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[–] Lesrid@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably so, there are a few native Linux builds on Steam that don't have feature parity or segregate multiplayer for silly reasons. (Total War: Warhammer III for example uses an entirely different method to generate random numbers in the native Linux build so you need to use proton to play with 'friends' on Windows)

[–] TheOakTree@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

Why are people downvoting? You gave an edge case and an example of it in action... what is there to disagree with?

[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It doesn't, as far as I could tell. I enabled the global option, and now I can just install and run windows only games without having to manually force the compatibility layer. Meanwhile, the Linux native games work just as intended.