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I haven't gotte into a highly developed game with lots of dwarves yet, but it looks really good so far.
Excellent battery life, with optional 40 Hz refresh rate the battery life extended into 7+ hours.
Game's models seem to load more slowly than expected, but are fine once they load in.
Upon switching the game to fullscreen, the screen would go black and while the sound indicated that game continued running, the screen was not visible. This seems to be related to a bug with how GNOME handles windows focus, and was resolved by installing this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1873/disable-unredirect-fullscreen-windows/
The mouse would not disappear when right click was held down, as it does on Windows. This regression seems to have been introduced in latter version of Proton, and is fixed by switching to Proton 5.0-10
The launcher reported that the .dat file was corrupted and could not finish updating the game without manual intervention.
If you face issues with updating, with an error such as "Corrupted dat file detected", open the launcher, click on the downward arrow in the launcher (next to the minimise button), select Options, go to the Repair tab and click the repair button. This will delete all your existing .dat files and allow you to redownload them during the next run.
Keep in mind that at the time this was written, this .dat redownload is 30+ gigabytes!
If you face issues with the cursor not disappearing when holding down the right click, switch to Proton 5.0-10 to resolve the issue.
If the screen goes black/blank while using GNOME (but the sound can still be heard, indicating that the game is running), try installing this GNOME extension to fix it: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1873/disable-unredirect-fullscreen-windows/
Work out of the box. No adjustments or tinkering needed. It should be marked Steam Deck Verified.
Switch to Proton Experimental is not needed anymore since the Ubisoft launcher fix has been pushed to the stable Proton with version 7.0-6
If you find the Ubisoft Connect remaining running after you quit the game as infuriating as I do, you can use this launch option to automatically quit Ubisoft Connect after you exit the game:
bash -c 'sleep 30; while pgrep -x "MainThread" >/dev/null && pgrep -x "upc.exe" >/dev/null; do sleep 1; done; pgrep -x "upc.exe" >/dev/null && killall upc.exe' & %command%
This command monitors existance of the Trackmania's own process, and once the Trackamania's process ends, it also ends the Ubisoft Connect process.
If you have a slower PC or a Steam Deck, you may have to increase the sleep 30
to sleep 45
(the number determins how many seconds to wait) or more so that the command does not kill Ubisoft Connect before the game even launches.
However, this is all entirely optional, and if you don't mind manually quitting Ubisoft Connect, you don't have to use this launch option.