passive-yellow

Mass Effect Legendary Edition through Heroic

I bought the game on GOG for the winter sales and recently discovered that Heroic might not support it. Can anyone confirm this? And is there any workaround to it? EDIT: Through Epic, not GOG

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constant-blue•3y ago

Requires EA launcher

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

OK, so what do I have to do?

constant-blue•3y ago

As of now, and someone can correct me, I don’t believe it’s playable via Heroic

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

OK, so I should manually install Epic and then check out whether the moons align and everything works?

constant-blue•3y ago

That might work But the thing moving forward is to just buy games on Steam if you have the Deck, especially games that use additional launchers

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

Yeah I assumed that I could run it through heroic because I have had a good luck before with Linux and heroic with other games, I sure will for games with additional launchers Will report back anyways

plain-purple•3y ago

you can install the EA app in heroic, then install games through that I don't have that game so I don't know if it would work, but you can try https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/wiki/How-to-install-EA-Games-on-Linux

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How to install EA Games on Linux

A Native GOG and Epic Games Launcher for Linux, Windows and Mac. - Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher

constant-blue•3y ago

Does that work when the game is owned via Epic?

plain-purple•3y ago

yes, that wiki page also explains how to link the epic and ea accounts so the games you own in epic show up in the ea app

constant-blue•3y ago

Great

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

Nice, thanks! what if I don't have wine or wine-staging, but only proton?

(deck@steamdeck ~)$ wine --version
wine-7.19

(deck@steamdeck ~)$ wine --version
wine-7.19

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

I'm trying to understand where to download wine in this format from

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

If I manage to download it I guess I can just drag and drop it into the parent folder This version is the one installed through heroic's wine manager, but it's not showing non-GE wine, so I think I need to install it manually

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

EDIT: I think I found the binaries here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Slackware%20Packages/

Wine - Browse /Slackware Packages at SourceForge.net

Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

So I managed to install the EA Launcher, it runs, but the problem is that heroic on the Steam Deck gets installed via Flatpak, so I have yet another issue: You can't just run legendary out of the box since if you try and run it it won't find all the libraries linked by flatpak, so I think you should do something via flatpak run, can't figure out what though Something like:

flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl --command /app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/legendary list -T

except this will just open heroic Documenting for future deck users Before running legendary you need to use: flatpak run --command=sh com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl Then you can use the command found in the guide Should have got the right command, but I'm having a permission denied issue that I can't seem to fix: Command:

/app/bin/heroic/resources/app.asar.unpacked/build/bin/linux/legendary launch heptagon --origin --wine "/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-7-22/" --wine-prefix "/home/deck/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/EA App"

Error:

[Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 3061, in <module>
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 2976, in main
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 568, in launch_game
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 792, in _launch_origin
  File "subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
  File "subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-7-22/'
[38] Failed to execute script 'cli' due to unhandled exception!

[Core] INFO: Trying to re-use existing login session...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 3061, in <module>
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 2976, in main
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 568, in launch_game
  File "legendary/cli.py", line 792, in _launch_origin
  File "subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
  File "subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/deck/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/wine/Wine-7-22/'
[38] Failed to execute script 'cli' due to unhandled exception!

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

It also doesn't make sense since I have full permissions on the folder

passive-yellowOP•3y ago

I'm stuck can't get around the permission issue, if anyone else is able to fix it it would be just perfect So I managed to get the launcher working by simply linking Epic and EA from a windows PC. Now my epic games appear on the EA Launcher Anyone who has writing access on the wiki might want to update it with these info

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition through Heroic

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