Just a Stellaris Fan...
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The game frequently crashes at random with no saving before crashing. This leads to a lot of frustration about lost progress.
alt-tab-ing causes the game to freeze and steal input, would mean you'd have to restart your system if you didn't have addons like xorg-xkill set to some shortcut on your keyboard, as opening programs outside of the game is impossible.
Sudden severe lag spikes, gets worse when hosting a multiplayer session.
Game suddenly crashes for no known reason. Happens completely randomly, even when not loading new areas or moving around.
Runs great! Honestly it might even run better than on Windows!
Runs practically the same as on windows, only that it forces you to restart your PC on Linux - fullscreen off might solve that.
Do not alt-tab! But then again, you need to alt-tab out of the game, as the "exit" button doesn't kill the game - neither on Windows. That's just negligent devs.
The game does not properly close itself, so you'll have to tinker a workaround there.
It is a p2w game with negligent devs that has been ported to PC. The app on both Windows and Linux is equally terrible, only that the audio seems a bit botched. It is essentially a carbon copy of the mobile app, so naturally the UI would be janky - that's not a Linux-specific thing, is all I'm saying.
The aforementioned "exit" issue is not Linux-specific either. However, on Windows you can alt-tab and kill it in tskmgr.exe/Task Manager. That isn't possible on Linux as it keeps your cursor inside the game, though you are able to alt-tab to other programs, but not interact with them. I recommend setting up a key-combination that kills it, I believe there was an app for that in the debian repo or AUR.
Great game which unfortunately won't run because of the intro.
The intro screen won't load because of a common issue, basically the video can't render because my CPU doesn't have enough cores/threads - and the game won't start without said video rendering first. This can easily be fixed by the developers by simply adding a option to skip it - or a command to do so in the Steam Launch Options.
Runs great, just noticed a slight lag when passing super quickly through the hyper-tube in a very dense area with lots of machines.
My CPU isn't the best, and this is a CPU-tied game. Another thing is, when doing a new game, I loaded back to 8mins and that put me back to the intro with planetfall (didn't skip tutorial). Then when I got down, there was still the old pod, and it wouldn't let me open my inventory or use anything other than escape or wasd. Just a minor bug I randomly noticed though. That playthough was broken from there on, re-loaded back and yet another pod appears, at the end I had 5 pods hahaha. The framerate issues I mentioned earlier have been fixed by new updates though - runs a lot smoother now!
Doesn't run ootb with Proton, just shows a flicker of the launcher and the game stops.
Initially, I launched with Proton 5.13-4, then I got a message saying I've received four new items in my inventory, my average game completion went down and the game crashed upon getting a very brief glance at the launcher. I then tried it with the experimental and 5.10 as suggested by another user.
I won't bother with addons, scripts or gits.
Runs great, only issues are also on Windows - engine level.
Multiplayer desyncs a lot at highest speed when playing with people that have slow networks or if the host has a slow CPU - but I have confirmed that this is also present on Windows - even to a larger degree, but that's due to Windows being bloated itself. Only other bug is that the cursor on the loading screen isn't animated (planets should spin around it, but they're static.
Putting the aforementioned aside, the game runs flawlessly with Proton. It has Vulkan support, which makes it run even better than on Windows to some degree. The game is CPU-bound so graphical changes won't affect the performance unless your GPU is under-spec'ed. I run all my games with Proton 5.13-6 as a precaution, and individually change that depending on the game. There is also no audio crackling, I've never experienced that with this game since I switched to Linux a few years ago.
