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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III releasing for Linux on June 8th

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Feral Interactive have announced now that Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III [Steam] is coming to Linux on June 8th!

Death comes for all: On June 8th, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III arrives on macOS and Linux.
Visit the minisite: https://t.co/sTTFZXQZla pic.twitter.com/PWJXOwebSw

— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) May 19, 2017


You can visit the minisite here (the correct link), but their site seems to be having a few issues. The link in the tweet doesn't work and the minisite claims it's "out now".

Sadly, it seems multiplayer is only macOS and Linux, with no support with playing with Windows gamers, which means the multiplayer will again be limited. Even so, I'm still excited and will likely resume my weekly livestreams with someone from Feral like I did with Dawn of War II. Even if Feral won't do weekly games for it, I likely will arrange something to get the community going for it. If you're interested.

Dawn of War III will be available through the Feral Store and Steam for $59.99/£39.99/59,99€. It seems there will be no release-day sale for the Linux version.

David Stephen, Managing Director, Feral InteractiveWe’re delighted to bring such a hugely anticipated game to macOS and Linux. Dawn of War III’s epic single-player campaign and visceral multiplayer combine to deliver an exhilarating experience on a vast scale.


They have a trailer up now too:

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rustybroomhandle May 19, 2017
I have a great solution for the non-cross-platform-multiplayer woes. Get your friends to all install Linux. ;)
NovenTheHero May 19, 2017
Quoting: Jahimself
QuoteQuake Champions is not self Vulkanized , it is DX11. Also it is a F2P title , so how can you expect to Feral make money on that?

Before that , we need Doom on Linux natively.

It will be using doom's vulkan engine part, so it must be opengl at the moment. And I'm pretty sure linux community would buy the full game as a support if Feral was doing the port. Zenimax has dropped support on linux in quake 3 and quake live, but we need at least one quake game on linux, as it use to be the rule under Carmack era. I'm pretty sure it would be easily doable as doom without denuvo can run as fast as windows.

Quake 4 has a linux build. I have it installed.
PJ May 19, 2017
great and bad news at the same time. Awesome as I really want to try this game. Bad as no multi-system multiplayer kills a lot of charm (would be willing to get it only with a massive discount with -nix only multiplayer). Otherwise I'd be willing to try risk getting it , even though DoW2 port didn't work on my workstation (no matter supported or unsupported distro has been installed).
Liam Dawe May 19, 2017
Quoting: PJgreat and bad news at the same time. Awesome as I really want to try this game. Bad as no multi-system multiplayer kills a lot of charm (would be willing to get it only with a massive discount with -nix only multiplayer). Otherwise I'd be willing to try risk getting it , even though DoW2 port didn't work on my workstation (no matter supported or unsupported distro has been installed).
Interesting, did you email Feral support? DOW2 is one Linux title I've never had an issue with loading.
PJ May 19, 2017
Quoting: liamdaweInteresting, did you email Feral support? DOW2 is one Linux title I've never had an issue with loading.

yeah, and it seems they gave up after a while. Initially they suggested trying a supported distro (I think Ubuntu 16.04), but that didn't help at all. The game launches, but just after the mission loads it hangs up (no crash, thus no crash report).
But to give them a bit of credit I humbly admit my workstation is a bit less common setup - dual Xeon workstation I use for rendering and my 3d modelling.
I'd still love to play DoW2, but at this time I don't have my hopes up.
Purple Library Guy May 19, 2017
Quoting: MintedGamer
Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT.. but better have no port at all than a only partly functioning one..

I wholeheartedly disagree dude, I've been hoping for a Linux version since it was first announced. People can still enjoy the single player campaign and multiplayer with Linux and Mac, it's not like the lobbies will be empty. I do see your point that's its a shame we can't join matches with our Windows friends, but no reason not to release the game.

.. Maybe it's a good excuse to get them to switch to a better OS ;)

I was going to say--they'll just have to dual-boot Linux, that's all there is to it. Well, makes sense. I mean, for me to dual-boot Windows I'd have to, like, buy it, and the install would be painful and probably try to wipe my Linux partition and stuff. Whereas for a Windows person to add a Linux partition is free, and a breeze unless it's like Slackware or something.
PJ May 19, 2017
Quoting: GuestThe only thing I could try in a similar circumstance was disable bits & pieces of audio (for me it was speech). Same symptom: just after the first mission loads, it crashes. I didn't think it'd be a problem for a supported distro, but it's worth a try.

Interesting you mention audio. I fondly remember that during the benchmark, after the progress bar loaded up I've heard some orc/gretchin mumbling and then the game would hang up (as mentioned not crash, but freeze).
Just to make sure - do you mean disabling audio options in the DoW2 settings panel? Or something on a system level?
m0nt3 May 19, 2017
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: PJ
Quoting: liamdaweInteresting, did you email Feral support? DOW2 is one Linux title I've never had an issue with loading.

yeah, and it seems they gave up after a while. Initially they suggested trying a supported distro (I think Ubuntu 16.04), but that didn't help at all. The game launches, but just after the mission loads it hangs up (no crash, thus no crash report).
But to give them a bit of credit I humbly admit my workstation is a bit less common setup - dual Xeon workstation I use for rendering and my 3d modelling.
I'd still love to play DoW2, but at this time I don't have my hopes up.

The only thing I could try in a similar circumstance was disable bits & pieces of audio (for me it was speech). Same symptom: just after the first mission loads, it crashes. I didn't think it'd be a problem for a supported distro, but it's worth a try.

Did you try using taskset to set what cores were allocated to the game? In case it doesn't like two physical cpu's.
rea987 May 20, 2017
All right, let me try to be civilized in that matter.

When it comes to Linux gaming, everyone becomes an expert in an instant. I am well aware calculation differences between OS, it is expected especially if there are more than one team work on the project; Relic and Feral. I can easily forgive DoW2 and other older titles for not having "proper" cross platform multiplayer, but having a fresh release without cross platform multiplayer hurts a lot. I wonder, when exactly did Feral and Sega made the deal for DoW3? It must be during the game was under development, I hardly think otherwise. So, why didn't Feral request usage of cross-platform compliers and middleware? Having decently functioning cross platform multiplayer widens the lifespan of the title, makes more people to purchase the product; everybody wins. From this point I lost my faith in Feral's Sega ports. It is obvious that Feral cannot demand Linux friendly development environment from Sega even for upcoming titles. I better wait for summer sale to get DoW2 which at least has worth playing single player campaigns.

Lastly, installing Linux to my friends' computers in order to play with them? Sure, I would do that 6 years ago but not any longer; that's how you become "free of charge IT guy". No thanks.

Regards.
cRaZy-bisCuiT May 20, 2017
I could understand your points being made above: I see no point in developing a new game with the same problems again. What's wrong with them? I mean Sega as well as Feral should have some interest in having a cross platform multiplayer which will result, as said above, in more sales as well as a longer life span of the game.

Yes, there might have been an implementation of the multiplayer already when Feral got contracted, but still there should be ways and it couldn't be the idea of the publisher to lock out certain players from a bigger multiplayer player base.


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