how to downgrade to an older version

unfortunately, you can't. the developer's insistence on using easy anticheat has A. made this game an MMO hell and B. basically locked you out of using old versions. unless a fan patch of some sort is made, you will never be able to play the old versions of hero siege again.

much to the developer's dismay, older version of steam games are saved on cloud servers. with some steam command trickery you can at least preserve these old versions for yourself until a fan made patch comes out. here's the guide.

https://techwiser.com/how-to-download-old-versions-of-steam-games/

i hope this reaches somebody, i hate this game more every update. i hope either the devs change their scummy ways or the fans take this game back. i hate it here.