Nekoputer
Published
Works out of the box. This was tested using "Proton-5.21-GE-1".
This game at the time of posting is currently under open alpha. Not all features are implemented yet.
There was a small issue with voice chat but was only temporary it seems on the first run. After that, all was fine.
Nice simple and easy game to run with very little/no need for tinkering.
gamemoderun %command%
Proton Experimental yielded stutter issues sometimes at 60 FPS. Moving to Proton GE resolved this issue as well as fixed "black screen" video issues.
I also played the game with VSync Enabled in-game and so far, absolutely no screen tearing whatsoever. Even played the game on Ultra settings.
Strongly recommended to play this game via Proton GE as the video clips in-game do demonstrate how to play some game aspects.
Overall, it's an excellent experience in Desktop mode. VR mode is playable, however it is dependent on your GPU.
In-game microphone test will not work unless speech recognition is available.
This was tested in both Desktop & VR modes. A stronger GPU may be required for VR mode to maintain 90 FPS as there was some "slow-mo"/reprojection moments. Most likely the limitation of SteamVR beta at this time.
Speech Recognition does not work for the spirit box due to no compatible alternative being available on Linux as far as I know.
VR Mode was tested using the Valve Index and proton version 5.13-2. No modifications were required.
On a side note, I did have to make a couple of changes to both steamVR's config file + pulseaudio file to get the index microphone to work without issues.
UPlay needs to be installed via protontricks before the game is able to launch properly.
--enable-avpro-in-proton
Video players do still crash with the --enable-avpro-in-proton startup parameter. Without it, works fine but still no video players anyway.
All is fine as long as you don't try using the video players. It appears YT_DLP.exe is resolving urls. However, Media Foundation is preventing us from using video players.
I have tried different types of video players in the game and none of them work.
Game does lag the more units are on the map. However, this might be a limitation with the game itself, or SteamVR on Linux related.
