Surviving Mars - Linux (Arch-based like SteamOS is, too)-Client has no Launcher for DLCs started

[Karbuziran]

Description
Linux (Arch-based like SteamOS is, too)-Client has no Launcher for DLCs started


Linux


Steam

What is your game version?
1011166

What DLC do you have installed?
Stellaris Dome Set, Marsvision Song Contest

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
The Game launches directly into the Main-Game without any Launcher to allow de-/activating DLCs - I do not have any mods activated or installed either and this problem persists for years now!

Since I'm using the most recent LTS-Version of the Linux-Kernel on my Manjaro-Linux (which is Arch-Linux-based just as SteamOS is!), I would have thought, that by now, this issue had been fixed - but it sadly has not!

When I started playing in 2019 and had issues, the answer to my request was just denied by saying "we only support Ubuntu-Distros", but with the launch of the Steamdeck and its usage of Arch-Linux-based SteamOS, you can't be seriously sticking to this ignorant argument, can you? Are you deliberate in denying players who love your Game to opportunity to use the DLCs they have paid for and the chance that other Games from Paradox with a Linux-Launcher (like Stellaris or Cities Skylines) work flawlessly on this Configuration (I'm using Steam Runtime as Launcher since it brings all the needed libraries already pre-installed with it).

So, I hope this time to get taken serious at the least and not denied with a "we don't support that Distro" excuse!

Thanks in advance and looking forward to reading something helpful and constructive soon.

Can you replicate the issue?
Yes, all the time, I just need to hit "Repair Installation", then try to start it and the Game will immediately open to the Main-Game instead of the Launcher to choose DLCs in! I have re-installed the Game several times even trying to get a Launcher to appear that way and it never did so! It just does NOT install any Launcher (I see an executable Launcher-Program/-File in any other Game-Directory for Stellaris and Cities Skylines, but NOT in YOUR GAME's directory, so I must assume it isn't even downloaded!) And because I'm at the end of my wits, I'm filing this Bug-Report.


File(s) attached

 

[AndrewT]

The Game launches directly into the Main-Game without any Launcher to allow de-/activating DLCs

That is the same on all OSs and platforms. This game was released before we had our launcher. You can disable them in your Steam Client though.

You don't need to do anything to activate them though.

 

[Karbuziran]

So, that means all the DLCs are de-/activated from within the Steam-Client and no Launcher is necessary anymore for "Surviving Mars" to regulate anything for the Game?
Because I remember in 2019 after I had purchased the Game (when I had tried it out @ PDXCON2019), there definitely was a Launcher for it - which was a little "wobbly" in Linux, but it was present and worked more or less - even in Manjaro Linux.

Is this a general "course" the rest of the Games will eventually also take, btw.? - Since my conversation with Support also sounded like the whole "Paradox-Launcher"-idea is being phased-out altogether in favor of using Steam-Client as a Launcher (which I find pretty useful to not have a Launcher on top of another Launcher )

Thanks for the clarification though - that kinda calms my concerns and clears my confusion if I understood it correctly

 

[AndrewT]

So, that means all the DLCs are de-/activated from within the Steam-Client and no Launcher is necessary anymore for "Surviving Mars" to regulate anything for the Game?
Because I remember in 2019 after I had purchased the Game (when I had tried it out @ PDXCON2019), there definitely was a Launcher for it - which was a little "wobbly" in Linux, but it was present and worked more or less - even in Manjaro Linux.

This game never had a launcher of any sort. It always went from Steam straight into the game. I frankly have no idea what you are thinking of or remembering there!

 

[Karbuziran]

I could have sworn it had one, but maybe it's a false memory.

Yet, there is a problem with the Client still since even when I start the Game from the Steam (Runtime) - Client, it starts correctly into the Menu, but the moment I want to start a new Game/Tutorial or Load a Game from the Steam-Cloud, it crashes completely.

Curiously enough though I have found, that when i start it out of #Lutris after configuring it there to use System Libraries, it works fine and I can enjoy playing it.

I'll get the bigger Expansions then soon and trust that it'll work fine. Yet, I could've sworn that there was a Launcher in the past. Since I couldn't start the Game at some point because it wouldn't recognize my dedicated DX11-GPU but only the one integrated in my A10 APU and it was the only Paradox-published Game, that wouldn't run natively for a (perceived) long time.

So, I couldn't play it for years because of all kinds of bugs and now it finally seems to work - even though only via Lutris, but at least it works that way - and I'll be happy to play a lot more and see how well the larger DLCs will work, too.

I think the problem with the Game not starting properly when I try to start it via Steam only (Lutris loads other libraries, then also starts Steam, btw.), I would guess, that these outdated libraries on Steam don't run with the newer version on my Linux - since the native libraries make the Game work again when I set Lutris up to substitute them.

 

[ChoGGi_2]

I've had the game since release, there was never a launcher.