extended-salmon

Trying to get Peacock to work with HITMAN 3 through Heroic. Requires running another exe.

Hello! I see this question has been posed before but wasn't able to find any up to date guides or information. I want to play Peacock, a server replacement mod for Hitman 3 on the Steam Deck. This requires adding launch options and replacing the API url. The guide expects it to work with Steam, but not the epic version. Any linux gods know what to do next?

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extended-salmonOP•2y ago

https://github.com/thepeacockproject/linux-steam-setup

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extended-salmon•2y ago

what do you mean by "replacing the API url?" I see this on the github page

Adjust your launch options in Steam Ensure this is copied exactly, you can use the clipboard icon next to this snippet to copy it (assuming you're browsing this on github.com) bash -c 'exec "${@/Launcher.exe/WineLaunch.bat}"' -- %command% Then right-click on the game in Steam -> Properties and paste it in the "Launch Options" box. Steam Deck users should use the cog icon on the game detail view then continue as needed; but due to the awkward keyboard you might find it easier to do in desktop mode.

this isn't an API or a URL, but if you mean this part, it can be done

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

Sorry, I am definitely not fluent in linux. The lead dev of the project came here and asked a similar question last april and I was just reguritating what I had read

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/818939754245652490/966366041989062716****

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extended-salmonOP•2y ago

term, I love the profile picture by the way if you are able to help figure this out I will propose You said in the SD discord to use a batfile. How do I reference that in the launch options through heroic? wasn't able to find a glossary for launch options when I tried putting steam arguments down it got mad at me

extended-salmon•2y ago

that is conflating two different things. the API change is a patch made as part of the mod itself to target WineLaunch.bat you just need to set the alternative exe in Heroic's settings for the game

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

oh are you telling me its that easy

extended-salmon•2y ago

bash -c 'exec "${@/Launcher.exe/WineLaunch.bat}"' -- %command% this line tells Steam to replace Launcher.exe with WineLaunch.bat in the executable command you still need to install the service as directed above that section that said, WineLaunch.bat is essentially what I meant because it's a bat file that launches two .exes https://github.com/thepeacockproject/linux-steam-setup/blob/master/WineLaunch.bat

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

okay uh it was just crashing on start not launching the launcher going to reinstall the game and the prefixes

extended-salmon•2y ago

post a game log #:pushpin: Read Me First | Frequently Asked Questions do also note that if you're using Proton or GE-Proton to run a game (i.e., not Wine-GE), I will ask you to switch to Wine-GE and run it again

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

I am unable to find the log files since i uninstalled i think i can try Wine-GE right after it installs shouldnt take long thank you for taking the time to look into this

extended-salmon•2y ago

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

jesus christ term idk how you did it just rolled a d20 because what the hell that was all i had to do?

extended-salmon•2y ago

apparently haha

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

it launched them both thats nuts okay here we go yeah as I said in the dm, the game launches both the patcher as well as the launcher, but after clicking play the game is a black screen. i can still cycle to the patcher and it "worked" and changed the host to local.

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

this seems to be a crucial part but i cant do it in heroic for some reason

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

this is what the run.txt looks like

extended-salmon•2y ago

:this: what is the purpose of this?

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

to retreive the run.txt file

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

Eider-lastPlay.log

extended-salmon•2y ago

"name": "Wine - Wine-GE-Proton8-27-LoL",

use Wine-GE-latest, not LoL because you are not playing LoL

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

oh how did i not catch that

extended-salmon•2y ago

delete the prefix and do it again

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

ok i havent finished my coffee thank you

extended-salmon•2y ago

retrieving the file I understand, but what is the purpose of getting it to begin with?

wise-white•2y ago

cuz the thingy says it needs it but I think changing out of Proton LoL fixed it

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

this is my boyfriend just trying to connect to it now alfonso believes we may actually need the run file

extended-salmon•2y ago

I don't know what the purpose of the run.txt file is

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

@Alfonso neither do i

wise-white•2y ago

it's not a txt it's just called run and idk either I didn't code the thing #!/bin/bash #Run game or given command in environment cd "/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/HITMAN 3" DEF_CMD=("/home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/HITMAN 3/WineLaunch.bat") I think that might be the important part DEF_CMD= normally leads to Launcher.exe but we change it to WineLaunch.bat for some reason all I know is that it works

extended-salmon•2y ago

just looking at the one provided above, I don't think it's needed here, and/or the effort to convert this away from Steam-specific code is not worth it that is addressable by simply designating the alternate exe in heroic

wise-white•2y ago

okay okay cool how

extended-salmon•2y ago

:this:

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

i did do that. its just not connecting to the server im hosting on the deck now maybe im just misunderstanding though

wise-white•2y ago

yeah all it does is just start up launcher and peacock at the same time don't need it just do that manually

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

would i know if the server wasnt launching

extended-salmon•2y ago

did you setup the service already?

wise-white•2y ago

try a different port maybe

extended-salmon•2y ago

0.0.0.0 looks wrong there

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

its active and running it says

wise-white•2y ago

yeah I don't even have hitman I just opened it to see what it looks like if the server doesn't launch

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

no mine i mean

wise-white•2y ago

and what do you see ingame

extended-salmon•2y ago

provide a screenshot of the Peacock terminal window so I can follow along

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

wise-white•2y ago

the terminal window dude

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

i took that before he asked thank you very mucyh

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

extended-salmon•2y ago

that doesn't look like it's running the actual server. none of the outputs line up with other screenshots

wise-white•2y ago

Hehe

extended-salmon•2y ago

https://github.com/thepeacockproject/linux-steam-setup#verify-a-clean-startup try restarting the peacock service systemctl --user restart peacock

wise-white•2y ago

hold on Huge developments happening in the Peacock server

extended-salmon•2y ago

does it take a while to spin up?

wise-white•2y ago

he might have gotten all of the answers he ever needs from a message written two years ago give me a minute I need to go break something

wise-white•2y ago

nevermind doesn't work thank god

extended-salmon•2y ago

127.0.0.1 localhost in the hosts file seems redundant the first step saying

Have Peacock setup with Node on your Linux machine

makes it sound like there's an entire step missing somewhere as in the linux-steam-setup is an addendum to a bigger guide did you already install the server with node.js according to this? https://github.com/thepeacockproject/Peacock

wise-white•2y ago

start.sh does it there used to be a install-node.sh thing but seems like it just got integrated here's my guide from a few years ago hold on dm don't wanna flood here but also don't want you to have to join a random server

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

hosts in etc is already entered

extended-salmon•2y ago

message.txt

extended-salmon•2y ago

I only have Hitman 1 available for Hitman 3 (as I had the trial on EGS for 3). is that enough to test this?

wise-white•2y ago

yes as long as it's hitman 3 in some capacity even if you just have hitman 1 missions

extended-salmon•2y ago

while that's downloading, @Oberon can you stop the peacock.service and re-run start.sh in its own terminal?

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

wise-white•2y ago

peacock is up to date that means it's successful so why isn't it working maybe it would work if we had the run file

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

you and this damn run rile

wise-white•2y ago

run rile raggy scooby dooby doo

extended-salmon•2y ago

that run script is for Steam's execution of it. it does not work the same way via Heroic

wise-white•2y ago

ok it worked

extended-salmon•2y ago

even at that, the whole point appears to just be targeting WineLaunch.bat

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

all it took was a restart

wise-white•2y ago

HE HAD TO F'ING RESTART THE DECK AND IT WORKED

extended-salmon•2y ago

hahahha

wise-white•2y ago

HE DIDN'T TRY THAT BEFORE

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

no i did last night when we were initally trying this morning after the fresh install of h3 and peacock maybe i did something different who knows term without you this wouldnt be possible thank you very much

extended-salmon•2y ago

the wine runner is crucial too.

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

yeh that was

extended-salmon•2y ago

the LoL build just breaks everything but LoL

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

a bruh moment for sure i didnt even see i was using that. i did nt even successfully get lol running on this thing i gave up better this way but again thank you profusely sorry for the creepy dm

extended-salmon•2y ago

your time with LoL is coming to an end anyway

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

i started playing it again.. relapsing

extended-salmon•2y ago

but if you want, it is still likely working. I last installed it with Lutris just to claim some Prime stuff

extended-salmonOP•2y ago

thats how i tried to get it to work for some reason i wasnt able to get it to install i think

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