If you fancy scaring yourself silly this weekend, be sure to check out Alien: Isolation - The Collection which is 70% off on the Feral Interactive store.
Note: Buying from the Feral Store gives you a Steam key. This is your chance to get a cheaper game and support Feral directly, as they get a bigger cut since this cuts out Steam.
It's an incredible game all around and I've put plenty of hours into it. It scares me something silly, so I had to play it in small segments to not overload my heart.
Alien: Isolation – The Collection contains all DLC, including two stand-alone missions set aboard the Nostromo, in which players become a member of the original crew, and five mission packs that add new maps, playable characters and challenges to the Survivor and Salvage modes.
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Yes this game is native. All Feral games are.Great offer, this is great game if support Linux natively.It does... doesn't it?
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morgancoxuk Jan 23, 2017
GTX 560 is just below minimum system requirements (Nvidia 6xx series) so I am worried will/how it will work on my machine.
Well I just bought the game and tested using a Nvidia (1GB) 450GTS, i'm on a fairly low resolution 1152x864 on medium settings and it plays well, I get about 60fps..
Probably beats the fastest intel on-board to be honest.
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It's too bad Feral never fixed surround sound. If you have a good sound system, prepare to be disappointed.
At least they're selling Steam keys. So you're also getting the Windows version for 70% off, and it has excellent audio.
Great game, mediocre port.
At least they're selling Steam keys. So you're also getting the Windows version for 70% off, and it has excellent audio.
Great game, mediocre port.
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Bought the game from Feral site! With video settings set to high/medium and some effects disabled I have 50 - 70 FPS in the starting area. Looks really good for now.
Big thanks to all who wrote about their experiences with cards similar to GTX 560.
Cheers.
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Big thanks to all who wrote about their experiences with cards similar to GTX 560.
Cheers.
Last edited by jgacas on 24 January 2017 at 8:55 am UTC
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Great game, mediocre port.If you consider that the game runs on (your) Manjaro and (my) Fedora, on top of the only official distrib: Ubuntu, and also if you consider the poor status of the sound stack in Linux in general; don't you think "mediocre port" is a bit exaggerated?
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elbuglione Jan 24, 2017
Great game, mediocre port.
Ok... NO!
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Great game, mediocre port.If you consider that the game runs on (your) Manjaro and (my) Fedora, on top of the only official distrib: Ubuntu, and also if you consider the poor status of the sound stack in Linux in general; don't you think "mediocre port" is a bit exaggerated?
In general, most Steam Linux games work on all distros. Zero of the 150 games in my library which work on Ubuntu fail to work on Manjaro. A few require special launch options.
Surround sound is missing from Alien Isolation on SteamOS and Ubuntu, which Feral officially supports. It's lacking feature parity with with all the other versions. It works on Windows. It works on XBox. It works on Playstation (Well, I don't know about the Feral's Mac version, I don't have MacOS handy).
Sound is an enormously important part of Alien Isolation. Compared to these other versions, Feral's port simply provides an inferior experience if you've got a good sound system. If you just play on headphones at your desk, it's fine. But if you've got a Steam box hooked up to a kickass home theater setup, you'll be very disappointed. To me, using only 25% of my available sound channels is equivalent to drawing the graphics on only a quarter of my screen.
Surround sound also works in some (but not all) of Feral's other Linux ports. It was broken at launch in Shadow of Mordor, but they later released a patch which enables it. A:I has received no such love.
By this standard, yeah, it's a mediocre port. It's not bad. It runs. But it's not great, either. "Mediocre" doesn't mean "bad". It means "of ordinary or moderate quality". In this case, it might be slightly generous to call it "mediocre", since it's significantly worse than all other versions of A:I, as well as many other Feral products.
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By this standard, yeah, it's a mediocre port. It's not bad. It runs. But it's not great, either. "Mediocre" doesn't mean "bad". It means "of ordinary or moderate quality". In this case, it might be slightly generous to call it "mediocre", since it's significantly worse than all other versions of A:I, as well as many other Feral products.
I admit that in French "mediocre" means worst than bad, that's why I thought you were pretty harsh on Feral.
I also love surround sound in my home cinema. Maybe Feral didn't update A:I, maybe A:I are using such technology that makes it difficult to have 5.1 in Linux (but I admit, that the former is more plausible, I'm afraid).
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