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.
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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.
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Quoting: KeyrockI might actually get this. I was not a fan of the reboot nor Rise of the Tomb Raider, mainly because they were 90% murder simulator and 10% actual raiding of tombs, and I would much rather the ratio was reversed. However, I have heard that while Lara still goes on a ridiculous murdering spree in this game, at least there is a lot more exploration and tomb raiding, which is my jam.
Now port HITMAN 2 (actual murder simulator), please. Pretty please.
Made me laugh
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waste of a port
Proton already works fine with this
Proton already works fine with this
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Quoting: M@GOidFor now, I will only buy properly ported games. Proton is a nice thing to have, for the games in my library that will never see a official port. I'm not giving my money to companies that ignores the Linux market.
#NoTuxNoBux
its good to support the native port
but proton is very good for us, it will be able to play every single game on steam soon thx to DXVK with dx10 and 11 Vk9 if it get games running soon And dgVoodoo
So i rather they work hard on the Proton which will show dev that people are gaming on linux and adapt to Vulkan API which is 1 more step closer to linux support or multi-platform
i get where you are coming from
but proton is the way to go and the first step to getting many off of windows
Last edited by massatt212 on 20 November 2018 at 3:54 pm UTC
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Kimyrielle Nov 20, 2018
I like the series! This is one of the few big budget games in 2018 I really wanted to have, so I am happy. They didn't seem to make a lot of good games this year...
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Quoting: sr_ls_boyI think they don't want a whole lot of people buying the game during the Christmas
season. As for me, I'd rather give my money to Feral which means I'll wait.
True love is worth the wait.
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Quoting: massatt212waste of a port
Proton already works fine with this
Quoting: massatt212Quoting: M@GOidFor now, I will only buy properly ported games. Proton is a nice thing to have, for the games in my library that will never see a official port. I'm not giving my money to companies that ignores the Linux market.
#NoTuxNoBux
its good to support the native port
but proton is very good for us, it will be able to play every single game on steam soon thx to DXVK with dx10 and 11 Vk9 if it get games running soon And dgVoodoo
So i rather they work hard on the Proton which will show dev that people are gaming on linux and adapt to Vulkan API which is 1 more step closer to linux support or multi-platform
i get where you are coming from
but proton is the way to go and the first step to getting many off of windows
So let me get this straight. You're saying that "they" (Feral???) should work on Proton INSTEAD OF this native port (or ANY native port, for that matter!), in order to make Proton more robust, which you say will [eventually] help Linux get more support (meaning... native ports???)... Just. What.
Last edited by adolson on 20 November 2018 at 4:02 pm UTC
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Quoting: m0nt3Ironically, the whole point of HITMAN is to kill as few people as possible. While you can achieve your objective in any way you see fit, in order to get a silent assassin rating and the highest score possible, you have to kill the target(s) and ONLY the target(s). The game actively punishes you for killing anyone else. So while HITMAN is absolutely a game about murdering people, I mean, you play an assassin, it's a game where the best score is attainable by killing as few people as possible.Quoting: KeyrockI might actually get this. I was not a fan of the reboot nor Rise of the Tomb Raider, mainly because they were 90% murder simulator and 10% actual raiding of tombs, and I would much rather the ratio was reversed. However, I have heard that while Lara still goes on a ridiculous murdering spree in this game, at least there is a lot more exploration and tomb raiding, which is my jam.
Now port HITMAN 2 (actual murder simulator), please. Pretty please.
Made me laugh
Compare that to Tomb Raider 2013 where Lara murders roughly 500 Russians. She then comes back and kills another 500 Russians in Rise of the Tomb Raider. Lara must really hate Russians. Her bloodlust for Russian blood is insatiable. :O
Lara is a far more prolific, albeit less stylish, killer than Agent 47, and she's supposed to be an archeologist.
Last edited by Keyrock on 20 November 2018 at 4:16 pm UTC
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Quoting: GuestAnother guaranteed sale for them. I'll grab this soon as I can.Bingo. Feral's ports are specifically tweaked directly to run as good as they can possibly do it on Linux in the time they have. Quite different to Proton, which has such a big target I would be surprised if a Feral port ever performed worse than DXVK with Steam Play.
To those saying "Proton": well, you know, it doesn't work for everyone. And it actually doesn't perform as well as the native ports for everyone - while I may be in the minority (even within the overall few percentage that is GNU/Linux gaming), I do get better performance from native, broadly speaking. And that's true for basically everything I've tried - The Witcher 2 (yes, I know, but eON ran better than wine), Dawn of War II series (I played them through wine before Feral ported them, but the Feral ports run _much_ better), Rise of the Tomb Raider, and others. Considering my aging hardware, this is really important for me: Feral's ports I can play, "Proton" variants I cannot for more demanding games.
So yeah, native from Feral absolutely worth it as far as I'm concerned.
Like the previous Tomb Raider, Alex from Feral mentioned somewhere on Reddit how he re-did a bunch of the actual renderer for better Linux performance. That's the kind of effort I never want to see leave Linux gaming.
It's not just that though, it's the actual support you get as a customer that's important.
Still, Steam Play absolutely for me for games that are multiple years old and likely to never be ported.
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Quoting: M@GOidFor now, I will only buy properly ported games. Proton is a nice thing to have, for the games in my library that will never see a official port. I'm not giving my money to companies that ignores the Linux market.
#NoTuxNoBux
I have similar opinion with the qualifier that I will purchase a game that runs on proton once it is heavily reduced and the chance of a port has all but passed (1-2yrs after release). For a full price purchase from me it needs to be a proper Linux port, be that inhouse or externally with the likes of Feral I dont mind.
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Quoting: adolsonQuoting: massatt212waste of a port
Proton already works fine with this
Quoting: massatt212Quoting: M@GOidFor now, I will only buy properly ported games. Proton is a nice thing to have, for the games in my library that will never see a official port. I'm not giving my money to companies that ignores the Linux market.
#NoTuxNoBux
its good to support the native port
but proton is very good for us, it will be able to play every single game on steam soon thx to DXVK with dx10 and 11 Vk9 if it get games running soon And dgVoodoo
So i rather they work hard on the Proton which will show dev that people are gaming on linux and adapt to Vulkan API which is 1 more step closer to linux support or multi-platform
i get where you are coming from
but proton is the way to go and the first step to getting many off of windows
So let me get this straight. You're saying that "they" (Feral???) should work on Proton INSTEAD OF this native port (or ANY native port, for that matter!), in order to make Proton more robust, which you say will [eventually] help Linux get more support (meaning... native ports???)... Just. What.
Yes another useless port that we can play on Proton cause even the creator of DXVK is optimizing it on almost every dxvk update he does
i 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
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