![]() And even then, a launcher that's only actually necessary because the core game design is so poor that you have to juggle versions for mods. Funny how people make even better ones to replace the one useful launcher I know of. Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle Quoting: scaine Quoting: wit_as_a_riddle Quoting: scaineI've never once, ever, in over 1100 games, experienced a launcher which improved a game experience. I have the installers for these games backed up, and they will never change. Now I have standalone, DRM free, versions of these games, divorced from all dictatorial game clients, set up in Lutris. This caused me to go to GoG and repurchase these games (and that's three times now for the first two) yet again. It left me with a "Not Linked" icon on my menu screen (I don't have a "2K account" to link and I don't bloody want one) and a creepy "Connecting" splash (what are they connecting to?) that wasn't there before. What happens when they come and change my game again, and Steam forces it on me. Build/Final/BioshockHD.exe to bypass it. I was able to get it going again by deleting 2KLauncher/LauncherPatcher.exe and symlinking it to. Then this one comes along and the launcher b0rks my games. They changed the location of the local saves. So I reconnected those (had to find them buried in userdata, local steam cloud saves) and continued my play through. I come back to them at least once a year (since the original in 2008).įirst an update came that lost my saves (Bioshock Remastered). Article taken from .Ĭoincidentally, this happened to me at the time when I was just replaying the Bioshock games again. It's just another reminder of the problem with launchers and publishers just stuffing them into games with no real benefit to users. There's been a lot of unhappy gamers on Windows too, so 2K have a bit of a storm brewing with all three titles getting negative reviews on Steam. If you add these as a launch option (under Properties for each game) it should work for all titles across desktop Linux and Steam Deck to skip the launcher and I've tested them personally working: Thankfully, the community has stepped in to provide multiple workarounds for these games if the launcher has broken them for you. The problem here is that both had been through Deck Verified with the first being "Playable" and the second being "Verified". ![]() Infinite was noted to be Unsupported on Steam Deck anyway, but forcing Proton 7 makes it work in my testing.Īs for BioShock Remastered 1 & 2, neither of them had a Native Linux version so players on desktop Linux and Steam Deck were using Proton. You can see my video guide on how to switch between Proton versions or a Native Linux build if it exists. All good, until I tried running them again on desktop and sometimes the launcher just doesn't show up so they don't run. Confusing though, as testing all three across desktop Linux and Steam Deck and all three worked out of the box for me with Proton 7.0-4 and no other changes and I wasn't even shown a launcher on Steam Deck. Looking over various reports, many people are mentioning that the launcher update has broken all three for them on Steam Deck. Not great for those of you sticking to Native versions and paid for that. ![]()
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