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Feral Interactive have officially announced their next Linux port and it's going to be 'HITMAN' [Steam]. Another awesome game for our platform. This is the complete first season too, so we get plenty of content.

They plan to release Hitman for Linux on Thursday 16th of February, so be sure mark your calendars.

This is amazing, as we get Civilization VI from Aspyr Media, Hitman and then DiRT Rally both from Feral Interactive in the space of about a month. All three games I'm incredibly excited to see on Linux, as all of them big franchises for us to have to keep moving forward.

I told you this year was going to be good, so don't doubt me eh!

I'm nearly out of hard-drive space, I'm actually going to have to buy an new hard drive just for games, on Linux, insanity.

David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral InteractiveHitman is a franchise that has defined the stealth genre, and this game is very much a return to the series’ roots. It’s been a long wait to get a Hitman title onto Linux, but I can’t think of a better way than this to introduce the series to Linux gamers.


Feral have confirmed it will be an OpenGL title, so no Vulkan at launch. Of course, it's entirely possible they may update it in future to use Vulkan.

It will cost £39.99/$59.99/€49.99 for the whole season, but episodes can be purchased individually.

About the game
Become the master assassin in an intense spy-thriller story across a world of assassination.
Travel the world from France, Italy & Morocco to Thailand, USA & Japan to take out powerful, high-profile targets.

- Complete freedom of approach in expansive freeform classic HITMAN levels
- 100+ hours of gameplay will challenge the creativity of all assassins
- Create your own hits and compete with other assassins in Contracts mode Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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FredO Feb 7, 2017
No, it's not real. Someone's just having a laugh... :D
Ehvis Feb 7, 2017
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Quoting: TcheyAccording to Steam review, it doesn't seem so good. Overall 67% (11k reviews) and Recents 79% (almost 600).

But if you check the actual reviews, it's mostly about DRM/Always online stuff. Which I highly doubt will be relevant to the port and is certainly not relevant to the gameplay.
bolokanar Feb 7, 2017
Quoting: ellie_feral
Quoting: hardpenguin
Quoting: lejimster
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)

I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.
They already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).

To clarify, we haven't announced what our first Vulkan game will be, nor a timescale of spring. We're aiming to get a Vulkan game out in the first half of this year.

If you got Vulkan tangled up with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, that's because we talked about Vulkan during a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided live stream. Which was nice and confusing, woo.
Witcher 3?
Whitewolfe80 Feb 7, 2017
Quoting: veccheri'm still confused by hitman's episodic system, all episodes will be avallyable to linux or just the first?

the first complete season they are using Hitman as a service now basically there will be season two etc instead of producing sequels they seem to be focusing on new single episodes for 6/8 pounds at a time or buy the season pass.
MayeulC Feb 7, 2017
For those who complain about their disk storage, I recently (October, IIRC) bought a 6TiB hard disk to build myself a new NAS... I shouldn't have connected it to my computer to transfer data in the first place. As I was running out of space (other hard disks: 250 GB, 500GB, 1TB), mostly due to steam games (for Linux, and then some from a distant windows era, but it allows me to use wine), I started installing my new games on it. Now, with the total war series, Mad max, Tomb Raider, XCOM, Bioshock and Co (documents included), it's half-full and I don't want to detach it anymore. That's what's waiting for you, fear THY MIGHTY GAMES.

Well, this leisure activity is becoming expensive (both in terms of money and time -- and space).
Dribbleondo Feb 7, 2017
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: EhvisBut if you check the actual reviews, it's mostly about DRM/Always online stuff. Which I highly doubt will be relevant to the port and is certainly not relevant to the gameplay.
It’s relevant to the gameplay if the game kicks you out while you are playing if your internet goes down, as I’ve read.

BTW I hope the game will work on Gentoo unlike Tomb Raider that stopped working recently (thankfully I played the game before it happened). (And yes I know it’s a terrible bug report but eh…)

The game doesn't kick you out if you go offline, it puts you into the offline profile and you can continue the mission you're on.


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Whitewolfe80 Feb 7, 2017
Quoting: sbolokanov
Quoting: ellie_feral
Quoting: hardpenguin
Quoting: lejimster
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)

I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.
They already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).

To clarify, we haven't announced what our first Vulkan game will be, nor a timescale of spring. We're aiming to get a Vulkan game out in the first half of this year.

If you got Vulkan tangled up with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, that's because we talked about Vulkan during a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided live stream. Which was nice and confusing, woo.
Witcher 3?

You can keep hoping but Witcher 3 is not happening
Keyrock Feb 7, 2017
Gah, Feral port overload! I can't play all the games Feral port fast enough. #FirstWorldProblems
skinnyraf Feb 7, 2017
Quoting: Whitewolfe80You can keep hoping but Witcher 3 is not happening

Why do you think so?

I agree there's no hope for CDPROJEKT to port it themselves, but why wouldn't they license it to a third party developer?
Will the Episode 1 be FREE, like they did with Life is Strange?

Now, Feral, be good and port Rise of the Tomb Raider if you want my money.
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