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Feral Interactive are teasing ANOTHER new Linux port

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Feral Interactive are at it once again, go dust off those thinking caps as they're bringing another game to Linux.

From the famous Feral Radar, here's their latest Linux port teaser:

As a reminder, Feral Interactive have only recently release Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Total War: Warhammer II is confirmed to be coming this autumn. On top of that, last month they also put up another teaser that we're still guessing.

I wouldn't be surprised if they do try to get more ports out earlier now, especially with Steam Play which would eat into their Linux port sales. Anyway…looks like 2018 really will be another great year for Linux gaming!

The amount of Linux games Feral has ported now is kind of ridiculous: XCOM, XCOM 2, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Mad Max, Shadow of Mordor, HITMAN, F1 2017, Life is Strange, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Dawn of War II, Dawn of War III, DiRT Rally and the list goes on.

What do you think "AURORA" will be?

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appetrosyan Sep 22, 2018
Quoting: Whitewolfe80
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: CoolitThat's awesome,

Although I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for ports of either Skyrim, Fallout 4 or Witcher 3 in the future :D

Witcher 3 is almost perfectly playable with DXVK. Only stream output support in Vulkan drivers is missing and perhaps a little more optimization and it will be more or less the same experience as on Windows 10.

Skyrim Special Edition should be perfectly playable as well once the audio issues get fixed. Graphically DXVK runs it very well.

Fallout 4 is somewhat worse than Skyrim, but i suppose given a little time will be a good experience as well.

So porting those 3 would be a wasted effort in my opinion.

I fully agree also dont see a world in which Zenimax suddenly goes back on a bunch of linux unfriendly design decisions and then randomly embraces linux and launches skyrim fallout 4 and future games on linux. I imagine the only scenario that happens is that tomorrow morning every copy of windows and mac os bricks leaving only linux and the world is forced onto the linux platform for everything then in that case expect native ports of Bethesda games.

Or, steam threatening to ban them,for not permitting us to use the already-existing native (more native than SDL ported versions of old games.
mylka Sep 22, 2018
Quoting: Arehandoro
Quoting: mylkatomb raider runs OK with proton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubt4vrrh_E
but it would be interesting how the vulkan port can compete with it

i hope it is YAKUZA. i think ZERO and KIWAMI are very similar to port, so they would have 2 games

I'd love to see some of the recent remakes SEGA has published on Steam. Yakuza or Shenmue would be outstanding additions to our catalogue.

shenmue should run with a workaround according to this
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/758330

so does yakuza, i just saw
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/638970

but lets see what ferals ported
freerunnerlive Sep 23, 2018
Star Citizen...never ending Story
dvd Sep 23, 2018
Let it be Hitman! For once i have enough money to buy a game at release price!

A bit OT: hopefully devs will have a system to tell Valve which of their games get ported. These new wine scripts, while great for playing old games, are very bad news for people that port games. And that is sadly most of the "big" linux games, except few cross platform friendly studios like Croteam, and some crowdfounded games, like PoE.
ivant Sep 23, 2018
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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50
Batman: Arkham Night had quite bad initial reception on Windows. It took them months to make it playable, but it already got a lot of bad press by that time. My guess is, that their decision to cancel the port was because of that, rather than some problems with Feral Interactive.
jens Sep 23, 2018
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Quoting: ivant
Quoting: Whitewolfe80Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50
Batman: Arkham Night had quite bad initial reception on Windows. It took them months to make it playable, but it already got a lot of bad press by that time. My guess is, that their decision to cancel the port was because of that, rather than some problems with Feral Interactive.

The game is quite demanding and Vulkan wasn't yet an option at that time, I guess it simply didn't performed when being translated to OpenGL. The initial bad reception certainly didn't helped either.


Last edited by jens on 23 September 2018 at 11:52 am UTC
X6205 Sep 23, 2018
Shadow of War would be nice, since it's not working with Proton. Time seems to me ideal, game is finally completed with microtransactions removed and Definitive Edition available.
Whitewolfe80 Sep 23, 2018
Quoting: ivant
Quoting: Whitewolfe80Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50
Batman: Arkham Night had quite bad initial reception on Windows. It took them months to make it playable, but it already got a lot of bad press by that time. My guess is, that their decision to cancel the port was because of that, rather than some problems with Feral Interactive.

No i wasnt saying it was a problem with Feral i am saying they pulled the plug after Feral had fixed a bunch of game bugs and had begun to work on a stable linux port and WB just pulled the plug.
Dunc Sep 23, 2018
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Quoting: Dunc“Aurora” is Latin for “dawn” or “sunrise”. But the only thing I can think of is the Dawn of War series, and (as far as I know) they're all already out on Linux. Also, they're rather light on seagulls.
Well, with that information, my guess is Grim Dawn.
I'd forgotten about that one. But again... seagulls?
Geppeto35 Sep 24, 2018
Hypothesis1: Seabirds on the picture have not to be interpreted as seagulls but albatros, the sea sheperd is one of the numerous surname of albatros. Aurora is the name of a ship used in Mass Effect.

Hypothesis2: A Flock of Seagulls Aurora Borealis is a group of space new age music. Some game in space

--> from those two hypotheses, I would bet on SUBNAUTICA ! The spaceship name is Aurora. I ENJOY is it was such a native port! Best game from the last year for sure !

Hypothesis3: the HMS Seagull is a Danish brig-sloop allied to France during Napoleonic wars that captured, among others, the HMS Aurora from the British and received money from France for that capture. So Pirates, Napoleonic wars, North seas ... ?


Last edited by Geppeto35 on 24 September 2018 at 9:05 am UTC
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