Xcom 2 on Arch Linux Fix

Just a quick one. I have this game on steam I play from time to time called XCOM 2; it’s a strategy game that pits a resistance force against alien invaders. It’s pretty fun, but challenging. Anyway, it will run out of the box on my Ubuntu boxes, but on my main PC that runs Arch, it will not launch. I spent several sit-downs looking for fixes, installing missing libraries and the like, all to no avail. On reddit, of all places, I found a fix that just works.

In the game properties, it gives the option to add command line commands under “Launch Options”. I just paste this command there:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=”../lib/x86_64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH” %command%

That’s it. It just works now.