I’ve been having a blast playing Ash support with my whack-ass build here:

• I use the augment Smoke Shadow to turn allies invisible & give a fat crit bonus to everyone
  • the crit bonus does NOT scale with strength, so I can get away with negative strength
  • the 15m range DOES scale with range, which is the main reason I build for range
  • the 8s duration DOES scale with duration
• Replaced his 1 with Hydroid’s helminth, which works well since we’re modding for duration & range. I used to have silence instead, but that was boring! Tempest Barrage is a nice area CC & applies corrosive stacks to all enemies inside, shredding armour.
  • I also use the augment for this, Viral Tempest, which applies viral ON TOP of the corrosive.
    • This one DOES scale with strength, so my viral is not applied 100% of the time (39% with 40% strength). I use Growing Power to get that up to a more reasonable number, if I wanted to plug a forma into him I would slot Power Drift into exilus to boost it further as well (now that I bring this up, I’m formaing him as we speak lol).
  • The AOE corrosive + viral combined with his 4th’s slash procs help us deal surprisingly good damage despite negative strength
• Note I also use an under-levelled Narrow Minded so the range penalty isn’t too high

Documentation Tooltips are pretty exciting

The quest was really good! Im also loving the new mods & arcanes

NEW MODS

Take your Arsenal up a notch with brand new Mods!

Stats shown at max rank.

Magnetic Might (Pistol)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+40% Critical Damage

Worthy Comradery (Aura)

Squad receives +75% Weak Point Critical Chance.

Summoner’s Wrath (Aura)

Squad receives +75% Companion and Summon Damage.

Spectral Serration (Rifle)

+330% Damage while Invisible.

Primary Acuity (Rifle)

+350% Weak Point Damage

+350% Weak Point Citrical Chance

Multishot cannot be modified

Pistol Acuity (Pistol)

+350% Weak Point Damage

+350% Weak Point Critical Chance

Multishot cannot be modified

Merciless Gunfight (Pistol)

+45% Critical Damage

+1.2 Punch Through

Magnetic Capacity (Rifle)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+40% Magazine Capacity

Magnetic Welt (Shotgun)

Impact Status Effects have 35% chance to apply a Magnetic Status Effect (x2 when Fire Rate is below 2.5)

Magnetic Strafe (Shotgun)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+40% Fire Rate

Magnetic Rush (Melee)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+20% Attack Speed

Magnetized Cycle (Archgun)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+30% Fire Rate

Magnetized Core (Archmelee)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+40% Critical Damage

Magnetic Claws (Beast Claws)

+60% Magnetic Damage

+40% Status Duration

Radon Claws (Beast Claws)

+60% Radiation Damage

+80% Critical Damage

Good solution, cheers! I also followed the other commenter’s idea to add it as a KDE shortcut so I can use it on demand.

I guess I’ll just need to be careful not to paste a bazillion lines of text lol

Works awesome! Thanks for introducing me to xdotool, what a helpful utility. Question: what does the --file flag in your command do? I can’t find it in the manpage

I had a similar problem, it was caused by undervoltage. Are you using the official power supply?

Reporting back!

Reformatted with btrfs, steam now does this when I open the game (didn’t before):

anddd it works! Can’t believe this whole headache was just exfat all along lol!

Thank you for your help :D

Reporting back!

Reformatted with btrfs, steam now does this when I open the game (didn’t before):

anddd it works! Can’t believe this whole headache was just exfat all along lol!

Thank you for your help :D

I think you’ve just pointed me in the direction of a solution…

The comment you’re referring to seems to be this one:

mv Launcher Launcherbak
ln -s bin Launcher
ln -s ./bin/bg3_dx11.exe ./bin/LariLauncher.exe
cp ./Launcherbak/*.dll ./bin

creating a symlink to trick steam into thinking it’s running the launcher when it actually runs the game. BUT … my SSD is formatted as exFAT, which doesn’t support symlinks, so I can’t do this.

So I’m guessing proton is trying to create a symlink at pfx/dosdevices/c when it installs .NET, but fails, which is also probably why everyone else seems to have a breezy time with it. Not sure why my other games haven’t run into this though… maybe they haven’t needed to install anything there?

I will report back after reformatting my entire SSD lol

I think you’ve just pointed me in the direction of a solution…

I tried to create a symlink “c:” pointing to …/drive_c, but I couldn’t. “Operation not permitted” I then got ptsd flashbacks to the last time this happened - turns out it was because my SSD is formatted as exFAT, which doesn’t support symlinks.

I’m guessing proton is trying to create this symlink when it installs .NET, but fails, which is probably why everyone else seems to have a breezy time with it. Not sure why my other games haven’t run into this though… maybe they haven’t needed to install anything there?

I will report back after reformatting my entire SSD lol

Ohh, is the “c” just a symlink to the drive_c folder?

I need STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH because my proton is installed in a different steam library than the game, all of my proton games use this. I tried to remove it anyway and try just ‘–skip-launcher’, but now the game doesn’t launch lol

The command likely won’t work for you because you don’t have proton installed at that location

Still the same error unfortunately.

Interestingly though, when I try to install .NET manually via protontricks-launch -v --appid 1086940 /home/user/Downloads/windowsdesktop-runtime-6.0.35-win-x64.exe I get the following error:

/media/user/T7/Main/Games/SteamInstalled/steamapps/compatdata/1086940/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows: No such file or directory

Going down that tree I see the entire path is there except for “/c” at the end. I manually added a “c” folder, but then I get stuck at this error:

protontricks (ERROR): Active compatibility tool was found, but it's not a Proton installation supported by Protontricks.
Proton installation could not be found!

I know my proton installation works because all my other games use it fine. Proton is on a different drive than BG3, could that cause issues?

No, installed from debian repository

I already skip the launcher but this error still happens. My launch args are STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/home/user/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata %command% --skip-launcher

I see!

I installed protontricks and read through the usage instructions

I’ve done protontricks-launch --appid 1086940 /home/user/Downloads/windowsdesktop-runtime-6.0.35-win-x64.exe

but it looks like it’s stuck?

pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Missing locale en_US.UTF-8
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generating locale en_AU.UTF-8...
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generated locale en_AU.UTF-8 successfully
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generating locale en_US.UTF-8...
pressure-vessel-locale-gen: Generated locale en_US.UTF-8 successfully
pressure-vessel-adverb[101880]: W: Container startup will be faster if missing locales are created at OS level
0084:err:file:init_redirects /media/user/T7/Main/Games/SteamInstalled/steamapps/compatdata/1086940/pfx/dosdevices/c:/windows: No such file or directory

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I’ve never used protontricks before

Edit: using protontricks 1086940 dotnetdesktop7 seems to get past that point, but then I get another error

protontricks (ERROR): Active compatibility tool was found, but it's not a Proton installation supported by Protontricks.
Proton installation could not be found!

my proton is installed in a different steam library than BG3, could this cause issues?

Yes all the others I play work fine, I have only had an issue with BG3

Thank you, Yes experimental is the one I tried as per people’s recommendation on protondb. I have also tried 9, 8, 7 but all give the same error. Putting the --skip-launcher argument in still brings me this error. I can’t even get to the launcher 😭

Or maybe they have the ability to make you weaker