Feral Interactive are teasing ANOTHER new Linux port

Quoting: Whitewolfe80

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.

Or, steam threatening to ban them,for not permitting us to use the already-existing native (more native than SDL ported versions of old games.

Quoting: Arehandoro

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.

shenmue should run with a workaround according to this
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/758330

so does yakuza, i just saw
https://spcr.netlify.com/app/638970

but lets see what ferals ported

Star Citizen...never ending Story

Let it be Hitman! For once i have enough money to buy a game at release price!

A bit OT: hopefully devs will have a system to tell Valve which of their games get ported. These new wine scripts, while great for playing old games, are very bad news for people that port games. And that is sadly most of the "big" linux games, except few cross platform friendly studios like Croteam, and some crowdfounded games, like PoE.

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50

Batman: Arkham Night had quite bad initial reception on Windows. It took them months to make it playable, but it already got a lot of bad press by that time. My guess is, that their decision to cancel the port was because of that, rather than some problems with Feral Interactive.

Quoting: ivant

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50

Batman: Arkham Night had quite bad initial reception on Windows. It took them months to make it playable, but it already got a lot of bad press by that time. My guess is, that their decision to cancel the port was because of that, rather than some problems with Feral Interactive.

The game is quite demanding and Vulkan wasn't yet an option at that time, I guess it simply didn't performed when being translated to OpenGL. The initial bad reception certainly didn't helped either.


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Shadow of War would be nice, since it's not working with Proton. Time seems to me ideal, game is finally completed with microtransactions removed and Definitive Edition available.

Quoting: ivant

Quoting: Whitewolfe80Potentially good news but WB did kill Batman after approving feral to port it so 50/50

Batman: Arkham Night had quite bad initial reception on Windows. It took them months to make it playable, but it already got a lot of bad press by that time. My guess is, that their decision to cancel the port was because of that, rather than some problems with Feral Interactive.

No i wasnt saying it was a problem with Feral i am saying they pulled the plug after Feral had fixed a bunch of game bugs and had begun to work on a stable linux port and WB just pulled the plug.

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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.

I'd forgotten about that one. But again... seagulls?

Hypothesis1: Seabirds on the picture have not to be interpreted as seagulls but albatros, the sea sheperd is one of the numerous surname of albatros. Aurora is the name of a ship used in Mass Effect.

Hypothesis2: A Flock of Seagulls Aurora Borealis is a group of space new age music. Some game in space

--> from those two hypotheses, I would bet on SUBNAUTICA ! The spaceship name is Aurora. I ENJOY is it was such a native port! Best game from the last year for sure !

Hypothesis3: the HMS Seagull is a Danish brig-sloop allied to France during Napoleonic wars that captured, among others, the HMS Aurora from the British and received money from France for that capture. So Pirates, Napoleonic wars, North seas ... ?


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