The platform would be PC. But yeah, that point is a bit unclear how to interpret. I am personally on PC and consider the game launching on “my” platform. However the implication is, that the single player will be playable on Linux. All previous GTA games are playable, so I would assume GTA 6 will be too.
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Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Voted not interested, but your question actually has another option: “it will not be launched on my platform”, I don’t think it will have a Linux version, nor even if they will support Proton.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I’d say there’s a 99.99% chance singleplayer works on Linux. Everything does now, unless they choose to not support it. The big question is if online does. It looks like maybe GTA5 Online works, but may require some work. Some things say it has kernel level AC, but some things say they’ve gotten it working. I’d say there’s probably a 70% chance online works.
I’m not purchasing it regardless though.
fogrye@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Devs do nothing to support proton, it’s proton mimics windows behavior so game will work. It probably will, it will be a huge initiative to make it work for proton given the interest to this game. Still not going to pay until they make a pc version even if it will require multiple years to wait.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Probably true for most games, including GTA series. But there are devs who officially support the Proton version. I have no list at hand, maybe lot of Indie devs do, but one I know for a fact is Marvel Rivals (even being an online game). Sometimes devs do actually update the game to get the Great on Deck Verified-rating. That includes default settings, ingame settings for Deck in example or other Linux related notes, while being played through Proton. That in fact can be classified as Proton support, just not marketed as such.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s not necessarily true, games that have kernel level anti-cheat purposefully don’t work with proton. Similar to that there are other things dev can inadvertedly do that causes issues with Proton. In short it’s not that devs have to do something specific to support Proton, but they have to keep it in mind, not every game works, and if the dev doesn’t care to make it work it might never work.