Epic web page pop up/login everytime i start game

[Obiwan]

Title.

Anyone else getting this? It is really starting to get old.

Everytime i start the game a web browser page opens wanting to login to epic and after a minute or so i will get an error in game about a genericlogin issue.

I bought the game on Steam - Epic refuse to give me back my account after i lost my email - i will NEVER be able to login to my Epic account so please Coffee Stain stop insisting I do so to play A STEAM game.

[DaBa]

Nope, not happening, never happened.

Maybe you played the Epic version of the game on this PC before and now there's something getting messed up due to old residual files or registry entries.

[Obiwan]

Originally posted by DaBa:

Nope, not happening, never happened.

Maybe you played the Epic version of the game on this PC before and now there's something getting messed up due to old residual files or registry entries.

No epic launcher has never been installed on this PC.

[Obiwan]

this really is starting to irritate.

[makjak]

Yes. Its freaking infuriating. I never had the Epic version of the game. I'm running into other very annoying and basic bugs as well. I thought a 1.0 release would actually be more polished instead of less.

[Obiwan]

I "Fixed" this but the method is extreme

- Uninstall the game
- %AppData%\Local\FactoryGame\Saved (your windows user folder)
- Delete EVERYTHING besides the "SaveGames" folder (this is likely overkill but i was pissed enough about doing it once i didn't wanna do it again)

Reinstall

NEVER touch the online settings button in the main menu (again might be overkill but i am pretty sure going in there and hitting the Epic Account button is what triggered this)

[ShelLuser]

There's a bug somewhere... I was playing with my online settings and mixed up accounts: I assumed I had an Epic account but that turned out to be wrong.

Problem is: Satisfactory doesn't support login timeouts (which seems like a huge security hazzard to me) so now my "Log in to Epic" status is marked "Pending", even though it's been 4 (IRL) days ago and I can't / don't log in. It keeps re-directing me to the login page each and every time, and eventually gives out an error in-game; but my status keeps set to "Pending".

I'm currently studying the config files in "%localappdata%\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\Windows" which I suspect to cause all this.

(edit)

Fixed it

Look into "GameUserSettings.ini", in specific this part: "mPreferredOnlineIntegrationMode=CrossPlay", this is what's causing the constant logon attempts. Remove this line, no more issues.

You may also want to check the end of this config file: it will list a definition for your Epic profile, which you no longer need.

[Virtech]

Originally posted by ShelLuser:

There's a bug somewhere... I was playing with my online settings and mixed up accounts: I assumed I had an Epic account but that turned out to be wrong.

Problem is: Satisfactory doesn't support login timeouts (which seems like a huge security hazzard to me) so now my "Log in to Epic" status is marked "Pending", even though it's been 4 (IRL) days ago and I can't / don't log in. It keeps re-directing me to the login page each and every time, and eventually gives out an error in-game; but my status keeps set to "Pending".

I'm currently studying the config files in "%localappdata%\FactoryGame\Saved\Config\Windows" which I suspect to cause all this.

(edit)

Fixed it

Look into "GameUserSettings.ini", in specific this part: "mPreferredOnlineIntegrationMode=CrossPlay", this is what's causing the constant logon attempts. Remove this line, no more issues.

You may also want to check the end of this config file: it will list a definition for your Epic profile, which you no longer need.

This fixed the issue without a reinstall. Thanks!

[Pirindirin]

I just wanted to say thank you for this. I played almost 300 hours without any issue and then it randomly was requiring an epic account. I couldn't bypass it until I removed that line from the config file.