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Grab your swords, as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is looking like it's getting close to a Linux release at last.
Segata reported on their teasers at the start of September, and even before that we had a tip-off that they were checking interest back in 2012. Now we have these additions to the SteamDB:
Looks like the Linux launch really isn't that far away now, can't wait! Especially as the Steam reviews for it are "Very Positive", it's always great to get decently rated games.
About the game
Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a first-person slasher with a focus on multi-player. Featuring competitive online combat that seeks to capture the experience of truly being on a medieval battlefield. Inspired from the intensity and epicness of swordfighting movies such as 300, Gladiator and Braveheart, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare aims to bring that experience to the hands of a gamer.
The game is skill-based and controls like an FPS, but instead of guns and grenades, players are given swords, shields, maces, battleaxes and longbows. Set in a fictional, yet gritty and realistic world, players will fight in fast paced online battles besieging castles, raiding medieval villages and fighting for glory in the arena with up to 32 players.
You can check it out on Steam, but seriously don't buy it until they announce the Linux version being out. Make sure you are counted as a Linux purchase. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Grab your swords, as Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is looking like it's getting close to a Linux release at last.
Segata reported on their teasers at the start of September, and even before that we had a tip-off that they were checking interest back in 2012. Now we have these additions to the SteamDB:
Quote219654/config/oslist: linux
219654/name: Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Linux Content
launch/3/config/oslist: linux
launch/3/description: Launch
launch/3/executable: Binaries\Linux\UDKGame-Linux
launch/3/workingdir: Binaries\Linux\
launch/4/config/osarch: 64
Looks like the Linux launch really isn't that far away now, can't wait! Especially as the Steam reviews for it are "Very Positive", it's always great to get decently rated games.
About the game
Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is a first-person slasher with a focus on multi-player. Featuring competitive online combat that seeks to capture the experience of truly being on a medieval battlefield. Inspired from the intensity and epicness of swordfighting movies such as 300, Gladiator and Braveheart, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare aims to bring that experience to the hands of a gamer.
The game is skill-based and controls like an FPS, but instead of guns and grenades, players are given swords, shields, maces, battleaxes and longbows. Set in a fictional, yet gritty and realistic world, players will fight in fast paced online battles besieging castles, raiding medieval villages and fighting for glory in the arena with up to 32 players.
You can check it out on Steam, but seriously don't buy it until they announce the Linux version being out. Make sure you are counted as a Linux purchase. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Maelrane 12 Nov 2014
A very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(
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JoZ3 12 Nov 2014
A very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(
GW2 is the only reason that I haven't deleted my windows partition
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Xpander 12 Nov 2014
guild wars 2 ran pretty good last time(about 6 months ago) i played it with wine CSMT..except the performance in world vs world battles was just crap ... but i dont play it anymore.
cant wait for chivalry...have played it about 10 hours or so with wine.. it worked quite OK but native is a lot better:)
cant wait for chivalry...have played it about 10 hours or so with wine.. it worked quite OK but native is a lot better:)
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Maelrane 12 Nov 2014
Mine too. And the lack of time ^^
Guild Wars 2 doesn't run in Wine at all for me. I mean, it runs, lags the X-server to hell and if I manage to stop it, well... can't login or think about playing or anything :(
(But then again, I use the open source drivers in Linux for all my gaming)
But then I don't play it anyway, because I don't boot up windows that often. Actually I only boot it up, when a new chapter of the living story is online and I want to grab that. Kinda ironic xD
Guild Wars 2 doesn't run in Wine at all for me. I mean, it runs, lags the X-server to hell and if I manage to stop it, well... can't login or think about playing or anything :(
(But then again, I use the open source drivers in Linux for all my gaming)
But then I don't play it anyway, because I don't boot up windows that often. Actually I only boot it up, when a new chapter of the living story is online and I want to grab that. Kinda ironic xD
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uriil 12 Nov 2014
Can't wait for it. :D
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Beamboom 12 Nov 2014
... Not to mention it's got a metascore of 82% on gamerankings, that's very solid indeed.
Adding it to my wishlist right away!
Adding it to my wishlist right away!
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pd12 12 Nov 2014
I've always eyed this and been tempted to get it when it went on sale - but always saw that it wasn't Linux ready on Steam yet so I held my horses.
Can't wait for it to go on Linux sale! =D
Can't wait for it to go on Linux sale! =D
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Maokei 12 Nov 2014
God damn i haven't played this gem of a game in a good while, i'm looking forward to this!
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just the other day I was hoping that this might some how come out for Linux.
Great news. I wont purchase it until its out properly so it counts as a sale.
Great news. I wont purchase it until its out properly so it counts as a sale.
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tobiushirogeri 12 Nov 2014
Can't wait to play on linux !
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coeseta 12 Nov 2014
That is great news :)
Playing Gw2 since beta via wine, have played ~2500 hours so far :P
A very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(
Playing Gw2 since beta via wine, have played ~2500 hours so far :P
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Maelrane 13 Nov 2014
That is great news :)
A very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.Playing Gw2 since beta via wine, have played ~2500 hours so far :P
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(
A very funny game. Looking forward to playing it soon again.Just use PlayOnLinux or Crossover which should set up wine correctly for you. It does work very well for me with Guild Wars 2 on my computer. Let me know if that works good for you too. Here is the links for PlayOnLinux and Crossover playonlinux.com codeweavers.com
Only thing I really miss from Windows is Guild Wars 2 :(
I'm glad it works for both of you, I really am.
For me it doesn't and I'm not willing to change my drivers to the proprietary ones for multiple reasons (*), so Guild Wars 2 remains the one game I can't run on my favorite platform ;)
(*) 1) I get better performance in most other games with the open source drivers
2) I don't need to fear late night kernel updates or x.org updates, when I'm really tired and miss those which would quite certainly break my desktop for a couple of hours, if I'd use the proprietary drivers
3) I tried wine and playonlinux and I can't get the launcher to login. It's a laggy hell that often cripples my entire x-server which leads to a restart of it.
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Actually this used to work okayish (30fps, a bit laggy) until a GW2 few updates ago.
Today I managed to run the game again (wine with CSMT patches), but the real problem here is the stupid launcher and the authentication. I have auto-login enabled but I need to verify my ip every time (because I have a dynamic one)
And that's the one reason I need to have a second pc running, authenticate there and then gw2 starts up just fine. I had disabled my authenticator before, because I couldn't enter a code there -.- All that's really bugging me is this stupid launcher. ARGH!
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OZSeaford 13 Nov 2014
Again, I am a traitor!
I have the game already in my library, on Windows. In fact, I have c.750 games on Steam, of which c.400 are on Linux...so I am bound to have most common games if they are ported to Linux 1-2 years after release. Like many people, I have not played all of my games in the steam library..
BUT
I have actually played THIS game c.200 hours... This game is just great. Difficult day at work? Well, bashing someone fat face in with a heavy mace does the trick. Watched an epic film and want that feeling to carry on? Well load up Chivalry and get the juices flowing as you and 31 other players rush to meet in headlong charge another 32 players screaming like savages...
I really hope they allow us to have Penguin Coats of Arms. I swear with my little pinky that I would not sully my sword with the blood of someone carrying a Tux standard.
I have the game already in my library, on Windows. In fact, I have c.750 games on Steam, of which c.400 are on Linux...so I am bound to have most common games if they are ported to Linux 1-2 years after release. Like many people, I have not played all of my games in the steam library..
BUT
I have actually played THIS game c.200 hours... This game is just great. Difficult day at work? Well, bashing someone fat face in with a heavy mace does the trick. Watched an epic film and want that feeling to carry on? Well load up Chivalry and get the juices flowing as you and 31 other players rush to meet in headlong charge another 32 players screaming like savages...
I really hope they allow us to have Penguin Coats of Arms. I swear with my little pinky that I would not sully my sword with the blood of someone carrying a Tux standard.
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n30p1r4t3 13 Nov 2014
(*) 1) I get better performance in most other games with the open source drivers
2) I don't need to fear late night kernel updates or x.org updates, when I'm really tired and miss those which would quite certainly break my desktop for a couple of hours, if I'd use the proprietary drivers
3) I tried wine and playonlinux and I can't get the launcher to login. It's a laggy hell that often cripples my entire x-server which leads to a restart of it.
Depending on the distribution, the Nvidia drivers rarely cause an issue (depending on your graphics card of course). For example, in Ubuntu Jockey handles every kernel upgrade etc.
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Maelrane 13 Nov 2014
(*) 1) I get better performance in most other games with the open source driversDepending on the distribution, the Nvidia drivers rarely cause an issue (depending on your graphics card of course). For example, in Ubuntu Jockey handles every kernel upgrade etc.
2) I don't need to fear late night kernel updates or x.org updates, when I'm really tired and miss those which would quite certainly break my desktop for a couple of hours, if I'd use the proprietary drivers
3) I tried wine and playonlinux and I can't get the launcher to login. It's a laggy hell that often cripples my entire x-server which leads to a restart of it.
I'm more of the techie guy, really. I switched to Archlinux a while back, because Gentoo would've been too much work besides other work, but I love rolling release, so a kernel update is much more common to me, than to the average linux user who uses ubuntu or mint or anything with an incrementing major version system.
My current graphics card is coming from AMD and it's over 3 years old now. Considering how much I game under Linux (well, it's not that much currently, but compared to Windows it's a whole lot) and how much I love open source and (try to) contribute to it myself (as often as possible, monetary and with code), I would buy an AMD graphics card again.
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Maelrane 14 Nov 2014
Just curious if you are using a Radeon video card becouse they are known for poor Linux performance and that is the only reason I can think of that the proprietary drivers would be slower or break your Linux system. That is personally why I recommend GeForce video cards but if you prefer something different I understand.
Something as important as a driver must be open source in my book. I don't care whether I don't get PhysX (another proprietary thing), or have 20 fps less, if I can play my games just fine.
And that is - with the one major exception of Guild Wars 2 (and Dead Island :X) - the case. I can play all my 80 games that are available for Linux natively, just fine. For some I have more fps than under Windows, for others I have a little less, but all are very well playable.
For me this is something really important, although I do hope I am not that one guy who tries to evangelise everybody (well, sometimes I am, I guess). I don't use Linux solely because it has better performance and my workflow is much better handled there.
I use it, because it's open source, not because it's free, but because I (being a Software Engineer) can study the code, learn from it and improve.
I use it, because I can monitor exactly what's going on on my system at any point in time.
...
I never was a fanboy of any graphics card manufacturer, I had nvidia, amd (even ati back then ;)), a voodoo, a matrox... ;)
Currently I would definitely buy an AMD graphicscard again, because for all the games I play (shooters, rpgs, rts, ...) it never let me down on my favorite plattform even once.
I know that I could get more fps and stuff like physx from nvidia, but to me it would include to much of a sacrifice ;)
If I can't play one game that well, well, I don't really care that much. Decisions must be made and while mine will seem to be a major sacrifice to some eyes, to me it's not. And that's the important part.
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Maelrane 16 Nov 2014
It sounds like we are on the same page and we both value software freedom (Opensource). Freedom is the big reason Linux was created to begin with. But we both sacrifice in different areas I sacrifice with closed Nvidia drivers and you sacrifice with some gaming in closed Windows OS. In a perfect world we would have full freedom with a open OS, open drivers, and open gaming.Just curious if you are using a Radeon video card becouse they are known for poor Linux performance and that is the only reason I can think of that the proprietary drivers would be slower or break your Linux system. That is personally why I recommend GeForce video cards but if you prefer something different I understand.Something as important as a driver must be open source in my book. I don't care whether I don't get PhysX (another proprietary thing), or have 20 fps less, if I can play my games just fine.
And that is - with the one major exception of Guild Wars 2 (and Dead Island :X) - the case. I can play all my 80 games that are available for Linux natively, just fine. For some I have more fps than under Windows, for others I have a little less, but all are very well playable.
For me this is something really important, although I do hope I am not that one guy who tries to evangelise everybody (well, sometimes I am, I guess). I don't use Linux solely because it has better performance and my workflow is much better handled there.
I use it, because it's open source, not because it's free, but because I (being a Software Engineer) can study the code, learn from it and improve.
I use it, because I can monitor exactly what's going on on my system at any point in time.
...
I never was a fanboy of any graphics card manufacturer, I had nvidia, amd (even ati back then ;)), a voodoo, a matrox... ;)
Currently I would definitely buy an AMD graphicscard again, because for all the games I play (shooters, rpgs, rts, ...) it never let me down on my favorite plattform even once.
I know that I could get more fps and stuff like physx from nvidia, but to me it would include to much of a sacrifice ;)
If I can't play one game that well, well, I don't really care that much. Decisions must be made and while mine will seem to be a major sacrifice to some eyes, to me it's not. And that's the important part.
Not anymore, actually. I don't use Windows at all, unless I absolutely need to for whatever reason. My gaming is on linux like my work :D
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