Originally published by Square Enix and developed by Eidos-Montréal, Feral Interactive confirmed today that Shadow of the Tomb Raider is officially heading to Linux in 2019.
Making sure we have the full experience, with Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider already ported to Linux by Feral this is really quite exciting news! I've no doubt it will be using the Vulkan API, as I'm sure people will be wondering.
This replaces the recent teaser put out earlier this month on the Feral port radar. So we now have Total War: WARHAMMER II arriving today plus Life is Strange 2, Total War: THREE KINGDOMS and Shadow of the Tomb Raider all heading to Linux. Feral sure are busy and that's good for us.
Check out the trailer:
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From the press release:
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara must master a vibrant jungle, overcome challenging tombs, and persevere through her darkest hour. As she races to save the world from a Maya apocalypse, Lara will be forged into the Tomb Raider® she is destined to be.
Lara's quest will take her from the bustling Mexican town of Cozumel to the dark heart of the Peruvian jungle where the hidden city of Paititi awaits. She'll navigate complex underwater caverns, traverse spectacular landscapes, and discover challenging tombs filled with traps.
Outnumbered and outgunned by Trinity, Lara must become one with the jungle and instill fear in her enemies through using mud as camouflage, disappearing into jungle vines or striking from above while perched in the canopy.
Let's hope for an early 2019 release. The longer they wait, the more likely it is they will lose sales from Steam Play. I mentioned before in a comment, that their timing will make or break future ports. I'm hoping for many more Feral ports in the years to come, having officially supported ports is great.
We will share more details closer to release and do our usual port report and review.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: XpanderI hope they can do Dirt Rally 2 port also and please closer to release :)Didn't even know about Dirt Rally 2!
I would also add Middle-earth: Shadow of War. It's been some time…
Kimyrielle Nov 20, 2018
Quoting: KeyrockLara is a far more prolific, albeit less stylish, killer than Agent 47, and she's supposed to be an archeologist.
In Lara's defense, while she kills a lot, she kills to survive. You can hardly say that about Agent 47, who does it for fun and money.
Fortnite
DOTA 2 - Already their
League of Legends
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S Battle Ground
Counter Strike - Already Their
Hearth Stone
World of Warcraft
Overwatch
Artifact - Coming Soon for Linux
Battlefield V
Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Grand Theft Auto 5
Heroes of the Storm
FIFA
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege
Rocket League - Already Their
Destiny 2
Starcraft 2
Warframe
And the New upcoming Warcraft Remastered
These will surely boost linux gaming, cause these games are played for years and years
Kimyrielle Nov 20, 2018
Quoting: massatt212i rather a fighting games like tekken or dragon ball fighterz or even soul calibur 6
mmorpg like world of warcraft, Destiny 2, if blizzard allows them the chance
you know something with long valuse even pugb, fortnite hey FIFA 19
arnt you tired of
Tomb Raider Hitman Desus EX those are not gonna get me off of Windows
I play fighting games mmorpg and sports games i know its not all about what i want, and its not about what you want, its what we all want and they should Hold port votes
Cause if i see another warhammer port from FERAL im gonna go crazy
I made the odd joke about Feral releasing one Total War game after the other, too - but honestly, they have to work with people that allow them to port their games. I think Feral knows as well as we do that we'd prefer a few ports from publishers such as Bethesda, Blizzard or even EA, instead of adding yet another TW game to the already substantial collection. But that's not going to happen anywhere outsides of our dreams. There is absolutely nothing that will convince any of the aforementioned publishers to release a Linux port. They not only don't care about Linux, they actively loathe it and have said so.
Realistically, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is probably the best choice we could have hoped for.
Quoting: KimyrielleQuoting: massatt212i rather a fighting games like tekken or dragon ball fighterz or even soul calibur 6
mmorpg like world of warcraft, Destiny 2, if blizzard allows them the chance
you know something with long valuse even pugb, fortnite hey FIFA 19
arnt you tired of
Tomb Raider Hitman Desus EX those are not gonna get me off of Windows
I play fighting games mmorpg and sports games i know its not all about what i want, and its not about what you want, its what we all want and they should Hold port votes
Cause if i see another warhammer port from FERAL im gonna go crazy
I made the odd joke about Feral releasing one Total War game after the other, too - but honestly, they have to work with people that allow them to port their games. I think Feral knows as well as we do that we'd prefer a few ports from publishers such as Bethesda, Blizzard or even EA, instead of adding yet another TW game to the already substantial collection. But that's not going to happen anywhere outsides of our dreams. There is absolutely nothing that will convince any of the aforementioned publishers to release a Linux port. They not only don't care about Linux, they actively loathe it and have said so.
Realistically, Shadow of the Tomb Raider is probably the best choice we could have hoped for.
True everything you said is correct
Thats why im saying Proton and DXVK will get my support more than native ports, cause i can already play more that have been natively ported yes they are kinda buggy but some do run really really well, thats why Feral should give us a Voting system so they we dont get a million warhammer and square enix games
I agree 100% on what you said, but the category for people like me are just gonna stay on windows hating it because have no choice.
Comandante Ñoñardo Nov 20, 2018
The fact that they don't care about linuxians playing their announced ports right now via Proton, suggest me that, indeed, they get a cut of Proton sales.
Like several others have already stated; I'll only consider buying "Proton/Steam Play" titles once they are "whitelisted", once there is virtually zero chanse of a native port and once they are old enough to be sold cheaply.
That won't change unless the whole "landscape" of linux gaming changes to full & perfect Proton compatibility at release for all new & recent games. Something I'm not expecting to see happening anytime soon.
Quoting: massatt212waste of a port
Proton already works fine with this
This is how I see it;
A game that has a Linux version I would consider buying.
A game without Linux version I would not consider buying.
I don't want neither Wine, Proton or anything else of that sort in my Linux computer.
If a game company want my money they will have to make a Linux version of their game.
I think the right way to go is to encourage game companies to add Linux to their supported plattforms, and today, with modern frameworks in place, it isn't that much of a problem to build a game for multiple plattforms.
Last edited by Bard on 20 November 2018 at 5:59 pm UTC
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