Available really cheap until September 18th, Titanfall 2 has one of the best FPS campaigns around and some great multiplayer with the Northstar mod too.
It's rated Steam Deck Playable and does work just great on desktop Linux. If you want to use Northstar, it may be best to use the latest GE-Proton, as one of the recent updates to GE-Proton added some helpers for Northstar. What exactly is it though? Northstar is a modding framework client that allows users to host their own Titanfall 2 servers using custom scripts and assets to create custom content, as well as being able to host vanilla content. Once again, modding keeping a game alive after the original developer moves on.
The Ultimate Edition is currently 90% off making it only £2.49, which is a ridiculously good price for such a great game. So many hours of fun can be had for that.
It turns out I hadn't actually done a Steam Deck video of the game yet, although I did previously do some footage on desktop Linux back in 2020 where even then it was running exceptionally well. So here's some footage running on Steam Deck with Proton Experimental, followed by a guide to set up Northstar on Steam Deck because this was a good excuse to play some more:
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Buy a copy on Steam. Don't miss out on this fantastic deal.
Have you picked it up again or will you buy it now? Let me know in the comments.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: benstor214You are perfectly right, but do I want to 'infest' my linux machine with the EA app?
If it helps any, you’re just infesting a wine prefix with it and can purge it completely in just a click.
benstor214 Sep 9, 2023
Quoting: damarrinIf it helps any, you’re just infesting a wine prefix with it and can purge it completely in just a click.It does help, as I am anything but an expert in regards to wine/proton prefixes.
So the EA is completely containerized inside of the prefix and will leave no traces lingering on my system (years after purging the pfx from my home directory)?
Is the click you are referring to as easy as clicking uninstall in steam?
I’m sorry if I’m bothering you with stupid questions. To me, proton is still some kind of black magic.
Quoting: damarrin"Completely containerized" is maybe going a bit far, a wine/proton prefix is just a directory with all the windows files for the game in it, but basically yes.
I also wouldn't say it's "completely containerized", but it's more than that... Proton runs in a bwrap (firejail bubblewrap) container, with the steam runtime and the libraries it supplies. The wine prefix is not in a container.
P.S. I'm replying out of context here, I see. What you said made perfect sense in reply to the question. ("basically, yes" etc. that there will be no trace of the EA App once the wine prefix is deleted.)
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Thus, I have an EA subscription to avoid re-buying a bunch of games so I can try Titanfall 2. I don't really get great value out of the EA sub, because I don't like a lot of their games, just that the ones I do are important to me. Trying new games like this is the justification for keeping it :-)
I also already had some EA games that I had rebought on Steam, to get them the hell out of Origin (Steam used a thin Origin client that was less problematic and irritating). Now the tables have turned, and using the EA App in Wine is a better experience.
So yeah, it is more than worth that asked sandwich money.
I wish EA would take that franchise, see what clicked so well with players in TF2, and expand on that. Also happy for studio with their success with Apex Legends. As they share same universe with Titanfall...maybe who knows, they are already working on something.
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