Many asked, now Feral Interactive have answered. Rise of the Tomb Raider [Steam] is officially on the way to Linux! What a fantastic way to start a Tuesday with news like this! It still amazes me to this day that Linux will have games like this, very happy with the news!
Feral aren't saying exactly when it will arrive, but they had a tweet out that said "This Winter" which has since been deleted (Edit: replaced with this one). You can see the official confirmation on their official site which now says "This spring", so it could be here sometime between March and late June.
The advantage of getting a game later than Windows, is we get the 20 Year Celebration edition which has all the DLC.
For those wondering, it will indeed use Vulkan on Linux! This is confirmed at the bottom of the Features page on the mini-site.
Here's the trailer Feral put up:
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The game has been loved by reviewers and users alike, so it looks like it will be a solid hit for Linux gamers after more Lara. It takes the first game and makes nearly all aspects of it bigger and better than before, including more actual Tombs.
It seems this is the game that has replaced the previous Linux port teaser of "O VAIN ILLUSION OF GLORY AND GRANDEUR" that was put up back in October of last year. We still have to discover the game behind the "It's just a shot away" teaser that was put up in January, so there's more on the way remember!
Are you hyped? Let us know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: evergreenQuoting: EikeQuoting: evergreenok, I don’t like games like this, but I bought it to support feral and to test vulkan. yahoooooo!!!
While this is a great idea, AFAIK you should wait until the release, or Feral will not get any money. I think you should give it back for now. (What's the word? Recash?)
Oh, allright, I’ll refund it and put it in my wishlist.
refund opened. I wrote so:
I bought this game to support feral’s linux porting project.If it’s so then I’d keep the game. Elsewere I would ask the refund and buy it later when it’s definitly out for linux. Kind regards
Quoting: EikeQuoting: evergreenok, I don’t like games like this, but I bought it to support feral and to test vulkan. yahoooooo!!!
While this is a great idea, AFAIK you should wait until the release, or Feral will not get any money. I think you should give it back for now. (What's the word? Recash?)
Going with this theory, if I purchase F1 2017 on sale now at Steam does Feral see any of those funds??? Checked the Feral site and its full price $59 and I just can't afford that much...
Quoting: GuestQuoting: PacelineQuoting: EikeQuoting: evergreenok, I don’t like games like this, but I bought it to support feral and to test vulkan. yahoooooo!!!
While this is a great idea, AFAIK you should wait until the release, or Feral will not get any money. I think you should give it back for now. (What's the word? Recash?)
Going with this theory, if I purchase F1 2017 on sale now at Steam does Feral see any of those funds??? Checked the Feral site and its full price $59 and I just can't afford that much...
It's more that Rise of the Tomb Raider isn't actually released for GNU/Linux yet. F1 is. So Feral should see something from the steam sale right now, but until Rise of the Tomb Raider is out, they won't see anything for that.
Thanks for that info. I would rather have all funds goto Feral so I've signed up for their newsletter and will look for sales directly from them.
linux_gamer Feb 17, 2018
lucifertdark Feb 18, 2018
ps I'm not buying it till I see an official release announcement from Feral, I've made that mistake in the past.
Last edited by lucifertdark on 18 February 2018 at 9:44 am UTC
Quoting: evergreenok, I don’t like games like this, but I bought it to support feral and to test vulkan. yahoooooo!!!Why would they need to? The game already runs on Linux and is arguably more native then their ports. It isn't very well optimized and has some bugs but that's just ark on all platforms
ps. any hope feral can put hands on Ark survival evolved?
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