Epic Games Store now open!

LuckyBenski · 27 Dec 2020 at 15:38

https://hothardware.com/news/epic-games-shenanigans-with-cpus

Seems to have been picked up at least by small press.

PieEater · 27 Dec 2020 at 16:22

Hmm just compared Having Epic Launcher open vs Steam Launcher. Both left running for 2 minutes before measurements recorded. On average having Epic open lead to 3% more CPU utilisation and 7.3c higher temps using a 240 AIO cooler so I can understand even higher temps on stock coolers.

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uncle_rufus · 27 Dec 2020 at 16:51

Maybe I read wrong but some of the articles are saying that the reason it uses so much resources is that it's implemented using Unreal Engine? lol if true - of course a full 3d game engine is the perfect tool for a simple store

V F · 27 Dec 2020 at 22:06

varkanoid said:
Mine is 4% but it still drops temps when you dont run it. Just did it again, 4% Epic, 40c, close Epic, dropped to 32c.

What are you temps with it running and closed ?

Damn dude, that's a big tray.

Ree · 27 Dec 2020 at 22:25

deffo put me to shame with that tray

V F · 27 Dec 2020 at 22:28

@Ree You're petite.

Ree · 27 Dec 2020 at 22:30

V F said:
@Ree You're petite.

McPhee · 27 Dec 2020 at 23:49

Bought Squadrons. Had a £5 PayPal promo, so it wound up costing me £5.99.

Might nab Trover too. After initial enthusiasm, that'll probably be it though. While there's other stuff I want, the backlog is already ridiculous without parting with more cash.

AWPC · 28 Dec 2020 at 05:49

Crysis Remastered Edition is only £6.79 right now with the £10 off Holiday Voucher!

koooowweeee · 5 Jan 2021 at 15:50

The £10 voucher that was given away a few months ago and just before Christmas runs out in 2 days.

What should I buy ?

ZXSpectrum · 5 Jan 2021 at 16:14

I have noticed this as well.. I have my RGB set to go from green-amber-red depending on CPU temps and have often noticed out of the corner of my eye that it will randomly kick the fans up and go amber/red for a few seconds before it settles down.. It wasn't until recently it had started to annoy me a bit as it is just in the corner of my eye as i have been watching tv shows or movies and will see it. So i started to close down things that were running and it wasnt until i closed down the Epic launcher that it stopped. I even closed everything else down apart from the launcher and it started happening again.

Most likely the hidden CCP data farming code. Joking.. Or am i?

LuckyBenski · 5 Jan 2021 at 16:18

ZXSpectrum said:
I have noticed this as well.. I have my RGB set to go from green-amber-red depending on CPU temps and have often noticed out of the corner of my eye that it will randomly kick the fans up and go amber/red for a few seconds before it settles down.. It wasn't until recently it had started to annoy me a bit as it is just in the corner of my eye as i have been watching tv shows or movies and will see it. So i started to close down things that were running and it wasnt until i closed down the Epic launcher that it stopped. I even closed everything else down apart from the launcher and it started happening again.

Most likely the hidden CCP data farming code. Joking.. Or am i?

Well, lots of people say this but I don't know why they only farm data from Ryzen owners?

ZXSpectrum · 5 Jan 2021 at 16:47

Maybe the issue only is apparent with Ryzen as the have to circumnavigate the security flaws where they just walk right through with intel..

atomic7431 · 8 Jan 2021 at 11:16

Tombstone said:
Infuriatingly, Snowrunner on co-op has not gone well, the missus and I just cannot seem to get it to work. If we try to join each others games, we just get a spinning wheel on the friends list and it never sees the other person. Both of us are able to join random peoples games but we cannot join each others, even though we are sat about 8 ft apart. Have just spent hours scouring the internet and found hundreds of posts going back a year, of people having the exact same issue. They can join internet games but cannot join the games of people in the same household. Some people have recommended removing connections in Epic, deleting all friends and re-adding just the person you want to co-op with, changing a variety of router and firewall settings, have tried all of them to no avail. So doesnt look like we will be co-oping it after all, ah well...at least it only cost a tenner. Really astounds me after 3 decades of multiplayer games that so many companies still cannot make it simple to join co-op games.

Don`t know if your aware but anyone playing Snowrunner try out the coop again as the friends list loading forever bug seems to have been fixed with the latest epic store update yesterday, my friends list loads normally now in game but not tried joining my son yet as he currently doing home schooling but will try over the weekend.

Tombstone · 8 Jan 2021 at 11:32

atomic7431 said:
Don`t know if your aware but anyone playing Snowrunner try out the coop again as the friends list loading forever bug seems to have been fixed with the latest epic store update yesterday, my friends list loads normally now in game but not tried joining my son yet as he currently doing home schooling but will try over the weekend.

Yup, works perfectly for us now

AWPC · 8 Jan 2021 at 14:22

SW Battlefront 2 is free on 14th January

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-battlefront-2-goes-free-on-the-epic-store-next-week/

LuckyBenski · 8 Jan 2021 at 14:32

AWPC said:
SW Battlefront 2 is free on 14th January
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-battlefront-2-goes-free-on-the-epic-store-next-week/

Legend.

uncle_rufus · 8 Jan 2021 at 14:34

I expect it will go F2P more generally not too far from now tbh... They've had their initial wave of sales and now want to keep it afloat with all the ridiculous microtransactions. If Epic were willing to pay them a boatload of cash to get a single exclusive free day early then they'd be silly not to take it

Tombstone · 8 Jan 2021 at 14:46

AWPC said:
SW Battlefront 2 is free on 14th January
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/star-wars-battlefront-2-goes-free-on-the-epic-store-next-week/

Good game, had a terrible start but once they got rid of all the pay2win aspects and the microtransactions it became really good. I've got a few hundred hours in it, great game if you fancy a bit of pew pew every now and then

Ayahuasca · 8 Jan 2021 at 14:51

Yeah, I still play SW BF2 now and then, the gunplay in it is really rewarding for some reason.

If you own the base game on origin, apparently you can link your account to your epic games one to get the celebration edition upgrade.