Feral Interactive have once again delivered for strategy games fans, with the release today of Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia for Linux. As a reminder, this is another Linux port that's Vulkan-only as Feral are now full steam ahead with this newer API.
About the game:
Thrones of Britannia is a standalone Total War game which will challenge you to re-write a critical moment in history, one that will come to define the future of modern Britain. With ten playable factions, you must build and defend a kingdom to the glory of Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans, Welsh tribes or Viking settlers. Forge alliances, manage burgeoning settlements, raise armies and embark on campaigns of conquest across the most detailed Total War map to date.
There’s ten different playable factions: West Seaxe, Mierce, The Gaels – Mide and Circenn, The Welsh – Gwined and Strat Clut, The Great Viking Army – Northymbre and East Engle and finally The Viking Sea Kings – Dyflin and Sudreyar. Who will you be controlling?
A note about multiplayer: It's compatible between Mac and Linux, but you cannot play online against Windows players.
If I’ve counted them correctly, this makes the 7th Total War game to arrive on Linux from Feral (there's 8 total, with one not done by Feral), so it’s pleasing to see Feral continue to bring such popular titles over.
Here's a few initial benchmarks - 1080p
Here's a look at how it stacks up against the Windows version - 1080p:
Performance looks pretty good overall, certainly seems to be smooth. When comparing it directly to Windows 10, what it was originally designed for, it's impressive the scores are as close as they are.
In terms of a full review, I’m handing this one over to BTRE who will be able to do it justice. Keep an eye out for that in the coming days.
You can find Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia on Humble Store, Feral Store and Steam.
As a reminder, we also still have Life is Strange: Before the Storm and another game currently being teased to come to Linux from Feral Interactive.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Good thing they changed the name to Nottingham later.
Quoting: Mountain ManIt's not Feral's fault. It's because the game on Windows uses proprietary math libraries that are not available for Linux, so it's literally impossible to create cross platform play between Windows and Linux, at least until developers stop using those proprietary libraries.
Then I wonder why CA keeps using those when they already had to use an alternative for Attila? It's not like they are extremely well optimized (or even if they are, have little impact) according to the benchmarks here. It just seems so pointless to me, but I hope they have some better reason than plain oversight.
slaapliedje Jun 9, 2018
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: Alm888Please don't make things up, Feral have never said that. Feral just happen to port games that are not on GOG and they won't throw their partners under a bus whose decision it will be on what store it goes on.Quoting: riusmaFrom the artwork I will say: Hellblade: senua's sacrifice confirmed as the next game ported to Linux by Feral! ^_^Which will create confusion as the game is currently being sold on GOG, but due to Feral policy Linux version would not be available there.
I don't even know why Feral gets picked on in this case, there is a rather huge list of games on GOG that have Linux versions available, but are not available on GOG.
What about the quality of the game? I've seen a lot of mixed reviews, so I'm not sure if I will get it or not.
Quoting: AryvandaarI like those benchmarks.
What about the quality of the game? I've seen a lot of mixed reviews, so I'm not sure if I will get it or not.
Well, if you played former Total War titles, this title was "eased up", it's not a typical Total War game. That suits me as a person, as it's more straight forward and less complex than others, so you may be disappointed.
That said, I'm "just" like 57.4 hours in the game, it could be that it bores pretty soon, but until now I don't think it will bore me fast, it's rather set to become something as addictive as M&B Warband for me.
Performance, running on a Ryzen 5 1600 and a AMD RX580, ye, it stutters when others are on their turn, but other than that I find it enjoyable and playable enough. Though, I often wonder what takes that much rendering in the game (it really freaks out my cpu and graphics card coolers), it's not as if it's a super complex high-detail 3D game. But fair enough, it works well enough.
Last edited by STiAT on 13 June 2018 at 8:54 am UTC
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