Shelly "Bombshell" Harrison is the perfect soldier for the job... any job that requires getting even with alien scum! Weild Shell's robotic arm with an arsenal of weapons tand slay the apocalyptic Alien threat on Kyron and Zeroth. Shell always gets the last word!
Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Bombshell in Linux with PlayOnLinux.
Note: This guide applies to the GOG version of Bombshell. Other versions may require additional steps.
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Mint 18.3 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.2.12
Wine: 3.3
Wine Installation
Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"
Look for the Wine Version: 3.3
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right
Click Next
Downloading Wine
Extracting
Downloading Gecko
Installed
Wine 3.3 is installed and you can close this window
Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install
Click "Install a non-listed program"
Click Next
Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next
Name the virtual drive: bombshell
Click Next
Check all three options:
- Use another version of Wine
- Configure Wine
- Install some libraries
Select Wine 3.3
Click Next
Select "32 bits windows installation"
Click Next
Wine Configuration
Applications Tab
Windows version: Windows XP
Click Apply
Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK
PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)
Check the following:
- POL_Install_corefonts
- POL_Install_dotnet40
- POL_Install_dxfullsetup
- POL_Install_tahoma
Click Browse
Select "setup_bombshell_1.2.10466(g))(16787)_(g).exe"
Click Open
Note: I don't know why it has such a long file name, but make sure to select the .exe installer. The .bin files are just containers
Click Next again...
Select Language
Click OK
Click Options
Uncheck "Create desktop icon"
Check "Yes, I have read and accept EULA"
Click Install
Click OK on all errors
Click Exit
PlayOnLinux Shortcut
Select "Bombshell.exe"
Click Next
Name the shortcut: Bombshell
Click Next
Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next
PlayOnLinux Configure
Back to PlayOnLinux
Select "Bombshell"
Click Configure
General Tab
Wine version: 3.3
Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine
Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses
Close Configure
Select "Bombshell"
Click Run
Optimization
Click Options
Click Visual
Adjust:
- Resolution
- Mode
- Graphics Preset
- Texture Filtering
- Anti-Aliasing
- direct X Version
- V-Sync
Go back
Click "Visual Advanced"
Adjust:
- Dynamic Shadows
- Light Env shadows
- Shadow Quality
- Character Detail
- World Texture Detail
- Detail Level
- Particle quality
- Lens Flares
- Light Shafts
- Depth of Field
- Motion Blur (recommend off)
- Ambient Occlusion (recommend off)
- Distortion
Visual settings can also be manually set with an .ini file
For some reason the fullscreen resolution would not be automatically inherited
Go to:
Code:
Documents/My Games/Bombshell/ShellGame/ConfigureAdjust ResX & ResY to match your Linux desktop resolution
Click Save
.NET error
Sometimes you will get a Dot NET Framework Inistialization Error.
This error won't affect the game or installation
Click OK
Conclusion:
Bombshell ran really well with Wine 3.3 and my GeForce GTX 1060. There are times where it begins to slow down, but you can easily lower some of the visual settings to resolve this. Otherwise, its pretty fun and visually brilliant!
Gameplay Video:
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