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You may need a few minor in-game graphics setting tweaks, and a launch option if you're having audio issues. It's otherwise very playable.
Like others, I had to use PROTON_NO_ESYNC=1 in the launch options for sound effects to work. Audio seemed fine after using the launch option.
Some screen flickering was happening in fullscreen mode. I was able to resolve it by turning the MSAA down to 1 in the game's graphics option menu, and keeping the visual settings at either Medium or High. Ultra settings reintroduced some of the flickering for my particular hardware.
Fullscreen is initially offset when starting up the game, toggling to windowed mode and back to fullscreen via the game's graphics option menu fixes it.
Native Linux version is borked for me. Forcing it to run with Proton works, but with some issues. I needed a dual analog controller to play.
Keyboard and mouse controls were only able to move the camera vertically and strafe, so I was only able to turn directions to move about properly using my controller.
The left/right camera movements with the right analog stick often remain moving even when I let go, so I have to move it back the opposite way to get the camera aligned in the desired direction, and it's regularly something I have to compensate for while I'm playing.
I walked towards one of the areas that had buildings reaching out into the water via some docks, and as soon as I tried to go on the docks to explore said buildings, the game kind of restarted itself, sending me back to the starting area and displaying the title screen over again. I'm not sure if this was a bug, or intended behavior and it just wasn't explained to the player, but it felt pretty bizarre and out of place to me.
Even though this game supposedly has native linux support, I couldn't get it to work right using the native version. My character was stuck at the title screen, and I could move the camera up and down with the mouse, but that was it.
Checking steam community support forums, this is a common issue for Linux and even Mac users from what I could tell, and the developer has stated multiple times there that they don't know why it's problematic on Linux, and I got the impression they didn't think there was anything they could do to fix it.
I'm not sure why the game continues to be listed as one that supports linux natively considering the issues present, but maybe there are others out there running linux that it works fine for, for all I know.
In any case it inspired me to try forcing steam to run it via proton instead (I used 4.11-11) and that is what ended up making the game at least playable on Linux for me, using a controller anyway.
Music wasn't working, but everything else was fine for me.
Music didn't play, but sound effects worked fine.
Works fairly well, you just have to wait 2-3 minutes at a black screen during startup to get to the title screen.
During startup, the game sticks on a black screen for about 2-3 minutes while the opening cutscene plays, but it looks like it's just frozen on a black screen without having properly started the game at all.
Just wait it out though, maybe try pressing ESC or right click (or start/select on gamepad) to advance to the title screen more quickly, but I had to just wait the full 2-3 minutes. After that it will load the title screen and you'll be able to play normally as you would expect.
The demo worked well overall, and gameplay went smoothly, aside from a few minor issues that were easily forgiven.
Some voice lines would get cut off prematurely and other voice lines would be spoken over the top of them, particularly when in battle and opening treasure chests. I don't have a way to test it, so this may be a matter of game design, rather than a Linux exclusive problem.
Water textures in Rhata Harbor would occasionally visibly glitch and stutter, presenting a gray pixellation pattern of artifacts that overlayed other visual elements on the screen (plants, structures, etc.) Particularly noticeable when looking out into the distance of the ocean with some camera angles and positions around the town.
I used a wired Xbox 360 controller playing via the docking station and it worked pretty well. The only issue I had was the options menu felt too sensitive to even slight left/right movements, causing options to be changed accidentally when just trying to scroll up/down the menu. The "reset to defaults" setting was very helpful for this.
The base game experience worked great for me without having to mess with any settings. I installed the HF Patch mod pack using Wine, but the mods weren't appearing in the game.
To get the mod pack working, I had to right click the game in the Steam library, choose "Properties" and then in the "Launch Options" box, type: WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winhttp=n,b" %command%