Feral Interactive have announced that Total War: WARHAMMER II for Linux is officially releasing on November 20th. Originally developed by Creative Assembly in partnership with Games Workshop and published by SEGA for Windows, this is the follow-up game to the original which was released for Linux in November of 2016.
As a reminder of the system requirements, here's what you're going to need. At a minimum, it will require:
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
Processor: Intel Core i3-4130 @ 3.4GHz
GPU: 2GB NVIDIA GTX 680 or better, 2GB AMD R9 285 (GCN 3rd Gen) or better
System RAM: 6GB RAM
Storage: 52GB
Additionally, they tested it with the NVIDIA driver 396.54 and on AMD with Mesa 18.1.5. They previously confirmed it will be using the Vulkan API.
You can pre-order directly from the Feral Store, to ensure Feral gets the best cut to continue their fantastic Linux porting work. Something I wish to see continued for many years as I've enjoyed so many of their games I otherwise wouldn't have played. This will make their 5th Linux port this year (if you count the XCOM 2 DLC). Otherwise, keep an eye on Humble Store and Steam.
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We haven't been provided access before release, so any full review and port report will be sometime after release. As always, we will do our best to ensure you're informed of what you need to know.
It's quite a popular game, with around twenty thousand people playing it right now so it's a good choice for a Linux port. It's been pretty well received by critics and users alike too.
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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat depends of your concept about what is an AAA game.
For me, games without Spanish voice overs are not AAA, and it doesn't matter how famous the franchise is.
This is an indie game for me... The same goes for The Witcher franchise.
I wouldn't call Total War Triple A either. Voice overs is an interesting line to draw. The biggest games have advertisments in the streets (Battlefield, Red Dead, GTA, ...).
But Total War isn't indie either. It's just an ordinary... "mid-sized" game.
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My favorite game of all times is by far Company of Heroes 2 with close to 1000 hours and counting, but I have also spent several hundred hours playing Total War Empire, Rome, Medival II, and Warhammer. So I fully expect Warhammer II to be a fun addition to this collection with many hours of entertainment and it is a certain buy for me. It was the fact that all these games (together with games from Paradox, Klei among others) were available on Linux that finally made me ditch Windows and only use Linux almost 2 years ago. It may be one of the best decisions I ever made. So I can only say - Thank You Feral Interactive!
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: GuestUhm.. Then i'll force my friends to install Linux if they want to play with me, i'm just sick of windows.Quoting: GuestIt will have cross-play??
Probably not. None of the Total War games have, as far as I'm aware, so I wouldn't expect it here. A pity really, but not a whole lot Feral can do about it either.
Please do this, win-win for everyone! ;)
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Quoting: jensQuoting: GuestUhm.. Then i'll force my friends to install Linux if they want to play with me, i'm just sick of windows.
Please do this, win-win for everyone! ;)
Isn't it tux-tux in this case? :D
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: jensQuoting: GuestUhm.. Then i'll force my friends to install Linux if they want to play with me, i'm just sick of windows.
Please do this, win-win for everyone! ;)
Isn't it tux-tux in this case? :D
Thank you, this made my evening :D
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Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: x_wingHa, AAA games as a definition has always been a moving target. Is it popularity? Call of Duty is considered very popular and AAA, but it's not something that I obsess with. Quality? Probably not. Large production? Yup, that's usually what it means. The Witcher definitely is.Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat depends of your concept about what is an AAA game.
For me, games without Spanish voice overs are not AAA, and it doesn't matter how famous the franchise is.
This is an indie game for me... The same goes for The Witcher franchise.
Anyway! For tastes, the colours.
Really? Total War indie games? It's not about taste, the AAA category it's about how much you invest to make the game. Of course, that doesn't implies that it will be an excellent game, but still on this case means that a game that has a big player base is getting a native version in our system. And that my friend is one of the pillar base in order to make Linux a gaming platform.
If TW Warhammer 2 is not a AAA then Fallout 76 is not a AAA, FIFA 19 is not AAA, Hitman 2 is not a AAA and even Shadow of the Tomb Raider should not be considered AAA... I mean, feels like you don't consider a game a large production if it's using the same engine as the previous version.
Either case, Total War franchise is one of the big franchise that are out there, with a big player base and a lot of work in production in the content of each release so it should be something to be proud to be able to have on Linux. Sorry, but no one can argue against this.
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Quoting: GuestQuoting: GuestUhm.. Then i'll force my friends to install Linux if they want to play with me, i'm just sick of windows.Quoting: GuestIt will have cross-play??
Probably not. None of the Total War games have, as far as I'm aware, so I wouldn't expect it here. A pity really, but not a whole lot Feral can do about it either.
Good Luck!
In my case I have no chance for thinks like that :-(
I hear answers like "Buy a Windows-Licence, it's just 8-10 €"!
So for me it is really shit, that there is no cross plattform multiplayer. I think i won't buy it.
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slaapliedje Nov 18, 2018
Quoting: x_wingQuoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: x_wingHa, AAA games as a definition has always been a moving target. Is it popularity? Call of Duty is considered very popular and AAA, but it's not something that I obsess with. Quality? Probably not. Large production? Yup, that's usually what it means. The Witcher definitely is.Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThat depends of your concept about what is an AAA game.
For me, games without Spanish voice overs are not AAA, and it doesn't matter how famous the franchise is.
This is an indie game for me... The same goes for The Witcher franchise.
Anyway! For tastes, the colours.
Really? Total War indie games? It's not about taste, the AAA category it's about how much you invest to make the game. Of course, that doesn't implies that it will be an excellent game, but still on this case means that a game that has a big player base is getting a native version in our system. And that my friend is one of the pillar base in order to make Linux a gaming platform.
If TW Warhammer 2 is not a AAA then Fallout 76 is not a AAA, FIFA 19 is not AAA, Hitman 2 is not a AAA and even Shadow of the Tomb Raider should not be considered AAA... I mean, feels like you don't consider a game a large production if it's using the same engine as the previous version.
Either case, Total War franchise is one of the big franchise that are out there, with a big player base and a lot of work in production in the content of each release so it should be something to be proud to be able to have on Linux. Sorry, but no one can argue against this.
Not sure why you quoted me on this, I certainly would never say any game is AAA anyhow, I don't believe it means anything useful.
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slaapliedje Nov 19, 2018
Quoting: PatolaQuoting: slaapliedjeNot sure why you quoted me on this, I certainly would never say any game is AAA anyhow, I don't believe it means anything useful.Then it's no use to the discussion. You might reject the AAA classification, but most people understand it and use the word to refer to a specific type of game. Granted, there are some grey areas - such that we're discussing if TW: Warhammer 2 is one such game - but I don't think anyone would disagree that Battlefield V is an AAA game and that Undertale is not an AAA game. Grey areas are not necessarily a problem, even science has some very strictly defined concepts which have irreducible grey areas (like the concepts of species in biology).
Yeah, but Science doesn't just label something in an arbitrary way. They don't say that Einstein's theory of relativity is AAA just because it came from Einstein.
Regardless, the AAA should basically mean A for quality, A for popularity and A for Graphics/Sound? Like I say, it's not very well defined. Would you say anything that managed to get Sean Bean to do voice acting for be AAA, or only if they killed him off in it?
Most of the time AAA just means 'big budget' in which case I think Star Citizen can be ranked AAAA. Assuming it ever gets finished.
I'd say based on popularity, quality and graphics and sound Total War (especially the warhammer ones) ARE AAA. Especially in their category of strategy games, which unless they're RTS aren't usually all that popular these days among the younger crowd.
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Anders1232 Nov 20, 2018
Counting the hours, hoping that my pc can run it.
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