Stop forced EOS

[pApA^LeGBa]

Todays AWS outage showed why it is a bad idea to force this to everyone no matter if they even need it. Without EOS non crossplay servers would have been fine. Make it optional at least, a ton of people playing on private servers and PC or Console only servers wouldn´t have suffered from this today. @faatal @madmole

 

[LittleNightma]

I don't know if it's possible/easy to do, but having an option to disable EOS like you can EAC would be nice.

 

[pApA^LeGBa]

It better is, i mean even SP wasn´t possible unless you put steam into offline mode. Which most people won´t realize. Forcing this even on to SP players is actually an audacity.

 

[ALEXZANDER]

It better is, i mean even SP wasn´t possible unless you put steam into offline mode. Which most people won´t realize. Forcing this even on to SP players is actually an audacity.

yea, it was cringe

 

[Lax]

On Xbox, what is EOS?

 

[Riamus]

On Xbox, what is EOS?

EOS is what the game uses to create a single player identification for all platforms because each platform uses its own unique identification for players.

 

[Fritzl]

You can turn it off (BEFORE you start a new game) in platform.cfg
platform=Steam
crossplatform=EOS
serverplatforms=Steam,XBL,PSN,LAN,

change crossplatform=EOS to crossplatform=

If you do it on an existing save, your character will get reset to lvl 1.

 

[Lax]

EOS is what the game uses to create a single player identification for all platforms because each platform uses its own unique identification for players.

Danke, what does the acronym stand for?

 

[Fritzl]

Danke, what does the acronym stand for?

Epic Online Services

 

[pApA^LeGBa]

You can turn it off (BEFORE you start a new game) in platform.cfg
platform=Steam
crossplatform=EOS
serverplatforms=Steam,XBL,PSN,LAN,

change crossplatform=EOS to crossplatform=

If you do it on an existing save, your character will get reset to lvl 1.

That didn´t help anyone when AWS went down. And it won´t help a lot of people next time something goes wrong. That needs to be an option in the launcher that doesn´t mess up you character and if it can´t connect it should automatically let you play offline. The majority plays SP and on private servers which usually don´t do a lot of crossplay. And there is a bunch of servers that don´t have crossplay on.

I really don´t see why someone would dislike options and instead prefer workarounds that 90% don´t know off, a lot of people won´t like because they don´t want to mess with game files and that mess up your save. Weird.

 

[theFlu]

I really don´t see why someone would dislike options and prefer workarounds that 90% don´t know off. Weird.

That's .. an option. Just not revealed in the UI

It's an option no-one will ever think to set to anything, other than to fix a bug. Proper default handling by not merely relying on the EOS-id would go a long way - no idea what the requirements of the service are, but I wouldn't expect it being impossible to default back to steam-ids and the like ...

As in, fix the behavior, no need for arcane options.