Technical Issue Installing MBII on Linux Mint 22

[Rave Blitz]

I'm using Linux Mint, and I wanted to try and play MBII but I'm not sure how to install it properly. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[2cwldys]

The latest they have is 1.10.06. Since Mace left the team, no one has been maintaining the Linux compiling & distribution.

 

[Valzhar]

If you are on the MBII Discord send me a message, I will help you get it running but not all the maps will load since r20.

 

[Defiant]

The Linux installation guide gives the correct steps, except I believe you will need dotnet 6 not 3.1. Installation & Troubleshooting Guide

 

[Rave Blitz]

The Linux installation guide gives the correct steps, except I believe you will need dotnet 6 not 3.1. Installation & Troubleshooting Guide

That guide unfortunately is extremely outdated. We need an updated one, either that or someone on the Dev team with knowledge of Linux needs to compile a version of MBII that's compatible.

 

[Defiant]

The guide is broadly correct except there is no longer a manual installation option. The specific steps required will vary from distro to distro but are basically:
Add x86 libs to the OS
Install dotnet core 6
Install JKA files
Use crossplatform patcher to download MBII
Run the provided mbii.i386 with the correct command line.

 

[Rave Blitz]

The guide is broadly correct except there is no longer a manual installation option. The specific steps required will vary from distro to distro but are basically:
Add x86 libs to the OS
Install dotnet core 6
Install JKA files
Use crossplatform patcher to download MBII
Run the provided mbii.i386 with the correct command line.

What you guys need to do is Update the Client for Linux users. Last time I checked, Mace knew how to do it, but he supposedly left the Dev team. So if you know anyone with knowledge on Linux, please update the client.

 

[MaceMadunusus]

Run the provided mbii.i386 with the correct command line.

mbii.i386 hasn't been updated since may of 2023 (so no updates for rend2 etc) because its not autocompiling and therefore not updated as part of the build. So last I heard people had issues with crashes and whatnot. No ones looked into it when I have mentioned it multiple times.

 

[Rave Blitz]

mbii.i386 hasn't been updated since may of 2023 (so no updates for rend2 etc) because its not autocompiling and therefore not updated as part of the build. So last I heard people had issues with crashes and whatnot. No ones looked into it when I have mentioned it multiple times.

So why don't you update it then?

 

[2cwldys]

the games dying buddy, the things we took for granted are now the very hardships...
jokes aside, the devs are more into implementing more serious things! like bad & unnecessary open changes in what are supposedly hotfixes.
catering to the like competitive 5% of the playerbase rather than making the game playable for all PC audiences... windows mac & linux.
don't bother asking mace to do it he's quit the team. john might be your saving grace instead. if they don't consider it a waste of dev resources, bc they need john for more important things!

 

[MaceMadunusus]

So why don't you update it then?

Read the last sentence. I can't fix it because I'm not much of a programmer.

 

[Kameo Blue]

Is there any way any of us could do it? I just want to play MBII again.

 

[Valkyrie]

This is not of the standard we are used to. I would call it proto-semi-professional at most.

 

[Defiant]

The open source project is entirely seperate from MBII, but since no one seems to be doing it, I will build it and push it out asap.

 

[Defiant]

Here is an experimental compile of the mbii client for linux. Please let me know if it works or not. I will push it out for all users if it works well.