Heroic Games Launcher 1.11.0 Alpha has been released. Heroic Games Launcher is an open source game launcher with support for games from the Epic Games Store using the Legendary CLI tool.
Heroic is an Open Source Game Launcher for Linux. Right now it supports launching game from the Epic Games Store using Legendary, a Linux CLI alternative to launch epic games. Heroic is built with Web Technologies like: TypeScript, React, NodeJS and Electron.
How to use it
- Download and Install the package for your distro or the universal AppImage file on the Releases Page;
- If you used Legendary before, it loads your library and installed games. If not, it will ask you to login first. Just follow the instructions.
Feature available right now
- Login with an existing Epic Games account
- Install/Uninstall Games
- Import an already installed game
- Play online (EAC not supported)
- Update installed Games
- Repair installed Games
- Move installed games to different folders
- Multiple downloads at the same time
- Play games using the default wine and default prefix
- Play game with custom wine (Lutris Wine/Proton maybe but can lead to bugs)
- Run games on custom wine prefix
- Check basic information about your Games
- Open game page on Epic Store
- Search for the game on ProtonDB
- Sync installed games with an existing Epic Games instalation folder
- Sync saves with the cloud
What's Changed
General
- Changed the way Heroic install DXVK/VKD3D completely now removing the DLLs when toggling the feature off.
- The Navbar is now visible on the Login Page as well, this makes changing the settings and debugging errors easier.
- Added Window menu + keyboard shortcuts to Quit, Reload and Open the Developer tools.
- Added Support links on the Navbar.
- Added discord and wiki links on the login screen.
- [Windows] Implemented Desktop and Start Menu shortcuts. @arielj
- Updated Legendary to version 0.20.18
- Updated Electron to version 15.3
- Translations update by @weblate
Bugfixes
- Fix Heroic coming to the front every time a game was stopped.
- Fix Desktop shortcuts not being created when the DE had a language different from English. @arielj
New Contributors
Full Changelog: v1.10.3...v1.11.0-alpha
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