Linux client for Quake Wars

(Cenuij) #1

There’s an army of linux gamers eager to play ETQW.

Has there been any info regarding a Linux client for the game?

(Rhoades) #2

I too would like to know.

(Lanz) #3

id has always supported linux, I would be very surprised if they didn’t with this game.

(RosOne) #4

It was mentioned in a preview at planetquake that there will be a linux version

(Joe999) #5

these times are soon over. john carmack is playing with a 360 now. and for a game of his he chose EA as publisher. times are changing …

(Rhoades) #6

these times are soon over. john carmack is playing with a 360 now. and for a game of his he chose EA as publisher. times are changing …[/quote]
really? wow.

(Pytox) #7

And maybe it will be also converted for mac? Quake 4 was also made for mac :wink:

(B0rsuk) #8

The most important part here is that ET:QW is based on OpenGL, so even if there’s no linux version, it should work fine with Wine. Of course, I prefer native applications, and most probably ET:QW will have a linux client.

(Sebultura) #9

Well, nothing is over to me: playing with 360 maybe means playing with DirectX, but DirectX is present on Quake / Doom series since a long time & can be replaced, etc…

Now we now that EA was chosen for Orc & Elves, but it doesn’t mean that every id title won’t be published by Activision.

(jimb0) #10

Wow, this is great: Carmack helps development of a game for cell phones by his wife’s company and from that people conclude that

  1. he won’t support linux anymore on his PC releases
  2. he has sold his soul to EA

I just love the conspiracy theories some people like to pull out of nowhere.

There will be a linux release, people. Get over it. Not only it has been already mentioned but it’s also kind of obvious with any id game. They haven’t been founded by former Microsoft employees, you know.

(Sebultura) #11

Hum, reminds me some game company with a certain online system I hate… Sorry :smiley:

(jimb0) #12

Exactly the ones who I was talking about.

(corwin) #13

Offcourse there will be a Linux release.
It’s OpenGL.

I think it’s pretty funny that the whole game industry uses direct3D and carmack still sticks with OpenGL.
That’s just great.

(fn0000rd) #14

Not only is he using OpenGL over DirectX, he also creates some of the most beautiful engines out there.

God Bless John Carmack.

ET was the game that finally allowed me to give up Windows entirely, if I have a good, solid game to hold my attention, I don’t need to dual-boot.

Now if we could just get a universal binary build of ET…