Can Support Please Be Added To Play Marvel Rivals on Heroic Launcher???
Hello Team! š
I just made an annoyingly lengthy post on your X page about this before I found your Discord Support page here (sorry š
), but in summary thereās a huge demand for the new Marvel Rivals game from Epic Games.
Iām in a pickle because:
1. I have an older Xbox One Series S, not the new āXbox Series Sā.
2. Marvel Rivals is ONLY available on PC via Windows on Steam or the Epic Games Store OR the newest generation consoles (PS5 / Xbox Series S/X).
3. I plan to build a PC this year, but for now Iām broke and times are tough economically for many people to upgrade.
4. Since this game is so popular, most of my friends and many others are playing it (The game reached 10 million players worldwide within 72 hours).
At the moment, the only way that folks like me who have a MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon (2021 M1 Pro running Sequoia 15.2) are supposedly able to play Marvel Rivals is via Crossover Preview. Since Crossover Preview is a newer beta version of Crossover, it costs $60 to download and obtain the license.
This essentially means that if you want to run this free game on a Mac, you need to buy a $60 piece of beta software that may or may not run it properlyā¦
Tl;Dr:
PLEASEEE work on adding Marvel Rivals to the Heroic Games Launcher.
I regularly use Heroic to run Rocket League on my 2021 M1 Pro MacBook Pro and itās so cool that I can play competitively using the XDR Display Resolution and the ProMotion 120hz screen (which is way faster than my Xbox One S and 60hz 4k TV).
I also figured that since you can already run the Epic Games Store launcher on Heroic that I could setup Marvel Rivals. I did download the full (39GB) game on there, but when I attempted to run it using the Game-Porting-Toolkit-Latest it would act like it was going to play and then never run and ask if I wanted to play / launch it. I tried this with Whisky version 2.3.4 and it wouldnāt work either.
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equal-aquaOPā¢5mo ago
Iāll link the post I added to Twitter for reference below, but I went through a few online forums and then YouTube to find that just through YouTube alone there were a total of 8 videos with 63,000 views all together about how to play Marvel Rivals on Mac. Most of them were incorrect and some did say to ultimately just buy the Crossover Preview 1 year license for $60 to play a FREE game, but to me, thatās ridiculous.
Iām a huge fan of Heroic Games Launcher you beautiful Devs have made, and I also mentioned on all 8 YouTube videos in a comment how people should support you all on Patreon since you Devs are the GOATs š
Thank you for all you do and please look into this if possible! š
equal-aquaOPā¢5mo ago
Hereās my X post @HeroicLauncher with most of the same info and receipts of what I had mentioned for reference.
https://x.com/bfogler12/status/1877224920876192239
Ben Fogler (@bfogler12) on X
@HeroicLauncher Could you PLEASEEE work on support for Epic Games' Marvel Rivals???
There's so much demand for this online from what I've seen (especially for those using Apple Silicon), but the only option I've found available online currently is Crossover Preview = $60 š
Twitter
equal-aquaOPā¢5mo ago
Finally, hereās a screen recording of the issue in real time for reference if needed as well.
adverse-sapphireā¢5mo ago
sorry it seems like Rivals on mac only work for Crossover https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/1314710034076405860/1324756784455614525 if you really wanted it they have trial version right? You could try that maybe I dont know much about Mac. Its important to note that Heroic is only a launcher to unify your game library, to launch it is and whether it worked or not up to game devs and Wine/Crossover devs
equal-aquaOPā¢5mo ago
Thanks for your quick reply!
Unfortunately it is only working on Crossoverās experimental / beta version at the moment (Crossover Preview).
Crossover Preview is not included with the free trial version of Crossover :/
I donāt want to pay $60 to run a free game and thatās the whole reason behind my request here - especially if there was a simpler way to run it that was free / cheaper.
When you say āwhether it works or not is up to game devs and Wine / Crossover devsā Iām not following exactly.
Who would be the dev who could make this work? Would it be a dev at Epic Games (doubt it since it was released very limited to the current next gen consoles and Windows only), or when you say the Wine/Crossover Devs, who are they and how would I contact them?
Finally, just to make sure I understand, Heroic has no control whatsoever of how Epic Games can be played on other OSā, it only brings the Wine/Crossover code and puts it together with the game library (like the bread that holds peanut butter and jelly together)? š¤
adverse-sapphireā¢5mo ago
Heroic is just a launcher. WIne/Crossover is a software that is translating this Windows specific language to the language Mac or Linux understands. Wine and Crossover is developed by whole other group you could try search it in google. Basically Heroic only tells Wine/Crossover to RUN that game.
Also game devs are big part on how they would work in Mac or Linux especially if they have anticheat
adverse-sapphireā¢5mo ago
you could go to their website to maybe help further if you have any questions https://www.winehq.org/
equal-aquaOPā¢5mo ago
Iām such an idiotā¦ Iām so sorryā¦
Iāve spent the last 3-4 hours trying to figure this out and get reference data / contact support for this and I had no idea Heroic just compiled and unified the data. It works so damn well I thought they had their own backend devs that built the code that actually ran / translated the windows code to a VM for Unix / Linux like Wine / Crossover.
No wonder why Crossover charges $ for their service if they built it.
Wine on the other hand I have no idea what it is or how it works, Iāve just heard of it when loading whisky / crossover / heroic to play rocket league on my Mac.
I guess Iāll see if Crossover can help build that in, or if Wine has any support :/
Thank you for your time and Iām sorry for being an idiot and blowing up the Heroic support.
Thereās just so many people online that I was reading through that were having a similar issue and could not play this game so I figured it would be a great implementation and I love the heroic team.
@tallenta.one Idk if youāre apart of the Heroic dev team or know them, but I did want to give some feedback and say that the feature you all added where the game porting tool kits are built into the heroic launcher makes everything so much more seamless and I really appreciate the ease of use. Hats off to the development team and if I hadnāt gone through this whole issue and wasnāt broke, I promise I would donate to the heroic launcher Patreon and I will as soon as I can financially someday as I use it often for competitive Rocket League and it works great.
genetic-orangeā¢5mo ago
Some of the heroic devs contribute to other projects that the whole ecosystem lives off of, but yeah heroic itself is mostly a tool to help simplify and unify configuring wine translation layers for particular games, and hooking up to stores like egs gog and amazon to a single library
This is pretty similar to the other tools like heroic such as lutris or bottles etc
also heroic and anyone that posts in support are entirely volunteers, no one is employed by any company or other entity to work on heroic, even the devs
Also, there's often very little that can be done for games with heavy anti cheat on mac.. games on mac are 50/50 chance of working at all, and games with lots of anti cheat are very likely unable to work in most cases.
Its more or less up to the game developers to build their game in a way that is more friendly, and that is unlikely to happen.
The fact of the matter is, mac isnt great for running windows games, and if that is a central use of your computing, this may not be the right hardware for you
equal-aquaOPā¢5mo ago
Thank you @Allora! I understand that this program is run by volunteers and is open source.
I appreciate all of that work / time that goes into it and I also appreciate your detailed response.
I wasnāt aware of the anti-cheat features or how that affected the unification / translation from Windows to Mac.
I have the correct hardware and Iām very satisfied with my MacBook for everything it does, but when it comes to traditional AAA windows gaming I know MacOS isnāt the best for this and I plan to build my own PC when I get the $.
I just wanted to see if there was a workaround in the meantime.
genetic-orangeā¢5mo ago
in many cases anti cheat is typically the blocker, and the only way around it is to break the anti cheat which more or less risks a ban since you'd be bypassing the anti cheat system
rivals fortunately has a different problem, but gptk or whiskey dont seem to have a fix for it while crossover does
(interestingly the developers of crossover are also partnered with valve to develop proton, which may be why they're usually the first with fixes for various games)