What Is Epic Online Services (EOS)?
For those unaware, Epic is adding their own counterpart to Steamworks to more and more games, old and new, single or multiplayer and in many cases games that have been out for years have had EOS added retroactively.
While Epic markets Epic Online Services (EOS) as a "store agnostic" infrastructure for cross-platform multiplayer and achievements, games that have had EOS added retroactively like Killing Floor 2 and Remnant from the Ashes reported myriad connection issues for players after the updates in which EOS was added.
Epic also uses EOS to yet again collect telemetry on player IP addresses, hardware, gaming sessions (among others) in yet another way of involving themselves in games that, in some cases, are neither made with Unreal or even released on EGS.
How To Block EOS In 4 Easy Steps
Disclaimer: this is a solution for singleplayer, blocking EOS will break multiplayer services for any game, considering the devs decided to use EOS instead of Steamworks. Any risk of using this fix on a multiplayer game is on you.
Whatever you do, do not remove the .dll files associated with EOS. For some games this may work, but for Tribes of Midgard this will result in your game refusing to launch.
Instead follow these four steps, where we will block outgoing traffic to the Epic servers.
1. Go to the following path on the drive where you have windows installed:
Your Drive:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\HOSTS
For Linux users the equivalent path to the file is simply /etc/hosts.
Sudo privileges needed to edit. Easiest way would be to open the terminal, and type:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
2. Open with Notepad or any other editor, make sure you have unchecked read only in file properties and open it as an administrator. If you can't save the file after step 4, open notepad as an administrator, and open the host file in notepad.
3. Remember the addresses: 127.0.0.1, 0.0.0.0, and 255.255.255.255. All three redirect to your local system and will block outgoing. To make things easy, we'll be using 0.0.0.0. If that doesn't work, try one of the other two.
At the bottom of the text document you just opened, add any website you want to permanently block like this:
0.0.0.0 URL
0.0.0.0 dev.epicgames. com
0.0.0.0 api.epicgames.dev
0.0.0.0 et.epicgames. com
0.0.0.0 et2.epicgames. com
0.0.0.0 udn.epicgames. com
0.0.0.0 etsource.epicgames. com
0.0.0.0 metrics.ol.epicgames. com
0.0.0.0 datarouter.ol.epicgames. com
REMOVE THE SPACE BETWEEN EPICGAMES AND .COM
4. Save your changes, exit the document and recheck read only in the file properties. EOS should be blocked now and you can launch your game
Credits
All thanks go to the contributors of the Original Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2594056744
They also do have a list of games which do not function with this EOS Block Guide!
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2682429624
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