Epic Games Store attempts to open when I launch game

[Benziguri]

Not sure why this is happening but figured I'd put something out there. Every time I launch the game and reach the menu (Play, Service Record, Loadout, etc.) the game flashes back to my desktop and there is an Epic Games Store page in my browser.

I have the game and both Season 1 & 2 purchased through Steam so seems weird.

[Tommy_Rebellion]

Hey there. Have you recently linked your Steam and Epic accounts?

[Benziguri]

They do appear to be linked since I did play something on the Epic platform a long while back, but I no longer use the Epic Games account for anything. I followed through on a couple of the prompts to see what it's trying to do and it eventually says "With your permission, Epic Games will: [Lists a bunch of sharing things and online status stuff]

To this I answer "Cancel" since I don't log in or use the platform for anything anymore and am not interested in needlessly sharing the information to the Epic platform.

With testing I can see that it always happens a couple seconds after the main menu appears on game boot up. Probably during the friends online check if I had to guess. Looking further on this thought I noticed the Epic Games logo at the bottom in the friends menu with the bullet loading animation running endlessly. Might I suggest a checkbox or something there to enable/disable that check? I imagine that is the feature that is shooting the link to my browser when it hits the permissions check.

I picked off this URL with a screenshot before it updates to the landing page URL if it helps:

"www.epicgames.com/activate?userCode="

(I left the 8 character code out of this URL but that is probably populated using some code magic string generated from my steam info)

Is there some kind of setting or .ini thing I can flip to turn this function/procedure off at the main menu? It only happens on game boot up and not after returning from missions, etc. Considering the info above I tried flipping the "Crossplay" option to off thinking it might disable checks to Epic Games but it still does the same thing. I looked through as much as I could with the in game settings but couldn't find a way to turn it off.

I appreciate any help you can provide.

[Zappieroth]

Originally posted by Tommy_Rebellion:

Hey there. Have you recently linked your Steam and Epic accounts?

This is a widespread issue.
I suggest to send it directly to the dev team right away.

[Tommy_Rebellion]

Originally posted by Zappieroth:

Originally posted by Tommy_Rebellion:

Hey there. Have you recently linked your Steam and Epic accounts?

This is a widespread issue.
I suggest to send it directly to the dev team right away.

This has been registered with the team. We appreciate your patience.

[Lapsus]

Originally posted by Tommy_Rebellion:

Originally posted by Zappieroth:

This is a widespread issue.
I suggest to send it directly to the dev team right away.

This has been registered with the team. We appreciate your patience.

Hi!

I'm having this issue as well, where it opens a new browser window or tab in my default browser, and then steam thinks the game is running all night because despite closing the tab for the games store I don't use to link an account that I don't use, it still decides that "oh, browser's open, much mean the game's still running" and artificially massively inflates its playtime.

Is there any further info on a fix for this issue? It remains incredibly annoying, and is making it look like I'm playing games, sometimes for hours after the start of my shift, instead of being logged into work, and, you know, working.

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Originally posted by Tommy_Rebellion:

Originally posted by Zappieroth:

This is a widespread issue.
I suggest to send it directly to the dev team right away.

This has been registered with the team. We appreciate your patience.

This started happening for me as well (since Season 2 was released, I believe). I haven't touched my Epic account in ages, and all the Sniper Elite games I have were bought through Steam.

Please disable this functionality until it's been fixed. It's very annoying for the game to auto-open any other application (including a browser).