I recently installed the game using the Lutris installer and wanted to share some information about a few problems that I had and what ended up working for me to resolve them.
First off, installing and launching the game using Lutris was easy and went smoothly (props to whoever wrote the Lutris installer). However, I encountered a blank black screen every time I got to character creation. I was able to fix this by switching wine versions from the default to
System (7.0 (Staging))
.
The only other problems I had were with getting my Xbox One Wireless Controller working properly. Certain buttons weren't registering at all and I was unable to map them using the in-game Pad Button Config menu (X, R Bumper, both Triggers, R3, L3, etc). They would register if I plugged the controller in via USB (all except the Triggers), but I really wanted to keep using my controller wirelessly over Bluetooth as I do for every other game that I play.
After hours of troubleshooting I found
this comment in an old xpadneo issue on GitHub, and after setting the
SDL_JOYSTICK_HIDAPI=0
environmental variable I was able to get those buttons to register, and it worked as well wirelessly as it did plugged in (meaning that both Triggers still weren't working).
Apparently the issue with gamepad triggers is a common issue (they need to send as buttons, not as axes). I was able to fix this by using AntiMicroX to bind L Trigger to the Up key (on keyboard) and R Trigger to Left Ctrl.
I wrote a more
detailed guide (with pictures) of everything I did to install and get the game working on Linux using Lutris in 2022, as well as included a pre-launch script for Lutris to automatically start AntiMicroX in the system tray and load the controller profile, in case it helps anyone in the future who experiences similar problems.