More options is never a bad thing.
Nice, but Heroic is just way too superior.
Still want to see it. I hope they implement the proton and don’t just show the games which are native Linux, otherwise it’ll be terrible.
Why would I use heroic over lutris?
Heroic has built in support for gog, epic games and I think amazon games, but don’t quote me on that. Its all in all very good and at least for me it always worked better than trying to achieve the same over lutris.
built in support for gog, epic games
Lutris also has that.
Maybe it is just a matter of taste. Personally I would never use any launcher to launch my gog games, because I think the whole advantage of gog is to have the game in a convenient zip file.
There are big differences, Heroic present the gog library in a nice way and supports convenience features like cloud saves (must have with big screen at home and remote gaming on Laptop) as well as gametime tracking, some achievements (dont care about those).
Its far more convenient than Lutris for GoG and of course you can easily backup your Games.
Just means more and better support for Linux going forward. This is a good thing.
I get that Sweeny doesn’t like to gargle Gabe’s billionaire balls as much as a lot of the users here, but Epic officially supporting Linux is a good thing.
It’s good for linux, it’s just not impressive for epic at all, they’re starting to catch up to where steam was 20 years ago on linux support.
Epic supported Linux almost 30 years ago. They just didn’t have a store back then.
What missing feature is needed from heroic ? I prefer 1000x time having community driven launcher than official one. Egs is known to be a piece of shit launcher and if any official développement impede on the community one I’m gonna burn something. Also have u tried egs on android ? It unreal how barebone it is. Not sure a linux one will be complete and useful.
Also launcher support ≠ fortnite support
Does getting ones balls gargled actually feel any good?
For the gargler or the gargled ?
I can confirm, that gargeling someone else’s balls can be quite enjoyable.
Make shitty port of shitty software => People don’t use shitty port => Shitty promoter blames the platform
This will only lead to Sweeny saying ‘told you so’ about Linux is not a gaming platform.
If we have things like Heroic on Linux, and if they are just bringing the Epic Game Store only and not the anti cheat, then who cares. Nothing has really changed then, as we were always able to play all non-online games from our Epic libraries anyways.
Plus you can bet your ass that the new and official EGS app will have SO MANY issues when that is released. It was a mess (still kinda is) even on Windows. So many bugs. I wouldn’t be surprised if many Linux users will just continue using the alternatives for the smaller resources it takes up.
You forgot telemetry 🤗
They want that fortnite steam machine money
Yep, this is exactly it.
Let me guess. Their kernel malware is going to come to Linux next?
I’m not interested in Epic’s malware. Nor will I install a Linux version of GOG. I don’t want that proprietary trash.
Epic Games as in Tim Sweeney’s Epic Games?
What are the package names so I can block them from installing please
EGS has some integration with UE so if you’re buying marketplace assets it’s easy to keep them updated and to add them to projects. Since UE can compile to Linux if you’re running Linux, this is a move that makes Linux a more appealing OS for game development.
Sure, it’s all stuff you can do manually. But the sweeter you make the pot the more regular users you attract to your OS.
What is the benefit of attracting more regular users to an OS?
Windows no longer being the dominant OS.
Oh no… It’s stupid 😞
Better software support??? There’s stuff I’m still struggling to replace and I’d rather native linux builds than have to go back for it.
Apparently unreal engine may work better in linux now, tho.
Exactly as in the post. I already have Heroic, so who cares
It is a big deal. If Epic changes some API and breaks Heroic, it is your problem for using an unsupported third party application. If Epic breaks their official client, their QA manager has a problem.
I’m actually worried about that too.
Holy shit is that a Homestuck panel? First I’ve seen of The MSPA Reader outside the comic’s sphere.
😭 good golden gods the year of the linux desktop is finally upon us.
We just had to wait for windows to get too shitty for average gamer
