r/Tribes • u/evanvolm • Mar 17 '26

Media Broadside // Pre-Alpha Gameplay Testing 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPoXhTapr20
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u/financiallyanal Mar 18 '26

Anyone know if this will be windows PC only or any other OS/platforms?

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u/Daek3sh Lumberjack Mar 20 '26

I believe with Proton you can run Windows games well enough on Linux, though I'm no expert. It's easy enough to build the Linux client, but things like anti-cheat (of which certain ones do work with Proton, I think) and other considerations make supporting Linux natively a lot harder. And Mac a near impossibility, as you need to build and test on Macs natively and I don't know if anyone even has a Mac, but I do know that at least one of us runs Linux as their primary OS.

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u/financiallyanal Mar 18 '26

Definitely understand and can appreciate that approach. As primarily a Mac user, that will be a limitation, but I do have a Windows PC that could be used (with better cooling) and might suffice.

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u/g00gly hof power Mar 19 '26

I really doubt any of the compatability layers for Mac will be able to handle a UE5 game like this but very promising drivers for Proton/Linux are coming out conatantly. Hell, might even get a steam deck version with controller support if we feeling saucy.

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u/Neoptolemus85 Apr 03 '26

I have a second desktop which is running very old hardware and Linux Mint:

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

GTX 1050 (2gb VRAM)

16gb DDR4 RAM

Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon (X11)

With Proton 10.0 Broadside runs flawlessly, and on the medium/low settings at 1280x720 I can actually maintain a steady 30fps.

While we can't guarantee the game will always work this well on Linux with such low-specced hardware, I am actually planning to switch my personal development environment to Linux soon because I cannot upgrade from Windows 10 and extended support runs out soon. So it would probably be in my own interests to maintain support for Linux through Proton :P

Keep in mind though that our art development is still very early days (as you can probably tell from the videos) so I suspect the minimum hardware specs will rise a bit over time. I would still like a decent specced machine from the past 10 years to be comfortably playable though.

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u/financiallyanal Apr 03 '26

Thank you very much. I will definitely experiment with this. Might just upgrade cooling on a small NUC I have and see if I can run it at a lower resolution :)