The Cycle: Frontier (868270)

Compatibility Report

• Name of the game with compatibility issues: The Cycle: Frontier
• Steam AppID of the game: 868270

System Information

• GPU: AMD RX 570
• Driver/LLVM version: Mesa 21.2.4
• Kernel version: 5.13
• Link to full system information report as Gist: https://gist.github.com/smt923/6e2b1d97fef72b996deb778d2116e201
• Proton version: 6.3, 'Experimental' & 6.19 GE (happened on all but GE seems a bit more 'stable')

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.

steam-1600360.zip

Symptoms

Something seems to cause a 90% chance to freeze on the game first launching for me, presumably some kind of intro video, I realise on ProtonDB there's actually a lot of success there but I've tried Arch and PopOS and have the same issue. By chance I can sometimes spam escape/space/mouse click to try and 'skip' videos and it might get through, and I've also had some success by deleting every video file in /The Cycle Playtest/Prospect/Content, though it still requires a manual key input to skip and isn't really an ideal 'fix' and I can't be totally sure this is a 100% success rate fix either

Reproduction

For me it's as simple as installing and running with proton enabled, it freezes every time if I don't delete the video files or don't input any keys to try and skip the intro, this has happened across mesa versons and distros

Reproduce the launch freeze for The Cycle: Frontier (Steam AppID 868270) with Proton 6.3, Experimental, or GE, and begin by reviewing the attached steam-1600360.zip log. Compare behavior with and without the video's files in /The Cycle Playtest/Prospect/Content and verify whether a consistent compatibility cause and reproducible fix can be established.