Feral Interactive are teasing a brand new native Linux port

Skyrim, obviously, like all the previous teasers.

With people now being able to buy and play (many) Windows games on Steam so easily, these teasers are not going to do Feral any favours.

Feral - just say what the port is so people know whether to wait.

Many of us make a point of buying in such a way that the porter is guaranteed to get something out of it. If we buy a non-native game now, sure it gets flagged as a Linux sale to the publisher, but when a native port comes out later, Feral get nothing out of it.

I was thinking about what new Total War game it could be.......

It's Skyrim or other forging game.
I want to be a Darksiders 2 or Dark Souls 3 too.


Last edited by deathxxx on 24 August 2018 at 6:42 pm UTC

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWith people now being able to buy and play (many) Windows games on Steam so easily, these teasers are not going to do Feral any favours.

Feral - just say what the port is so people know whether to wait.

Many of us make a point of buying in such a way that the porter is guaranteed to get something out of it. If we buy a non-native game now, sure it gets flagged as a Linux sale to the publisher, but when a native port comes out later, Feral get nothing out of it.

Maybe that's why they say "We'll fix that rusty old thing on Tuesday." The guessing game in itself is funny but might be damaging if it lasts too long...

I'm always excited for feral games. but I don't really like total war games ._.

Quoting: Zappor

Quoting: riusma"Working with fire and steel" is a song from China Crisis... there is always a song in the clue!

China you say? Guess it's Total War: THREE KINGDOMS then.

Would be nice to see the series continued on Linux, however I personally would prefer something different.

Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Zappor

Quoting: riusma"Working with fire and steel" is a song from China Crisis... there is always a song in the clue!

China you say? Guess it's Total War: THREE KINGDOMS then.

Would be nice to see the series continued on Linux, however I personally would prefer something different.

Not going to blame Feral about the situation, I highly respect all the work they have done from day one, but it feels like it's hard to get ports outside of these 2 or 3 franchises for which they have developped all the tools for a smooth porting process. I guess the AAA studios they used to make deals with are harder to convince compared to what it was back in 2014-2015... We all know why.

Edit: Weird formulation.


Last edited by Mohandevir on 24 August 2018 at 8:07 pm UTC

Hope for Middle Earth Shadow of War or Shadow of the Tomb Raider :D

I think Feral must stop doing this porting zapping..

They should concentrate the porting skills in one game at a time..

Now they must focus in the ultra super delayed Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

Frostpunk

Quoting: ExpalphalogThe most obvious thing to spring to mind is Starforge (Star from the picture, Forge from the description) but considering that game is old, everyone hated it, and I think it's even free now, I doubt that's what they are teasing.

'Starforge' brings to mind KotOR 1 -- which is long overdue for a native version on Linux.

Please Please M&B bannerlords :-).

Battlefield 5 :D

Not gonna happen but would be nice .

Quoting: GuestI actually didn't complete Rise of The Tomb Raider because the FPS drops I find nauseating, and I'm not an FPS snob and can tolerate some lower degrees of performance here and there, I get drops in the native linux version of Ruiner but I don't really notice it much, but that's a top-down shooter with fixed camera.. in rise of tomb raider it just makes me feel sea sick though :-\

But the port is actually good, and get 60fps is majority of the game but there seem to be alot of spots that just drop in performance randomly.

Not to say the port wasn't quality, who knows it could be a problem on my end but I wasn't able to maintain solid 60fps and the drops personally found unbearable enough to put me off completing it.. would be great to see some more patches for the game because I think with enough love it could perform better

Did you perhaps happen to play with Nvidia driver 396.18 and <16gb of RAM? Because there was a nasty bug that meant a lot of swapping and slowdowns if that's the case. Feral worked around the bug in an early patch and it worked fine for me afterwards, and with more recent drivers the bug should be solved anyway. (I played with a loaner 4gb GTX 1050, I doubt my own 2gb 960 would do as well.)

Quoting: DuncBut I don't really follow games that aren't already on Linux very closely, so I'm struggling to think of recent ones with “forge” in the title.

I'm in the same boat. First title that comes to mind is Demon's Forge but that's PS3-era.


Last edited by Salvatos on 24 August 2018 at 8:36 pm UTC

I'd love to see Middle Earth Shadow of War as well.

Quoting: liamdaweWould be nice to see the series continued on Linux, however I personally would prefer something different.

This is kind of my main gripe with Feral as well, it's great to get stuff ported over, but they are doing mostly stuff that I personally don't care about. At all.

The Tomb Raider franchise being an exception. I hope they'll do Shadow of the Tomb Raider as well, and within a few months of the Windows release at most.

Quoting: mylkaFrostpunk

Doubt it (and it already runs nicely on Wine anyway, at least the GOG version), but if anyone ever ports the game to Linux, they are in for a ride, filled with lots and lots of facepalm moments.

This game has one of the most inefficient renderers I've seen in my life. It's deferred, and for its lighting pass it renders spheres with hundreds of polygons, which results in lots and lots of triangles that only cover one or two pixels. Goodbye performance.

Their UI renderer is even worse. They switch between multiple render targets and apply some blur effect for every single HUD/UI element they render, meaning that there are hundreds of expensive render target switches per frame, just to render a small quad each time.

And it doesn't stop there. While the game itself uses D3D11, when starting the game, it actually initializes and renders one black frame using D3D9 (!). Just to instantly destroy the D3D9 device again and switch over to 11. For absolutely no goddamn reason. This is even more stupid than some Japanese games I had to deal with.

Rant over. Great game, but damn, that engine is awful.


Last edited by YoRHa-2B on 24 August 2018 at 9:22 pm UTC

Quoting: Zappor

Quoting: riusma"Working with fire and steel" is a song from China Crisis... there is always a song in the clue!

China you say? Guess it's Total War: THREE KINGDOMS then.

Big fan of anything three kingdoms related. Would buy that on day one.

Also, I added that game to my Steam wish-list so they know that I am interested in a Linux version.

Quoting: gojulI'd love to see Middle Earth Shadow of War as well.

Same. I should get around to finishing the first one before that one is ported over.