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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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linux_gamer Sep 23, 2016
Gj, I liked the Warhammer 40k original series back in the days when I used Win.
edo Sep 23, 2016
This is great, thanks feral


Last edited by edo on 23 September 2016 at 1:51 pm UTC
Cmdr_Iras Sep 23, 2016
Its nice to see older games being ported as well as new as it builds up the library, And while many people already own it, we have to assume Feral knows what it is doing porting them and that finanically they believbe it will pay off.

Who knows this could just be groundwork for a DOW3 release (I hope :) ).
kshade Sep 23, 2016
I'm glad they are doing this, singleplayer works in WINE but multiplayer, at least for me, always disconnects after a minute or so.
coolbober Sep 23, 2016
29th of september! My money ready to be spend. Thanks feral!
0aTT Sep 23, 2016
Quoting: EikeWhich 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
Al3s Sep 23, 2016
Great!!! Recently I've become interested in w40k games because earlier this year I read my first two novels located in that universe, but I just don't buy Windows games.


Last edited by Al3s on 23 September 2016 at 2:21 pm UTC
m2mg2 Sep 23, 2016
Quoting: 0aTT
Quoting: EikeWhich 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
Oh yes I do love these games! Thank you so much for porting it @FERAL! :)

@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. :(
burnall Sep 23, 2016
This will be the closest thing to Starcraft on Linux then, I guess.
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