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Rather difficult to find a copy for some reason and there's no way in hell I'm sending 700 dollars or whatever to the demonic House of Saud for this ancient game and its DLCs. The pirate copies which I could find don't work and I think it's cuz it's missing essential patches that make it work on modern PCs

I'm shipping my vegan werewolf girl and some werewolf ally boy who I'm gonna fix by making him into anotha werewolf :3

Also I feel they were afraid of making the werewolves too cool and epic so they had to take away their tails and smush their faces so they look more like cats (fursecution) and I have yet to find a mod which rectifies this

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[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

there is a fitgirl repack

[–] uokgerku@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Installing fails halfway through for me >w< (I am on Linux, even tried running it with Valve's version of WINE that has all the M$ redists bundled and it still fails :/)

Also it somehow manages to decompress into a bunch of temporary files from 15 gb into like over 130 gb that caused me to run out of disk space the 2nd time I tried it

I found a copy from rutracker that was of the same version but it just failed to launch for some reason* :| All the copies on the pirate sites seem to lack the latest patch? I have no idea if I did smth wrong or smth .w.

*"Please reinstall the base game" message

Edit: I found some instructions on rutracker to fix it I will try cuz I still have the files

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You need to follow specific steps to install repacks on Linux. See this guide on reddit or alternative frontend.

[–] uokgerku@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have tried this, not through Lutris, but when I referred to "Valve's version of WINE" I was referring to GE-Proton

Ultimately I think Fitgirl's repacks are unfortunately just not very good technically :/ I have had issues even on Windows

Also that guide is AI slop

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

i've had this problem. either limiting ram usage on the installer or changing proton versions around usually fixes it for me.

[–] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Installing fails halfway through for me

yeah, i have run into this issue with fitgirl on linux:( i gave a quick look and can't really find another promising torrent, even on my private tracker. sorry! i'm really hoping they put a fixed version with all DLC on steam eventually like they did with sims 2, cause im a hog and i would pay 40 bucks for that slop.

[–] uokgerku@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Thanks for looking anyway soviet-heart

I am in the process of installing some user patches :3 We see if it works