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Mc0rn3ry
8 Oct 2012, 23:40
Hello, I just got in this game, and found this game is not playable on linux (Ubuntu). Because Adobe would be abandoning Flash Player Linux support. (Only way to play is with Chrome browser).
NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. (this is direct copy+paste from adobe site.)
Could U pls try to solve somekind of workaround to this. Or atleast make somekind of warning to us linux users.
(And before somebody says I'm wrong, may I say that I'm quite new on linux.. ;) )

ElBobbo
10 Oct 2012, 12:20
Hey Mc0rn3ry, unfortunately the game requires Flash 11.3 to play. I'm afraid that if Linux won't support 11.3 then the game won't work on it. We will see if there's anyway around this with future updates of any sort.

ElBobbo
10 Oct 2012, 15:09
Hey Mc0rn3ry, one of the guys here reckons it might work on Chrome on Linux as it's got built in Flash. Worth a try??

StepS
10 Oct 2012, 15:17
That's what he said :)

(Only way to play is with Chrome browser)

maybe not the best solution, I don't know
but either way, this should be added as a tip on linux.
detecting the User-Agent should be simple, and then informing the user about this problem

ElBobbo
10 Oct 2012, 18:32
So he did! Sorry Mc0rn3ry! I was too busy running around looking for a solution! :)

Agreed StepS. We can have a look into this and see what we can come up with.

Mc0rn3ry
11 Oct 2012, 07:42
:) Now, there we have a start. And I'm pretty sure that if you could add "The linux specific warning", maybe there could be showing up some "real geeks", who know something about this problem. (If there is something to know about)

murat
12 Oct 2012, 23:28
i am also a linux user, i use gentoo and it is not possible to play on firefox now, i tried in chrome and it worked

ElBobbo
15 Oct 2012, 11:36
Yup, if you want to play on Linux you'll have to play via Chrome. It looks like Linux has stopped supporting Flash, but Chrome for Linux still works.

StepS
15 Oct 2012, 14:14
Linux has stopped supporting Flash

more like Adobe stopped supporting Linux :rolleyes:

ElBobbo
15 Oct 2012, 16:16
Oooo!!!!! ;)

Mc0rn3ry
17 Oct 2012, 12:18
more like Adobe stopped supporting Linux :rolleyes:

ROFLMAO

Now after few days of repeatedly asking my friend google, I have found out that it's maybe possible to get Chromium (open source browser) use the Chrome pepperflash plugin. Not still maybe perfect solution, but one workaround more.

ElBobbo
17 Oct 2012, 12:26
I'm glad I'm not the only one who considers Google a friend! ;)