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They plan to release Hitman for Linux on Thursday 16th of February, so be sure mark your calendars.
This is amazing, as we get Civilization VI from Aspyr Media, Hitman and then DiRT Rally both from Feral Interactive in the space of about a month. All three games I'm incredibly excited to see on Linux, as all of them big franchises for us to have to keep moving forward.
I told you this year was going to be good, so don't doubt me eh!
I'm nearly out of hard-drive space, I'm actually going to have to buy an new hard drive just for games, on Linux, insanity.
David Stephen, Managing Director of Feral InteractiveHitman is a franchise that has defined the stealth genre, and this game is very much a return to the series’ roots. It’s been a long wait to get a Hitman title onto Linux, but I can’t think of a better way than this to introduce the series to Linux gamers.
Feral have confirmed it will be an OpenGL title, so no Vulkan at launch. Of course, it's entirely possible they may update it in future to use Vulkan.
It will cost £39.99/$59.99/€49.99 for the whole season, but episodes can be purchased individually.
About the game
Become the master assassin in an intense spy-thriller story across a world of assassination.
Travel the world from France, Italy & Morocco to Thailand, USA & Japan to take out powerful, high-profile targets.
- Complete freedom of approach in expansive freeform classic HITMAN levels
- 100+ hours of gameplay will challenge the creativity of all assassins
- Create your own hits and compete with other assassins in Contracts mode Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Quoting: GuestAll these and lets not forget Torment Tides of Numera is coming out this month also. I'll pick up Hitman as soon as it's released for linux even though I've never played one of the series games before. Feral you are the best.God damn, I keep forgetting about that one myself.
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Sgt.Romeo9 Feb 7, 2017
Well isn't this nice not only is Feral porting games to Linux at the speed of a cheetah ;) and please by all means don't stop. But they are effectively helping me in sorting out my gaming schedule for the rest of the first quarter :)
Just as I was getting bored of Pac-Man 256, Bandai Namco added another Linux game to their humble bundle, Attractio, which looks very interesting and should keep me busy until Hitman sneaks into my Steam Library next week. Which I'm sure will keep me busy for the next two weeks until Dirt Rally comes flying into my library to keep me busy for the next 2 or 3 weeks thereafter.
So all in all thanks Feral for all the great games, and all the best for the rest of 2017. Not just in porting a ton of games as I'm sure you've already planned but also in landing more developers and publishers this year. Now I know, a lot of Western developers and publishers are closed to Linux as a platform due to outdated views and mindsets. Yes I'm looking at you EA, Ubisoft and Bathesda.
But here's really hoping you guys can get some deals with either Capcom, Konami or Bandai Namco because Resident Evil, Metal Gear and Tekken. Also they tend to make a lot of console exclusive games still and technically Steam machines are consoles ;) and let's face it having games on Steam with just a SteamOS badge can help grow Linux quite a bit. But I'm gonna stop now because I'm just talking myself all excited now :)
Just as I was getting bored of Pac-Man 256, Bandai Namco added another Linux game to their humble bundle, Attractio, which looks very interesting and should keep me busy until Hitman sneaks into my Steam Library next week. Which I'm sure will keep me busy for the next two weeks until Dirt Rally comes flying into my library to keep me busy for the next 2 or 3 weeks thereafter.
So all in all thanks Feral for all the great games, and all the best for the rest of 2017. Not just in porting a ton of games as I'm sure you've already planned but also in landing more developers and publishers this year. Now I know, a lot of Western developers and publishers are closed to Linux as a platform due to outdated views and mindsets. Yes I'm looking at you EA, Ubisoft and Bathesda.
But here's really hoping you guys can get some deals with either Capcom, Konami or Bandai Namco because Resident Evil, Metal Gear and Tekken. Also they tend to make a lot of console exclusive games still and technically Steam machines are consoles ;) and let's face it having games on Steam with just a SteamOS badge can help grow Linux quite a bit. But I'm gonna stop now because I'm just talking myself all excited now :)
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Quoting: TcheyAccording to Steam review, it doesn't seem so good. Overall 67% (11k reviews) and Recents 79% (almost 600).
Ignore user "reviews". Trust the professional reviews. They give the series a solid 80+ metascore, with certain episodes up in the 90s.
Seriously, ignore the user reviews. All they got is a "up"/"down" switch to rate with. And typically they will thub it down because some detail annoy them (like episodic content). There's just -NO- nuances in an accumulated user "review" score.
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Quoting: ellie_feralQuoting: hardpenguinQuoting: lejimsterThey already confirmed last year that Deus Ex MD will be their first Vulkan title (that they will add Vulkan support for the game in Spring 2017).Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT@Feral: Will it be vulkan? Are there any vulkan ports to be announcet right now? :)
I asked on Facebook. They said its opengl. Vulkan is coming later in the year, it wasn't clear if they are planning Vulkan for an unreleased game or for titles like Hitman and Dues Ex that have a DX12 back end already.
To clarify, we haven't announced what our first Vulkan game will be, nor a timescale of spring. We're aiming to get a Vulkan game out in the first half of this year.
If you got Vulkan tangled up with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, that's because we talked about Vulkan during a Deus Ex: Mankind Divided live stream. Which was nice and confusing, woo.
Please be Skyrim,please be Skyrim,it's already ported to Vulkan.
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This is great news.
So we now have Dirt Rally, Civ 6 and Hitman that are due to be released. I have never played any of the Hitman games so I am really looking forward to playing this one. I guess I will soon need to book a week of work.
2017 is shaping up to be a great year for us linux folks. Would just like to say thanks again to the folks at feral for their hard work.
So we now have Dirt Rally, Civ 6 and Hitman that are due to be released. I have never played any of the Hitman games so I am really looking forward to playing this one. I guess I will soon need to book a week of work.
2017 is shaping up to be a great year for us linux folks. Would just like to say thanks again to the folks at feral for their hard work.
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I think I need to do a mad panic over the next week to get some games finished so I have some time :D
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Quoting: liamdaweI think I need to do a mad panic over the next week to get some games finished so I have some time :D
Liam, LIAM we need...
We need more time...
Feral <3
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Mblackwell Feb 8, 2017
Eh, their next big port is probably Rise of the Tomb Raider, and that could very well be Vulkan although I wouldn't take that as sacrosanct.
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