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Just an informational update for anyone playing Fishing Planet under Linux. Several people have posted information about running into a bug under Linux/SteamOS and apparently PS4 where buoys are only displayed sometimes. What I found at several lakes was that when someone with a boat passed by one of the buoys I couldn't see, it would suddenly be visible. Additionally I found that when I hoped in a boat I was able to navigate to a spot very close to a buoy and still not see it unless I was viewing it with the right angle. There is a very definite line that appears on the screen (at Emerald lake for example) between the screen and the screen when a buoy comes into view. Here's an example from San Joaquin when a guy went hot-dogging by on his motorboat. In the first photo the buoy is visible as the boat passes by it. As the boat goes just a bit further the buoy (which is right in front of me) disappears. How close you are to a buoy doesn't seem to matter as to whether it will show or not, it seems to be some light-reflection issue. I reported this in an email, but didn't include attachments. Unfortunate news for Linux users, it doesn't appear that this will get fixed soon. Here's a response I got from a Senior Customer Support Specialist: It is understandable it might take awhile, but given that this problem also seems to happen with the PS4 version according to this post, I'm hoping this bit of information about boats helps expose what the problem might be.

For anyone trying to find where Fishing Planet screenshots are located they're stored in a directory/folder under: /home/<your linux username>/.steam/steam/userdata/ This userdata folder contains user data for most of the steam programs you install, so you might have 1 directory/folder below this, or many depending on how many steam games/programs you have installed. The folders below the userdata folder are numerical, there's no "fishing_planet" folder here, so you'll have to browse each folder. Below the numerical folder there is likely another numbered folder and then a folder named remote. If you keep navigating you'll find the right folder below labelled screenshots. Note that after /home/<your username> (in my case, in the screenshot below it's /home/charm/) the directory/folder begins with a period: .steam/steam/. There are two directories/folders here, the first is .steam and the one below is just steam. For those who don't know about dotfile directories they're generally not shown in Linux. So if I used the Files program to navigate to /home/charm I normally wouldn't see the .steam folder. To navigate to the .steam folder from the Files program press CTRL-L with the Files program selected, it will now let you type in the field as you would the URL section of a web browser, so you can append your username directory with the .steam folder. In my case: /home/charm/.steam. Here's a screenshot of what that looks like: Once you've found the full path to the screenshots folder you can select it and use CTRL-C to copy the location. Then right click on the Files program, select New Window, and click on the Desktop icon. In the Files program white-space area right click and select Open Terminal. This opens a command prompt terminal at your /home/<your username>/Desktop. We're going to create a symbolic link to the Fishing Planet folder so you don't have to remember where you have to navigate each time. Note: where I have [SHIFT+INSERT] you don't type SHIFT+INSERT, hold the SHIFT key and press the INSERT key (this pastes the location we selected earlier): ln -S [SHIFT+INSERT] Fishing_Planet_Screenshots That is a small "L" at the beginning and a capital "S" after the minus/tack. In the Files / Desktop folder you should now see a folder that links directly to the screenshots folder for Fishing Planet. You can call the symbolic link/folder anything you want, I called it Fishing_Planet_Screenshots above, but the name is really up to you. For some this is probably very basic, but I thought it might be helpful for anyone newer to Linux. This may not work exactly the same if you're using a distribution other than Ubuntu or a different desktop environment (though I'm pretty sure it would work the same in XFCE). Hope this helps someone out there. Cheers, Chaslinux

I finally leveled up enough to travel to Kaniq Creek in Alaska. When I selected Kaniq Creek, selected Licenses and clicked "Buy Licenses" this is what I got: Almost every license except Kaniq Creek. Up to this point whenever I've clicked on a lake and clicked "Buy Licenses" it's shown me only the basic and advanced license for the particular waterway I'm looking at. It's possible to get around the issue by clicking in the Search field (just above where the Texas licenses are in the above screenshot) and typing in Alaska. This narrows the results down to only those for Kaniq Creek. (I also found it on the third page of licenses) I'm not sure if this is a bug in general for this waterway or if it's a bug specific to the Linux/PS4/XBox port?

Fishing Planet runs well in Linux excepting a few small glitches. File locations: /home/<username>/.config/unity3d/Fishing Planet LLC/FishingPlanet/ or ~/.config/unity3d/Fishing Planet LLC/FishingPlanet/ This directory contains the preference file (prefs) and the log file (Player.log), when sending a bug report to the developers this is where you find the log file they will ask for. Graphical issues: If you have a blank screen or a bunch of graphical garbage on startup try: Right click on game in the steam library Properties Set Launch options Type "./FishingPlanet.x86_64 -screen-fullscreen 0 %command%" or Edit the prefs file in the above directory to change; <pref name="IsFullScreen" type="int">1</pref> to <pref name="IsFullScreen" type="int">0</pref> Other than the graphical issue above the game has been stable for many hours of game play.