Heroic Games Launcher•2mo ago

Downgrade Among Us

Hi, is there a way to downgrade a game, like Among Us? I want to use a mod with custom lobbies, but I need to use an older version. Can I downgrade? Thanks!

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stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

Or, even, to uninstall this and reinstall with an old version

like-gold•2mo ago

If you can find a manifest for an old version, yes By default Legendary does keep them (check <heroic config dir>/legendaryConfig/legendary/manifests/), but Heroic periodically cleans them out

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

No, I only just installed

like-gold•2mo ago

Right, you'll have to find a manifest somewhere then. Not sure if there are archives somewhere for Among Us

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

wait a second haha i just realized the mod has a script to downgrade the game which wouldnt work since its windows only however the script literally uses legendary on windows to do so haha

# This scripts downgrades the Epic Games version to the previous live one using the 3rd party client Legendary
# 1. Download Legendary
# 2. Install with the provided manifest
# 3. Create a small launch script for the game

Write-Host -BackgroundColor red "Downloading Legendary, please wait..."

# Download Legendary
curl.exe -LO https://github.com/whichtwix/legendary/releases/latest/download/legendary.exe

# This gives Legendary access to the Epic account, this is needed to download the game
.\legendary auth --import

# we have to do this first so the base url can populate as even putting it as a argument later is not enough
.\legendary install 963137e4c29d4c79a81323b8fab03a40 --abort-if-any-installed

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/whichtwix/Data/raw/master/epic/manifests/963137e4c29d4c79a81323b8fab03a40_2024.11.26.manifest -UseBasicParsing -OutFile auman.manifest

.\legendary install 963137e4c29d4c79a81323b8fab03a40 --manifest auman.manifest -y

Write-Host "done"
Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "Attempting to access the new Among Us folder through file explorer"
Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "if not found, please find it manually at C:\users\you\games\among us or similar"

Set-Location -Path (Get-Item -Path $env:USERPROFILE)
explorer.exe Games\AmongUs

Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "making a quick start file in the among us folder, click this to start the game"
Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "it will be named EpicGamesStarter.exe"
if (!(Test-Path "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe")) 
{
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/whichtwix/EpicGamesStarter/releases/download/1.0.2/EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip
}
if (Test-Path "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip") 
{
    Expand-Archive -Path "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip" -DestinationPath "Games\AmongUs" -Force
    Remove-Item "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip"
}

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# This scripts downgrades the Epic Games version to the previous live one using the 3rd party client Legendary
# 1. Download Legendary
# 2. Install with the provided manifest
# 3. Create a small launch script for the game

Write-Host -BackgroundColor red "Downloading Legendary, please wait..."

# Download Legendary
curl.exe -LO https://github.com/whichtwix/legendary/releases/latest/download/legendary.exe

# This gives Legendary access to the Epic account, this is needed to download the game
.\legendary auth --import

# we have to do this first so the base url can populate as even putting it as a argument later is not enough
.\legendary install 963137e4c29d4c79a81323b8fab03a40 --abort-if-any-installed

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/whichtwix/Data/raw/master/epic/manifests/963137e4c29d4c79a81323b8fab03a40_2024.11.26.manifest -UseBasicParsing -OutFile auman.manifest

.\legendary install 963137e4c29d4c79a81323b8fab03a40 --manifest auman.manifest -y

Write-Host "done"
Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "Attempting to access the new Among Us folder through file explorer"
Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "if not found, please find it manually at C:\users\you\games\among us or similar"

Set-Location -Path (Get-Item -Path $env:USERPROFILE)
explorer.exe Games\AmongUs

Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "making a quick start file in the among us folder, click this to start the game"
Write-Host  -BackgroundColor red "it will be named EpicGamesStarter.exe"
if (!(Test-Path "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe")) 
{
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://github.com/whichtwix/EpicGamesStarter/releases/download/1.0.2/EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip
}
if (Test-Path "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip") 
{
    Expand-Archive -Path "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip" -DestinationPath "Games\AmongUs" -Force
    Remove-Item "Games\AmongUs\EpicGamesStarter.exe.zip"
}

Read-Host

so i can just use that manifest i guess thanks!

like-gold•2mo ago

Yup that should work Make sure to set the LEGENDARY_CONFIG_PATH env var to <heroic config dir>/legendaryConfig/legendary/ to have the changes be picked up in Heroic

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

okay thank you Maybe I should make a linux script for them too Where does heroic store the legendary binary, btw?

like-gold•2mo ago

I'm afraid that's gonna be difficult to find in a script, since it can be basically anywhere depending on which Heroic variant (Flatpak, AppImage, native package, etc.) you're using

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

i was just going to check native and flatpak hmm ill have the script download legendary then maybe

like-gold•2mo ago

Maybe it'd be easier to make a thing in Heroic to downgrade games? Like add an option to the 3-dot menu where you can give it a manifest path/url?

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

nvm thatd break in nixos That would be amazing, if you could do that! i guess i could try but ive not contributed to heroic before

like-gold•2mo ago

Could you create a GitHub issue for that? I will forget about it otherwise

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

of course Done

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/4459

GitHub

Downgrade Game · Issue #4459 · Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesL...

Problem description I'd like to be able to download games, if providing a legendary manifest. Feature description On game page: Three Dot Menu > Downgrade Game Downgrading... Done. Alternati...

stormy-goldOP•2mo ago

i think, for now, i may grab among us from steam :p its only $6 aye steam version worked

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