so in recent times, ea games have been increasingly painful to get working on linux, due to the god awful ea launcher. so here's a list of fixes i scoured the deepest corners of github for, along with a last resort for when all else fails. some of these are specific to Titanfall 2, others should work anywhere. i'll label them accordingly.

(game specific)
so for matchmaking some people on protondb as well as the github recommend adding this to your launch options as an environment variable if you don't find any games on intel.
next is getting rid of fullscreen as this can cause some issues like black screens when alt tabbing. this can just be done with the launch options

-window -noborder

in the steam launch options it would be something like

<ENV_VARS=here> %command% -window -noborder

this is not required when running via gamescope (make sure to replace <ENV_VARS=here> with any environment variables you use, some helpful ones i like are

PROTON_LOG=1

for "debugging", and

RADV_PERFTEST=rt

for AMD ray tracing in games that support it) you an also add mangohud and gamemode. here is a preview of what all those together looks like:

so for some stupid reason the ea app has an aneurysm any time there is a large environment variable sent to it. add this to the launch options to fix it. what this little bash code basically does is go through the launch command and then limit any environment variable to 1000 characters so ea doesn't have an aneurysm. (note that this may break the intel matchmaking fix which relies on an environment variable) (you'll wanna paste this entire text into launch options and make sure nothing else is there)

right so you might be wondering "hey epic, why the h​ell would you have ipv6 off in $(currentyear)?" well, there is a long unresolved issue on steam for linux where download speeds can be cripplingly slow, and the 2 fixes for it are

• a. to enable a local dns cache (like dnsmasq)
  and
  
• b. disable ipv6 altogether.
  
  i wasn't satisfied with the results i got when only using dnsmasq, so i went ahead and disabled ipv6. turns out ea beefs with that. so your choice is to either
  
  
• a. download games blazing fast
  or
  
• b. play ea games and suffer excruciatingly low download speeds.
  
  it's unfortunate really, the fact ea even has to half a​ss bringing their games to steam is upsetting. but yeah.
  
  if you disabled ipv6 with grub, then simply remove

  ipv6.disable=1

  from your grub options and remake the grub config with

  sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

  and reboot, and if you used sysctl, then send

  sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=0 && sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0 && sudo sysctl -p

  into a terminal, and that should be it (after a reboot of course).

well, thats it, this was my first guide and my first attempt at using gimp, took me 2 hours of lurking on github to find these fixes, so i hope it helped. drop any feedback and stuff in the comments, and remember,

$(current year) + 1

will always be the year of the linux desktop