Help to play Ashes 2063 mod on Fedora Linux

[Haddy]

Hi!

I played quite a lot of Ashes 2063 on Windows 10 like a year ago. I switched from Windows to Linux (KDE Plasma Fedora) like 6 months ago now and have been mostly having a blast. I'm not a very technical person but thankfully 99% of the games and software I wanted were very easy to get running. I have been itching to play Ashes again for a while now but kept running into brick walls and putting it off for weeks. This is the only thing that has been far harder than on Windows

Does anybody play doom mods on Linux? Can you help me walk through the steps to get the mod to actually run?

The furthest I got was installing GZDoom from a flatpack but it was completely busted and I wasn't able to get it to recognize any wad or mod files. Reading some comments it looks like the flatpack version of GZDoom can't read files and you have to pass it a path in the terminal to make it work but I don't know how to do that. Is there a way to get GZDoom on my linux without flatpack?

P.S. what is this thing with UZDoom??? Is GZDoom not working anymore? Unless I'm mistaken it looks like UZDoom doesn't have install instructions on thier wiki for dnf based systems like I am on; is there some other way to get it?

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated! I miss the nuclear wasteland

[Haddy]

Well I got it working. For anybody interested since recently googling "how to run ashes 2063 on fedora linux" literally gave me this thread as the first hit :sigh:

Firstly the flatpack version of GZDoom seems to be broken in multiple ways and also has issues with file permissions. Supposedly it can only read files from "~/.var/app/org.zdoom.GZDoom/.config/gzdoom" due to "privacy reasons" according to the app description. It only works through terminal anyways but just in case I put all the necessary stuff in that directory.
P.S. on my version of linux literally copy paste the above line ^ in the quotes with the ~ symbol into the address bar of your file explorer and it will take you there if you have the flatpack version of GZDoom installed.

The only 2 files you need to play ashes are a doom .WAD file and the mod .PK3 which come in separate files for episode 1, 2, 3, etc.

For the .pk3 it says in the readme "For use with GZDoom using the Doom2/FreeDoom2 iwad. No other port is supported." - I just downloaded the standalone version (even though it doesn't work on linux) just so that I could go into the resources and copy the freedoom2.wad from the resources folder in it.
I'm dumb so I figure whatever version they package with the standalone will just have to work for us right?
Anyways I copied it over here: "/home/haddy/.var/app/org.zdoom.GZDoom/.config/gzdoom/freedoom2.wad"

Then just download whatever .pk3 you want (make sure it's not just the map files but the actual full campaign) and shove it into the same directory:
"/home/haddy/.var/app/org.zdoom.GZDoom/.config/gzdoom/Ashes2063Enriched2_23.pk3"
(this is episode 1 btw it comes in a folder called "AshesEp1_2063_V2_3.zip")

Then open your terminal (doesn't have to be from a specific folder) and run the following (replacing haddy with whatever file path directory your computer has):
flatpak run org.zdoom.GZDoom -iwad /home/haddy/.var/app/org.zdoom.GZDoom/.config/gzdoom/freedoom2.wad -file /home/haddy/.var/app/org.zdoom.GZDoom/.config/gzdoom/Ashes2063Enriched2_23.pk3

The terminal should do the matrix thing for a bit and then you should be launched into the game in fullscreen. I ran around the first level a bit at time of writing and set up my display and control settings and the game seems to run like an absolute charm.

I pieced this stuff together from random reddit threads and this one website article I found while randomly googling: "https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2018/09/a ... t-episode/" which was helpful. I have no idea where GZDoom linux terminal commands are supposed to be documented and "GZDoom help" doesn't do anything in the terminal...

I genuinely hope that this stupid thread can help someone in the future. I'm just happy to scavenge revolver bullets and rusted cans of baked beans again!

[Enjay]

Thanks for getting back and completing the thread. Unfortunately, it looks like there simply weren't enough people with the setup and/or knowledge to help you out. At least now if someone does have the same/similar issue, they've got your solution.