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RTCW Single Player Demo & Linux Binaries

Posted by michael on from the into-the-outdoors-with-penguin-and-chaingun dept.

Ant was fastest on the mouse to report that Id Software has a single-player demo and a set of linux binaries available for Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Blue's News has some more information and a mirror.

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  1. Re:For Halflife users... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gee, Maybe I don't have halflife.

    Not directing this towards you, but this board is very confusing. Do slashdot users want more games for linux or don't they?

    RtCW comes out with native Linux binaries and you people bash it with statements like "Half Life is better, we don't need RtCW".

    The only reason my primary OS is Windows is because of games. I bought RtCW for Windows and was excited when I saw it had linux binaries available. I installed them, copied the data files over from my windows partition and bam! I'm playing RtCW on linux without problems.

    Every app that is ported to linux is a step in the right direction. This article wasn't doing a game comparison, it was trying to point out the cool fact that developers are noticing Linux.

  2. They shoulda shipped already by Wee · · Score: 3, Interesting
    They should have shipped RtCW already. The multiplayer binaries have been out for a while (late November if I recall). So they've been waiting on the single player binaries. Meanwhile, people that aren't absolute Linux fanatics have become pissed off, bought the win32 version and downloaded the Linux MP binaries.

    While I can appreciate Tuxgames' wanting to package a complete game, I (like many other people) primarily want to play the MP version. And I assumed that when I ordered it early last Decemeber that it would ship as soon as they had packaged it. But that wasn't the case. I wrote tuxgames and asked them what they were waiting on, and they told me to join the mailing list so I could find out when it was going to ship. Not especially helpful.

    If you make it hard to show support then only diehards will. If you make it easy, then id gets to see plenty of Linux gamers. For example, everyone at work has been bugging me to set up a server on our game machine. I've been telling them to wait until I get my copy. Now many of them are beyond the game, having played it for the last two months straight. So I'll get my copy, put it on our game machine and it won't get played very much because everyone's moved on. At least I'll have shown my Linux support. If they would have shipped with MP only and then emailed me a download link to the SP binaries when they becamse available, I'd have been very happy I bought from Tuxgames. I would have been playing on Linux with my Win32 friends damn near after the game went GM. As it is, I'm just grumpy that I paid for a game over two months ago and am just now going to get it.

    I almost bought a Win32 copy a couple weeks ago, and maybe I should have. It just seems to me that waiting two and a half months is asking a lot simply to show "support" for a single-player portion of a primarily multiplayer game (how many of you still play Quake2 or Q3A in single player mode?). Besides, id ought to be able to gauge Linux support from their ftp logs, right?

    I guess sometimes I feel left out enough as a Linux gamer without having to tell people why I'm waiting to set up a RtCW server...

    -B

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