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The open world pirate RPG Raven’s Cry has been released with day one Linux support.

The game features some impressive AAA quality graphics and it’s an encouraging sign to see these kinds of games released on Linux at the same time as Windows now and also a couple of months before console releases.

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Raven’s Cry looks promising in terms of story and setting, featuring historically accurate architecture from the 18th century, a morality system, side-quests and economy system. However, the game does seem to be plagued by the usual release issues with a few bugs here and there along with performance issues.

These issues appear to occur across all platforms and aren't exclusive to Linux. From what I have seen, the game appears to run under Linux but those wanting better performance may want to wait until a patch is released.

I haven’t had a chance to play the game and test it myself, so if anyone who has it wants to share their experiences here, it would be useful for those looking to buy the game. If the bugs are ironed out, I will most likely get the game myself since I’m itching to play an open world RPG with an interesting story.

Check out Raven's Cry on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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coeseta Feb 1, 2015
Quoting: SamsaiWhat's up with buggy AAAs these days? QA god dammit!

This is an easy answer. If the customers tests the game they won't have to spend money on QA. ;)


Haven`t played that long yet but, no crashes and ran smooth so far. Playing it on highest graphic options @1920x1080

My specs:

CPU: core i7 3770k
GPU: geforce 670gtx (343.36)
RAM: 32gb ddr3

They really need to do something with the voices though, for some characters they are missing completely and some characters are switching between subtitle and voice acting. I guess they had no time left to record all the conversations :/
STiAT Feb 1, 2015
I've played it now (about 30 minutes), and it's pretty okay, even the performance on my old i7 (3,4 ghz) and GTX550. Though, I had to turn down graphics quite a bit (especially ambient shadows killed my GPU), but it runs pretty smooth, better than I expected. I also removed the motion blur, because it did drive me crazy :D.

The only "real" issue I have is, that speaking of characters seems all the time out of sync, and some characters (who should speak) are speaking some sentences, others they don't (in the same conversation).

Except for that, it's okay to me, and I'd consider it as "could be better" but still "good enough".
PublicNuisance Feb 1, 2015
I had an interesting email conversation with Topware about Raven's Cry. I asked them if they were planning on a DRM free release and their response was that the Steam version was DRM free. Even if I don't count Steam as DRM, which I do, it lists on the Steam page that Raven's Cry "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Reality Pump DLM V2". I asked them if their game was DRM free why the Steam page said that and haven't received a response since.

As for the bugginess I have no idea how people are willing to lay down $55-60 on any game on launch day let alone the first few months. Must have more money to burn than me or just more optimism.
Shmerl Feb 1, 2015
Why is it not on GOG?
cjxgm Feb 1, 2015
The camera movement in the trailer looks so amateur, comparing to that in the Witcher 3's trailers.
kshade Feb 1, 2015
Steam user reviews look pretty bad, not only because of the bugs. Too bad.
DamonLinuxPL Feb 1, 2015
Quoting: tony1abSegata. Publisher and developer are the same guy/guys in this case.
One on that forum post realized.

You are wrong.

In case Raven's Cry.
Publisher: German TopWare
Developer: Polish Reality Pump.
PublicNuisance Feb 1, 2015
Quoting: ShmerlWhy is it not on GOG?

I would love to see more AAA games on GOG. Sadly when you have publishers who can actually call their Steam game that has third party DRM on top of Steam DRM Free I think their answer to you would be "What's the point, it is DRM free already".
vulture Feb 1, 2015
Quoting: PublicNuisanceI had an interesting email conversation with Topware about Raven's Cry. I asked them if they were planning on a DRM free release and their response was that the Steam version was DRM free. Even if I don't count Steam as DRM, which I do, it lists on the Steam page that Raven's Cry "Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Reality Pump DLM V2". I asked them if their game was DRM free why the Steam page said that and haven't received a response since.

As for the bugginess I have no idea how people are willing to lay down $55-60 on any game on launch day let alone the first few months. Must have more money to burn than me or just more optimism.

if you read forums they explained it few times. god bless people who need to be told explicitly.

game HAS 3rd party DRM, but it is NOT used by default unless user chose so. you don't need registration and activation.

more optimism and we realized that if we did it like people who just wait sales linux will be dismissed as valid target. i, personally don't buy games for games at full price. i buy them at full price to support developer as linux buyer and hope more developers will bring their games
mao_dze_dun Feb 2, 2015
With all due respect - this is NOT AAA quality graphics. Not in the last, at least 7 years.
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