Wicker_Man
Published
In older versions, the game used to crash more. Now that game is on the Unreal Engine it is much more stable. Game also autosaves a lot!
Sometimes audio fails on start up, but can be fixed by restarting again
By default, in planning mode, a mouse click will not place a waypoint, but instead change floor. The rest of the game works good with some tweaks for stuttering as shown by other reviews here. To fix this planning mode bug, and possible stutter as well, you need to use DgVoodoo_2: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/DgVoodoo_2. Scroll down the section on WINE for instructions. DgVoodoo a special graphics wrapper that converts old versions of directX commands to modern Windows. To enable it, you must alter WINE Cfg and add libraries that point wine to these new DgVoodoo .dll files. The DgVoodoo dlls files go in the /system folder for the game itself. To access winecfg and add the overrides, you need to enable protontricks for steam in the terminal on linux. Here's a good guide: https://simpler-website.pages.dev/html/2021/1/protontricks/ Protontricks does have a basic GUI interface "protontricks --gui" so once installed, it is easier to navigate to wine cfg dialogues.
Planning stage did not place waypoints properly; could not place waypoints with a mouse click by default and their is no alternate way to place waypoints in planning mode.
You will need to make some adjustments to get it running, it is not quite an OOTB experience.
Without disabling SteamOverlay and turning off Vsync in Nglide, the game would black screen with audio.
The game can, and sometimes will, black out screen and leave only audio. It is quite unstable, even on older proton. Newer proton versions make tghe videos unplayable. The fix for this instablity seems to be solved by disabling steamoverlay in steam's options and launching the game's Nglide configuration, and turning of Vsync. Once this is done, the game runs better. There were still some minor graphical glitches (but still playable ones), like NPC interaction boxes being transparent with ghosting text.
