All aboard the hype train, as Feral Interactive are setting off with a new native Linux game that's being teased on their port radar.
For their Tweet:
5PM on a Friday, we're getting ready for the
#BankHolidayWeekend to start, and the Feral Radar decides to kick into life with a new blip for macOS and Linux. Well, whatever. We'll fix that rusty old thing on Tuesday. Okay, bye!
Here it is:
"Working with fire and steel" huh—anyone got any thoughts? I have a lot that come to mind, but I don't think I've ever managed to guess a single one of them correctly, they're always a damn good surprise.
Really great to see more coming from Feral, I sure do hope they have more on the way too. They're a company that has supported Linux really well for a long time now, both in terms of games and wider community efforts.
What a week!
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: GuestQuoting: jensQuoting: GuestWhy would that be the case? That's not a stopping in the least.
For all intents and purposes the stream-output fuctionality can be emulated easily and it's not really needed by Vulkan.
Metal doesn't even has geometrt or (proper) tessellation shader support, but that has never been a blocker ;)
I'm just guessing based on the game engine and how DXVK progresses, I don't know the actual reasons what Feral is facing and I don't have the technical knowledge to say anything useful regarding implementation details. I could be very wrong.
Would you mind creating a PR to emulate stream-output functionality for DXVK? ;)
I would have already if I could. But as a programmer for Feral, I think you can understand why that would be inconvenient at the very least. ;)
Ah... I didn't know and I totally understand this. :) Furthermore I guess that I'm totally wrong with my first statement ;).
Thank you very much for your wonderful work at your company! Really looking forward to LiS:BTS (and hopefully Shadow of the Tomb Raider at some point)!
PS: I really hope that Steam Proton won't change that much for your revenues, I still think there is a healthy demand for your high-quality ports.
Last edited by jens on 31 August 2018 at 12:39 pm UTC
I'm serious. Did they say what they work on?
Mohandevir Sep 5, 2018
Quoting: DuncOkay, I'm calling it: Shadow of War. This isn't after hours of extensive research. It's actually been in the back of my head for a while, and on a whim I looked up its Wikipedia page this afternoon:
QuoteThe player continues the story of the ranger Talion and the spirit of the elf lord Celebrimbor, who shares Talion's body, as they forge a new Ring of PowerYes, yes, “fire and steel”, and the Ring is gold. But a forge is usually steel, and the background to the image seems to be gold. Plus Feral did Shadow of Mordor.
Not sure where the star comes in (I'm not a big Tolkein fan), but if I were a betting man, that's where my money would be right now.
Maybe because Celebrimbor is from house Feanor and the symbol of the House was an eight-rayed silver star (doesn't look the same though)?
Edit:
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/House_of_Fëanor
Last edited by Mohandevir on 5 September 2018 at 1:56 am UTC
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