Feral Interactive have adjusted their mirrors and put things into high gear with DiRT 4 on the way to Linux. Originally developed and published by Codemasters for PC and consoles, this is the same studio that made titles like F1 2017, DiRT Rally, GRID Autosport and more.
Word went out in public on Twitter earlier today from Feral to confirm a 2019 release. This means we will be getting it quite a while after the original release, which according to Steam was in June of 2017.
Thanks to that, we now have quite a few Linux ports from Feral due next year. DiRT 4, Life is Strange 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Total War: THREE KINGDOMS. Already gearing up to be busy!
From the press release:
DiRT 4's fleet of over 50 rally cars, buggies, trucks and crosskarts includes the Ford Fiesta R5, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VI, Subaru WRX STI NR4 and Audi Sport quattro S1 E2. Players will put these incredible machines through their paces on the world’s most demanding rally routes, from the dirt roads of Australia to the hazardous snowdrifts of Sweden and on to the open gravel tracks of Michigan USA.
Feral's press release also mentioned that DiRT 4 gives you the ability to generate your own stages, based on players' choice of location and route parameter. That sounds pretty interesting, not something that has been done before in the franchise.
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I wasn't actually expecting this one. Release would be almost two years after the original, which is a bit on the late side.
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a bit late port to a game that hasn't been successul and is mediocre at the best. I guess at least a game thats not grand strategy on the list :)
Hoping DiRT Rally 2.0 port will be day one or relly close to release though.
Hoping DiRT Rally 2.0 port will be day one or relly close to release though.
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Quoting: Guestso none of the clues we mentioned had anything to do with dirt 4 lol like how does feral expect us to figure it out with clues looking like medievel times,what does dirt 4 have to do with a pegasus horse or whatever it was lol.
I explained this in the radar thread. I concluded dirt rally 2.0, didn't even know about this Dirt game. But Pegasus is from mobile Pegasus 1 motor oil. The symbol is a red Pegasus. Where are we going is the guy who calls out turns. And the hint at the bottom was oil change I guess.
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Kimyrielle Dec 7, 2018
Not my thing and too late.
If a game is THAT old, I either don't want it or I have it already. One thing I don't understand about Feral's porting choices is that it (to me) makes very little sense to port games older than half a year. There is a very high chance that people interested in the game already bought it for Windows and run it in WINE. The rest isn't going to buy it anyway. Either way, Feral isn't getting paid.
If a game is THAT old, I either don't want it or I have it already. One thing I don't understand about Feral's porting choices is that it (to me) makes very little sense to port games older than half a year. There is a very high chance that people interested in the game already bought it for Windows and run it in WINE. The rest isn't going to buy it anyway. Either way, Feral isn't getting paid.
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Hmm, commercially probably not the best choice as it was given away very cheaply on a humble bundle recently and seems to work good with Proton... thus I guess a lot of people (like me) thought it was worth a buy guessing that no-one would take this up for porting anymore.
I am very willing to buy Linux ports, but Feral needs to actually make sense in their choice of games :p
P.S.: I suspect they got the porting rights very cheaply and the engine is similar enough to Dirt Rally that porting will not take that long and so the above didn't really matter to them...
I am very willing to buy Linux ports, but Feral needs to actually make sense in their choice of games :p
P.S.: I suspect they got the porting rights very cheaply and the engine is similar enough to Dirt Rally that porting will not take that long and so the above didn't really matter to them...
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Quoting: EhvisI wasn't actually expecting this one. Release would be almost two years after the original, which is a bit on the late side.Yep, I also thought thought we wouldn't get a Linux port seeing the little post-launch support it has gotten. I bought it and it works pretty well with proton.
Hopefully Dirt Rally 2.0 won't take this long
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Arehandoro Dec 7, 2018
So no Vampyr or Darksiders then :'(
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Dunno why they decided to port a game that already works w/ proton. They'd better go for shadow of mordor 2...
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It may be old, and it's not Dirt Rally 2, but I don't care. I'll definitely buy it anyway.
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Quoting: gojulDunno why they decided to port a game that already works w/ proton. They'd better go for shadow of mordor 2...Because some of us don't play games in Proton and would rather wait for actual Linux ports that actually help support the platform rather than developers that don't give a damn about your existence. :)
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Many thanks feral, i want buy on holidays but wait until appear native
Personally i dont like simulators like dirt rally
^_^
Personally i dont like simulators like dirt rally
^_^
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Quoting: gojulDunno why they decided to port a game that already works w/ proton. They'd better go for shadow of mordor 2...
Remember that Proton doesn't works on OSX yet, we aren't they only market they point towards.
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Fakeman_Pretendname Dec 7, 2018
I'm looking forward to this, and will probably get it as soon as it's released. It's the expanded career mode that interests me most. I know some people don't like Dirt 4 so much, or find the handling a step down from Dirt Rally, but I've really had so many hours of fun out of Dirt Rally, that even if it's a little lacking in some areas, it'll certainly be on my playlist. I think pretty much anything Feral releases which can be controlled by a wheel and pedals is a buy for me.
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Perkeleen_Vittupää Dec 8, 2018
More premium rallying videos from the Estonian guy Xpander on radar 
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This is great news, but yes I agree it should have come sooner. Well I'm going to get it anyway
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Quoting: Xpandera bit late port to a game that hasn't been successul and is mediocre at the best. I guess at least a game thats not grand strategy on the list :)
Hoping DiRT Rally 2.0 port will be day one or relly close to release though.
You really just made that up, didn't you? :D It has "generally favorable" reviews and has even won awards. I obviously don't have sales numbers but the fact they're going ahead with a port would suggest it has solid sales numbers as well.
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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääMore premium rallying videos from the Estonian guy Xpander on radar
Probabably not. Doesn't seem that good of a game for wheel driving.
Quoting: melkemindYou really just made that up, didn't you? :D It has "generally favorable" reviews and has even won awards. I obviously don't have sales numbers but the fact they're going ahead with a port would suggest it has solid sales numbers as well.
where? 65% on steam last time i checked which results mixed feelings.
Handling is pretty trash for this game, the procedural generated tracks while interesting idea are more repeative than real tracks. Road surfaces are boring(not many bumps and holes and so on)
i mean it probably is fine game for some money, but for the asking price of 55€, naah pass.
Still i think its good to see more racing games on Linux, just i think feral wont make much money from it. will see though
edit. sales numbers dont add up anymore since the steam changes, but last i checked at the beginning of this year it was 700k sells fro dirt rally and 70k for dirt 4, yeah ofc dirt rally has been around longer. now steamdb reports 200,000 .. 500,000 to Dirt 4 and 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 for Dirt Rally
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