This is really awesome news, Nightdive Studios have released Forsaken Remastered, an updated version of the 1998 shooter with Linux support today.
Note: Personal purchase.
Direct Link
About the game:
Developed by Probe Entertainment and Iguana Entertainment and first released in 1998 for PlayStation, PC and Nintendo 64, Forsaken was a vision of a dystopian future where science has gone out of control. Scavengers from all over the known worlds have come to Earth to loot the remains of the technology that can found in underground tunnels. But beware! You must fight your way past automated defenses and the scum of the universe to find the treasures hidden on each level.
Forsaken is a 3D first-person shooter in which the player has complete 360-degree range of freedom. In a far-off future you play as a scavenger searching through the underground tunnels for weapons and treasures. But you face dangers from automated defense systems and other scavengers.
What's new over the original version? Well it's quite a list including support for widescreen and 4K monitors, smooth movement for 144hz displays, MSAA and SMAA anti aliasing, ambient occlusion and motion blur effects, enhanced and improved particle effects.
In addition, they've also included levels and enemies previously found in the Nintendo 64 version of the game, as well as unlockable bonus levels not seen in the original game.
There's online play for up to 16 players with free for all, capture the flag, team deathmatch and more modes.
Another fantastic release to see on Linux, also another one I never got a chance to play originally so it's awesome that we get to play it through too. I'm hoping Nightdive continue pushing out more remasters like this, so that we can continue building up our list of awesome classic titles.
The Linux version sadly isn't on GOG yet, only Steam. Will let you know when it is on GOG and any other store.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Strife Veteran Edition was my favorite game that I played in 2017 that was SP and these guys made that happen to.
I am going to keep my eye on this one for when the GOG version makes it's way.
Seems fine for me the few keys I tried or are you trying a controller/joystick ?
Just keyboard. Anyway, you can set them by editing $HOME/.local/share/Nightdive Studios/Forsaken EX/kexengine.cfg
Another workaround for me :P
slaapliedje 1 Aug 2018
Luke_Nukem 1 Aug 2018
Nice but where is my System Shock: Enhanced Edition for Linux? :D
[Here](https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/shockolate-is-a-new-cross-platform-source-port-of-system-shock-1.11962/)
freerunnerlive 1 Aug 2018
From twitter it seems that it was done with help by Ryan "Icculus" Gordon.
Ahh. I remember him complaining about others complaining about the pricing of a port.
It must be this then.
More than 15 EUR even with discount included is too much imho.
I'd say 10 or 8 EUR would be a good pricing.
lucifertdark 1 Aug 2018
https://github.com/ForsakenX/forsaken/ ?
Yes, the main page is here for them
[http://fly.thruhere.net/](http://fly.thruhere.net/)
The remastered version is slightly different as it has extra levels/UI update among other things
:(
No go for AMD users by the looks of it
Tried the usual mesa overides with no luck
Edit:
Sussed it
Mesa users addMESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=150 %command%to the start options!
@liamdawe Might be an idea to add it to the article for fellow oss users
Bug fixed yesterday! No need to add anything to start options with Mesa.
Also, the binding crash was fixed too!
Ah, thanks! Good to know.https://github.com/ForsakenX/forsaken/ ?
Yes, the main page is here for them
[http://fly.thruhere.net/](http://fly.thruhere.net/)
The remastered version is slightly different as it has extra levels/UI update among other things
Vulkan incoming: https://twitter.com/SVKaiser/status/1025115114788347904
ATI ????
They ain't been about since 2007 ish ;)
Vulkan would be great because my current card uses a massive 15-20 watts whilst playing this and doesn't even bother on upping the GPU/Mem clocks either.
:P
Avehicle7887 8 Aug 2018
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 8 Aug 2018 at 10:40 pm UTC
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