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Apparently the new patch is all sorts of wonky. This fixed it for me:

I believe my message is the same: I tried your fix and it didn't work. It seems like I have the same symptoms. Clean install, first updates try and then ultimately fails. Trying again gives the error message. Nothing has changed. Same PC, same OS.

@Bill Z Bubba You da man! I decided to come back to the game yesterday but couldn't get Mids to update, which meant I couldn't put a build together for the toon I wanna play. This is exactly what I needed!

Appears I was missing Visual C++ v14 fox x64 from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170 Installed that, now Mids' is reporting fully updated.

Howdy. Hoping someone has seen this and knows a fix. I searched for mids-bootstrap.exe and saw no mention of it. Mids is installed and functioning fine otherwise on two Windows 11 systems. However, when I attempt to update it, I get the following error: Clicking OK just takes me back to Mids. Anyone have any ideas how to correct this so that I can update the Homecoming DB within Mids? I already did a full purge of Mids including all directories and did a reinstall using the latest installer from the website. Thanks, -BZB

Having issue in mids trying to create builds. When I go to soldier it only shows the level 1-24 basic soldier powers. When I try widow it shows 1-24 widow and fortunata powers. How can I get it to show all options? (Bame, crab, fort, and night widow)

Got an answer: sadly no

I mean things like defense/resistance/etc?

For some reason MIDS isn't showing any of the damage from procs for me. Is anyone else having this problem? I can find anywhere in the settings where I might have that disabled...

This worked for me but I got unhandled exception popups when trying to use View Totals (and some other stuff) which were fixed by installing the Segoe UI fonts from here. (I don't know if their install script works with bottles, I ignored it and just copied the TTFs into the bottle's Fonts directory.)

There is a Wine solution for Mac that works great. Would it work on Linux?

The fallback option of running in a Virtual Machine is present, but truly sucks. I don't understand why this has to keep being an issue and why they, the MidsReborn team, can't stop using features that aren't compatible with Wine, but HERE WE ARE. Oh well. If they had a Linux build, I'd donate to their development just as I donate for Homecoming and the homecoming.wiki website. I'm not above paying for effort, far from it. As it stands, if I have to jump through hoops to get something to work and I don't have to pay for it, then I've paid for it by jumping through hoops, IMHO. Edit to add: I wrote this as I was installing files for MidsReborn in the Virtual Machine. Running it, it requires some kind of OpenGL passthrough that my VM wasn't doing properly. I was using virt-manager on Ubuntu 25.04. I don't know how to move forward now, and I'm just giving up on Mids for now. Maybe Wine will advance to support this some day soon.

Thank you for this. I managed to get it set up, updated, and running. I wasn't able to locate Filesystems in Bottles to add the access to my existing files, but I dropped copies into the C drive to get to them. I even was able to get decent enough scaling on my comically huge TV to see them decently well. Your effort is hugely appreciated.

If you want to try bottles again, Here is the step by step process I used for bottles: For bottles: flatpak install bottles Open Bottles Create New Bottle Name it MidsReborn Leave it as application Switch the Runner to sys-wine-10.0 (if it does not show up in your terminal flatpak install wine, choose 24.08) Click Create After the Bottle is created Go to Settings, Switch the Windows Version to 11 Hit the Back Arrow to get back to the MidsReborn Bottle Screen Go to Dependencies: Click the Download Arrow on dotnetcoredesktop8 Click the Download Arrow on vcredist2022 Download the latest MRB zip file from midsreborn.com Extract it to ~/.var/app/com.userbottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/MidsReborn/drive_c/users/yourusername/AppData/Roaming/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn You will need to create the LoadedCamel and MidsReborn Folders In Bottles click Add Shorcuts Browse to ~/.var/app/com.userbottles.bottles/data/bottles/bottles/MidsReborn/drive_c/users/yourusername/AppData/Roaming/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn select MidsReborn.exe Click the Play Icon to launch MidsReborn It should launch and will probably need to update a few times. If it doesn't relaunch after an update just launch it again. If you want a launch option for mids in your main menu, click on the 3 dots and Add Desktop Entry. It may pop up a webpage with instructions on how to allow permission to do this. They are very straight forward. If you want to save build files into your Linux home directory you will need to install flatseal flatpak install flatseal Run it and in Bottles scroll down to Filesystems and either click the toggle next to All user files or the folder icon next to Other files and type in the path to where you want access. (for example I save all my build files to my dropbox which is at ~/Dropbox) If you already have bottles installed you can skip down to create a new bottle.

I spent over 3 hours trying on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. I tried posts about Lutris, Wine, and via Bottles. One time the app kinda opened, and even looked more visible on my gigantic TV that it did before. But, I just ended up in a loop of it crashing over and over. Hopefully a solution that I can wrap my foggy brain around will come along soon. As it is, I just reinstalled the flatpak version from before so I can at least see the builds I had. I know the numbers won't make sense anymore, but there's comfort in following a plan, even not a great one.

Yeah, when I check for updates it tells me that Mids Reborn v3.7.14.3 and Homecoming Database 2025.6.1082 are available. When I click update, nothing happens - well, the updates available box vanishes, but when I click check for updates it comes back. Nothing downloads, nothing updates. Next Day Edit: I kept digging, and I stumbled onto this url: https://updates.midsreborn.com/full_updates/ There's a zip file there, download it and extract it. Then copy the contents into your MidsReborn folder and tell it to over-write all the files with the same name. That'll update you to the newest Mids version and the newest Homecoming database.

As it currently stands the flatpak cannot update to 3.7.14.3. The in-app updater does nothing through wine. I do know how to manually install the 3.7.14.3 update, however doing this in the flatpak causes mids to permanently freeze upon opening. I have been exploring solutions to this issue but have not found one yet. If anyone needs help with setting up the system wine mids install or installing through bottles feel free to reach out to me.

I don't even see it on the server

It has to be the Windows .Net8 Desktop runtime. There are required files from it that are not part of the Linux .Net Runtime or SDK

This is my first time posting regarding Mids and I want to take the opportunity to say thanks for providing such a wonderful service that has been incredibly useful to me and countless others through the years. I know that Mids is imperfect and by necessity a constant work in progress... but am I wrong in thinking that it has an unusual number of problems when it comes to Bio Armor? A Claws/Bio Armor scrapper has become far and away my favorite character to play, but there seem to be so many inconsistencies with Bio Armor in Mids that I honestly don't know if anything I'm looking at is accurate. Is it just the unusual nature and awkward complexity of the set, is it something else or am I misjudging what I'm seeing completely? Also, is there another option if I want to be able to lock down the numbers for a character using Bio Armor?

Did you install the .NET8 Desktop Runtime? That's the one you need, and it is distinct from the .NET8 Runtime.

Thanks for the work on this, but I was wondering for the 8.0 Net support is this primarily needed in Wine? or can it be through Linux? I was able to have setup 8.0.17 for Core and Net on my system, and it is not recognizing that I have the required .Net set I have installed.

There actually is, but you have to be on the Mids' Reborn Discord server to get it.

what kinds of issues are you having? Mine seems to be working fine.. obviously there isnt a page 2 full updates yet.

Is anyone having issues with Mid's after the last update?