The game started in German, and I couldn’t change the language. Multiple sites told me how to change the language of the Epic Games Launcher instead. WTF??

Here’s the solution: Find GameUserSettings.ini in %localappdata%\HogwartsLegacy\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor and add these two lines:

[Internationalization]    
Language=en-US

Now the game is in English.

CAREFUL: The game is overwriting this file. You need to do this every time you want to play the game or set the file to read-only. Which prevents you from changing some settings.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        224·
        4 days ago

        A few things here:

        1. I personally think that interacting with anything related to Harry Potter continues to give it cultural dominance and longevity, so even if you aren’t personally spending money to support the giant piece of shit that is JK Rowling, you’re helping it stay relevant enough to keep making that bigot of a bitch money.

        2. It can also be argued that since Epic made a deal for giving the game away, that the money has already been paid to Rowling, whether you grab the game for free or not. The fewer people who grab the free copy, the less wise of an investment it will be seen as by Epic’s beancounters. This also ties back into the first point of the more people taking the free copy is giving Harry Potter more cultural dominance and longevity.

        3. I pirated this game when it came out specifically I could play it and write about how bad it was in terms of gameplay, story, and game design. I don’t feel like re-writing a full on review here, but I’ll just say it: It’s a bad fucking game and the only reason people have given it as much attention as it has gotten is the association with Harry Potter. If this had been an original property with no connection to the HP series with similar gameplay and story it would have been a clusterfuck of a failure on release.

        Anyway I’ll shut up now but fuck Harry Potter, the only thing Harry Potter related I’ll accept anymore is Wizard People, Dear Reader, because it’s a parody.

        • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          4 days ago

          Re: 3, unfortunately, pirating the game won’t let you avoid supporting transphobic lunatics. The person who cracked the game is even worse than Rowling - as in, “makes Rowling look like a paragon of progressiveness in comparison” worse - and uses the download numbers for her cracks (and the fact she’s usually the only one willing to crack Denuvo) to justify asking for donations.

          • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            The game has been repacked by many people though. I don’t even know where to go to get it straight from the original person who cracked it.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            That’s a fair take. I deleted it promptly after playing, but anyone who is willing to fund empress’s insanity is a fool anyway. Yet, sadly, a whole lot of fools out there.

        • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          How’s the action? It looked like you can launch people in the trailer and perform some kind of air combo. I doubt it leads to anything truly fun, but I’m curious.

          • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 days ago

            You can, and I find it fun. Some other reviewers don’t like it, and it can be clunky, but it is still fun for me to levitate someone and then slam them into a wall.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    22·
    4 days ago

    You can supposedly fix this by setting environmental variables in Heroic. Go to the game in heroic>advanced>environmental variables (wiki page)

    Then do the following variable:

    Key: LANG, Value: en_US.UTF-8

    Key: LC_ALL, Value: en_US.UTF-8

    Key: LANGUAGE, Value: en_US:en

    • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.inEnglish
      22·
      4 days ago

      Reading the language off of system locale only AND not giving players option to change in settings on a AAA game that has been out for a year is unacceptable.

      Still a cool trick on heroic’s part though

  • Tigeroovy@lemmy.caEnglish
    103·
    3 days ago

    Suicide Squad I took for free because I was morbidly curious (didn’t finish, was bored) but this I don’t even care if it’s for free.

    Even aside from JK being a giant turd I just never cared for the whole brand. It’s like what if witchcraft and wizardry sucked actually?

    I know if I took the game and played it I’d play for like an hour and then probably never touch it again, so I just won’t bother.

  • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1912·
    4 days ago

    Not sure what’s more gross, using Epic’s garbage launcher or playing a game associated with J. K. Rowling…