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CF3D

Oct 18, 2021 @ 6:21am

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Patch notes: Updates to multiplayer infrastructure to use Epic Online Services.

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Originally posted by Jarl:

Epic Online Services is a framework for multiplayer matchmaking (which is crossover btw). It has nothing to do with Epic Store. Think of it as a version of Steam's matchmaking, but it supports both other store versions as well as other hardware platforms (PS/XBOX/Switch).

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Claude Van Dong has Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Oct 18, 2021 @ 6:46am

Probably just preparing for the release of the game in Epic's store. Not worth creating topic over this...

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Jarl

Oct 18, 2021 @ 6:56am

Marauder Shields has Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Oct 18, 2021 @ 6:59am

Originally posted by s0ulty:
Probably just preparing for the release of the game in Epic's store. Not worth creating topic over this...

Then why add this malware into the STEAM version? Release it on Timstore with all kinds of miner bloatware, but leave the Steam version alone, MP was dead on arrival anyway on all platforms and it was never a selling point for any TR game.

Originally posted by Jarl:
Epic Online Services is a framework for multiplayer matchmaking (which is crossover btw). It has nothing to do with Epic Store.

Wrong - EOS creates EGS accounts for crossplay, further inflating EGS user numbers, which incentivizes more support for their cancerous exclusivity practices.

Last edited by Marauder Shields; Oct 18, 2021 @ 7:05am

Jarl

Oct 18, 2021 @ 7:07am

It's added because it's a free and capable matchmaking system, and it's cross store/platform. Steam's version only works with Steam and maintaining a proprietary matchmaking system is not very desirable for devs, especially for such an old product.

EOS doesn't "create" store accounts, only people create accounts.

Marauder Shields has Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Oct 18, 2021 @ 7:13am

Originally posted by Jarl:
It's added because it's a free and capable matchmaking system, and it's cross store/platform. Steam's version only works with Steam and maintaining a proprietary matchmaking system is not very desirable for devs, especially for such an old product.

The multiplayer is literally the absolute last thing people buy TR games for, even if the trilogy was to release there why bother adding malware to the Steam version just to prolong the lifecycle of a mode that people don't play anyway? If you want to support the Timstore features just do that on the Timstore version of the game, no need to screw over people on other PC storefronts with additional spyware nobody asked for.

Originally posted by Jarl:
EOS doesn't "create" store accounts, only people create accounts.

Drop the semantics, you know damn well what it does.

Florence Oct 18, 2021 @ 7:59am

Originally posted by Marauder Shields:
The multiplayer is literally the absolute last thing people buy TR games for, even if the trilogy was to release there why bother adding malware to the Steam version just to prolong the lifecycle of a mode that people don't play anyway? If you want to support the Timstore features just do that on the Timstore version of the game, no need to screw over people on other PC storefronts with additional spyware nobody asked for.

You could just not play the multiplayer component of the game if you hate it so much, since that's the only part that Epic Online Services cares about.

If devs end up using EOS to enable crossplay for games released on Steam, that's because Epic made the technology possible and freely allowed it to be used everywhere, which is one of the few things I can give them props for.

Last edited by Florence; Oct 18, 2021 @ 8:00am

Mobius Gang has Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Oct 18, 2021 @ 8:40am

I saw it, was confused by it, and stopped caring about it within 5 seconds.

Marauder Shields has Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Oct 18, 2021 @ 8:46am

Originally posted by Flo:
You could just not play the multiplayer component of the game if you hate it so much, since that's the only part that Epic Online Services cares about.

I can't even launch the game (either game from the reboot trilogy) without a big obnoxious pop-up FORCING me to create an Epic account before even getting into the main menu, smartass. REGARDLESS if I want to only play multiplayer or singleplayer.

Last edited by Marauder Shields; Oct 18, 2021 @ 8:46am

ElDiegeOS

Oct 18, 2021 @ 8:54am

Why I need an mandatory Epic account to play SINGLE PLAYER GAMES on Steam! Why?

bgray9054

Oct 18, 2021 @ 8:58am

Are you guys running into a prompt to create an Epic account for single player? I just launched it and didn't run into that anywhere but all I did was load a save game, so just curious where you're running into that?

If I encounter that with any of these games down the road, they will be immediately uninstalled and I'll never buy anything from SE again moving forward.

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Ant

Oct 18, 2021 @ 9:36am

I don't seem to be able to run the game any more because of this. The game gets as far as the loading screen and then opens my web browser, loading a page asking for permission to use something called "Cinereous" with my Epic Games account. Then it remains stuck on the loading screen. I can hear the title screen music as if the game has started, but the loading screen is still displayed and I can't do anything.

Anyone else getting the same? What is "Cinereous"? The page that pops up has a link saying "Don't know what this means? Click here to learn more", but that leads to a general Epic Games help page that has no mention of it.

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