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

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

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 day 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 day 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 day ago

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

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

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

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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.

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

[–] LuhimeWired@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 days 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.

[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Might still run fine, though

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 70 points 2 days 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 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 27 points 2 days ago

Otherwise you could get the microtransactions for free!

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago
[–] mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 days ago

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

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Apex ran fine too until they blocked it with the anticheat

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

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

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The first part looks like two separate sentences 😁

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days 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

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 day 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.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That seems reasonable.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

THPS works just great though.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 6 points 2 days 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!

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

Dare I say play Session instead then?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

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