Mad Max [Feral Mini Site] is officially being released on the 20th of October for Linux & SteamOS, it’s finally coming!
On October 20th, enter the outlandish post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max on Mac and Linux. pic.twitter.com/8Vx0qU9YpK
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) October 5, 2016
After initially being confirmed for Linux way back in March 2015, we finally have confirmation that not only is the Linux port real, but it’s coming damn soon too.
From the press release:
Quote“We’re delighted to be bringing Mad Max to Mac and Linux PC,” said David Stephen, Managing Director at Feral Interactive, “With its exhilarating combat, outlandish characters and beautiful end-of-the-world visuals, Mad Max perfectly captures the atmosphere and thrill of The Wasteland.”
System requirements:
Intel i5 or AMD FX8350 3.4 GHz CPU
8GB RAM
SteamOS 2.0 or Ubuntu 16.04 or better.
The game also requires an NVIDIA 660ti series graphics card or better, running driver version 367.35 or later. AMD and Intel GPUs are not supported at release.
If you want more information on AMD support in future, you can see this comment from Edwin who works at Feral, copied below:
Edwin, Feral InteractiveDue to various issues with Mesa we will not be supporting AMD on release. We only can officially support drivers if they meet the quality needed and sadly Mesa isn't quite there yet as it has a few issues and edge cases. It was a super close call but in the end we won't say a game is officially supported unless it runs great using release versions of the drivers and kernel.
However we developed the game using AMD cards as well as Nvidia so if you install the latest Mesa beta drivers and other updates as needed it runs it's just not at a level where we can provide official support as some edge cases will exist. Hopefully once all the Mesa developments get into a stable release version and all the related kernel improvements also are in a stable release then support for Mad Max and similar complex titles will be easier/possible.
Summary: AMD is unsupported meaning we don't recommend you purchase it on AMD GPUs, however we have don a lot of work towards support which should happen once all the improvements to Mesa/Kernel are in stable branches.
Releasing another game so soon after Dawn of War II [port report here], Feral sure are busy! I will hopefully have my usual report on the game up at release. Not long to go folks! Are you excited? Let me know in the comments!
After the news about Civ VI possibly not coming to Linux, this was a very well timed announcement.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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edddeduck_feral Oct 6, 2016
Quoting: jsa1983Quoting: edddeduckferalSummary: AMD is unsupported meaning we don't recommend you purchase it on AMD GPUs, however we have don a lot of work towards support which should happen once all the improvements to Mesa/Kernel are in stable branches.
Guys, hats off to you. Your level of commitment to mesa is great. I've seen at least two bug reports filed during the last week by Feral's James Legg (even one with a patch to fix it - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e33f31d61f5e9019f8b0bac0378dfb8fd1147421 -) which I believe were related to this game. Thank you a lot, Feral!!
Thanks, I'm glad you're so appreciative of our efforts :) We've supported Mesa since our first release (XCOM 1 Intel Iris Pro only), slowly over time it has become our target driver on AMD as well as Intel. We do test against AMDGPUPRO however for our latest games Mesa has proven to be the driver that allows us to get the performance and stability needed on a wide range of AMD hardware. We constantly monitor all drivers on every game we work on so this is a constantly moving target as both Mesa and AMDGPUPRO improve over time.
I think that fix you mention is for a different game in the future not Mad Max. Most of the Mad Max issues are known issues inside Mesa and not ones we have specifically opened for Mad Max.
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Woohoo, that sounds nice, I think I will pick this one up in a coming sale.
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Quoting: edddeduckferalThanks. I guess next time will be when you people release dirt rally - perhaps even for the full price because I'm r(e)ally waiting for this game (sorry for the ridiculous pun).Quoting: ungutknutQuoting: rustybroomhandleI don't care. Wouldn't have bought it anyway if it wasn't that cheap.Quoting: ungutknutNice! Bought it a few days ago when it was -75% on steam - speculating that it'll be released on linux.
Except, now it counts as a Windows sale, and Feral get none of the money for it.
Enjoy the game, we've had a blast making it for Linux!
Hopefully next time you'll be able to buy a Tux version and help fund more games coming to Linux :)
Quoting: liamdaweAnd it's people like you that help to reduce our already small sale count for developers. Nice one, not.I deeply apologize for my lack of idealism.
Quoting: MaCroX95Not everyone is always in a good financial situation and if he found a deal why not buy it if he didn't intend to otherwise... Yes, it's really nice to support porting teams and companies but don't judge him if he rushed to buy it before Feral finished porting it :) There are a lot of us who will still support great guys from Feral!
Quoting: dubigrasuThere are countries were the game price is ten times higher (relative to the income). How much is Mad Max, 30 Euro? Would you still buy it at 300 Euros to support Feral/Linux?
Edit: to be more clear, when you're dealing with such high prices, sometimes you can't resist a good deal.
Thanks for defending my point - Just to make that clear: I'm well aware that I don't support linux gaming with buying games for almost no money that eventually possibly even count as a windows sale. I just think that I'm not supposed to pay extra money just because steam hasn't been able to implement a proper way to determine how many people play which games on which OS.
And of course I could just wait for the game to release and wait for the port and afterwards wait another year for the next sale that puts the game to my price-tag. I'm actually a patient man... but obviously not patient enough for being a "real" linux gamer. Sorry for that.
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Quoting: GuestThe thing is, Valve can’t hold onto the money forever after you buy a game; publishers would like to see some of it sooner rather than later ;)Good point. That explains some things.
Quoting: GuestSo yes they determine on which platform you play, but it’s only during the first one or two (?) weeks after it was bought.Then feral better hurry up with the port to get my share of the 10€ I paid ^^
But jokes aside... I really think if people like me are a problem for porters then they would find a way to stop me from pre-buying games for cheap. For example they could just not announce a port in advance or just max. one or two weeks before release.
However it's their business and I buy games for playing, not for charity.
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Quoting: edddeduckferalQuoting: jsa1983Quoting: edddeduckferalSummary: AMD is unsupported meaning we don't recommend you purchase it on AMD GPUs, however we have don a lot of work towards support which should happen once all the improvements to Mesa/Kernel are in stable branches.
Guys, hats off to you. Your level of commitment to mesa is great. I've seen at least two bug reports filed during the last week by Feral's James Legg (even one with a patch to fix it - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e33f31d61f5e9019f8b0bac0378dfb8fd1147421 -) which I believe were related to this game. Thank you a lot, Feral!!
Thanks, I'm glad you're so appreciative of our efforts :)
I'll second this - thanks Feral :)
The experience with AMD Mesa has been brilliant on most titles; Tomb Raider is excellent - even Mordor is running well now (git versions).
I'll be picking up Mad Max and Warhammer as soon as they're out!
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Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 6, 2016
Feral already has been paid out by Warner, so We don't have to give a single cent to them...
Unless that Feral acquired the publishing rights for Mac and Linux...
If that is the case, yes, they deserve money for job...and We deserve a refund if they did a bad job.
Unless that Feral acquired the publishing rights for Mac and Linux...
If that is the case, yes, they deserve money for job...and We deserve a refund if they did a bad job.
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Quoting: Comandante oardoFeral already has been paid out by Warner, so We don't have to give a single cent to them...
Unless that Feral acquired the publishing rights for Mac and Linux...
... or they at least get a share per sold copy, which seemed to be the case for the past releases.
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For anyone who might have read Softpedia, no it will not support AMD GPU as mentioned in the article. Softpedia have it wrong.
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edddeduck_feral Oct 7, 2016
Quoting: Comandante oardoFeral acquired the publishing rights for Mac and Linux...
If that is the case, yes, they deserve money for job..
That's how all Feral games work.
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