SERIOUS-SAM-TFE(6)

📦 version 0~git20250928, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🎀 SERIOUS-SAM-TFE 🎀

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for serious-sam-tfe — it lives in the Games Manual section, which is section 6 for anyone keeping score. pull up a chair, we're doing this 💅

✨ NAME ✨

serious-sam-tfe — Serious Sam The First Encounter

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

serious-sam-tfe [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so serious-sam-tfe is a first-person shooter video game developed by Croteam and originally published in March 2001. yes, the og. iconic behavior fr fr 🔥

The series follows the adventures of protagonist Sam "Serious" Stone and his fight against the forces of the notorious extraterrestrial overlord Mental, who seeks to destroy humanity. like, actual main character energy, and Mental is giving final boss vibes 💀

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

  • +game <mod> — start the game using a mod, bestie. the mod has to be located in a subdirectory under \Mods\ ✨
  • +connect <host> [+quickjoin] — connect to the server host to join a multiplayer game 🌸
  • +password <value> — set the password to connect to a password-protected multiplayer game 🔐
  • +level <world> [+server] — start a game at world level world 👑
  • +script <file> — execute the script file file during game initialization 📜
  • +logfile <file> — save logs to file 🍓
ok so here's the thing. the script used by Debian to launch the game uses the +cdpath option to point to the game data files. you shouldn't override it. like, don't. i'm serious (pun intended). hands off 🙈

🌸 FILES 🌸

  • /usr/share/games/serious-sam-tfe/ — game data files 💾
  • $XDG_DATA_HOME/Serious Engine/serioussamfe/ — defaulting to ~/.local/share/Serious Engine/serioussamfe/

Configuration and state for Serious Sam The First Encounter. this is where it keeps its little diary of settings and vibes 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Serious Sam The First Encounter was written by Croteam. slay.

This manual page was written by Sébastien Noel <sebastien@twolife.be>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). we love a generous king 🫶

and that's the whole thing bestie, no cap. this page is from 2023-04-28, source/version Games Manual at SERIOUS-SAM-TFE(6). go forth and frag, and remember: don't touch +cdpath. periodt 💅✨

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