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Update: Their PR email sent out later has confirmed multiplayer is Linux to Linux only.
Good news folks, as another Feral Interactive port is coming very soon. Company of Heroes 2 will launch on our beloved platform on the 27th of August. The news just came out of the blue in a tweet, so here's the confirmation below:
Next week can't come soon enough, and it's great to see Feral step up their game and deliver another port so quickly!
It seems that AMD isn't supported again, as their system requirements only mentions Nvidia and Intel Iris Pro.
About the game (Official)
Direct your troops through fast-paced real-time battles in the brutal fight to turn the tide of World War II. From the desperate defence of Stalingrad to victory in Berlin, you must defeat a tenacious enemy and the deadly cold of the Russian winter.
Objective-based missions challenge you to maneuver soldiers, guns, and tanks across feature-rich environments to scope out the battlefield, secure targets and destroy enemies. Navigate the hazardous terrain, take advantage of cover and overcome the freezing temperatures and treacherous ice that can make the difference between crushing defeat and hard-won victory.
Features
- Engage in exhilarating tactical combat as you co-ordinate infantry, vehicles and artillery units in crucial real-time battles.
- Take the fight to the Eastern Front of World War II as you repel the enemy in this pivotal episode of 20th century history.
- Use the environment to your advantage as you position your troops behind cover and force your enemies into retreat as you advance from the icy Russian Steppe to the rubble-strewn streets of Berlin.
- Take command of historically-accurate units: tanks, artillery and soldiers, to recreate decisive Eastern Front battles in brilliant detail.
- Choose to command the Wehrmacht or the Red Army in Theater of War missions, a series of one-off scenarios, battles and challenges set on an unrivalled selection of maps.
System requirements
Minimum Requirements
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) or SteamOS
Processor: 2.6 GHz
RAM: 4GB
Hard Disk: 35GB
Graphics: 1GB*
Input: Keyboard & Mouse
Recommended Requirements
Processor: 3.4 GHz
RAM: 8GB**
Graphics: 4GB
*Requires an Intel Iris Pro graphics card or an NVIDIA 600 series graphics card or better.
**NVIDIA 760 series card or better with driver version 352.21 or later.
Check the Feral Interactive minisite for CoH2. You can also find it on Steam, but don't order it until the Linux version is out! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Mac & Linux ready their armies: Company of Heroes 2 will arrive Aug 27 on Steam and soon after on MAS. Minisite: http://t.co/VUysnoVnR6
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) August 18, 2015
Next week can't come soon enough, and it's great to see Feral step up their game and deliver another port so quickly!
It seems that AMD isn't supported again, as their system requirements only mentions Nvidia and Intel Iris Pro.
About the game (Official)
Direct your troops through fast-paced real-time battles in the brutal fight to turn the tide of World War II. From the desperate defence of Stalingrad to victory in Berlin, you must defeat a tenacious enemy and the deadly cold of the Russian winter.
Objective-based missions challenge you to maneuver soldiers, guns, and tanks across feature-rich environments to scope out the battlefield, secure targets and destroy enemies. Navigate the hazardous terrain, take advantage of cover and overcome the freezing temperatures and treacherous ice that can make the difference between crushing defeat and hard-won victory.
Features
- Engage in exhilarating tactical combat as you co-ordinate infantry, vehicles and artillery units in crucial real-time battles.
- Take the fight to the Eastern Front of World War II as you repel the enemy in this pivotal episode of 20th century history.
- Use the environment to your advantage as you position your troops behind cover and force your enemies into retreat as you advance from the icy Russian Steppe to the rubble-strewn streets of Berlin.
- Take command of historically-accurate units: tanks, artillery and soldiers, to recreate decisive Eastern Front battles in brilliant detail.
- Choose to command the Wehrmacht or the Red Army in Theater of War missions, a series of one-off scenarios, battles and challenges set on an unrivalled selection of maps.
System requirements
Minimum Requirements
OS: Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit) or SteamOS
Processor: 2.6 GHz
RAM: 4GB
Hard Disk: 35GB
Graphics: 1GB*
Input: Keyboard & Mouse
Recommended Requirements
Processor: 3.4 GHz
RAM: 8GB**
Graphics: 4GB
*Requires an Intel Iris Pro graphics card or an NVIDIA 600 series graphics card or better.
**NVIDIA 760 series card or better with driver version 352.21 or later.
Check the Feral Interactive minisite for CoH2. You can also find it on Steam, but don't order it until the Linux version is out! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: TealQuoting: melkemindQuoting: rustybroomhandleShadow of Mordor runs very well for me, for example - the benchmark never dips below 60fps.
I'd definitely like to see proof of that, along with your specs, posted on the forum.
Regarding Feral's status as a good/bad porter, as you said, it's all relative. Some people are satisfied with performance lower than they'd get on Windows. Others aren't. And obviously, Nvidia users will be happier with them than AMD. It's all about your perspective and your expectations.
I don't mean to oppose you or anything but could you provide any examples of game ports where the Linux port performs significantly (not few percent points that are well within margin of influence of different background system load) better than on Windows?
As far as I know, lower Linux performance is to some degree inherent to the lower quality drivers (including the Nvidia binary ones) as well as to quirks of OpenGL itself. This all will hopefully be remedied by VULKAN but for now I feel like it's a tad unfair to blame game porters for Linux performance being somewhat worse (of course, significant performance drop or any instability shouldn't be excused).
It is not about the drivers really --- performance is all about optimization, and there are tons of examples on phoronix like:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=win-10-iris6200&num=2
Although, Vulkan should improve the situation, as should Wayland. I'm am loking forward for both (so tired of X flickering, not responding and input lag ...).
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Quoting: melkemindQuoting: rustybroomhandleShadow of Mordor runs very well for me, for example - the benchmark never dips below 60fps.
I'd definitely like to see proof of that, along with your specs, posted on the forum.
Regarding Feral's status as a good/bad porter, as you said, it's all relative. Some people are satisfied with performance lower than they'd get on Windows. Others aren't. And obviously, Nvidia users will be happier with them than AMD. It's all about your perspective and your expectations.
Apologies for being off topic but I have to add my 2p.... Shadow of Mordor runs absolutely perfectly for me - GTX 660, i7 4790k - medium settings, rarely below 60fps. And this is with Compiz, whereas with some games I switch window manger due to glitches with input or alt-tab freezes. No idea what performance is like in Windows but I couldn't be happier with it.
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Quoting: d10sfanQuoting: lucifertdarkQuoting: Keyrock"Their PR email sent out later has confirmed multiplayer is Linux to Linux only."Empire Total War was the same to start with but they fixed it soon after release.
Bummer. :'(
That one is still only Mac vs Linux, no Windows play.
Just means we need to arrange some games ;)
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Vulcan will not be a panacea for sloppy code or bad drivers. An API does not fix the bad performance of an engine, the low performance drivers or the lack of optimization.
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sadly, i already bought and played this game on windows 2 years ago :(
no linuxsale here :(
no linuxsale here :(
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Quoting: maodzedunVulcan will not be a panacea for sloppy code or bad drivers. An API does not fix the bad performance of an engine, the low performance drivers or the lack of optimization.
Only thing which Vulcan must do is that games preform same on all platforms. If it is preforming bad on Windows it mus preform bad on Linux if developer fixed performance issues on Windows it should be fixed on Linux so that you do not need to optimize all platforms separately but if you optimize one platform all platforms benefit from that and that is all. If Vulcan manages to do that than most problems will be solved.
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Mountain Man Aug 18, 2015
[quote=Teal]
That said, every Feral port I own runs great for me, so I have no complaints.
Quoting: melkemindAs far as I know, lower Linux performance is to some degree inherent to the lower quality drivers (including the Nvidia binary ones) as well as to quirks of OpenGL itself. This all will hopefully be remedied by VULKAN but for now I feel like it's a tad unfair to blame game porters for Linux performance being somewhat worse (of course, significant performance drop or any instability shouldn't be excused).It seems that reduced performance is an inherent part of the DirectX to OpenGL porting process. Games that start out as OpenGL seem to have equal performance across the board.
That said, every Feral port I own runs great for me, so I have no complaints.
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It seems that AMD isn't supported again...
Nice one, refund, refund, not buy (Dying Light, SoM, CoH2)
Linux gaming is really cheap :D
Nice one, refund, refund, not buy (Dying Light, SoM, CoH2)
Linux gaming is really cheap :D
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Mountain Man Aug 18, 2015
Quoting: PangachatIt seems that AMD isn't supported again...Blame AMD for their crap drivers.
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Quoting: PangachatIt seems that AMD isn't supported again...If you keep refunding and not buying AMD unsupported games you might collect enough money to buy an Nvidia card.
Nice one, refund, refund, not buy (Dying Light, SoM, CoH2)
Linux gaming is really cheap :D
Last edited by dubigrasu on 18 August 2015 at 9:13 pm UTC
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