Auravendill
Published
Game doesn't start as long as Steam is opened in the usual way
If the game gets started (via Steam, desktop or xdg-open) it will try to do so for a short time and then give up without any error message and act as if I never tried to start it in the first place.
There is a workaround: Kill stam with "sudo killall steam" and start steam from the command line. Then it will start without any issue and you get to the main menu.
But as soon as you close steam or the terminal window and start it from the desktop, nothing works again. Tested with the recommended version of Proton, Experimental and 7.
Nowadays the game works mostly exactly as expected. Just don't use the Steam Overlay here.
The game crashes, when you try to open the Steam overlay or try to open any link to the steam store from the main menu
Works quite well, just the server seems to be weak (or something is wrong with multiplayer)
Multiplayer with friends can become slow. Might be the fault of the server, might be one client slowing everyone else down.
The game seems to work fine in a Vanilla state with the default from Steam. With SteamTinkerLaunch and mods too. Except the console ingame.
$HOME/stl/prefix/steamtinkerlaunch %command%
The key 'รถ' that is used to open the console in the game doesn't seem to work. Also the webbrowser in the steam overlay only accepts every second keypress
The game worked well even without tinkering, but in order to install mods i obviously had to tinker with it. But for some reason the ingame console cannot be opened (at least with a german keyboard and keybinding) and the webbrowser in the Steam Overlay has a bug for some reason, where only every second keypress gets recognized. So you can play mostly as you would on Windows, but minor details could need a fix.
Works good enough with Proton to enjoy the game, but by no means perfect
Big parts of the floor/terraine doesn't load correctly in some areas. Instead it uses lower resolution versions, that seem to be intended to be used, when viewing at this spot from further away. Those textures are applied to a lower polygon count surface, that is also not on the exact same height.
The key to select all my minions doesn't work
The save game from Windows didn't get synchronized
I had to run it in Proton, since the native version is not able to handle my multi monitor setup and therefore fails to start.
The game runs just fine for the most time and interestingly supports very high resolutions and refresh rates for its age.
As far as I know the game has about as many issues on Windows. The original CD version doesn't even run anymore on modern PCs without mods.
It is a great game, that works really well for its age. Only the textures and polygon count clearly reveal, that it is old.
