Spiral Knights - Linux and Steam

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Sat, 12/06/2014 - 11:50

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Hey guys, While I am not new here, I have moved over to Linux from windows (Due to technical issues, will be on windows again eventually) and I was wondering if there is a way to log in to my Spiral Knights account using steam, I've already added my installation to my library and tried to launch it from there but that doesn't seem to work, it still isn't detecting that it has been launched from Steam.

Are there any attributes I can add to the spiralknights command, or something to force the game to recognize me as being logged in through steam?

Sat, 12/06/2014 - 16:12

Poopsie

this?

hmm ok, ignoring this post, I guess

Sat, 12/06/2014 - 16:16

Skepticraven

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@Poopsie

Edited: Thanks.

@Topic

The correct method is to make a steam_appid.txt file in the home folder of the game. This text file contains the steam app id in plaintext (99900).
The only other file you need is libsteam_api.so. This file can be found from almost any other game that supports an overlay. The original thread said they got theirs from battleblock. I got mine from dungeon defenders. Place this file in the "native" subfolder of the spiralknights install.

When launched again, steam will login to the game if you have the steam client running in the background. If successful, you have converted a standard standalone client to the steam client [where steam provides the active handshake correctly using no copying of cookie data].

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 06:59

Kuratiustwo

How did you find this out?

How did you find this out? I'm just curious

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 08:30

Skepticraven

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These instructions were in a now-hidden thread in tech support. They were discovered by checking steam documentation for adding support for games for linux [in the developer kits] by someone other than myself. The thread is currently hidden to us because the discussions began to violate the ToS S6.6+S6.13 in terms of copying cookie data.

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 08:49

Kuratius

Interesting, thank you. Could

Interesting, thank you. Could go into a little bit more detail? I'm trying it right now, and it doesn't seem to work.
I did the following:
Downloaded and installed the non-steam SK client on linux, pasted the files you mentioned there, and ran steam on linux, but it didn't seem to work when I launched SK client (no steam login).

When were these discussions? Maybe I can access them with a wayback machine (internet archive).

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 09:08

Skepticraven

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Its been awhile since I've booted into steam for linux, and it appears that they may have disabled this as well.

The discussions were sometime during this past summer [July 2014 maybe?]

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 14:27

Autofire

You are experiencing a PICNIC ERROR!

Why would they block it? And, to be more exact, why would they care? They're only blocking some of their player-base by keeping this from working.

Tue, 12/16/2014 - 15:00

Skepticraven

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It may be new steam API that caused the problem. [Dare I mention this thread?]

Either that, or there needs to be a way to tell the client "Hey, I'm logging in via steam!".

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