Heroic Games Launcher 2.5.0 (Beta) Adds Download Manager, Custom User Themes, Performance Improvements

A month-and-a-half after the previous release, the Heroic Games Launcher has “tons of commits” for us to look forward to. Awesome features included in this update are:
- download manager – you can now queue as many games as you want to download while doing other tasks
- custom user themes – different themes have already been available, but now you can make your own by using CSS
- apps outside of EGS or GOG can now be added and launched within Heroic
- “more robust” online checking system
- several fixes for the UI
- performance improvements
- improved README and “developer experience”
- refactored Settings menu/frontend/offline detection
- Linux-specific fixes, such as showing the Wine prefix in Game Settings and adding a warning if using only one dGPU if the “Use Dedicated Graphics Card” option is ticked
- shortcuts to Steam are now added automatically
- updated login design
- apps can now be sideloaded
- Legendary, the backend that powers Heroic, has been updated to 0.20.30
- plenty of bug fixes
The patch notes mention that you may want to clear Heroic’s cache before using this version to avoid a few bugs. On Linux, the cache is located in ~/.config/heroic/Cache/Cache_Data
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See the full patch notes on GitHub.
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