Overlord for Linux release date announced, arriving tomorrow the 21st of July

Overlord! What a perfect way to celebrate upgrading Ubuntu to 16.04.1 !!

Awesome news!

Wait what ! Fantastic
I have been waiting for this and so have my kids.

I know what we shall be doing this weekend with my steamlink.

If only Lego games were ported I would look into a steambox

Overlord is the best rated one of the two as well - and I've never played this one (only the sequel) so this'll be a purchase for sure!

If only Lego games were ported I would look into a steambox

If feral ears that

^_^

I wonder if the Linux version will be available on GOG...

If only Lego games were ported I would look into a steambox

As strange as it might sound, the one game I miss the most since giving Windows the old heave-ho last year is LEGO The Lord of the Rings.

Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release. But users bitching abou Witcher 1 for linux are ignored. Even if VP alredy have Witcher1 eOn port on Mac.. Maybe if they would cooperate with CDR and include also community mods like Rise of the White Wolf or HD texturen mod, it would sell 10 times more than some unknown Overlord 1+2.. but okay. Let´s not be greatefull..

And what about Aspyr or Feral porting their best Mac titles to linux? Titles like Deus Ex:HRDC, Rage, Broderlands 1 or Batman games? Maybe Bioshock 1+2 or KOTOR1? Again nothing.. Not to mention a fact that Mac is a joke platform to port games for. How many mac users actually have top end mac with decent mobile GPU? Less than all linux users.. but let´s not sound frustrating or pissed.. No way. I am sure Aspyr/Feral know better. Of course also VP knows what we don´t know..

Please! Lego games! I want them all!!! :)

Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release. But users bitching abou Witcher 1 for linux are ignored. Even if VP alredy have Witcher1 eOn port on Mac.. Maybe if they would cooperate with CDR and include also community mods like Rise of the White Wolf or HD texturen mod, it would sell 10 times more than some unknown Overlord 1+2.. but okay. Let´s not be greatefull..

And what about Aspyr or Feral porting their best Mac titles to linux? Titles like Deus Ex:HRDC, Rage, Broderlands 1 or Batman games? Maybe Bioshock 1+2 or KOTOR1? Again nothing.. Not to mention a fact that Mac is a joke platform to port games for. How many mac users actually have top end mac with decent mobile GPU? Less than all linux users.. but let´s not sound frustrating or pissed.. No way. I am sure Aspyr/Feral know better. Of course also VP knows what we don´t know..

I think the same. Witcher 1 would be genial on Linux. I don't have idea if porting games to mac are similar to porting to Linux, but probably the work is half done.


I would like to encourage developers to bring mac ports to Linux .There are a lot of good games in the mac catalog that linux users would like to play/buy .

What do you think, VirtualPrograming/Aspyr/Feral?

Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release.

The Overlord games are not exactly "unknown".

Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release. But users bitching abou Witcher 1 for linux are ignored. Even if VP alredy have Witcher1 eOn port on Mac.. Maybe if they would cooperate with CDR and include also community mods like Rise of the White Wolf or HD texturen mod, it would sell 10 times more than some unknown Overlord 1+2.. but okay. Let´s not be greatefull..

And what about Aspyr or Feral porting their best Mac titles to linux? Titles like Deus Ex:HRDC, Rage, Broderlands 1 or Batman games? Maybe Bioshock 1+2 or KOTOR1? Again nothing.. Not to mention a fact that Mac is a joke platform to port games for. How many mac users actually have top end mac with decent mobile GPU? Less than all linux users.. but let´s not sound frustrating or pissed.. No way. I am sure Aspyr/Feral know better. Of course also VP knows what we don´t know..

I don't think the porters have much choice about what they port, at least they can't do one unless the content owners ask (or agree to let them). Overlord is a Codemasters game and Codemasters seems to have become pretty Linux friendly.


Last edited by m2mg2 on 20 Jul 2016 at 1:38 pm UTC

My impression is that Virtual Programming is a much smaller company than Feral is. Therefore the amount of games they can port is smaller. Who knows how long their todo list is?

Anyway, their ports often have less performance issues and lot less AMD incompatibilities than Feral their ports, so I look forward to this.

Munch,munch,munch....

From VP's site:

Overlord I: Mac & Linux

Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt...

Current State: alpha

From VP's site:

Overlord I: Mac & Linux

Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt...

Current State: alpha

This state is the same in the last 6 months

I know!

I was just pointing it out as amusing seeing as it's being released tomorrow ;)

Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release. But users bitching abou Witcher 1 for linux are ignored.
[...]And what about Aspyr or Feral porting their best Mac titles to linux?

The porters do not own the rights to the games and can't do this by their own whim. Obviously it's up to the publisher of the respective franchises what will be ported to where.

From VP's site:

Overlord I: Mac & Linux

Prepare to be tempted, mesmerized and thrilled, become the Overlord, how corrupt...

Current State: alpha

This state is the same in the last 6 months

Yeah there web page updates are very sporadic. I've generally only noticed much activity when they are gearing up for a release. Oddly they show Overlord as alpha but they have been posting teasers on their news page for a while (Overlord is coming soon). To this day they have never posted anything about Arma or the Saints Row series on their page, I'm assuming that is because of agreements with the content owners. Hopefully they change the state away from alpha after it is actually released! If we're lucky they'll update with what their next Linux project is.

The Witcher 2 was really bad at first, but they fixed it and ever since their ports have been really solid for me. Saints Row stuttered but very playable, and the Windows versions were the same. Virtual Programming makes Windows games work on other platforms, they don't actually change the game. You can't expect them to fix problems from the Windows version, because the ports are still the Windows versions.

I always prefer native (as long as it works). But I support using VP for games that for whatever reason can't actually be ported natively (middleware, loss of source, porting cost vs return). VP has been awesome lately. The Witcher 2, Bioshock Infinite, Dirt Showdown, Spec Ops the Line, Arma 3, Saints Row 2 - Gat out of Hell (4 games) and now overlord. I think they beat out Feral and Aspyr numbers.

What's that song playing on top of teaser? I can't seem to find it.. It wasn't Darude - Sandstorm either.

Uhm... so unknown game i have never heard off gets a linux release. But users bitching abou Witcher 1 for linux are ignored.
[...]And what about Aspyr or Feral porting their best Mac titles to linux?

The porters do not own the rights to the games and can't do this by their own whim. Obviously it's up to the publisher of the respective franchises what will be ported to where.

Some porters DO have publishing rights. If you look at Tomb Raider 2013 info, You will see that the publishing rights for Linux and OSX belongs to Feral, and not square enix... The same goes for Alien Isolation ( and others)

Or maybe the Steam info is wrong.