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Will skate. be available for Mac OS, Steam OS, Proton/Linux systems (handle held PCs like the Steam Deck) for Early Access?

• We want to bring skate. to as many platforms as possible and will continue to listen to feedback and look at the feasibility of adding new platforms in the future, but for Early Access launch, Mac OS, Steam OS, Proton/Linux will not be supported.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3354750/view/636812613495292422?l=english

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Might still run fine, though

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a micro-transactions store with a game built around it. Knowing EA they'll probably throw their rootkit anti-cheat in to assure investors that "hackers" won't get anything for free.

[–] Exeous@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I curious why it need anti cheat for single player game. This not single player?

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

Otherwise you could get the microtransactions for free!

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I dunno if it has a single player mode but everything we've seen of the game so far shows it heavily multiplayer focused.

Also if the names the part confusing you. This isn't a port of the original Skate game, it's a reboot.

[–] Exeous@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, it's a game from EA, so don't get your hopes too high.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Apex ran fine too until they blocked it with the anticheat

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

If they don't want it to, it won't.

[–] LuhimeWired@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 week ago

Oh nooo, not the crappy revival that desperately wants to be the next fortnite! I'll surely miss not being able to play this.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The first part looks like two separate sentences 😁

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, at this point I assume they just want to choose awful names to garner attention, but damn, this just makes me think someone typoed.

I want to think that they were gonna name it something like "skate!", but then it was really shitty or something, so someone sneakily renamed it "skate." at the last second

[–] MangoPenguin@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

Its a modern EA game so nothing of value is lost by not playing garbage.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No worries, they'll eventually launch it and it'll run at a piss-poor 1 decade per frame on even the highest end hardware for the gameplay, but the microtransaction storefront will run at 3000000000000000FPS with zero bugs whatsoever.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Remember all the trailers for Battlefield V, and that got support for I think 2 years. This has even less trailers, so my bets are less than 2 years of support.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reading these sentences is making my brain aneurysm WHY IS THERE A PERIOD IN THE NAME

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not only that but it also intentionally starts with a lower case s. It's almost like it's purposefully engineered to be as irritating a title as possible.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Not only that but it's actually the fourth game in the series yet they didn't call it skate.4.

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Not like this game was worth a damn anyway. Better off emulating 2 or 3.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

THPS works just great though.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even the original Skate games can be played through RPCS3 if you got a beefy PC.

I played the original Skate via a 360 emulator on the steam deck and it ran perfectly fine so I don't think you even really need a mad PC setup. It did push the deck to its Max though!

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

That seems reasonable.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What the fuck is skate.? And why should anyone care.?

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Skate franchise started on PS3 (don't remember if it was on other platforms) and was basically a more "realistic" skateboard game where instead of just using button combos, you were able to do tricks with the analog controls of the DualShock3 controllers. People really enjoyed the first 3 games. This is a reboot, but with the severe downturn EA has taken over the last 10+ years, I wouldn't really bother putting too much hope in it being good.

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the explaination. I always wish there was a skateboard controller for PS2, it's even work great with VR

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I could have sworn there was something like that a long time ago but maybe not for ps 2 and it might have been snowboarding not skateboarding... hard to say since my memory is kind of fuzzy

[–] JakoJakoJako13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Dare I say play Session instead then?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was it supposed to be? I just assume by default a lot of games don't officially support Linux.

[–] The2b@lemmy.vg 4 points 1 week ago

Linux? No. Proton, yes, unless they are using kernel-level anticheat like Apex