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I finished the tutorial level and played for a while the next level. I also messed around with graphics options without an issue.,
Only tutorial is playable. Prolog scenario is not.
The tutorial starts without issues. However, when attempting to start the prologue scenario, either after the tutorial, or in a fresh launch, a black screen is displayed with a perpetual "Press any key to skip" message. Presumably, there's a video here that is not playing, nor is skippable.
Similar cases are sometimes due to peculiar video codecs that need to be installed by using Protontricks. But I haven't tried with this one.
Lua scripts missing
Upon launching the game, a series of Wine/MS Windows style dialogue boxes appear, each reporting a missing Lua script, one after the other when dismissed:
File not found: ../Data/LScripts/Main/Tweak.lua
File not found: ../Data/LScripts/Main/Cfg.lua
File not found: ../Data/LScripts/Main/Definitions.lua
File not found: ../Data/LScripts/Main/Loader.lua
After the last of which is dismissed, another MS Windows dialogbox with the message: [string "Cfg:Load()"]:1: attempt to index global 'Cfg' (a nil value)
Then the game exists, and Steam switches the view to the game's store page!
If you face messages regarding missing Lua scripts, it's due to Steam starting the game in its base directory, whereas the code expects to start in the Bin directory. In order to solve this, insert the following in the game's launch options:
cd "/home/username/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/NecroVisioN - Demo/Bin"; %COMMAND%
It worked out of the box on this computer, but on my laptop I had to select Proton 5.10!
I tested the demo, hence ProtonDB reporting I do not own the game.
