engi med bots arent working in linux

[[LINUX] Seven]

with the second ship in the roster it has engi med bots pre installed but they don't seem to work. does anyone els heve this problem?

[NoBoDy]

+medbot augment isnt working

[anarcher]

Първоначално публикувано от Matthew:

Първоначално публикувано от anarcher:

It must have happened as I was closing the game, it saved and exited to main menu just fine.

Can you check for crash logs anyway? The game shouldn't segfault on close and it could be indicative of other potential problems.

There's a ton of crashlogs, because I run a lot of mods normally and as you'd expect crashes happen from time to time. None of them were from this month, and it didn't crash again so it must have just been a fluke.

[[LINUX] Seven]

i dont use any mods

[Skinny Pete]

Първоначално публикувано от aidenpons:

I mean, it's not like you're missing anything, as the healing rate is so slow as to mark that augment for "scrap to be sold off ASAP"...
... it won't help you with boarders or fires, it's only good if your micro is lazy and you can't be bothered healing someone at 95 HP in the drone room...

It's actually reasonably good for giving you the advantage in marginal fights, turning close losses into close wins.

(It's still in "sell off for scrap" territory though.)

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Първоначално публикувано от Skinny Pete:

Първоначално публикувано от aidenpons:

I mean, it's not like you're missing anything, as the healing rate is so slow as to mark that augment for "scrap to be sold off ASAP"...
... it won't help you with boarders or fires, it's only good if your micro is lazy and you can't be bothered healing someone at 95 HP in the drone room...

It's actually reasonably good for giving you the advantage in marginal fights, turning close losses into close wins.

(It's still in "sell off for scrap" territory though.)

But all my marginal fights occur onboard the enemy ship, where it doesn't work.

And marginal fights on my own ship don't happen - I either can beat them off with my own crew or open all airlocks and run to the medbay.

[defenderofthebean]

This seems to be a locale problem - try launching it with `env LC_ALL=C %command%` in the start properties. This also makes explosions et al work - this is a common issue with OpenGL, since my locale writes numbers as "123.456,789" - so if you have any string that's interpreted as a number, it'll fail.

Similarly, I've found that FTL now created a second directory in my ~/.local/share, so now theres "FasterThanLight" and "fasterthanlight" in there, which resulted in it not finding the savegames. Once I moved it to the lowercase version, I had my unlocked ships again.

[[LINUX] Seven]

env LC_ALL=C %command% seems to solve the problem, now engi med bots work .
thx alfabrot

[anarcher]

Първоначално публикувано от LINUX Seven:

env LC_ALL=C %command% seems to solve the problem, now engi med bots work .
thx alfabrot

So why does opengl whatever affect a gameplay thing anyway?

[anarcher]

Първоначално публикувано от alfabrot:

This seems to be a locale problem - try launching it with `env LC_ALL=C %command%` in the start properties. This also makes explosions et al work - this is a common issue with OpenGL, since my locale writes numbers as "123.456,789" - so if you have any string that's interpreted as a number, it'll fail.

Similarly, I've found that FTL now created a second directory in my ~/.local/share, so now theres "FasterThanLight" and "fasterthanlight" in there, which resulted in it not finding the savegames. Once I moved it to the lowercase version, I had my unlocked ships again.

So it f-ing was a CAPITAL letters in filename/path issue.

[defenderofthebean]

To be clear: It's not _just_ OpenGL that can show that issue - anything that interprets a string as a number and isn't careful about locale will run into this. It's just that that tends to happen frequently with OpenGL.

[Matthew]

We've fixed the engi nanobot issue on our end and it will be a part of the next update. @Seven was correct that it's related to how the game parses numbers in different locales.

And with FasterThanLight vs fasterthanlight -- That's an issue caused by Steam's Cloud system. They claimed it was fixed years ago but apparently it wasn't retroactive, so if you had the game before ~2015 it would still cause perpetual problems. I'm sorry about that one, I was only just made aware that the Steam fix wasn't universal.

[anarcher]

Първоначално публикувано от Matthew:

We've fixed the engi nanobot issue on our end and it will be a part of the next update. @Seven was correct that it's related to how the game parses numbers in different locales.

And with FasterThanLight vs fasterthanlight -- That's an issue caused by Steam's Cloud system. They claimed it was fixed years ago but apparently it wasn't retroactive, so if you had the game before ~2015 it would still cause perpetual problems. I'm sorry about that one, I was only just made aware that the Steam fix wasn't universal.

Please tell me the fix is a little more indepth than just adding that env variable in the start script?

[[LINUX] Seven]

thx for the heads up matthew! keep up the good work