"Unable to login to your Epic Games Account at this time" error on startup

Summary

Upon starting up UEFN, the loading percentage will normally linger around 90%, and most times it will automatically log me out and give me a popup saying “Unable to log in to your Epic Games Account at this time, please try again later,” where I then have to close it and wait again for it to load. I have no idea what is causing it and it happens super frequently, and it usually takes me 5-10 attempts to load up the editor for it to actually go through and log me in. In uncommon scenarios, it lets me in after 2-3 attempts.

I’ve tried setting my default browser to google chrome, and it still did not work. Any ideas on what to do to fix this? It is incredibly frustrating.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

I don’t know how you could possibly reproduce this issue, as it happens to me upon startup. Apparently this is not happening for other people, but for some it is.

Expected Result

UEFN should log me in automatically and load the editor.

Observed Result

I (unbelievably)frequently get logged out automatically because it is “Unable to login to your Epic Games account at this time.”

Platform(s)

PC

hi @NineAce

This is not the UEFN its the Epic Games Launcher. (EPGL)

Uninstall The current EPGL using Windows Uninstaller.

Restart PC

Download a new version of the EPGL via search engine to find this

Select Auto Update in EPGL

Now login to EPGL using your email address/password

Make sure you can see and launch Fortnite.

Launch Fortnite

Close Fortnite

Check that Fortnite is ready to launch

In EPGL launch UEFN

This should login

if not Restart PC

and follow

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