Next Heroic Games Launcher release to include initial GOG Galaxy support

Everyone's favourite Linux games launcher has added yet another milestone feature thanks to Linguin and other Heroic contributors. The development version of Heroic now uses a project named comet to translate a game's GOG Galaxy API calls using a platform-agnostic SDK.

What this means is that now you can play GOG games that previously required the (non-Linux native) GOG Galaxy client!

Pictured - Synthetik: Legion Rising without (left) and with (right) comet running.

This feature has now been merged into the main git branch and will be included in the next release. If you have a burning desire to try this feature now, you can either build the git Heroic version, or run comet manually, which I will describe below.

To run comet standalone, first head to the project page or download the 0.1.2 release. Next download and unpack the dummy GOG service and run
install-dummy-service.bat in the GOG game's wine prefix. You can do this using heroic by going to game settings, selecting "Run EXE on Prefix," then selecting the .bat file from the directory you downloaded. Finally, make sure that you are logged into your GOG account in your heroic client, and run comet --from-heroic --username (your GOG user name) from a terminal. Note that you can do the same using Lutris by changing --from-heroic to --from-lutris. This will launch the comet daemon using your GOG credentials from the Heroic launcher. If you have any problems you can post here or head over to the Heroic discord for support.

And you're done! Fire up the GOG game of your choice and revel in the multiplayer madness! Another banger addition by the Heroic team.