A new version of the Heroic Games Launcher with various bug fixes and enhancements 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.
HeroicGamesLauncher 2.6.0 'Trafalgar Law'
This is the first Heroic release of 2023 and since it is a new year we have a new logo and a new default theme called Midnight Mirage. The previous theme is still available and it is called 'Cyberspace Oasis'. We also added a couple of new ones including a High Contrast theme.
Besides the new theme, we also added several new features and fixes, also improvements for a better user experience.
Highlights
- New Default Theme 'Midnight Mirage'
- Game Settings will open on a dialog now instead of a new page, making it easier to access them.
- New item on the game submenu called 'Extra Info' will show extra information like HowLongToBeat and Game Score
- Heroic will show progress for individual files when moving a game
- Better caching for GOG games information
- [Linux/macOS] When the selected wine version was not found Heroic will search and suggest another one
- [macOS] Wine manager was enabled and it is possible to download Wine Crossover and Wine-Staging directly from Heroic.
- Added setting to auto-update games and also to skip updates for a specific game
- Sidebar now will resize on drag event
- Now it is possible to see the download size and platform of the game on the Downloads manager
- Added a button to retry the auto-detection of the saves game path for games that supports cloud sync saves
- [Windows] Arm64 build available
Fixes
- Heroic will block the installation when changing the platform on the install dialog to avoid corrupting the game
- Fixes and improvements on GOG games setup and installation
- Fix game status not working properly sometimes
- Ui fixes and improvements
- Several other fixes and improvements
Known Issues
- We just found out that Heroic is not creating the folder 'GamesConfig' on its folder so this might cause some issues on clean installs. As an workaround, just create this folder under:
- Linux: .config/heroic or .var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic on Flatpak.
- Windows: %APPDATA%/local/heroic
- macOS: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/heroic
- Or Install a game, it will show some errors, just wait until the install finished notification shows up. Then open the game settings.
Contributors
@arielj @CommandMC @imLinguin @Nocccer @flavioislima @biliesilva @redromnon @Etaash-mathamsetty @weblate
New Contributors
- @Mark12870 made their first contribution in #2227
- @JKingweb made their first contribution in #2336
- @Trevonn made their first contribution in #2379
- @enzoIto made their first contribution in #2366
- @Root-Core made their first contribution in #2377
Full Changelog: v2.5.2...v2.6.0
Release 2.6.0 'Trafalgar Law' · Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
