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The original was posted on /r/linux_gaming by /u/StellaLikesGames on 2024-10-04 21:19:09+00:00.

Tutorial:

1: Download the Project Reboot launcher from GitHub

2: Run the installer under wine

3: Once its done, depending on your wine version you will get a black screen, to fix this we need to use the latest Proton, or the latest Proton GE, or use wine 9.11

4: The backend is a bit glitchy, only local works and you have to reset it every time you launch it, so go over to the backend tab, press "Reset", then press "Start Backend", you will see it error out, then you need to switch the type to local, and the backend should work.

5: Download the Fortnite season of your choice at an archive, the built in download thing to download Fortnite seasons under wine doesn't work for some reason, I would recommend using as its a pretty big archive.

6: Extract the build you downloaded and keep it somewhere you will remember

7: Add the build to reboot, navigate over to the extracted folder and make sure to point it at the folder with "FortniteGame" and "Engine" in it

8: Go to host, press "Information" and disable "Discoverable", otherwise random people can join your server

9: Press play, then press "Launch Fortnite" and it should be working! You should see a GUI for the server pop up, once it does wait until you see "Joinable: true", once it does that open the console in the fortnite by pressing f8, then type "open 127.0.0.1" to go into your own server, if you want to go into someone elses server get the IP they are hosting on, and type "open the ip for the server"

I hope this helped, if you want your friends to play you have to setup port forwarding or use something like playit, go to this video and go to 9:04, just follow the instructions for playit, the native linux version works for me when hosting, but running the windows version under wine should work

To run event's for chapter 2(like the one im doing right now), you need to use neonite as the backend, so go over to and download it by doing git clone, cd into the folder and type "npm i", then open up app.js, search for "5595", once you do that change it to 3551, then you can launch reboot and chapter 2 events should be working!

Also I would like to mention some seasons just crash while others don't, I have no idea how to fix it, if you figure out a way please let me know!