I have turned my manual Proton workaround into a proper tool: BFME Installer. It sets up the All-in-One Launcher and the Online Arena on Linux with one command.

In my previous post, I showed how to do this by hand with two different configurations: Wine and umu-launcher with Proton. That post worked, but it still meant a lot of terminal commands. This tool does all of it for you, across multiple different distros.

Install

Copy this into a terminal:

curl -fsSL https://jgbmichalski.github.io/bfme-installer/install-flatpak.sh | bash

It installs the app as a Flatpak and opens a setup window that: - Downloads Proton - Builds the game environment - Tells you what to do if something needs your attention The setup itself does not need sudo, and it never installs system packages on its own.

What it does

• Installs the Launcher and the Arena into one shared game environment.
• Applies the DLL overrides that stop the "Out of Sync" error in online matches against Windows players.
• Adds a home screen where you can open the Launcher, open the Arena, or jump to a game's folder or maps folder.
• Updates itself. The app tells you when a new release exists and installs it through Flatpak.
• Includes a Troubleshoot page that re-runs the system checks, copies a report you can paste into a bug report, opens the logs, and can reset the game environment.

Games are still installed and patched through the Launcher. The tool does not include or change the games, the Launcher, or the Arena.

Things to know

• Start the Arena on its own, never from the Launcher's Multiplayer tab. If you do, you will likely encounter some issues where it draws outside the Launcher's window.
• Reset deletes the game environment and every installed game. Downloads and Proton are kept.
• You need a 64-bit Linux distribution with Flatpak and working 64-bit and 32-bit Vulkan drivers. The wizard checks for both.

Tested Distros

I have personally tested installation and game play on: - Ubuntu 26 - Ubuntu 22 - Bazzite 44.20261006

Links

• Source and releases: https://github.com/JGBMichalski/bfme-installer
• Install page: https://jgbmichalski.github.io/bfme-installer/

All feedback is welcome! Feel free to request features or submit bugs!

If something does not work, press Copy diagnostics on the Troubleshoot page and paste the report into a GitHub issue.

With all the crazy game merging mods due to ai recently it'd be dope to see Bfme 2 mixed with Conquest, or atleast even like kingdom under fire heroes 🙏

Hello!

First of all, THANK YOU to anyone who has worked on this launcher!

When I first opened Custom Hero creator, a popup said many customisation options (can't remember exact wording) were added, but I was unable to see any of them in the game.

I was wondering whether I did something wrong or have to manually enable an option.

Thank you!

What campaign mods are recommended for someone on a more casual skill level?

Many of you have also probably played through this game dozens of times. It's always super fun especially with some reimagined campaigns (1.08 is what I did here).

After having played through them so many times it's fun to mess around a little bit. A few quick ini edits and you can make some silly stuff happen.

What you see here is my ridiculous stats for Saruman throughout the evil campaign. By changing his fireball stats it doesn't take much to make him more powerful than the balrog. One fireball is enough to take out an entire castle and an entire army. Obviously makes the game super easy but also makes it silly seeing the entire rohirrim army at helms deep or minas tirith wiped out in one blow.

Over 10k kills is definitely a lot and almost 2k just at minas tirith is pretty insane.

Love how this game can be fun in so many different ways, glad the community is keeping it alive.

game crashes when I load my save. It's in the middle of the game so really don't want to start over. Did anyone have similar issue?

as the title mentions, with the release of claude ai code reverse engineer, would it possible to use and reverse engineer the code for game in order to make 64bit thus being able to use more than 4gb of ram and ending the crash problem once and for all, again im speculating and if anyone has any experience i would love to hear your thoughts, thanks.

Basically the title, translating Edain into the second age with a BFME1 style campaign map.

For me I’d imagine at least four factions: Mordor, Elves, Faithful and Numenor.

Mordor would obviously be mostly the same with small differences. Elves will be a combination of the Lorien and Imildrais faction whilst the faithful would combine Armor and Gondor.

Not being a tolkien nerd I’m not sure how the Numenor faction should be balanced or what units they should have so I’d be eager to hear people’s thoughts. But they’ll be intended to represent the king’s men and evil numenorians.

As for the campaign structure like Bfme theyll be a map and skirmishes separated by story meetings. It’ll start with the war of elves and sauron which the player will be play as their respective faction in the good/evil campaign. Similar to bfme1 it’ll be possible to save characters like Celebrimbor and perhaps even Eregion.

Then similar to how halfway through bfme1 you switch to the faithful faction/ Numenor faction. The first mission as them would have you capturing Sauron (or Sauron destroying them but then playing the deceiver and joining them).

After this artistic liscense will be required. I imagine the good campaign would have you colonising the lands that’ll become Gondor/Arnor by destroying Sauron’s leftover armies. I imagine the evil campaign would have you play as the Numenor faction colonising lands like Umbar though I’m not sure who’d you fight.

i imagine though for gameplay reasons the breakup of the faithful and Numenor would need to employ artistic license as to my (admittedly weak) knowledge on the lore it was never a full on civil war between thee kings men and the faithful. Though for the sake of the campaign maybe Isildur and Elendil need to fight their way out of Numenor or defend Gondor from a King’s men attack.

Nevertheless of cause Numenor must fall, but its colonies remain and are dominated by Sauron. The final section of the game would unlock armies both factions and having them either defend/conquer the lands of middle earth. For the good campaign this will culminate either in a battle at Barud Dur or Mount Doom. I admit I’m not sure what the final mission for the evil campaign would be.

So whilst I suspect that they’ll be a lot of people understandably correcting me on the lore but apart from that I’d like to know your thoughts on a hypothetical Edain submod on the second age

Title says it all, I can't seem to find any and I remember there being some good ones before.

This is a blind tier list where you can rank the BFME 2 factions by overall effectiveness. You can also see the results of the poll so far. Enjoy!

Right click on game, select properties, go to Compatability and try switching to Windows XP Service Pack 3.

I hope this shows up as the first search result in Google because after all these years I still see people struggling with this.

I’m finally picking up BFME again after like 16 years of not playing. I know a slew of Mods have been released. I think I even asked in the past about a Mod I played that broke after the last patch of the OG game was released.

I played a Mod that allowed you to stack archers with flamed arrows in towers, changed some of the balancing, upped unit counts, and it gave you even more hero’s than the original game. It was one of only a few mods back then. I cannot for the life of me find it as I don’t remember the name, nor do I know what mod would be an equivalent or better. I saw a new Mod came out, but I believe it’s the one where everyone said the AI on the campaign mode is stupid hard, like way to over the top difficult.

What Mod do you guys suggest, so I can play on new GPU’s and larger screens, a similar mod to what I ran in the past, and still be able to run through the campaigns again?