Feral Interactive are teasing ANOTHER new Linux port

Quoting: scaineSeagulls and Aurora. Isn't there an Aurora in Subnautica? And seagulls would make sense...?

It has issues under Steamplay too. Fingers crossed for this.

I wish! This is a game I've been wanting to play for a long time.

I really Hope it's Life IS Strange 2 or the new tomb Raider

Metro Exodus - The Aurora Trailer

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

I must confess to a little bit of confusion here.

Does anyone actually *know* that there is one or several existing NDA(s) that prevents Feral from saying which linux ports they are currently working on, forcing them to resort to hints and vague suggestions. Or is this just general speculation, that such NDA(s) might possibly exist, or just as likely might not?

I have no idea to what extent NDAs are used in the gaming buisness, nor in what situations they might be viewed as unnessecary or irrelevamt to the situation in question.


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Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: jens

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWith Proton doing a good job for the gaming on Linux, Feral really should STOP with these silly things and just announce the games.

As far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

On-topic: F1 2018, Life is Strange2, Hitman 2 or Shadow of the Tomb Raider would fit with Feral's history, though no clue from the hints.

Then don't announce anything until the NDA expires.

I agree with Comandante Ñoñardo, at this point in time, it seems a bit silly to start these guessing games.

Then why not just ignore this thread?

Quoting: aldyMetro Exodus - The Aurora Trailer

The Metro games are published by Deep Silver, they have their own porting team & it's not Feral. I think Liam may have hit the nail on the head with this one though, LiS2.

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoWith Proton doing a good job for the gaming on Linux, Feral really should STOP with these silly things and just announce the games.

This is called PR. If Feral announces whole list of titles that it has been contacted, that would make a shit storm for couple weeks and after that people will forget about them. By doing that, they keep the interest in a certain point which is much better for awareness. People keep wondering and talking about it which is basically free publicity. Got it?

Quoting: Feist

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

I must confess to a little bit of confusion here.

Does anyone actually *know* that there is one or several existing NDA(s) that prevents Feral from saying which linux ports they are currently working on, forcing them to resort to hints and vague suggestions. Or is this just general speculation, that such NDA(s) might possibly exist, or just as likely might not?

I have no idea to what extent NDAs are used in the gaming buisness, nor in what situations they might be viewed as unnessecary or irrelevamt to the situation in question.

I thought that I read it somewhere here or in their twitter feed that they announce as soon as they are allowed to do so and that the radar is a way to give some hint before that point in time.

I cannot find a reason why it should be otherwise, especially now with Steam Play I guess you would want to announce as soon as possible. No idea though what a reason could be to withhold an announcement, may be that negotiations are not finalized? Dunno..

In Arma series you become a bird if you have a cracked copy...
Ark????? too late!
There’s a game called Aurora 4X...
Oh, maybe Far cry 5???

Quoting: evergreenIn Arma series you become a bird if you have a cracked copy...
Ark????? too late!
There’s a game called Aurora 4X...
Oh, maybe Far cry 5???

So you become a bird and just run/(fly?) around waiting for people to shoot you? Sounds fun, especially if your trigger button makes you squawk.

Quoting: Feist

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

I must confess to a little bit of confusion here.

Does anyone actually *know* that there is one or several existing NDA(s) that prevents Feral from saying which linux ports they are currently working on, forcing them to resort to hints and vague suggestions. Or is this just general speculation, that such NDA(s) might possibly exist, or just as likely might not?

I have no idea to what extent NDAs are used in the gaming buisness, nor in what situations they might be viewed as unnessecary or irrelevamt to the situation in question.

Yes, they've explicitly said so in the comments on GOL.

Quoting: LeopardWell ,let's narrown down list to SquareEnix , SEGA before jumping into conclusions.


Fuck it ; Skyrim!

I think i can narrow it down~

1.) Aurora -> aurora borealis -> can only be seen in the north = Nordic -> Nordic Games = THQ
2.) Seagulls = birds -> Ravens are also birds -> Blood Ravens -> Dawn of War = Original Dawn of War confirmed!

There you go~

its PACMAN, it just has too be. so obvious

Quoting: sevenits PACMAN, it just has too be. so obvious

Finally! After all these years the package manager of Arch will finally be native. So tired of running that shit through Wine. So thankful for Feral right now.

Quoting: qptain Nemo

Quoting: sevenits PACMAN, it just has too be. so obvious

Finally! After all these years the package manager of Arch will finally be native. So tired of running that shit through Wine. So thankful for Feral right now.

You might still get better FPS with it on Windows though...

Yep is Shadow of the Tomb Raider or Hitman™ 2.

Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: Patola

Quoting: jensAs far as I know they announce as soon as they are allowed to. You know what an NDA is?

I will tell you what it is not: it is no excuse from criticisms.

Then you should criticize the one forcing Feral to sign the NDA and not Feral who have no choice what so ever in the matter (other than not signing a NDA and thus not porting the game either).

I think that would be an intentional decision comes from Feral.

Remember they announced Batman Arkham Knight for Mac / Linux and got cancelled?

No the requirement to sign a NDA comes from the publisher. Feral and Linux is the very very small dog in this play so there is just no way that they approach a big publisher like Square with not only the crazy notion of doing a Linux port but also require that Square would sign a NDA not telling any body that Feral is porting a specific game.

It's the publishers that require such a NDA, as for exactly why we can only speculate but considering all the other insane stuff that some publishers are up to I'm not 100% sure that there exists what we would call a logical reason.

Quoting: liamdaweFrom reddit: "It's propably LIS2. Aurora Creek was the original name of arcadia bay."

And then I googled to find this: http://life-is-strange.wikia.com/wiki/File:BtS_Aurora_Creek.jpg

Seems pretty solid to be Life is Strange 2. Unless Feral are trying to throw us off :P

Yep, I just did the same search and raced over here to post it... so much for that, haha :)

Sounds like a pretty solid lead since you'd find seagulls near the Arcadia Bay.

Quoting: Dunc“Aurora” is Latin for “dawn” or “sunrise”. But the only thing I can think of is the Dawn of War series, and (as far as I know) they're all already out on Linux. Also, they're rather light on seagulls.

Well, with that information, my guess is Grim Dawn.

Feral work on two linux games "working with fire and steel" and "Aurora" :D

Two new games is good Tomb Raider and Hitman ^^


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