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Did they ditch the entire idea of having Linux support or is it just that they were slow on improving the compatibility?

leetrout 7y ago
No OP, but one related example as a dev, you cannot buy / use anything from their marketplace (like a blueprint plugin) on Linux. There are some hacks out there to load them but you still have to buy them from the Windows client.
michaelbrave 7y ago
I can't speak for him but my experience compiling from source wasn't that bad, but if I wanted to use any assets from the store it required having the epic launcher installed on windows, so no download of assets on linux. This was frustrating the first time I showed up to a game jam with a linux only machine, not impossible to use but a pain that felt unnessisary.
EamonnMR 7y ago
Epic just acquired Rocket League and removed Linux support.
- simcop2387 7y ago
  and macOS support too, https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/23/21078948/rocket-league-mac-linux-support-final-patch-march-features-online-offline https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/23/21078948/rocket-league-mac...
  - kuerlenonp 7y ago
    thanks for the link!
  - EamonnMR 7y ago
    Especially annoying because we used to play it all the time at the office and we've all got macbooks.
arminiusreturns 7y ago
No they keep saying words about linux support, but their actions don't match. For over two years community forks had more bug fixes for the linux editor than official because they wouldnt accept pr's. Then they refused to make the marketplace crossplatform, and started doing some other things (like Sweeney publicly talking shit about linux coincidentally around the time they made some deals with MS) All in all it felt like a complete bait and switch. You can cross compile for linux, but often with many errors and almost never if you used marketplace assets that werent just models or blueprints. To be clear, I was talking about two things, linux as a target client platform, and linux as a dev platform.

leetrout 7y ago

No OP, but one related example as a dev, you cannot buy / use anything from their marketplace (like a blueprint plugin) on Linux. There are some hacks out there to load them but you still have to buy them from the Windows client.

michaelbrave 7y ago

I can't speak for him but my experience compiling from source wasn't that bad, but if I wanted to use any assets from the store it required having the epic launcher installed on windows, so no download of assets on linux. This was frustrating the first time I showed up to a game jam with a linux only machine, not impossible to use but a pain that felt unnessisary.

EamonnMR 7y ago

Epic just acquired Rocket League and removed Linux support.

simcop2387 7y ago
and macOS support too, https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/23/21078948/rocket-league-mac-linux-support-final-patch-march-features-online-offline https://www.polygon.com/2020/1/23/21078948/rocket-league-mac...
- kuerlenonp 7y ago
  thanks for the link!
- EamonnMR 7y ago
  Especially annoying because we used to play it all the time at the office and we've all got macbooks.

arminiusreturns 7y ago

No they keep saying words about linux support, but their actions don't match. For over two years community forks had more bug fixes for the linux editor than official because they wouldnt accept pr's. Then they refused to make the marketplace crossplatform, and started doing some other things (like Sweeney publicly talking shit about linux coincidentally around the time they made some deals with MS) All in all it felt like a complete bait and switch. You can cross compile for linux, but often with many errors and almost never if you used marketplace assets that werent just models or blueprints. To be clear, I was talking about two things, linux as a target client platform, and linux as a dev platform.