The RPG Pathfinder: Kingmaker is out today from Owlcat Games and Deepsilver, sadly the Linux version has some critical bugs.
GOG provided me with a key, so at release today I went to download it only to find no Linux download. When speaking to my GOG contact, they confirmed a critical bug was found where the game will completely crash if you try to load a saved game. This is also confirmed by users on the Steam forum. Due to this, there's no ETA on GOG having any Linux build available and I can't blame them for that, this is down to Owlcat Games to solve.
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Issues as major as that at launch really do make me sad. Linux isn't a top platform sure, but to release with such a major flaw as that? Seems like it's not the only major issue too, I won't list them all but it's safe to say it's a very rough release.
Shame, I was really looking forward to this one. The way they described the depth of the lore and gameplay mechanics had me pretty intrigued by it.
Available from GOG, Humble Store and Steam. Not that I recommend buying a mostly broken product, wait until they fix it. I will take a proper look when it is working, hopefully it won't take them long to fix.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Edit: It crashes if you try to browse, however you can still manually do it, just make sure they're named correctly and placed into the correct folder.
/home/username/.config/unity3d/Owlcat Games/Pathfinder Kingmaker/Portraits/
Last edited by SuperTux on 29 September 2018 at 1:36 am UTC
Quoting: jedinjaAnd has anyone experienced the game not loading at all. just freezing with the fancy in-game cursor?
It happened to me, it seems to be an issue with the static SDL version linked in Unity. I solved it applying the same fix that worked for PoE2, change the launch command to load your system SDL library, mine for example looks like this:
SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/usr/lib64/libSDL2.so %command% If it's the same problem that should let you get into the game.With that change, the fix that Avehicle7887 provided for the sound, thanks again, and the recent update that makes saved games work finally I can get into the game and play.
Last edited by Devlin on 29 September 2018 at 10:20 am UTC
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TheRiddick Oct 12, 2018
Unfair mode might get easier at levels 15 ish? I don't know why anyone would play on that, again its pure stat based difficulty, you will not find a unique experience playing on hard or unfair! and some enemies will be extremely hard to defeat and won't make any sense (because it can be a ordinary mob that wipes you team out).
Some people switch to hard level after they get to level 5 or so, thats an option sure.
The kingdom building system is interesting but, seems it could be expanded on a fair bit in the next kingmaker, then again I haven't really gotten far in the game yet (only at level 8)
TheRiddick Oct 12, 2018
Other then that oversight which shouldn't exist, the game has 60% of the windows performance level for some reason, at 4k under windows with high I get 56fps around the starting level but under Linux its 34fps, this is not good because some areas of the game tank to 30fps area under Windows, so that would make it very choppy under Linux (example is Stag Lords fort).
The game is using Unity3D engine and I suspect their only using the OpenGL render path and not Vulkan, if we can convince them to update unity3d to the latest vulkan supporting version and spin that then I'm sure the performance issues would go away when compared to windows...
Last edited by TheRiddick on 12 October 2018 at 8:57 pm UTC
Avehicle7887 Oct 12, 2018
It seems like a good game but I'll wait for the bugs to be fixed before I jump in.
Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 12 October 2018 at 9:06 pm UTC
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