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Heroic Games Launcher 2.2 (plus a hotfix) adds GOG support
24 Feb 2022 at 11:06 pm UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: SacredsinAs always thanks for the awesome launcher. Any plans to add Origin or Battlenet support?
No. I believe after making GOG more stable we might focus on Amazon Gaming. Since there is not alternative right now on Linux.
But we don't know, let's see what the future reserves 😁

Heroic Games Launcher 2.2 (plus a hotfix) adds GOG support
24 Feb 2022 at 8:26 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: GeamanduraGreat! Is it able to count play time on GOG though?
Heroic count the playtime on its own. But not the time you have on GOG Galaxy for instance.IF that's what you mean.

Heroic Games Launcher 2.2 (plus a hotfix) adds GOG support
24 Feb 2022 at 6:48 pm UTC Likes: 9

There are some improvements to make on the interface and navigation.
Also (not an issue for readers here) but after release, we noticed that games are not installed on Windows. Its the platform we put less time to test and most of our users are on Linux.
Some games might not install or not even load the Install Dialog. Ex.: Fallout classic.
We are trying to understand why.

But most of the things are working fine for a first release. :)

Tim Sweeney has a point about Fortnite EAC support
10 Feb 2022 at 2:03 pm UTC

There is one solution: ship a cloud version of fortnite. Not the best solution but depending on how it is implemented could work.
Several games on the Nintendo switch are cloud based like Control and Kingdom Hearts. There are companies that port your game to the cloud.
Not the best solution, still a solution.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux gets some more fixes
8 Feb 2022 at 7:59 am UTC Likes: 5

Quoting: mao_dze_dunFlavio should really apply for an Epic grant.

PS If they manage to integrate GOG in a way I can run the Windows versions of games to get my cloud saves and achievements, this will officially be the best launcher in history :)
Thanks! :)

So, I had applied for the mega grant about 6 months ago since some people were asking me to do since Heroic is doing a favor to Epic, especially now with the Steam deck. And this was one of the arguments I used during the application.

Still, last week I got a big NO from them and they didn't say the reason.
To be honest this was expected and I never believe we could get it.

Like Rodney from Legendary said: at least they did not answer with a lawsuit. ahahahaha

About GOG: windows games are already working, we are just missing the native games now and getting updates for the games, but this is working on.
Cloud saves might be possible in the future, not on the first implementation though.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games on Linux adds gamepad support
25 Jan 2022 at 12:53 pm UTC Likes: 8

Quoting: rustybroomhandleWish Lutris team would do some work to make that a bit more Steam Deck friendly.

On Twitter there was some back 'n forth between Heroic and Bottles about potentially allowing Heroic to use Bottles to manage wine. A stellar idea!

Thread here: Twitter [External Link]
Yes, we will work on a Bottles integration in the future.
Bottle dev is also helping us with our Flatpak since he had the same issues we are having with permission. :)

Heroic Games Launcher 2.0.0 brings a much improved login system for Epic Games
4 Jan 2022 at 12:35 pm UTC Likes: 4

A lot of work on this version, several things needed to be rewritten and we needed to change some things in the architecture as well to optimize it. Good that everything was ready for the anniversary :D

If someone is curious about what's next for Heroic and what are the plans for 2022 (spoiler: Flathub and GOG), read our blog post on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60716195 [External Link]

The Steam Winter Sale 2021 is now live
22 Dec 2021 at 7:36 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: MohandevirCP2077... You're finally mine! :grin:
Great game, finished it a couple of months ago and runs perfectly fine on Linux now.
Played on an Nvidia 3060ti with DLSS working perfectly.

Heroic Games Launcher for Epic Games appears popular with over 100K downloads
3 Dec 2021 at 1:28 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Frawo
Quoting: on_en_a_gros
Quoting: Lofty. do you have to run a separate client among the Heroic launcher to play games from the EA store ? i.e Heroic downloads the game but then installs the actual client in wine?
If I remember correctly heroic doesn't support origin. When you grab a EA gale it'll show up on your origin account, and you need to install origin on your own ( which is, in my case at least, a painfully experience )
Yes, I grabbed Battlefront 2 while it was free on Epic, but the game didn't even show up in Heroic.
Yes, Legendary implemented this and on next stable version of Heroic it will work as well.
I already started to implement this on it, but next version will bring too much changes, both in features and on the UI so might take some time to release it.

But some things that will be better will be the origin integration, the Login flow, a totally new design, and also a feature when you could add any Game or Software and run with it, similar to Lutris but you will be able to use Proton as well for that.