Do not adjust your monitors, you read that correctly. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, Chaos Rising and Retribution are officially coming to Linux and will be released on September 29th [Feral Mini-site].
The port is being done by Feral Interactive, so it will have their usual great spit and polish on it.
Yes, AMD is supported:
Minimum Linux system requirements call for a 2.0 GHz CPU with at least 4GB RAM, 1GB or better graphics card, and SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better. The game also requires an NVIDIA 6xx/AMD 6xxxx/Intel Iris Pro series graphics card or better.
Note: Multiplayer is Linux+Mac, it will not be cross-platform with Windows.
All three are standalone games and don't depend on each other, so you can buy one or all. Pretty great to see all three get released at the same time!
Chaos Rising takes place one year after the events of Dawn of War II, and is set on Aurelia, long-lost home world of the Blood Ravens. Players once again take command of the Blood Ravens in order to free the planet from the forces of Chaos.
Retribution takes place ten years after Chaos Rising and presents a new threat to the Imperium of Man in which players may command any one of six races in a campaign that ranges across all the planets of sub-sector Aurelia.
In addition to their imaginative single-player campaigns, all three games feature highly-accomplished multiplayer in which players can either plunge into skirmish mode or team up with others in The Last Stand, a cooperative survival mode.
On September 29th, three grimdark games arrive on Mac and Linux — Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War II®, Chaos Rising and Retribution. pic.twitter.com/F2RICpkSNx
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) September 23, 2016
From the press release:
Quote“We're delighted to be bringing such enduringly popular games to Mac and Linux,” said David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral Interactive, “Their quality and appeal have more than stood the test of time and it’s a privilege to introduce them to a new audience.”
About the game (Official)
With a focus on fast-action RTS gameplay, Dawn of War II brings to life the science fiction universe of Warhammer 40,000 like never before. Experience the intimate brutality of battle as you play through your chosen race’s epic campaign. Clash with the enemies on battlefield ablaze with visceral melee and ranged combat. Lead and develop your squads from raw recruits into the most battle hardened veterans in the galaxy. Also included is The Last Stand, a co-operative game mode featuring user controlled heroes fighting waves of enemies.
So not only are Feral bringing us the brand new Deus Ex: Mankind Divided this year, but this month we get DoWII and the standlone expansions. Feral are good to us!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Homepcgamer Sep 23, 2016
But gaming on linux isn't enough mature yet, to have the same framerate as on linux. So i'm wondering why not first DoW. Game demanding less from pc.
Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: boltronicsWhy??!?!? These games all work perfectly under Wine. Have for a very long time.
If they wanted to truly release Warhammer games for a new audience, they should have ported Space Marine! That's a game that does not work under Wine, probably only because of copy protection.
It's all about building up our library without having to resort to hacks like Wine, which never truly work properly.
That's a very unpopular opinion, but very much my experience. Wine gaming is a compromise and relying on it sends developers the wrong message. I don't buy Windows games any more - my last purchase was the Dishonoured expansion back in early 2013, but I've bought around 200 Linux-only games in the subsequent years.
Great to see a title of this quality arrive on the Linux platform. Well done Feral! (again)
Last edited by scaine on 23 September 2016 at 11:35 am UTC
Quoting: scaineThe problem is the same as always, people will claim Wine is great, but in reality it fails miserably at too much. Even games rated "Platinum" often still require tweaks and end up having lots of issues. Native all the way.Quoting: liamdaweQuoting: boltronicsWhy??!?!? These games all work perfectly under Wine. Have for a very long time.
If they wanted to truly release Warhammer games for a new audience, they should have ported Space Marine! That's a game that does not work under Wine, probably only because of copy protection.
It's all about building up our library without having to resort to hacks like Wine, which never truly work properly.
That's a very unpopular opinion, but very much my experience. Wine gaming is a compromise and relying on it sends developers the wrong message. I don't buy Windows games any more - my last purchase was the Dishonoured expansion back in early 2013, but I've bought around 200 Linux-only games in the subsequent years.
Great to see a title of this quality arrive on the Linux platform. Well done Feral! (again)
boltronics Sep 23, 2016
Quoting: liamdaweWine gaming is not Linux gaming and does not support Linux in any shape or form.So what? Maybe some of us don't buy games to play under Wine that work perfectly under Wine, but look at the people posting comments here. Most people already own this game. You know what game most people won't have? Space Marine. Nobody buys games to play under Wine that don't work under Wine. Hence Space Marine should make more money for Feral Interactive, should satisfy more people running GNU/Linux, and should be better for GNU/Linux gaming in general.
Some of us don't buy Windows games and I am sure plenty of us never even looked at this game before.
Quoting: liamdaweIt's all about building up our library without having to resort to hacks like Wine, which never truly work properly.Except a lot of the time they do work properly. Most of the time actually, if we're talking about D3D9 games.
Anybody know a place to buy extra time?
Since the last update, when they removed WGL(or something like that), was waitting for it to happen.
Lucky me, I'm on vacation by the end of the month.
Can't we have a small bonus ... and ... make it before, it's just a week what could be the harm on it :)
boltronics Sep 23, 2016
Quoting: liamdaweThe problem is the same as always, people will claim Wine is great, but in reality it fails miserably at too much. Even games rated "Platinum" often still require tweaks and end up having lots of issues. Native all the way.Let's see...
https://systemsaviour.com/finished-games/
78 games "finished" (as in completed the single player campaign) under Wine. 56 games finished using native builds. Speaks for itself really.
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