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PayPalFeral Interactive are wanting to know what games you want ported to Linux, hopefully taking your requests into real consideration.
See their Tweet below:
Denizens of Linux! Feed #THEREQUESTINATOR so our engineers can see all your requests in one place. Use the tag and you will be processed! pic.twitter.com/OHM6UWHPNN
— Feral Interactive (@feralgames) August 11, 2017
They also asked on Facebook and Reddit.
It will be interesting to see if any of the user requests actually get ported. I am always sceptical of things like this, as it's essentially a hype machine for Feral and it doesn't necessarily mean anything will get ported as a result of requests there. Just keep that in mind when wildly requesting ports. Even so, it's a bit of fun and I am excited to see what Feral bring out over the rest of the year and beyond.
I've seen people constantly ask Feral about porting BioShock Remastered to Linux previous to this, but each request is met with the usual "we have nothing to share" type of reply. Considering it's a popular pick, I hope they look into that one. I would certainly appreciate BioShock Remastered on Linux!
So far it seems Doom, Bioshock and The Witcher 3 are popular choices.
What would you like to see?
Would have written this up four hours ago when I replied to their tweet, but updating some of the site code seemed to make time vanish!
QuoteRestricted update cycle - the beta ports have been updated to version 1.64, but we are not yet sure when they will be updated in the future.
Last time I checked windows where on 1.68 and that was about 6 month ago.
And the Linux port hade probably been out and on 1.64 for 6 month already.
This beta, I only think it's a test bohemien are doing. See if they can and how well it runs on linux/mac.
I also believe I read somewhere to not buy the Linux port. Cause they aren't sure they will officially support it in the future.
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Why?
- Both games were developed by Codemasters, which are keen to let Feral Interactive make Linux ports of their games.
- Both games run on EGO engine, just like rest of Codemasters newer games. Feral already have experience with porting games from this engine.
- OFP: Dragon Rising does have custom map support. I think it could be problematic to port Mission Editor also, but many Steam games do not have editor ports (for example Half Life 2 and Serious Sam 3), so not having native editor is not a problem (I believe it could work through Wine, of course without official Feral support). But there are lots of custom missions made for this game already, if we would get the Dragon Rising port then we would get also access to hundreds of user made missions. Win-win!
- games are from 2009 and 2011 so I believe more people will be able to run these ports as system requierments shouldn't be as big issue as with newer titles from last 1-2-3 years. Graphics still looks good enough.
- Both games were underrated, too many people did compare these to Arma series because of OFP title simulation legacy. In fact, both games are fun as is, but certainly are not simulators. After all these years I believe people already see this fact and would treat both games more gently, at least we Linux community could. :) I think Linux does lack these kind of games because Arma 3 beta is military simulator, these two OFP games look more like Battlefield series but are concentrated on coop and playing against enemy AI, max to 4 players coop (and I think we don't need more).
- MP PvP also exists, looks similar to the one from Battlefield series, but is much slower
The only issue I see about porting these games is that master servers are down, but OFP community were for last couple of years using Hamachi (which free version is enough for 4 players coop) to play online and Hamachi does work great on Linux too, see this: https://www.haguichi.net/
Just check out this trailer, this is how some night mission really work in this game (in coop!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYAdRQZduqA
Feral, please make it happen! :)
Quoting: liamdawelooks like they didnt got the message, people are replying here instead of on twitter...
lucifertdark Aug 13, 2017
Quoting: elmapulI don't have a Twitter account & my Facebag account is all but dead, I just can't be bothered with the Antisocial Media these days.Quoting: liamdawelooks like they didnt got the message, people are replying here instead of on twitter...
Quoting: lucifertdarki made an account just to vote on the games i want, its that or not have the games at allQuoting: elmapulI don't have a Twitter account & my Facebag account is all but dead, I just can't be bothered with the Antisocial Media these days.Quoting: liamdawelooks like they didnt got the message, people are replying here instead of on twitter...
Anders1232 Aug 13, 2017
The Witcher 3
Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga(and other lego games)
Injustice: Gods among us
Trackmania 2 Stadium(and other trackmania games)
Skyrim
Batman: Arkham knight(and other Batman Arkham games)
Supreme Commander 2(and forged alliance)
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