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PayPalDo 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.
@liamdave found a little typo "September 289h" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php
"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 289h."
this is great, but why not linux - win crossplay :(.Thanks, typo fixed.
@liamdave found a little typo "September 289h" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php
"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 289h."
The point about Wine was me trying to steer this away from people seemingly bashing a new port in favour of playing a game in Wine. It has nothing to do with me not using Wine (I actually do sometimes FYI).
To re-quote myself:
Wine 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.Wine is not on SteamOS, what Valve has been pushing, it's not included in distros as a standard and it's not something developers test against. Having users just buy it, install it and run it makes Linux far more attractive than "I hear it works in Wine, you need to do this, then this, then this and it may work, but you won't get any support and it could break at any moment".
It's all about building up our library without having to resort to hacks like Wine, which never truly work properly.
As for this:
And of course I agree with you Liam that even if the game runs on Wine we should be happy when the game is ported. But I also see boltronics's point, that it would be great to have port of a game that does not run on Linux at all. And such a comments are valuable, because they show the direction of the titles that publisher can focus on.All new ports are great, whether they work in Wine or not, due to my earlier point of the fact that a lot of people do not buy Windows games to play in Wine.
It's easier to get more money for Linux version if it was impossible to run the game on Linux at all.This goes yet again back to my earlier point, this is part of giving us a back catalogue of older games that people will enjoy playing, not just newer games. And enables people to not have to resort to hacks like Wine. I've already seen multiple people say the multiplayer just doesn't work in Wine, so having this native is a boost for yet another reason.
The best way to earn a lot while porting is to port a game at day one, like with the XCOM 2. I'm not saying that the numbers will be perfect, but it will be available for Linux users for much longer time, from start when it is expensive (50 euro) to a moment when it will be as cheap as XCOM:EU. And for that reason I hope newest Deus Ex will be released soon.I fully agree, but publishers often don't care about Linux and we are a long way from getting more varied day-1 ports of big name games.
If only there was a dedicated area to wine discussions, to avoid polluting this thread further.Yep, please try to use it folks :P
Last edited by Liam Dawe on 24 September 2016 at 10:38 am UTC
(Finally I can play this WITHOUT Wine...)
Schattenspiegel Sep 24, 2016
Don't get me wrong, I love what you are doing and I might end up buying them anyway(have not played them yet), but this is as close to a dealbreaker as you can get for me. I know it is not really your fault, but is there not something that can be worked out with the Windows devs/publishers to archieve compatibility without to much efford for titles like these?
MintedGamer Sep 24, 2016
I'll buy all 3 from the Feral store to support them, I haven't got Retribution in my steam library so will be good to play that expansion for the first time on Linux.
Feral are really knocking it out of the park this year.
oldrocker99 Sep 26, 2016
And to think that I once considered Aspyr to be the main Linux porter; C:BE has some severe Linux problems, judging from the Steam forums. Feral has hit several out of the park.
Last edited by oldrocker99 on 26 September 2016 at 3:17 pm UTC
Dang it, Feral! Again a (actually three) multiplayer title(s) without crossOS playability....#@&!?
Don't get me wrong, I love what you are doing and I might end up buying them anyway(have not played them yet), but this is as close to a dealbreaker as you can get for me. I know it is not really your fault, but is there not something that can be worked out with the Windows devs/publishers to archieve compatibility without to much efford for titles like these?
We hear ya, and will continue to look into it.
In the meantime, meet us on the Linux/Mac multiplayer Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/maclinux We'll all try out Dawn of War II together.
Thanks for your support, all!
Kuduzkehpan Sep 29, 2016
but ofc this is just for some of us have to. i hope we wont be in near future.
Dang it, Feral! Again a (actually three) multiplayer title(s) without crossOS playability....#@&!?
Don't get me wrong, I love what you are doing and I might end up buying them anyway(have not played them yet), but this is as close to a dealbreaker as you can get for me. I know it is not really your fault, but is there not something that can be worked out with the Windows devs/publishers to archieve compatibility without to much efford for titles like these?
We hear ya, and will continue to look into it.
In the meantime, meet us on the Linux/Mac multiplayer Steam Group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/maclinux We'll all try out Dawn of War II together.
Thanks for your support, all!
Is it not possible for you guys to replace the netcode in the Windows version with what you guys use for Mac and Linux? Have it update the Windows versions in steam and have all three platforms playing together.
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