/Discover
It’s still fun… but it also really makes you realize how much Rocket League relies on fancy graphics/etc.
Epic/Tim Sweeney can only do one thing really well: crying to the public.
Fuck Epic. Don’t care if they merge all of their games into one shitty game. Fall Guys was cool before Epic bought it, same thing with Rocket League. Now I don’t care about either game.
They want to be on iOS so bad with their game and store so they can farm credit cards of children’s parents, yet they don’t care about Linux at best, or are hostile against it at worst.
Epic/Tim Sweeney can only do one thing really well: crying to the public.
in the Unreal 3 era, almost every game was running on the unreal engine, and no one gave a fuck about the ID tech of the day (follow up to quake 3 engine)
Aren’t both the entire COD lineage and the Source engine based around the quake 3 engine, they never used Unreal?
I think with source it’s q2/1. Idk about COD, but sure, engines developed during the quake 3 era where probably 80/20 split. I’m taking about late 00s early 10s where even street fighter was on unreal engine(which it still might be)
The id tech I’m denigrating is the doom 3 engine which was used to make doom 3, quake 4, rage, prey and basically nothing else
This is on par with paying a subscription for heated seats in your car. These ideas are so unthinkable for normal people that I don’t even know what to say.
I mean normal people would just download a fortnite launcher and not think the world is ending, it’s really only us opinionated nerds who care about these things.
that means I can get a refund then if they require it? I bought it on steam before they sold to epic
you could play those on linux?
…what? I think I understand what this headline means, but am really struggling to understand how these other games/devs think this is a good idea. What the fuck…
Devs most likely disagree, but ultimately its not up to them. The company will do anything to further exploit the massive user base of fortnite because its one of the few behemoths they have that rake in money. They hope a lot of new people will see and play it and maybe spend some money. In the end its just the final avenue to go to milk these games of whatever left they will offer. They may get a big boost in players for the first month, then im sure it dies back down again.
All I wanna know is if these launchers will be the only way into the games or if the existing games will still work. I have played fall guys since its release, so if it’s taken away in this way, I’ll be a bit pissed off. I’ll never use fortnite.
Am I out for the loop? What does this mean to port games to another game?
Is fortnite like a platform now rather than just the battle royale game?
It wasn’t even originally a battle royale game. Before that was a co-op base defense/survival game with resource collection and building elements. Kind of a limited, kid friendly 7 days to die.
Fortnite is like roblox now, it has tons of user generated games inside of it (created using the fornite edition of unreal editor) and multiple epic created games
Yeah basically new game modes. Rocket Racing is an arcade racer, Fortnite Festival is a rock band like rhythm game, both are entirely independent from battle royale but still integrated into fortnite eco system with skins and characters going between them. This is the metaverse vision that Sweeney never stops talking about coming to fruition.
So we’re heading into the shitty Ready Player One dystopian timeline but it’s gonna be in Fortnite?
KMN
Tim Sweeney is a bitch.
The Fortnite game size on my Xbox is already like 180Gb or some other stupidly high number.
I wonder if I can get a refund because my game no longer works due to changes on their end.
As the guy that founded the Rocket League Discord server ive always been incredibly saddened by what happened after Epic bought Psyonix.
As someone who loved Nosgoth, Rocket League was the sads for me.
Porting a game into another game isn’t a thing. There’s not even a term for what this sounds like other than “dumb fuck bullshit”
I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It’s far more comparable to Roblox than anything else
A game engine built on Unreal engine… ? hmm…
Game engine in a game engine.
More like an SDK for a game engine.
It’s just UE5 with more limitations.
And since the two games they are “porting” into FN are already also built in Unreal, this isn’t so much porting as it would be simply copying and pasting in code and assets.
More like remaking them inside Fortnite.
I just did a little sick inside my mouth.
How can leakers confirm anything? Some fourth-party leaks confirmed that third-party leaks were legit? If I was going to believe “leaks” without material proof, I’d have started with the original, third-party.
