All the info online states that Eos is free and the only thing that you have to pay is the submission fee when you want to publish your game. When I try to find the artifact name by clicking the epic games store button on the right I can see the artifacts and binaries tab for a second before I get redirected to the “Welcome to the Epic Games Publishing Tools” which forces you to pay or kicks you out. I am just wondering if I am doing something wrong or if there is another way to get the artifact name. I need the name for online multiplayer testing.
You need to match the artifact name to the artifact ID if your game is published on the Epic Games Store. The OnlineSubsystemEOS plugin will read the artifact id passed by the Epic Games Launcher via the -EpicApp CLI parameter and match it with an artifact name in config.
If you’re not planning to launch on the Epic Games Store, the artifact name can be any string you want. You don’t need to pay the EGS fee to use EOS on another platform.