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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!

 

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wolfyrion Sep 23, 2016
Quoting: boltronics
Quoting: liamdaweWine gaming is not Linux gaming and does not support Linux in any shape or form.

Some of us don't buy Windows games and I am sure plenty of us never even looked at this game before.
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.

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.

FredO Sep 23, 2016
Whoohoo, more awesome news. Feral, do you guys ever sleep?
These games just slid to No 1 on my wish list.
Eike Sep 23, 2016
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Quoting: JuliusHmm, 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.
Liam Dawe Sep 23, 2016
Alright, let's steer this back away from Wine I let that go on too long already.

Native games should be celebrated.
1mHfoksd1Z Sep 23, 2016
That's nice. I never played 40k but I heard very good things about those games. I already own DoW 1 and DoW 2 Retribution on Steam so I am really happy at least one of them is coming to my favourite OS... I will definietely give it a try!
chui2ch Sep 23, 2016
Am I missing something or was this not on the Feral radar? It seems all of the games that were there are still there and this was added. I broke the bad news to my wife last night that Feral was after all of our money. <3
Grimfist Sep 23, 2016
The guys at Feral truly have more wind under their wings then ever before. First Deus Ex, now Warhammer 40k DoW 2! These guys rock! Will get this package definitely (maybe not on the 29th, but two days later when salary is here :D )
1mHfoksd1Z Sep 23, 2016
Quoting: Kuduzkehpanwell i bought game very long ago so What should i do to make it count as a linux copy sold.
And dont forget to mention that: YAYYYYYY!
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.

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
DrMcCoy Sep 23, 2016
Can I trade that in for Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games getting back together and putting the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay books back on DriveThru? :(
Keyrock Sep 23, 2016
**** yes! I own all 3 games. Retribution is my favorite because you're not forced to play Space Marines throigh the campaign, you can play any race/faction, including Orks. Orks are the best. They're hilarious!
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