Linux Epic games servers down again

[Knoxvilles_joker]

I was geting some weird errors when I was restarting my server after updating an xml file with massive comments. then noticed downdetector reports epic games is down again:

https://downdetector.com/status/epic-games-store/

the output logs are showing this:
2025-07-05T23:53:49 137.432 WRN [EOS] Failed updating session on backend, will retry
2025-07-05T23:53:59 147.766 INF [Web] IconHandler: Loaded 8556 icons (4997 source images with 3559 tints applied)
2025-07-05T23:53:59 147.766 INF [Web] IconHandler: Total time 44539 ms, loading files 6075 ms, tinting files 24160 ms, encoding files 12976 ms
2025-07-05T23:53:59 147.770 INF [Web] IconHandler: Cached 181246 KiB
2025-07-05T23:54:11 159.115 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] Retry 4 on
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.266 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:54:15 GMT
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.266 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header Content-Type: application/json
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.266 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header Content-Length: 75
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.266 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header Connection: keep-alive
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.266 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header X-Epic-Correlation-Id:
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.267 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header X-Epic-Error-Name: errors.com.epicgames.common.ask_timed_out
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.267 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] 0x5e79c9c71110 Response Header Server: eos-gateway
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.267 WRN [EOS] [LogHttp - Warning] Success on
2025-07-05T23:54:15 163.268 WRN [EOS] [LogEOS - Warning] Error response received from backend. ServiceName=[Sessions], OperationName=[CreateSession], Url=[<Redacted>], HttpStatus=[503], ErrorCode=[errors.com.epicgames.common.ask_timed_out], NumericErrorCode=[UNSET], ErrorMessage=[],

It looks like epic is having issues again...

 

[no1warr1or]

Me setting up a new local server and trying to figure out why it wont connect.. just to find out its apparently now relying on epic for local servers... wth

 

[Riamus]

Me setting up a new local server and trying to figure out why it wont connect.. just to find out its apparently now relying on epic for local servers... wth

It has used EOS for a long time now. It's used to create an ID for players from different platforms, allowing crossplay.

 

[no1warr1or]

It has used EOS for a long time now. It's used to create an ID for players from different platforms, allowing crossplay.

Still a local server using EOS by default is crazy, found pages of issues with EOS & 7D2D. Luckily found a tutorial on steam community to disable it and use steam to verify again.

 

[Knoxvilles_joker]

It has used EOS for a long time now. It's used to create an ID for players from different platforms, allowing crossplay.

The third party link as you refer is what is required for crossplay to work. you have to have global Unique User I Ds (GUID) to make things work for multiple platforms. You have to have the GUID to link the local User IDs on each platform so that there is no possibility of conflict. Though there is a small possibility, but it is a possibility so small you might see it once every couple of decades, maybe.

Post automatically merged: Jul 6, 2025

Still a local server using EOS by default is crazy, found pages of issues with EOS & 7D2D. Luckily found a tutorial on steam community to disable it and use steam to verify again.

care to share, please? I have been trying to eliminate all error messages period on the server...

 

[no1warr1or]

The third party link as you refer is what is required for crossplay to work. you have to have global Unique User I Ds (GUID) to make things work for multiple platforms. You have to have the GUID to link the local User IDs on each platform so that there is no possibility of conflict. Though there is a small possibility, but it is a possibility so small you might see it once every couple of decades, maybe.

Post automatically merged: Jul 6, 2025

care to share, please? I have been trying to eliminate all error messages period on the server...

Keep in mind it will disable crossplay if that matters and the notes indicate your profile will be different since its not using EOS. I started a new server for me and a buddy so neither mattered.

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