If it wasn't enough that Feral Interactive are porting Life is Strange 2, Total War: WARHAMMER II and Total War: THREE KINGDOMS to Linux they're also teasing another new Linux port. They also only asked a few days ago to send port requests to them so they're really quite busy for us lately.
Popping up on their port teaser radar today was this "CRYPTIC OBSCURITY":
It's currently sat in the "Quite Soon" part of their radar, not that it really means all that much as it's very ambiguous but it is always a good bit of fun. I've said before how I hoped they would start announcing things sooner, looks like they're going to do so since they've announced multiple titles only in the last few months and now we're here again.
I honestly can't imagine what Linux gaming would be like without the titles Feral has ported, hope to see this continue for many years to come.
So grab your thinking caps, brew up something tasty and start your guessing.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 16, 2018
Considering that a windows game purchased on the Steam Linux client and played via Proton counts as a Linux sale, I wonder if Feral is getting their cut right now for Life is Strange 2 running on Proton, just because they have the publishing rights for Linux.
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Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 16, 2018
No more Warhammer please!And If it is Warhammer 40000 Space Marine?
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benjamimgois Nov 16, 2018
Please feral, we love your work ! but no more warhammer and tomb raider games ! give us something fresh
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It would be awesome to see like overwatch, black ops 4, rainbow six siege or battlefield v become officially supported on Linux. We need a killer shooter with native support that doesn’t require us to have to use windows to play.
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Considering that a windows game purchased on the Steam Linux client and played via Proton counts as a Linux sale, I wonder if Feral is getting their cut right now for Life is Strange 2 running on Proton, just because they have the publishing rights for Linux.
Once they announce the port, they get a part (at least that's what Liam said once).
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I wonder if this means that the next time Feral announces a Requestinator then they might have another title sitting in the pipeline.
As much as the Feral Radar clue is looking 100% for SotTR - I still remember the time that it looked like another clue was 100% Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
As much as the Feral Radar clue is looking 100% for SotTR - I still remember the time that it looked like another clue was 100% Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice.
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preludelinux Nov 16, 2018
hmm just a tad cryptic, saving the image and zooming in looks like letters / numbers an x and trees, almost looks like one of those CAPTCHA tests embedded in the image hehe . i would guess tomb raider , loading image in darktable and shifting contrast. looks like a chin of a face , face and eye . words i cant make out. nabillo and maggak well there words .. ??? possible more letters under the mac and linux symbols.
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I already know that will be a Shadow of the Tomb Raider,
but i want to be SkyrimSE, or Elder Scrolls 6.
But also i know, they will never port SkyrimSE, because it will get fixed XAudio with FAudio/b and [b]SteamPlay.
but i want to be SkyrimSE, or Elder Scrolls 6.
But also i know, they will never port SkyrimSE, because it will get fixed XAudio with FAudio/b and [b]SteamPlay.
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Woot - no "stop wasting time and release the games faster" type posts? That's real progress, folks! :-D
And yeah this smells like Tomb Raider. Personally I'm hoping for a new AAA franchise but Lara is an obvious purchase.
Last edited by Beamboom on 16 November 2018 at 7:35 am UTC
And yeah this smells like Tomb Raider. Personally I'm hoping for a new AAA franchise but Lara is an obvious purchase.
Last edited by Beamboom on 16 November 2018 at 7:35 am UTC
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watching OS/2 disappear when it basically became redundant
FWIW, OS/2 hasn't completely disappeared:
https://www.arcanoae.com/
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Marc Di Luzio Nov 16, 2018
Y'all need to be better sleuths...
Reverse tineye search: https://tineye.com/search/453e5f9b31f3631fc5c6dc77b6bac629035a3dd7/
Gives this 404 flickr page: "photos/20823146@N04/"
Googling that string however gives us "Lemurian Grove"'s since deleted flickr account.
A google image search for that "grove", however, gives us multiple matching images: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Lemurian+Grove&client=ubuntu&hs=Kqe&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiey7y44djeAhWmJMAKHRk_AAwQ_AUIDigB&biw=1280&bih=1300#imgrc=_. I suspect this user took photos at the place in question.
Not much info is available about this "grove", but based on this soundcloud account we can make a guess they're in San Jose.
Finding anything related to Lemurian in San Jose points to This "herbals" shop.
Lemuria is also a lost land in the Indian or Pacific ocean, like Atlantis.
Based on all of this, I reckon the game in question is none other than the most cryptically obscure Weed Shop 2. With the Atlantis DLC.
I hope this helps.
For reals though that sleuthing (based on which articles the image search popped up) pointed to it being a photo of the Pusharo Petroglyphs in the Manu National Park, Peru.
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Reverse tineye search: https://tineye.com/search/453e5f9b31f3631fc5c6dc77b6bac629035a3dd7/
Gives this 404 flickr page: "photos/20823146@N04/"
Googling that string however gives us "Lemurian Grove"'s since deleted flickr account.
A google image search for that "grove", however, gives us multiple matching images: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Lemurian+Grove&client=ubuntu&hs=Kqe&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiey7y44djeAhWmJMAKHRk_AAwQ_AUIDigB&biw=1280&bih=1300#imgrc=_. I suspect this user took photos at the place in question.
Not much info is available about this "grove", but based on this soundcloud account we can make a guess they're in San Jose.
Finding anything related to Lemurian in San Jose points to This "herbals" shop.
Lemuria is also a lost land in the Indian or Pacific ocean, like Atlantis.
Based on all of this, I reckon the game in question is none other than the most cryptically obscure Weed Shop 2. With the Atlantis DLC.
I hope this helps.
For reals though that sleuthing (based on which articles the image search popped up) pointed to it being a photo of the Pusharo Petroglyphs in the Manu National Park, Peru.
Last edited by Marc Di Luzio on 16 November 2018 at 11:22 am UTC
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Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 16, 2018
Feral is 22 years old...
It is time to stop porting games developed by others and start developing their own games, maybe with the financial help of Valve.
The eventual success of Proton will change the rules for game porters: Develop or die.
Ethan Lee understood this and now He is working on Proton.
It is time to stop porting games developed by others and start developing their own games, maybe with the financial help of Valve.
The eventual success of Proton will change the rules for game porters: Develop or die.
Ethan Lee understood this and now He is working on Proton.
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Feral is 22 years old...
It is time to stop porting games developed by others and start developing their own games, maybe with the financial help of Valve.
The eventual success of Proton will change the rules for game porters: Develop or die.
Ethan Lee understood this and now He is working on Proton.
That's a totally different business needing a different kind of employees.
They still can port to Mac if Linux doesn't work out, as they did the last 22 years.
And extend their business on mobile.
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Shadow of Lady Croft is groovy enough for me. Just Cause 3 would set me to weeping uncontrollably with thoroughgoing Joy, so probably good it isn't that.
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100 % - Shadow of the Tomb Raider comfirmed !
Searching original picture from here:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/images/upcoming/Cryptic+Obscurity+.jpg
Shows similar image in google on this page :
http://rahmacontactomexico.blogspot.com/2010/09/siguiendo-un-mapa-interior-un-mapa-no.html
With label "Sixto Paz Wells", Peruvian author. If you search his name, you can find this image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Sixto-petroglifos-paititi-2007.jpg
Picture in Feral radar is cut off this image ! And it labels petroglyphs in filed trip to Paititi - main location of Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Cannot wait for it :)
Searching original picture from here:
https://www.feralinteractive.com/images/upcoming/Cryptic+Obscurity+.jpg
Shows similar image in google on this page :
http://rahmacontactomexico.blogspot.com/2010/09/siguiendo-un-mapa-interior-un-mapa-no.html
With label "Sixto Paz Wells", Peruvian author. If you search his name, you can find this image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Sixto-petroglifos-paititi-2007.jpg
Picture in Feral radar is cut off this image ! And it labels petroglyphs in filed trip to Paititi - main location of Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Cannot wait for it :)
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Kind of obvious that this is SotTR. On the one hand I'm happy because it's a great game, on the other hand it makes me kind of sad that they weren't even able to announce it when the game launched, especially since it's playable on Proton.
Performance-wise they should have absolutely no trouble beating Proton by a mile and a half, the D3D11 renderer of this game just doesn't perform all that well, even on Windows.
Performance-wise they should have absolutely no trouble beating Proton by a mile and a half, the D3D11 renderer of this game just doesn't perform all that well, even on Windows.
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Kind of obvious that this is SotTR. On the one hand I'm happy because it's a great game, on the other hand it makes me kind of sad that they weren't even able to announce it when the game launched, especially since it's playable on Proton.
Yes. I remember Feral gets their share once a game is announced. I somehow hope that all Steam purchases that count for Linux, thus including bought for Steam Play/Proton, are retrospectively* effective for their share so that porting stays lucrative for them. But dunno...
Would love to know how exactly their financial model works..
(* not sure if this is the correct English term, what I mean is "rückwirkend" in German)
Last edited by jens on 17 November 2018 at 6:24 pm UTC
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