Bloons TD Battles (444640)

[Newbytee]

Whitelist Request

• Name of the game to be whitelisted: Bloons TD Battles
• Steam AppID of the game: 444640

System Information

• GPU: GTX 970
• Driver/LLVM version: nvidia 460.67
• Distro version: Fedora 32
• Link to full system information report as Gist:
• Proton version: Proton 6.3-1

I confirm:

• that pressing the Play button in the Steam client is sufficient.
• that runtime config options are necessary to run the game.
• that no workarounds other than PROTON_* env variables are necessary.

Issues

• I haven't experienced any issues.
• There are no issues left open for this game.
• Although I consider the gaming experience equal to Windows there are remaining issues:

Worth noting is that an issue claiming this works well already exists dating over 2 years ago, #1855, however it was closed instead of being turned into a whitelist request.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Newbytee, by its nature, Proton Experimental is not eligible to use with the whitelist. Please retest the game with a different mainline release series and let me know the outcome, then we can re-open this whitelist request.

[Newbytee]

@kisak-valve I can confirm this works just as well with Proton 6.3-1, however I cannot re-open this myself.

[legendofmiracles]

I wouldn't put this on the whitelist. Rumors have it, that the game devs once pushed a patch to break proton compatibility, because proton players were causing server issues.
The next proton version (and third party forks) worked again...

I don't think that they confirmed this officially but I read it on protondb.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @legendofmiracles, #2330 (comment) was a legitimate shortcoming of wine at the time and was causing trouble for their server infrastructure. That issue has been triaged with Proton 5.13 and I would not consider that relevant to this whitelist request.