YouStabbedMeWithAFork
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It may be jarring upon first lauch as the 'welcome' splashscreen appears as a white box but everything functions like normal besides that.
Froze upon clicking 'exit,' causing the need to kill the process externally.
The game cannot launch when run off of my external drive (ntfs3) where I keep most of my games- it has to be installed on my internal hard drive (btrfs).
Not a unique-to-this-game issue, but plenty of my games actually do lauch off the drive, so it's worth noting that this game is one of the ones that don't.
Easy Anti-Cheat Proton Tool downloaded in steam before launching, and chose the 'play Battlebit' option rather than 'repair anti-cheat' option when launching.
Proton GE removes any graphical issues present with the main menu and elsewhere when using the official Proton. Works like a dream- just as good if not better than windows.
Works 2x better on linux than windows.
I've never not been able to play this, no matter the distro, DE, or even the state of my machine. Probaly THE most linux-compatable game on steam tbh.
PROTON_USE_WINE3D=1 %command%
For some reason it took a very long time to initially start up and run for the first time (2+ minutes), leading me to, for a while, think it was not working, but I just had to wait a really long time. If at first it seems like it isn't launching, just give it more time. Each time it's run it launches much faster, though.
for var in $(printenv | cut -d= -f1); do export $var=$(echo ${!var} | rev | cut -c1-1000 | rev); done ; OPENSSL_ia32cap=~0x20000000 %command% -window -noborder
The EA launcher was a HUGE barrier to entry for me with this, but thankfully proton 9 + these VERY specific launch options was the magic combo to get it to finally finish installing on the first-time-boot (as of August 2024), and I was finally able to get into the game. [note - weirdly, while the latest proton (9.0-2) did work, the latest proton-ge custom didn't. Though, proton-ge custom came out with an update just about the exact time I was troubleshooting this and I hadn't noticed before I got it to work with proton 9.]
Additionally, it seems to me as if this only works if the game was installed on a linux-formatted partition. I couldn't get this to play off my ntfs-formatted external drive. This is not a game-specific issue, but it's worth noting that this is one of the games that needs to be on a linux filesystem.
The magic combo for me was Proton 9 + these launch options + linux-formatted filesystem.
