Feral Interactive are teasing a brand new native Linux port

I do not think it is three kingdoms, because according to the steam page it is not due for release until spring of 2019, so I doubt it would be on the feral radar this early.

Fire and Steel -> Napoleon.
The eight pointed star is probably a reference to the Union Jack, so I would imagine they're porting Waterloo.

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.

Quality over quantity for sure, I 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

Sorry to hear that. The game worked perfectly for me and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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.

My guess is that Ferals is also waiting for a DX stream-output like feature to get into Vulkan specifications and drivers.

Eight pointed stars were used fairly heavily in ancient Christianity. The represented baptism and also were a symbol used by the Knights Templar.

In certain orientations, eight pointed stars could also represent either Satan or the Egyptian goddess Isis. Hopefully this helps someone smarter and more informed than me figure it out.

Do I even need to say how obvious it is that this is Skyrim?

Clearly, I do.

It's going to be Total War: Three Kingdoms, isn't it? *sigh*

Don't get me wrong, that's great for fans of the series, it's just that we already have a bunch of games from the series on Linux, I would much rather see Feral port something different.

Oh well, I won't buy it but hopefully it sells well for Feral.

Maybe it's Skyrim. Wouldn't that be ironic now that you can play Skyrim in Steam for Linux using Proton.

do you guys thinks there is a small possibility of Shadow of War being ported?. I mean it has Denuvo. First they have to drop Denuvo. I don't think they will release a Denuvo free version for Linux before Windows drops it.

Thats what they did for mad max

My guess is Valkyria Chronicles 4!!!

It will be released a the end of September, Sega has a couple of native Linux games and Valkyria Chronicles has been updated on my PC for no reason today (installed with Proton).

So I bet on Valkyria Chronicles 4 (and I hope an updated native Valkyria Chronicles or official Proton Valkyria Chronicles, since it already works with Proton, except for a couple of crashes).

:)

Don't have a guess for a game, but noting a small coincidence that might help someone to come up with one:

The words "Working With Fire And Steel" are title and lyrics from a song by China Crisis.
The star symbol has 8 points, and the number 8 symbolizes "Lucky" in Chinese culture.

Then something stupid popped up in my head - Don't say we're going to get Shadow Warrior 2 ?? (and other than Chinese game content, there is no other link to the items I stated earlier.)

EDIT:

One of the things that Lo Wang, the character from Shadow Warrior 2, says in the game is "Do you feel Lucky? ...."
Well, do I feel lucky?? :)


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a symbol used by the Knights Templar.

It's never going to be an Assassin's Creed game, but let the speculation begin... :D

Kinda hoping it will be Middle Earth: Shadow of War.

a symbol used by the Knights Templar.

It's never going to be an Assassin's Creed game, but let the speculation begin... :D

Black Wind, Fire and Steel is a song by Manowar. Black Wind blows on black flags. And that star has 8 points, like a sailor's compass. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag confirmed.

;)


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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.

What are you doing with games? Debugging them just for fun or professional?

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.

Sounds like some leftover demo lines copied from MSDN. ;)

i have no clue, but as much as this "guess the game" game is fun, i think they should stop making it now that valve announced proton.

just think about it, if an game start to working on linux before they finish their port, many people will buy it before the game even get ported.
if they dont even announce what they are porting, many people will start troubleshooting it on wine, as if there isnt tomorrow (as if the game would never be ported otherwise)

so when they finish the port, they may earn almost nothing!

Maybe it's Skyrim. Wouldn't that be ironic now that you can play Skyrim in Steam for Linux using Proton.

As far as I know, you can't play Skyrim using Proton yet. Or am I wrong?

i have no clue, but as much as this "guess the game" game is fun, i think they should stop making it now that valve announced proton.

just think about it, if an game start to working on linux before they finish their port, many people will buy it before the game even get ported.
if they dont even announce what they are porting, many people will start troubleshooting it on wine, as if there isnt tomorrow (as if the game would never be ported otherwise)

so when they finish the port, they may earn almost nothing!

As far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to do so by the original publisher/developer. The radar is a way to give some hints for upcoming games they are not yet allowed to talk about.


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Maybe Red Faction: Guerrilla ReMarstered Edition?!

Deus Ex, Hitman, Tomb Raider, XCOM, Life is Strange, Dawn of War, Mad Max, F12017, Dirt Rally and probably more I forgot about.

I agree, Feral is very eclectic and, I think, tries to satisfy everyone. I know many people get a computer for FPSes, however, so that's maybe something people are dissatisfied with on Linux...

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.

What are you doing with games? Debugging them just for fun or professional?

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.

Sounds like some leftover demo lines copied from MSDN. ;)

Since i didn't see any smiley , emoji after your first sentence-quote i'm in an urge to say this:

He is the dev of DXVK.