Microsoft Allegiance (700480)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: Microsoft Allegiance
• Steam AppID of the game: 700480

System Information

• GPU: Radeon RX 580
• Driver/LLVM version: 4.5 Mesa 19.2.1
• Kernel version: 5.5.0-0.rc2.git1.1.fc32.x86_64
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/agates/5c9ba411a0478632a96c11a25e7ea6a8
• Proton version: 4.11-11

I confirm:

• that I haven't found an existing compatibility report for this game.
• that I have checked whether there are updates for my system available.

Symptoms

Cannot play multiplayer out of the box. Needs directplay installed for multiplayer support. Seems to work fine otherwise.

Reproduction

1. Run the game
2. Click "JOIN GAMES"
3. Click "CURRENT GAMES LISTINGS"
4. The game will give an error saying failed to connect to lobby.

Other information

The game was open sourced by Microsoft and now lives under the MIT license.
https://github.com/FreeAllegiance/Allegiance

Start with the listed reproduction steps using Proton 4.11-11 and review the DirectPlay requirement for Microsoft Allegiance. The external FreeAllegiance repository and the linked system information provide context; done means multiplayer can connect to the lobby without the reported error.