Egosoft announced today that the free DLC X3: Farnham's Legacy that was released back in April is now officially out with a Linux build and there's more.
X3: Farnham's Legacy is set in the years following X3: Albion Prelude, as the chaos caused by the gate shutdown really takes hold, X3: Farnham's Legacy starts very differently to previous games in the X3 series. It was developed over five years by long-term members of the Egosoft community in close cooperation with the team at Egosoft.
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It's not just a whole new story, the free expansion also brings with it lots more including:
- (Almost) Everything from X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude
- Exploration tools and explorers guild
- Diplomacy and dynamic relations
- New drone carrier and armoured transport ships
- Player headquarters with new advanced facilities
- A unique and very special new ship
- Station-building and complex planning services
- Ship browser and hyperlinked encyclopedia
- New piracy options and gameplay
- Real sector ownership
- Improved logs and graphs
- Enhanced modding support
- Lots and lots of smaller improvements!
Along with the Linux release, Egosoft also tweaked other parts of the series too:
X3: Terran Conflict
X3: Albion Prelude
- [GOG Linux only] Updated to version 3.4 (2017)
- [Steam only] Simplified first-time setup on Windows
- Fixed lib compatibility issues on Linux
- Fixed several voice samples in German version
- [GOG Linux only] Updated to version 3.3 (2017)
- [Steam only] Simplified first-time setup on Windows
- Fixed lib compatibility issues on Linux
Really amazing to see the long-term support here from Egosoft for their games.
You can buy the X3 series on GOG, Humble Store and Steam.
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I have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
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rustybroomhandle Jul 9, 2021
I have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
If you are into the story stuff, then I'd say play all of them. But if, like me, you don't really care about that stuff and just want to build a mighty space empire, then I'd say Albion Prelude is a good place to jump in.
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I have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
If you are into the story stuff, then I'd say play all of them. But if, like me, you don't really care about that stuff and just want to build a mighty space empire, then I'd say Albion Prelude is a good place to jump in.
Fully agree.
After spending months on X2, X3:R, X3:TC, X3:AP and now struggling to get used to X4 (I never really enjoyed X:R), I fully agree that X3:AP is indeed the best release.
- Gilboa
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Avehicle7887 Jul 9, 2021
I'm happy they finally got around to update the outdated Linux version on GOG, it was an abandoned state for a while. Might finally be the right time to buy X4.
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After spending months on X2, ...
Is there a painless way to play X2? I tried launching the old LGP demo of X2 but that only segfaulted, so I picked up X2 on steam when it was super cheap but steamplaying X2 resulted in missing audio
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then I'd say Albion Prelude
X3:AP is indeed the best release
Thank you guys :)
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Is there a painless way to play X2? I tried launching the old LGP demo of X2 but that only segfaulted, so I picked up X2 on steam when it was super cheap but steamplaying X2 resulted in missing audioDepends on your definition of painless. Looks like Proton-6.10-GE-1 is reported to be working:
https://www.protondb.com/app/2800
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then I'd say Albion Prelude
X3:AP is indeed the best release
Thank you guys :)
I actually was a beta tester and owner of (the late) LGP X2 (and then X3:R).
As far as I know, LGP's X2 still can be made to work (unlike X3:R that uses some license server that no longer works).
That said, back when X3:TC was released as Windows only, I had zero issues running it under wine. As such, I would venture and guess that Steam-Proton will have zero issues running X2.
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Love the X series (Frontier owner here). Wrote various articles like how to get a headtracker working with this and even started to get into writing extensions for it myself.
Unpopular opinion but I even like Rebirth ;-)
Unpopular opinion but I even like Rebirth ;-)
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I have never got into the "X" series. I like these kind of complicated games, so I think it will be great for me. Can someone recommend, where should I start first with this game? X3: Reunion, X3:Terran Conflict, X3:Albion Prelude, or X3:Farnham's Legacy?
My first X-Game was X4: Foundations.
It is a really great game, but it was a bit to learn to come into the game. I watched a few video tutorials.
So if you seek for a start in X-games, I think X4 is good to do this. You can play the story lines or just use it as a big sandbox. I have lots of fun with it, building an empire in space with only a bit of story line playing.
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Looks like Proton-6.10-GE-1 is reported to be working
So I made the compatibilitytools.d dir and put that in, I also put in 6.12-GE-1 for good measure, but it doesn't start up with either one, I have my steam installed in /usr/local/games/Steam/ and maybe that's the reason, cause I am getting this errmsg from steam:
pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Using libGLX_mesa.so.0 from provider system for some but not all architectures! Will take /usr/share/drirc.d from provider.
pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Binding directories that are located under "/usr/" is not supported!
bwrap: Can't chdir to /usr/local/games/Steam/steamapps/common/X2 - The Threat: No such file or directory
So, meh, still not painless :( Thanks for trying though!
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As far as I know, LGP's X2 still can be made to work
Do you have any more info on this? Preferably a painless recipe to follow, but I'll take anything.
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As far as I know, LGP's X2 still can be made to work
Do you have any more info on this? Preferably a painless recipe to follow, but I'll take anything.
Sadly enough, never tired it myself.
I'll see if I can get it to work, and report back.
- Gilboa
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Sadly enough, no go.
I managed to get a couple of old libraries required to start the game, but it fails when trying to create the GLX context.
As I have zero experience in debugging GLX applications (and OpenGL in particular) its out of my league.
That said, have you tried using proton + steam to run X2?
- Gilboa
I managed to get a couple of old libraries required to start the game, but it fails when trying to create the GLX context.
As I have zero experience in debugging GLX applications (and OpenGL in particular) its out of my league.
That said, have you tried using proton + steam to run X2?
- Gilboa
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I have my steam installed in /usr/local/games/Steam/ and maybe that's the reason, cause I am getting this errmsg from steam:Games installed in /usr too? That seems like a really bad idea:
pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Using libGLX_mesa.so.0 from provider system for some but not all architectures! Will take /usr/share/drirc.d from provider.
pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Binding directories that are located under "/usr/" is not supported!
bwrap: Can't chdir to /usr/local/games/Steam/steamapps/common/X2 - The Threat: No such file or directory
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/288
FWIW, I tried X2 myself with Proton-6.10-GE-1 and it ran fine. Or, at least for the 10 minutes or so I played. With vanilla Proton (6.3-5 I think?) there was audio problems. No sound during intro videos or cut scenes. In-game seemed to be working fine though.
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Games installed in /usr too? That seems like a really bad idea
It's never seemed like a bad idea to me, that's where they belong =) All a mix of native, steam-native, and steam-proton, never had an issue except for these error messages from glorious eggroll, more like inglorious deflated egg to me :(
EDIT: I should mention that steam itself is installed in /usr/local/games/Steam, so if anyone has problems like that maybe they're trying to access /usr/local from a steam installed elsewhere? I dunno, either way, has worked fine for me for a looooong time =)
Last edited by Grifter on 25 July 2021 at 8:55 pm UTC
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It's never seemed like a bad idea to me, that's where they belong =) All a mix of native, steam-native, and steam-proton, never had an issue except for these error messages from glorious eggroll, more like inglorious deflated egg to me :(Seems quite odd to me. Anything in /usr should be read only for normal users. Applications that need to write data shouldn't do so to /usr. But I guess it's personal preference.
Anyhow, it's a complete no-go with containerized Proton (5.13 and up I think?).
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I don't write anything to /usr, that belongs to the package manager, /usr/local is for me though. As for proton, I use proton 5.13 it looks like, and like I said I haven't had any problems yet.
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pressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Binding directories that are located under "/usr/" is not supported!
Pressure Vessel is sandboxing used by more modern Proton and there are very good reasons for not adding /usr to the container and it comes with a ton of caveats: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/tree/master/pressure-vessel and this is a PITA for some other applications too. For example Opentrack and it's wine-glue
It speaks for itself that X3 is noted as example why this approach may have issues:
Some games have distinct app IDs but share data: for example,
X3: Terran Conflict (ID 2820) and X3: Albion Prelude (ID 201310)
share SteamApps/common/X3 Terran Conflict.
And
For example, if X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude
are to share data, they would have to both be run with for example
--freedesktop-app-id=com.egosoft.X3TC or --steam-app-id=2820.
…let me know if someone finds the OFF switch for this.
Edith says: There is even a ticket for /usr/local https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/issues/30
Last edited by beko on 26 July 2021 at 7:31 am UTC
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