Platform: Epic

[Graehl]

Apparently, between the last time I played (October 12, 2024) and now, the game has decided that my platform is Epic Games instead of Steam. When I join our dedicated server, I no longer have my steam character name, just a 3 digit number. No access to the golden Early Access rewards in the locker, etc.

Tried uninstalling/deleting the directory/reinstalling. Tried verifying game files. Still broken. Wife does not have this issue. She still has her account like normal. Even tried pushing the login to epic button but it did nothing. Don't even have an Epic account to log in to anyways.

[Huren Ogeko]

They game lets you add steam or epic logins no matter what version you are playing from. make sure you dont have an epic login connected to your game and if needed re-add your steam login to the game.

From main menu go to online settings
then you can see your account info and also a place to add login for steam/epic. My guess is in this menu you have an epic login there.

[Graehl]

Originally posted by Huren Ogeko:

They game lets youa dd steam or epicl ogins no matter what version you are playing from. make sure you dont have an epic login connected to your game and if needed re-add your steam login to the game.

From main menu go to online settings
then you can see your account info and also a place to add login for steam/epic. My guess is in this menu you have an epic login there.

If it had a login to Steam option, this issue would have been solved immediately, yesterday. Again, not my first time playing, and it was still working as expected ~2 months ago.

You're correct that it says Epic in the online settings, which is the problem. I don't have an Epic account. I've never logged into Satisfactory on an Epic account. It's just decided after the last time I turned off the game that my platform is now Epic.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/20926872388975286/F050022303B46CAD64324837A32EFEF38E1BA65A/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

[Huren Ogeko]

That is an unusual one.
Platform Epic
Has valid epic login No
Somehow the game has latched on to epic on your PC. Make sure epic is not installed at all.
Otherwise this is a good thing to upload as a bug report to the devs web site so they can look at it.
Its possible this could be a problem buried in your windows registry, Reinstalling doesnt normally change pre-existing registry entries.

Maybe look here in regedit
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Coffee Stain Studios\FactoryGame

I am still digging around for more. Although I might not find my old epic login here since between having the epic version of the game installed and now I have formatted this PC so none of my old epic login details will likely exist in my registry of this instance of windows.

Also l just below this is a entry for Epic Games but on my current system it only has a sub entry for the unreal engine. I would check there and see something other than unreal engine is listed and see if that is triggering the game to think you have an epic login.

[MacCelo]

Any update on this? I am having the same issue.

I also found OP here:
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/677304f0c10ae65555c78cc3

... but both solutions presented, when work (and they only worked if executed together), get reverted as soon as the game is closed and relaunched. The account keeps getting set back to Epic. I do not have an Epic account.
Any help is welcome. I am tired of deleting folders and registry entries without any guarantee of success.

Thanks in advance!

[Graehl]

Originally posted by MacCelo:

Any update on this? I am having the same issue.

I also found OP here:
https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/677304f0c10ae65555c78cc3

... but both solutions presented, when work (and they only worked if executed together), get reverted as soon as the game is closed and relaunched. The account keeps getting set back to Epic. I do not have an Epic account.
Any help is welcome. I am tired of deleting folders and registry entries without any guarantee of success.

Thanks in advance!

Sorry for the late reply, didn't see the notification. It's not going to be much help but I double checked just now and so far mine has persisted through relaunches. Still launching correctly with Steam account. As you saw in the thread you linked, I pretty much uninstalled/stripped anything Epic out of my computer and registry, and restarting the computer after that finally made it work right.

If you haven't yet, you might start a thread of your own over there, referencing that one and the fact that yours keeps reverting. They're fairly helpful over there. I was pretty much ready to just not play anymore rather than deal with such a dumb issue.

[MacCelo]

Hi and thank you for your reply.
I ended up solving the problem by going to the game directory and running it as administrator. Magically, the issue was gone. But this must be done every time. If I start it through Steam it rolls back to Epic.