Despite the early crack, the game launched officially on February 11, 2025, with several major shifts for the franchise:

Early user reports from piracy-focused forums indicate that the Razor1911 Linux release runs to the legitimate Steam Linux version, with no additional overhead. Notably, the cracked version does not require the Steam client to be running, which can reduce RAM usage by approximately 200-300 MB.

—a notoriously difficult DRM to crack—the native Linux build was released