Feral Interactive are teasing ANOTHER new Linux port

Hehe - gotta dig these little quizzes. And I'm impressed with the solutions some of you come up with!

Ultimately these teases are shooting themselves in the foot except in one situation: A day 1 (or soon after) Linux release. Then they can be as secretive as they want. Or if they reveal the game before it becomes for sale on Windows.

I would bet on subnautica, got it in a bundle a while ago and I just saw it in my library. It looked good when I saw the early access LPs and now it's fully finished and most bugs sorted out I thought I would try it out with steamplay.

You need to launch with -force-opengl and medium setting and borderless but runs practically flawlessly. Unfortunately it doesn't have vulkan but it seems it would be a real easy opengl port.

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

LiS2 is not set in Arcadia Bay though :S:


Last edited by Brisse on 22 September 2018 at 11:46 am UTC

Quoting: Brisse

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

LiS2 is not set in Arcadia Bay though :S:

Well if they put "Arcadia Bay" as the teaser, that would be so obvious it would have been pointless ;)

The Elder Scrolls VI: Linux Exclusive :-)

Quoting: fedotixIn my dreams, .....
Call OF Duty
Or
Battlefield
Or some good FPS ...

If you mean story based fps i agree we could use more.If you mean multiplayer there are plenty of death match fps games on linux. I would prefer a native version of warface rather than cod to be honest but i get cod and bf have more mainstream appeal.

But linux does have some good native fps games not all games have a narrative but most do (Bioshock infinite,metro and 2013 shadow warrior) theres also ironmaiden (indie classic fps style)Doom 3 Prey (2007 version) & Postal 2.

Quoting: lucifertdark

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.

Yes but deep silver are now owned by THQ Nordic, erm no they didnt they used VP to port saints row
https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/14/17011564/thq-nordic-koch-media-deep-silver-saints-row-homefront-dead-island


Last edited by Whitewolfe80 on 22 September 2018 at 2:19 pm UTC

Quoting: rea987

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?

But the thing is i have no idea if you watch it but the linuxgamecast are in regular contact with the guys that do the porting at Feral they seem to always know what games are coming the one thing the podcast confirmed is the software guys find the radar thing really really stupid but its the way the PR team have chosen to go.

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: rea987This 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?

But the thing is i have no idea if you watch it but the linuxgamecast are in regular contact with the guys that do the porting at Feral they seem to always know what games are coming the one thing the podcast confirmed is the software guys find the radar thing really really stupid but its the way the PR team have chosen to go.

If you look at the short list of companies that Feral currently works with and investigate their recent/back catalog, it is no mystery to figure out potential candidates. Some naive fellas keep yelling for Skyrim or GTA but in reality, there are always handful of financially lucrative titles, not more.

Quoting: rea987

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: rea987This 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?

But the thing is i have no idea if you watch it but the linuxgamecast are in regular contact with the guys that do the porting at Feral they seem to always know what games are coming the one thing the podcast confirmed is the software guys find the radar thing really really stupid but its the way the PR team have chosen to go.

If you look at the short list of companies that Feral currently works with and investigate their recent/back catalog, it is no mystery to figure out potential candidates. Some naive fellas keep yelling for Skyrim or GTA but in reality, there are always handful of financially lucrative titles, not more.

Yes you can but in reality its far far too soon for Tomb Raider there was almost three year gap between Tomb Raider 2013 on linux there was an 18 month window from Rise of tomb raider so its not that. Sega have no more total war games to bring over. Deep Silver are now owned by THQ Nordic they have so far ported one game to linux that been desperados on gog so status up in the Air Hitman 2 IO is now fully independent and as i said it depends if there decision to port Hitman was lucrative or not because if it wasnt we wont see Hitman 2 at least natively.

tomb raider runs OK with proton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubt4vrrh_E
but it would be interesting how the vulkan port can compete with it

i hope it is YAKUZA. i think ZERO and KIWAMI are very similar to port, so they would have 2 games

I'd like to point out that port after port after port is a sign of healthy business for Feral. I've also heard that they have Job Vacancies... Go "native" Linux games?

Quoting: appetrosyanI'd like to point out that port after port after port is a sign of healthy business for Feral. I've also heard that they have Job Vacancies... Go "native" Linux games?

But is it we have so much work we need more talent or is it in house talent hitting the abandon ship button

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Hitman 2 IO is now fully independent and as i said it depends if there decision to port Hitman was lucrative or not because if it wasnt we wont see Hitman 2 at least natively.

They made a deal with Warner Bros to publish Hitman 2. Good news about that is that Feral has worked with them before in games like Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor.

Quoting: Brisse

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Hitman 2 IO is now fully independent and as i said it depends if there decision to port Hitman was lucrative or not because if it wasnt we wont see Hitman 2 at least natively.

They made a deal with Warner Bros to publish Hitman 2. Good news about that is that Feral has worked with them before in games like Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor.

Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50


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Quoting: mylkatomb raider runs OK with proton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qubt4vrrh_E
but it would be interesting how the vulkan port can compete with it

i hope it is YAKUZA. i think ZERO and KIWAMI are very similar to port, so they would have 2 games

I'd love to see some of the recent remakes SEGA has published on Steam. Yakuza or Shenmue would be outstanding additions to our catalogue.

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: appetrosyanI'd like to point out that port after port after port is a sign of healthy business for Feral. I've also heard that they have Job Vacancies... Go "native" Linux games?

But is it we have so much work we need more talent or is it in house talent hitting the abandon ship button

I think if it were the latter, we would be getting fewer releases.

Quoting: appetrosyan

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: appetrosyanI'd like to point out that port after port after port is a sign of healthy business for Feral. I've also heard that they have Job Vacancies... Go "native" Linux games?

But is it we have so much work we need more talent or is it in house talent hitting the abandon ship button

I think if it were the latter, we would be getting fewer releases.

I agree it could be that for sure and i would like it to be but there is always that nagging doubt they have no business model without companies wanting ports, Steam play is big new variable. Ah well maybe am wrong and Feral goes from strength to strength I mean they deserve it Ryan C gordon pretty much was linux gaming(including his work with loki) until fereal.aspyr and vp and then later valve arrived.

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: CoolitThat's awesome,

Although I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for ports of either Skyrim, Fallout 4 or Witcher 3 in the future :D

Witcher 3 is almost perfectly playable with DXVK. Only stream output support in Vulkan drivers is missing and perhaps a little more optimization and it will be more or less the same experience as on Windows 10.

Skyrim Special Edition should be perfectly playable as well once the audio issues get fixed. Graphically DXVK runs it very well.

Fallout 4 is somewhat worse than Skyrim, but i suppose given a little time will be a good experience as well.

So porting those 3 would be a wasted effort in my opinion.

I fully agree also dont see a world in which Zenimax suddenly goes back on a bunch of linux unfriendly design decisions and then randomly embraces linux and launches skyrim fallout 4 and future games on linux. I imagine the only scenario that happens is that tomorrow morning every copy of windows and mac os bricks leaving only linux and the world is forced onto the linux platform for everything then in that case expect native ports of Bethesda games.