Game not starting (Arch Linux)

[Geefmijuwgeld]

Just purchased. Clicking on Start Game pops up a "Synchronizing Steam Client" window for a second and then nothing. Anyone else having this problem?

[doylethekitty]

I'm having the same problem, but I'm on a Macbook Air running MacOS Monterey 12.6.2

[stan]

The demo is not starting on Gentoo Linux as well. :(

[Geefmijuwgeld]

Devs, any ideas? Clearly I am not the only one. I tried on Windows 10 and that works perfect.

[stan]

Also the game is creating a "/home/username/.net/BotsAreStupid/" directory, that is very much not standard :-/.

[mingmingrr]

Try setting DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=1

[Seraxia]

Originally posted by Geefmijuwgeld:

Just purchased. Clicking on Start Game pops up a "Synchronizing Steam Client" window for a second and then nothing. Anyone else having this problem?

Sorry that you've been having issues, it might be something to do with Steam cloud but its hard to say, can you contact us at: https://airtable.com/shrWa4fYIlKEDaAlj

so we can try and diagnose and fix your issue?

[Geefmijuwgeld]

Done! BTW I unchecked the option to sync with the Steam Cloud and I keep having the same issue so don't think it is related to that.

[cosemiexo]

You need to put this in launch options for now:

env DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=1 %command%

Here's stackoverflow thread with the error we get on linux and the solution:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59119904/process-terminated-couldnt-find-a-valid-icu-package-installed-on-the-system-in

[Carrico]

same here... macOS Monterey 12.6

[stan]

Originally posted by cosemiexo:

You need to put this in launch options for now:

env DOTNET_SYSTEM_GLOBALIZATION_INVARIANT=1 %command%

Thanks, that worked. (I did not put "env")

[paX ∞]

Hi all! The startup issue on macOS should now be fixed. Please let me know if you're still having issues.
Will be looking into cleaning up the Linux build soon.

[paX ∞]

Originally posted by stan:

Also the game is creating a "/home/username/.net/BotsAreStupid/" directory, that is very much not standard :-/.

That seems to be the default path C# returns when asking for the ApplicationData special folder path.
Since my experience with Linux is very limited, could you please tell me what the usual location for app data is so that I can fix that?

[Geefmijuwgeld]

FYI the game is booting as intended for me now! Thanks!

[stan]

Originally posted by paX ∞:

That seems to be the default path C# returns when asking for the ApplicationData special folder path.
Since my experience with Linux is very limited, could you please tell me what the usual location for app data is so that I can fix that?

$XDG_DATA_HOME/BotsAreStupid

would be a better place in my opinion. Many games and applications are storing their save files etc. in there.
($XDG_DATA_HOME usually translates to /home/username/.local/share or $HOME/.local/share).

There is also $XDG_CONFIG_HOME ($HOME/.config) that is used by many games.

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html