Intro/Mission Briefings Missing

[ghost]

Sorry if this question has been asked a dozen times over. I'm a complete newcomer to Linux, and after managing to stagger through setting up fheroes2, I noticed that both the introduction cinematics, as well as the mission briefings, are missing. Is this normal, and they simply haven't been implemented, or did I do something wrong?

[ihhub]

Hi @Auraculum2 , welcome!

Missing videos mean missing files for them. Please check that you have anim directory within the same level where data directory is located.

[ihhub]

Perhaps @oleg-derevenetz can advice here.

[ghost]

I run Pop!_OS 21.04, if this will be of any help.

[oleg-derevenetz]

Hi all,

Honestly, I never heard of such a distro before :) but bsdtar is in general a part of the libarchive, so may be installing a libarchive package may help.

[ghost]

That did it! Game is running with sound, as well as the intro/briefings. Just a few follow-up questions:

1. Is there any way to launch the game just through the heroes2 icon, instead of always launching the script through the terminal?
2. Is there a way to force the game to launch itself already stretched to fullscreen?
3. I don't know whether it's a bug, or something on my end, but during the briefings the crystal on the table is supposed to glow when Roland/Archibald speaks. It does not.

[oleg-derevenetz]

Is there any way to launch the game just through the heroes2 icon, instead of always launching the script through the terminal?

It depends on your window manager. I suppose, all window managers should be able to create shortcuts, just in a different way.

Is there a way to force the game to launch itself already stretched to fullscreen?

Once you switched to the fullscreen mode (using F4 button) this should be rememebered in the fheroes2.cfg and app should be launched in the fullscreen mode next time.

I don't know whether it's a bug, or something on my end, but during the briefings the crystal on the table is supposed to glow when Roland/Archibald speaks. It does not.

This is a known bug: #4504