In the month of April, I stumbled upon Epic Games’ MegaGrants program with roughly 10 days left to submit an application, I decided to throw my hat into the ring creating a prototype for my most ambitious project. To do this, I decided to download UEFN onto my laptop. I bought a flash drive, downloaded UEFN to it and got to developing.
Problem: Due to an easy anticheat error (30004), I am unable to start a session, meaning I can’t test my code, meaning using UEFN is impossible.
So I went online and asked for solutions, and got none.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FortniteCreative/comments/1jvjuzz/any_help_is_appreciated/
I was forced to remove everything and then some from my computer just to make space for UEFN, and then redownloaded it to my computer with 4.7 gigabytes to spare.
A literal day later the update with Sabrina Carpenter (which was like 5.3 gigs if I remember correctly) came out and I could no longer make my prototype on UEFN.
This situation should not have happened. My computer can run Fortnite, in fact, regardless of whether or not Fortnite was supposed to work on a flash drive, I could load into a normal game just fine only in UEFN did I have any problems. This game and others like them, is gigabytes on top of gigabytes and it only ever gets worse (your last update was 27 gigabytes, for comparison, Team Fortress 2, a whole other game, is roughly 38 gigabytes). I should not be expected to have all of that space and more on my C: Drive, not everyone can afford to replace parts, even if they can, they may (like me) have a laptop incapable of having their hard drives replaced. A simple solution would be an external hard drive or a flash drive, but when I use UEFN on a flash drive, Easy Anti-Cheat flares up and prevents a crucial feature for developing with UEFN. If I did get the grant, the first thing I’d have to use it on would be a new computer, because as it stands now I and anyone else in my situation are literally unable to develop anything with UEFN
I have done plenty on regular UE5 without issue on this thing, but because of your anti-cheat I literally cannot use UEFN.
While I have many questions, and angry comments that I could write, the bottom line is this.
Fortnite is 123 gigs, and only ever gets bigger, the computer with enough space today, won’t have enough space 2 seasons from now, and not everyone can just get a bigger hard drive or a new computer.
Why, then, are we unable to use external drives to circumvent these issues? I may not have 1800 dollars to get a pc with 27 more gigabytes of space on it’s hard drive, but I DO have 60 dollars to spend on a 1 terabyte hard drive. An anticheat, of all things, is preventing me from using UEFN.
…but not Battle Royale, which is crazy. It’s been 2 months and this situation still makes me angry, please fix this.