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.
Wine 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.
It'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.
These games just slid to No 1 on my wish list.
Hmm, while nice I do wonder if these kind of ports make back their money. I, like many others I believe already own those games (never managed to finish them under Windows, back when I was still dual-booting). So this is indeed a nice gift, but I don't really plan to buy them again as I am unlikely to invest much time in those games. Of course if the port was really easy, it might be worth it, who knows.
I think the KotOR II approach was clever:
Port an old game - and enhance it for everybody at the same time.
Gets more press as well.
Native games should be celebrated.
1mHfoksd1Z Sep 23, 2016
1mHfoksd1Z Sep 23, 2016
well i bought game very long ago so What should i do to make it count as a linux copy sold.The ONLY thing you can do to solve this is to delete the game from your library and buy it again on Linux. But i DON'T RECOMMEND THIS. If you're ok spending that extra money you'd be doing a much better thing just gifting the game to a Linux friend who wants that game as well, or some random penguin... I'm sure you can find someone if you want to.
And dont forget to mention that: YAYYYYYY!
EDIT: You could also ask for a refund and then rebuy the game but I don't think they are going to accept it or if it's against the rules or not (to ask for refunds and then rebuy games... this is kind of an abuse in my opinin, I don't know what they think about it tho) so I don't recommend this either.
Last edited by 1mHfoksd1Z on 23 September 2016 at 1:28 pm UTC
linux_gamer Sep 23, 2016
Last edited by edo on 23 September 2016 at 1:51 pm UTC
Who knows this could just be groundwork for a DOW3 release (I hope :) ).
Which radar item is out of game now? :)I also wonder. 808 SB12S is still on the radar. :)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactive-are-teasing-another-new-linux-mac-port-with-a-new-clue.7272/comment_id=71914
Last edited by Al3s on 23 September 2016 at 2:21 pm UTC
Which radar item is out of game now? :)I also wonder. 808 SB12S is still on the radar. :)
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/feral-interactive-are-teasing-another-new-linux-mac-port-with-a-new-clue.7272/comment_id=71914
It appears it wasn't even on the radar, was added. As far as I can tell all the others are still there.
cRaZy-bisCuiT Sep 23, 2016
@edddeduck_feral: But could you please explain me why you guys once more do a dead multiplayer port? We NEED cross-platform-support! Even the windows-version is not that much frequented nowadays. I know it's difficult to get the whole thing synchronised (I'm a dev myself!) but like this it's not even worth to port the Multiplayer part at all. :(
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