You can install battle.net in Heroic? How? I only seen in Lutris.
If I could have access to the games without the Battle.net launcher that would be even better.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2025
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It's basically the sams way as in Lutris. But it won't be integrated into Heroic. If you want entries for each game you will have to add them yourself. And the games still need the Battle.net launcher because of the DRM.
First download the Battle.net installer from Blizzard. In Heroic add a new game, call it Battle.net or whatever, select the Proton version shown in the post above and choose the option to run an installation program first. Select to run the installer you downloaded and that should install it.
Ok. On Lutris it was proposed directly. I hopped for a more integrated shop but I imagine that's not possible because of the DRM launcher.
Proton is Valve's specific fork of Wine. The launcher sees you using Proton while detecting controller buttons and then connecting that you're on a Linux handheld.
Probably the combination of having a controller and touchscreen but NOT having a keyboard. Or recognizing the CPU series (SoC type). Or both.
According to a thread on the blizzard forums, they just forced this mode onto anyone with a mobile GPU.
However, a few replies say it was fixed my the most recent update. Make sure your client is completely up to date.
I'll try it on my PC when I have a chance tn.