Arma 3 Linux Beta Due Out Very Soon, But Will It Last?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Arma 3 Linux Beta Due Out Very Soon, But Will It Last?

Arma 3, the open-world military tactical shooter game, will soon be in public beta for Linux...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Arma-3-Linux-Beta-Soon

[karasu]

"We'll give this beta to windows user in order to evaluate the linux market"...

Joke aside, this is a good news!

[duby229]

Well, if these ports don't ever become available for sale on a retail client like steam, then they won't make any money on it. The wording they chose indicates they are setting themselves up for failure.

[Pharma]

Even if port will be not perfect, i'm still will be happy, this mean next games can be native for Linux. Thanks Bohemia!

[dimko]

Will it be free beta of do we need to pay to participate? If second - they will fail big time

[Nobu]

dimko "We consider them a complementary service to owners of the primary Windows version"--iow, if you bought the Windows version, you'll be able to play the linux version for "free" (no added cost, as the salesman once said).

[mao_dze_dun]

Just a note - this is a very graphically intended and badly optimized game. Don't expect a good performance.

[DIRT]

I wonder if the arma 3 engine is anything similar to the arma 2 engine. Arma2 with wine d3d patch actually runs pretty decent. Vanilla wine it doesn?t run so good lol.