DXVK is sooo awesome! I never used WINE until recently, because I was always afraid that it's super complicated to get a game running. Then I discovered Lutris and that many of its installers have DXVK support. Also thanks to Liam, who once wrote an article about how cool antergos was, I tried it and have been using it ever since.

It's super easy to install DXVK and all other necessary packages from the AUR and then just adjust the settings in Lutris accordingly. Any Windows game I tried so far was running perfectly well at first try :D. The first game was elder scrolls online and I remember me thinking when hitting the "play" button from the launcher: "this is never going to work directly from scratch"...and I proved myself to be wrong xD.

Weirdly though, the programmers behind DXVK do not accept donations, suggesting someone is already financing the project. Currently many open-source projects receive a lot of anonymous funding (like elementary OS and GNOME)...wonder if it's always the same person and who it actually is.

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surviving mars pls!

yet another shell joke:
[stop@hammertime ~]$ touch /this
touch: cannot touch '/this': Permission denied

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Well it wont be hellblade now Mircosoft just bought them annouced at E3

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This wouldn't affect Feral if they're already porting it.

What you dont think MS could or would pull the plug given they now own the IP ?

I doubt they would and even more so they could. You're signing contracts before starting to port...

You mean like when warner brothers told them to stop work on Batman Arkham Knight and then told them its not coming out you mean like that kind of contract.

Sure, M$ acquiring Ninja Theory is definitely not a good sign for Hellblade being the teased game. However, it might still be it, since M$ also bought the studio of we happy few and that game will still come to linux and will be available on steam and GOG according to devs. So it's not unlikely Ninja Theory made a similar deal with M$. Also not being allowed to have these games ported to Linux wouldn't shed a good light on M$'s alleged love towards open source / Linux.

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Actually, we have figured out so many hints pointing towards Hellblade in this thread, that it is not super unlikely it could be the teased game. Anyway, are Feral giving out their "solutions" for the riddle after the announcement of the actual title?

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Quoting: MarkyIt seems odd that both the painting and the poem come from people with such similar names:
John Martin
John Milton

Could there be a video game character with a similar name?

That's actually a good observation. Again, many possible answers come to my mind: At first, there is a book written by the author Martin Milton called "Therapy and Beyond" a book about counselling psychology. Might be yet another link to Hellblade, since the game deals with mental illness.

Also interesting is that Martin Freeman (the main actor in "The Hobbit" ) is producing a TV adaptation of the "Paradise Lost" epic by John Milton:
https://variety.com/2017/tv/global/sherlock-hobbit-martin-freeman-paradise-lost-tv-1202464040/ [External Link]

This could be a hint that the game is Lord of the Rings - related, so it could point to Shadow of War.

Also there is a character actually named Martin Milton in the universe of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles :D.

Damn, Feral, this time it's really hard!

I also wonder if they spend the same amount of time constructing these riddles as we spend for trying to solve them. :D

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There's also a lot of Pandemonium in Final Fantasy: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Pandaemonium [External Link]

Might be they worked with Square Enix to port it.

Also Killing Floor 2 didn't get ported due to lack of Linux devs. Maybe Feral took over the job. The link to the clue would be that there's a game mode called "Poundemonium".

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Quoting: Duke TakeshiI also came to the conclusion that it should be Hellblade. It seems a bit too obvious, though, but I can't find another way to connect the word "pandemonium" to a certain game. In Hellblade, Senua atually travels to the nordic hell (Helheim) to defeat Hela, which is kind of the nordic equivalent of Satan/Lucifer.

The nordic Hel doesn't really have much in common with Satan/Lucifer at all, much less the one that appears in Paradise Lost.

Also "Hela" is the Marvel Comics name for her. Traditionally her name is the same as the realm she's associated with, which isn't on fire and isn't meant for punishing people (she was appointed to her position, to provide lodging and accommodation for people who died in mundane circumstances like old age or sickness, as opposed to Glorious Battle™).

Mind you, how she's portrayed in video games does tend to fit the more familiar Christian pattern of someone evil who mistreats the dead and meddles in the world of the living.

From experience I wouldn't take the Feral radar hints too literal. For example, last time it was a Garibaldi biscuit and one would have to guess that the Arcadia Bay area of Life Is Strange was influenced by an actual town in Oregon called Garibaldi. The game actually doesn't have anything to do with biscuits.
This can also mean that the teased game has nothing to do with hell and/or apocalyptic settings. As I pointed out earlier, "Pandemonium" is also a famous rollercoaster, so it could as well mean they're porting planet coaster or whatever.

I just summarized various facts (e.g. UK-based cooperation between Feral and Ninja Theory, use of Unreal Engine, some kind of mythological underworld setting) which in my opinion fit together well to bet on Hellblade.

In this case both hints, the painting and "proud seat of Lucifer" point to "Pandemonium" (it is the name of the painting and the proud seat of Lucifer in the mentioned epic poem "Paradise Lost"). I have, however, not yet found a really good link between any game and that word...my guess with Hellblade was because Senua actually goes into the "hell" of her mythology to save the soul of her lover. The name "Hela" I used, because it's her name in the game...I don't know much about nordic mythology :D

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I also came to the conclusion that it should be Hellblade. It seems a bit too obvious, though, but I can't find another way to connect the word "pandemonium" to a certain game. In Hellblade, Senua atually travels to the nordic hell (Helheim) to defeat Hela, which is kind of the nordic equivalent of Satan/Lucifer.

Another indicator is that both Feral and Ninjia Theory (the developers and publishers of the game) are UK-based. Feral usually has good connections within the UK game developing scene (for example with creative assembly in Horsham or square enix europe in London, Codemasters in Southam, ...). Also it's a recent AAA title with positive reviews and a lot of linux requests.

The game is also developed with Unreal Engine, which should make the porting not too hard.

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So obviously the key word here is "Pandemonium", since it's both the title of the painting and the "proud seat of Lucifer", as given in the clue. But what game would fit to that word?

Here is the disambiguation page of the word in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemonium [External Link]

The first thing I saw is that there is a rollercoaster called Pandemonium. I'm not following simulation games so did feral port some kind of rollercoaster tycoon games already and there is a new one maybe?

Also the palace of Lucifer, which is on the painting, was built by Mulciber, which is also a weapon name in Borderlands. However I think it is unlikely that they port Borderlands 1, since it's really quite old :D

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I think it's Shadow of War.

Feral ported Shadow of Mordor and now struck a deal to also bring the next game to Mac and Linux.

In the gimme shelter song it is WAR which is 'just a shot away', so at first I thought it might be another total war game. But then what about the Garibaldi biscuit? Giuseppe Garibaldi (after whom the biscuit is named) is considered one of the best Generals of modern times. As I recall correctly, shadow of war is all about creating/controlling a large army of orcs with your character and assault fortresses etc. to dominate mordor. So essentially, you're playing a general, just as Garibaldi was.

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