Does the Epic version of this game even work?

[Mr. Lambert]

Trying to play this from the Amazon/Epic giveaway. First there were a bunch of problems with it for some reason repeatedly requiring me to login into my Epic Store account even though I was obviously already logged in since it is impossible to launch the game on Epic otherwise. Then I couldn't exit out of any of the options menus and had to repeatedly Alt-f4 after getting stuck before it finally for some reason started working and letting me hit escape to get out of the options. Then after sitting through all the opening cut scenes I find myself staring at a completely black screen with the curson visible and the label "1.0.4.4 WIN ENGLISH" in small lettering in the upper right but nothing else visible and sounds of a rain storm playing in the background. Hitting escape does nothing, moving the cursor and clicking around randomly does nothing. Only option is to Alt-f4 out of it. Restarting and hitting 'continue' does nothing to help, just loads me up into this same black screen with the rain sounds playing and the cursor and version logos the only things visible.

[The Brotherhood]

Originally posted by mayki:

Originally posted by The Brotherhood:

Do you use the msi app mentioned earlier in this thread?

Could you try this.

Close the game.
When it starts, hit escape a few times to bypass the epic login.

nope i do not use msi app

despite hitting escape like a madman epic overlay still shows up

:)

So when the game boots and it says ‘logging into epic’ and you hit escape it still logins in?

[The Brotherhood]

:) so when you see the logging into epic screen with the epic logo and you hit escape there - it still logs in?

Can you drop me a quick email: [e-mail]

[mayki]

Originally posted by The Brotherhood:

:) so when you see the logging into epic screen with the epic logo and you hit escape there - it still logs in?

Can you drop me a quick email: [e-mail]

yep, im still getting logged in

and email sent

[The Brotherhood]

replied ;)

[Mr. Lambert]

Originally posted by The Brotherhood:

:) so when you see the logging into epic screen with the epic logo and you hit escape there - it still logs in?

Can you drop me a quick email: [e-mail]

Yes, it automatically logs in no matter how fast you hit escape. There's no way to skip the Epic overlay. That's not possible in any ESG game. And unlike Steam, there is no option to disable it on a global or game-by-game basis. I don't use any MSI software or anything else that could conceivably be creating this conflict with the Epic overlay (which is pretty clearly what it is; I coped the GoG files over the Epic install and launched the game via EGS, no overlay and no problems), and I've played or at least briefly tried out easily over 100 games on EGS and never had any conflict with any other with the overlay like Stasis Bone Totem has.

[Mr. Lambert]

Originally posted by The Brotherhood:

Hi there. Please can you try this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiAU9RnbmaU

This is complete BS. Those options have nothing to do wih the in-game overlay. They only impact the EGS client.

[I_come_in_peace]

I have problems as well. Have to log-in to Epic Online Services every time I start the game. Sometimes continuing the game just shows a black screen, other times it works. I have no active overlays or anything. GPU AMD 6800 XT.
But yes, I can skip the Log-In. Still, sometimes black screen on continue, sometimes not.

[The Brotherhood]

Originally posted by I_come_in_peace:

I have problems as well. Have to log-in to Epic Online Services every time I start the game. Sometimes continuing the game just shows a black screen, other times it works. I have no active overlays or anything. GPU AMD 6800 XT.
But yes, I can skip the Log-In. Still, sometimes black screen on continue, sometimes not.

Appreciate the feedback.

[RmBw]

This game is totally bugged from Epic Store, have same problems.

[The Brotherhood]

Update ( 1.0.4.4B) - This now includes a version of the game without the EOS integrated overlay for anybody who had EOS related issues.

The files are in a Sub folder 'NON_EOS_VERSION_STASIS2' in the STASIS2 folder then run STASIS2.exe

In the Epic Launcher, located STASIS: BONE TOTEM
Right Click on The Stasis Icon or click the three dots next to the name.
Click on Manage.
You might need to update to 1.0.4.4B (Check version Number)
Verify, then Update.
This will bring up the setup panel.
location "Installation" click on the folder icon.
This will open explorer.
Find the folder "NON_EOS_VERSION_STASIS2"
Open it.
Double Click on STASIS2.exe
it will load 1.0.4.3 (Which is the same as the Steam and GOG build).

Enjoy.

If you want to add achievements manually to your EGS. Then Do the following:

Open the EOS version connecting to EGS with your account (You don't have to play the game).

Then From the menu:
Hit ~ (tilde)
Then type in ach 0 through to 19
And Enter...
This will add them to your account.

Else you can track them in our main menu if you do not care about the EGS points.

[The Brotherhood]

I marked this as the solution so anybody else who has an issue can find it!

[Mr. Lambert]

I suppose this disables achievements in EGS?

[The Brotherhood]

There is a way to add them yourself.

Open the EOS version connecting to EGS with your account.
Then From the menu:
Hit ~ (tilde)
Then type in ach 0 through to 19
This will add them to your account.

[I_come_in_peace]

Originally posted by The Brotherhood:

Update ( 1.0.4.4B) - This now includes a version of the game without the EOS integrated overlay for anybody who had EOS related issues.

The files are in a Sub folder 'NON_EOS_VERSION_STASIS2' in the STASIS2 folder then run STASIS2.exe

In the Epic Launcher, located STASIS: BONE TOTEM
Right Click on The Stasis Icon or click the three dots next to the name.
Click on Manage.
You might need to update to 1.0.4.4B (Check version Number)
Verify, then Update.
This will bring up the setup panel.
location "Installation" click on the folder icon.
This will open explorer.
Find the folder "NON_EOS_VERSION_STASIS2"
Open it.
Double Click on STASIS2.exe
it will load 1.0.4.3 (Which is the same as the Steam and GOG build).

Enjoy.

If you want to add achievements manually to your EGS. Then Do the following:

Open the EOS version connecting to EGS with your account (You don't have to play the game).

Then From the menu:
Hit ~ (tilde)
Then type in ach 0 through to 19
And Enter...
This will add them to your account.

Else you can track them in our main menu if you do not care about the EGS points.

Thanks, unfortunately that version does not find my saves, so I can neither continue nor load a previous save.

[The Brotherhood]

Originally posted by I_come_in_peace:

Originally posted by The Brotherhood:

Update ( 1.0.4.4B) - This now includes a version of the game without the EOS integrated overlay for anybody who had EOS related issues.

The files are in a Sub folder 'NON_EOS_VERSION_STASIS2' in the STASIS2 folder then run STASIS2.exe

In the Epic Launcher, located STASIS: BONE TOTEM
Right Click on The Stasis Icon or click the three dots next to the name.
Click on Manage.
You might need to update to 1.0.4.4B (Check version Number)
Verify, then Update.
This will bring up the setup panel.
location "Installation" click on the folder icon.
This will open explorer.
Find the folder "NON_EOS_VERSION_STASIS2"
Open it.
Double Click on STASIS2.exe
it will load 1.0.4.3 (Which is the same as the Steam and GOG build).

Enjoy.

If you want to add achievements manually to your EGS. Then Do the following:

Open the EOS version connecting to EGS with your account (You don't have to play the game).

Then From the menu:
Hit ~ (tilde)
Then type in ach 0 through to 19
And Enter...
This will add them to your account.

Else you can track them in our main menu if you do not care about the EGS points.

Thanks, unfortunately that version does not find my saves, so I can neither continue nor load a previous save.

So what you need to do is locate the saves and pop them into the correct folder. Epic saves them in a few possible places but you can confirm the location by hovering over the save slot in the load menu. This gives you the location of the .bt file. It’s probably c:\the brotherhood\ then copy them to the new location. You can get that by hovering a load slot in the non EGS version or you can also use this in explorer:
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\THE BROTHERHOOD\STASIS2\

Grab the .bt files.