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This is good news, as I’ve been pretty happy with Feral’s porting work and their support of their products has been top notch. Pleased to see them get more porting work to continue pushing our platform.
Hopefully I will be able to do my usual thing of giving it a run over before release, if not, I will try to after release.
No exact word on the release yet, but it's slated for this Autumn/Fall!
From the press release:
Quote“This is the stuff of dreams,” said David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive, “The extraordinary gameplay of Total War matched with the fantastical universe of Warhammer is a match made in gaming heaven. We’re incredibly excited to bring Total War: WARHAMMER to Mac and Linux.”
It's also now showing up on SteamDB, so maybe it will be a pretty quick turnaround from announcement to release. It also means it was likely hidden for quite some time, meaning there could be other ports from Feral and other developers being hidden from popping up on SteamDB, exciting!
Also, Feral are showing off their wonderful humour again from the SteamDB depot page:
About the game
The Old World echoes to the clamour of ceaseless battle. The only constant is WAR!
A fantasy strategy game of legendary proportions, Total War: WARHAMMER combines an addictive turn-based campaign of epic empire-building with explosive, colossal, real-time battles, all set in the vivid and incredible world of Warhammer Fantasy Battles.
Command four wholly different races: the Empire, the Dwarfs, the Vampire Counts and the Greenskins, each with their own unique characters, battlefield units and play style.
Lead your forces to war as one of eight Legendary Lords from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles World, arming them with fabled weapons, armour and deadly battle magic; hard-won in individual quest chains. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quote"Consumer logic"? I'm not sure what you mean by that.By that I mean putting the blame for a problem on the first instance that makes the problem apparent to you, without actually knowing.
"Linux sucks for anything but servers. Anybody who is serious about gaming needs to get a Windows PC."
"Firefox (or Mozilla) sucks at rendering webpages. Anybody who is serious about the internet needs to get IE 7."
Both claims were made because one product was obviously superior. At least in practice. Little did people know about the actual reasons for this.
To an extend the same is true for AMD -Nvidia.
Long story short: As a consumer, don't mistake market power for quality.
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Yaaaaaay!!1 So happy, I've been a very long time Total War player since around the original Rome: Total War was released in 2004. It's one of my all time favourite game series. This is excellent news and I'm happy Feral is continuing to bring Total War games to Linux as for about the last couple years, I've been 100% Windows free. Thanks Feral :D
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Huh, I wasn't keeping my hopes up for this one, but now I may actually buy it. I am not so hardcore that I have to buy every Total War game (I have two); a new one every couple years feels right. I think it's time.
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Mountain Man Aug 5, 2016
Quoting: CaldazarLong story short: As a consumer, don't mistake market power for quality.I'm not. I'm basing it on the fact that Nvidia's drivers simply work better than AMD's. It has nothing to do with market power which I couldn't give a pair fetid dingo's kidneys about. Like I said, I go with what works.
Trust me, I would be thrilled if AMD and Intel stepped up their game and provided some meaningful competition, but they haven't.
Last edited by Mountain Man on 5 August 2016 at 12:24 am UTC
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Comandante Ñoñardo Aug 5, 2016
The only one Warhammer game I want on Linux is Warhammer 40.000 Space Marine...
I agree 100%
PS: I tried Life is Strange in a 1366x768p monitor and the antialiasing SUCKS...
Quoting: segulehThankfully i’m not fan of Total War nor WH series, cause i don’t believe Feral make this port good. Even as NVIDIA card user, I can accept (barely) 20% - 30% performance drop but not 50% as it is with Tomb Raider. And I prefer 5 good ports than 20 poor. No offence Feral, but thanx, not this time ;)
I agree 100%
PS: I tried Life is Strange in a 1366x768p monitor and the antialiasing SUCKS...
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Quoting: Mountain ManI'm basing it on the fact that Nvidia's drivers simply work better than AMD's.That's really fair enough. All I'm trying to say is that the same is true for Windows vs Linux as a gaming platform. Yet we know better than putting the full blame on one single instance and going with the "If you're serious about gaming then you should just get Windows" line.
Then why should we give Nvidia or Feral a free pass, not even asking whether the situation is partly due to an unhealthy relation between Nvidia and game developers.
"AMD drivers suck and that's the reason why Feral ports lack support, go get Nvidia."
To me that's not enough without talking about Nvidia exploiting its market power and some game devs / porters just going with it a bit too lazily.
I can understand why they do it but I also know how that behaviour during the browser wars held back web technology for at least 10 years. Let's just hope history doesn't repeat with the new graphics technology.
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I think the Nvidia driver thing is related to two things: Nvidia is known for working very well together with game developers, and that is abolsutely a strength of them and this has led to many usefull improvements in their drivers. That Nvidia puts a lot of effort in their Linux drivers is a simple fact.
The second point, however, is that Nvidia drivers are known to be very forgiving for OpenGL standard violations. This results into the situation that games appear to run fine on Nvidia drivers, while problems occur when you start to run on AMD or Intel hardware. For the end user, the Nvidia driver appears to work correctly and the blame is falsely on other manufacturers, while it is actually the too forgiving Nvidia driver that is the reason a game does not run on other hardware.
I think this topic has however a bit focused too much on the AMD situation. It is a clear problem with Feral ports, but even for Nvidia and Intel gamers, life isn't as good as it should be due to performance issues. While there are reports of games that run well, I just keep reading reports of games that run better on Wine than the Linux port... not something we should be happy with. IndirectX apparently has a lot of overhead involved, much more than other known translation layers. This is just as much a quality issue as the AMD incompatibilities.
The second point, however, is that Nvidia drivers are known to be very forgiving for OpenGL standard violations. This results into the situation that games appear to run fine on Nvidia drivers, while problems occur when you start to run on AMD or Intel hardware. For the end user, the Nvidia driver appears to work correctly and the blame is falsely on other manufacturers, while it is actually the too forgiving Nvidia driver that is the reason a game does not run on other hardware.
I think this topic has however a bit focused too much on the AMD situation. It is a clear problem with Feral ports, but even for Nvidia and Intel gamers, life isn't as good as it should be due to performance issues. While there are reports of games that run well, I just keep reading reports of games that run better on Wine than the Linux port... not something we should be happy with. IndirectX apparently has a lot of overhead involved, much more than other known translation layers. This is just as much a quality issue as the AMD incompatibilities.
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Mountain Man Aug 5, 2016
All I know is that I've never had a problem with Nvidia while I hear nothing but complaints from AMD users. It has been like this for years, long before Feral started porting to Linux.
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I am very excited that Feral supports Mesa. AMD GPU and Mesa are going to be the future of AMD on Linux for consumer graphics cards. The AMD GPU PRO driver will be for their FireGl/FirePro cards. I use an Nvidia card right now, but with all of the progress AMD has been making I can't see myself going with Nvidia again. As far as Total War: Warhammer goes, I had no intention of purchasing it before I found out Feral was doing the porting. Now I think I'm going to give it a go. I had some performance issues with Tomb raider(lows in the 30s with a GTX 970), but it did not stop me from playing. Keep up the good work Feral!!
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