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Quoting: liamdaweEven so, the titles Feral have ported this year have been pretty incredible for us.

Yeah, this goes without saying. I'm very grateful that Feral is still on board with Linux, considering how difficult Linux can be as platform and community.

Yeah. It's probably because the gaming industry neglected Linux for so many years that it turned us into insatiable gaming hungry monsters. At the second the feeding slows down it feels like apocalypse...

More! More! More! :)

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: jens

Quoting: MohandevirI would like to have a report form Feral about the number of games they ported in 2016 and in 2017.

Yeah, would love to know that too, plus some info about which titles where (financially) successful for Feral or not.

Ask and you shall get stuff...this took me a while to compile...

About Feral...

2016
Total War WARHAMMER
Total War: WARHAMMER - Realm of the Wood Elves DLC
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Mad Max
Warhammer 40,000®: Dawn of War II®, Chaos Rising and Retribution
Life Is Strange
XCOM 2 - Shen’s Last Gift DLC
XCOM 2 - Alien Hunters DLC
XCOM 2 - Anarchy’s Children DLC
F1 2015
Tomb Raider
Company of Heroes 2: The British Forces DLC & Ardennes Assault DLC
Company of Heroes 2 - the Mac vs Linux multiplayer update
Medieval II: Total War Collection

2017
HITMAN GOTY Update
HITMAN
F1 2017
XCOM 2: War of the Chosen DLC
Dawn of War III
Total War: SHOGUN 2 and Fall of the Samurai
DiRT Rally
Total War WARHAMMER - Norsca DLC
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - A Criminal Past DLC
Mad Max - Vulkan
+ One still on their radar for Linux

I think that's about right.

So yeah, they had more overall last year, even when removing DLC. However, for this year I imagine moving their pipeline to Vulkan took quite a bit of time, but we have to remember that is laying the groundwork for future ports as well. It went from a Mad Max beta, to Dawn of War III (both OpenGL & Vulkan) to F1 2017 (just Vulkan) and maybe their current teaser will be Vulkan only too.

On top of that, I have no doubts that Feral have Linux ports lined up for 2018. I don't have any confirmation from them (speculating here), but considering how things are going something incredibly drastic would have to happen for 2018 not to be another good year for Feral's Linux port.

Thanks Liam,

Awesome as always!

This is what I was meaning. 2017 might just be a transition year where less ports have been done. To us it feels like a slowdown but it might just be a temporary setback. If Feral is in this situation what about other porting houses? I'm not asking you, Liam, to dig for the info, I suppose it's the same for others.

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I would like to have a report form Feral about the number of games they ported in 2016 and in 2017.

My feeling is (I may be wrong) that 2017 was a lot less productive than 2016, on the AAA front. Is it because of lower opportunity for Linux ports or is it because they had to put a lot of manpower to develop their Vulkan conversion layer?

No matter the reason, it gives us, Linux gamers, the feeling that Linux gaming is loosing momentum. If it's because of Vulkan development, there may be hope for 2018-2019.

I might just be too optimist...

"Time flies when you’re having fun. Excluding expansions, F1 2017 is our 20th Linux game in less than four years!
Penguins, thank you for all your support. There are still plenty more treats to come…"

-Feral post on Facebook

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16$ for a fighting racing game, local multiplayer with splitscreen... Count me in.
Nearer to Blaze Rush, imo. Little Street Racers.... Nah! Not the same. (I own both).

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That's the day I became a gamer. Before that, the only game I was playing was LotRO, through Wine... Thanks Valve!

Edit: About Steam Machine re-launch, when you think about all the work that is done by Valve regarding Mesa and RadV, I'm wondering if Valve is not, somehow, involded in the upcoming Ataribox. Probably not, but still...

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Shadow of Mordor... Aaaargh!!! Where is Shadow of War for Linux?! It hurts! :(

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My top 2 is the same than yours with Metro Last Light and Metro 2033 close behind. This said, no Spec Ops: The Line? Great game too, imo. May be short but I really enjoyed the 3rd person combat mechanics.

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Quoting: LeopardI hope it performs well with GTX 1050.

GTX960 on an old i7-3770 here and it rocks at very high! The 1050 is in the same performance range and should not be a problem.

Edit: Tested it on an MSI Workstation with Quadro M2200 that should be performing under the 1050 and it was awesome too!

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: stretch611As for a Half-Life 3 exclusive on Linux... it isn't going to happen. Valve is a corporation seeking profit. While the numbers of linux users is increasing, it is dwarfed by windows gamers. They will not annoy the majority of their market by making them wait even longer.

Half Life 3 isn't going to happen... End of discussion. Didn't I specify that HL3 is an example in my previous comment? I was just stating the fact that Steam Machines would have been much more successfull if Valve had released them with an exclusive game. I know the official position of Valve about exclusives. It was all hypothetical to show that if Steam Machines had been a success, all the issues about compatibilty and performances would have been taken care of a long time ago. Larger player base = Better support.

This said, there is a nuance to make: Steam Machines and SteamOS are 2 diffrent things. The failure of the Steam Machines doesn't mean that SteamOS is a failure. SteamOS still has a lot of potential. Like you said, it's an awesome tool to prevent Microsoft from doing something foolish. But yeah, Valve could put a lot more of it's weight behind it.

I've been spouting this out at people for so long, but they just keep saying "SteamOS is a failure" or "Valve dropped all support for it." Come on, we all know the 'Valve time'. The fact they already have a release based on Debian Stretch is amazing on how much resources they have dedicated to it. Steam Machines... well it's arguable how much of a failure they are since Dell did do a hardware refresh on them a while back. But I'm still not sure if that was just bleed down from them updating essentially the same system with Windows. I think all the other ones have been stopped for production.

But it kind of sounds like Ataribox (hope they change the name, please change it...) will be SteamOS-ish. So not sure what the deal is there though. My hopes are kind of meh on that...

I think Valve isn't really in the hardware business. While yes they created the Link and Controller, they're both simply physical accessories to Big Picture Mode. It's kind of the same case with SteamVR how anyone can make a headset that complies with the API, while Valve themselves don't manufacture the hardware.

Valve time... Yeah, so true. This is why we haven't seen the advertised UI overhaul yet and it's not Linux related. ;)

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Quoting: tuubiWindows 10s is Microsoft's answer to ChromeOS. In essence it's the next Windows RT. A lightweight, stripped down Windows with very limited software compatibility and application base, enforced Bing etc. It's an example of a new platform instead of trying to close down an existing one. I certainly don't see it as a threat.

Atm, no, but Windows 10S will have the side effect of making people to integrate and use the Windows Store. Games may be found in the Windows store too... Why not use it on my gaming rig then? No need of Steam anymore.

It's not going to be an overnight change. Creating habits they call that? Think about the kids at school that will have their first experiences on computer on Win10S machines...

This said, I really hope that you are right, but do not underestimate Microsoft.

Edit: Problem with quote.

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