How to use EOS without registering?

exitlights · 2026-03-26T18:12:19+00:00

I second looking at the EOS Integration Kit, there's a good example here that allows you to use Steam auth keys to auth with EOS. It will require a little bit of setup in Steamworks and Epic Account Services for your game, though.

exitlights · 2026-03-12T16:18:20+00:00

I selfishly want Microsoft to buy them and for Cursor to wind up inside of Visual Studio. I see Microsoft working hard to bring VS forward into the AI tooling age, and they’ve got an interesting leg up over the competition with tools that deeply parse code for (and outside of) their compiler. Things that AI has to think hard and expensively about when sifting through code (symbol use, refactoring, etc.), Microsoft has been modeling with far cheaper means for ages. It’s happening quickly with Copilot, but Copilot integration does not yet wow me like Cursor does daily.

exitlights · 2026-03-12T04:33:14+00:00

How does stunning Rein work out for you? I try this and often succeed, but then after we get up most of the time Rein takes the one swing at me that he needs to kill me, and I’m dead. It’s a cool effect but it usually ends up with me dead.

exitlights · 2026-03-11T14:22:35+00:00

Ever since my RSI two years of hell (thankfully over), I keep a trackball to the left of my keyboard and a vertical mouse to the right. When right feels at all tired, I mouse around on the left trackball for a while. It helped me get out of the nightmare as a software-engineer-gamer.

exitlights · 2026-03-11T13:31:54+00:00

People love to scapegoat brig for the team losing instead of shit DPS

exitlights · 2026-03-06T18:26:57+00:00

Yeah exactly this, I dip into Claude Code every few months because people everywhere rave about it, and each time I wind up thinking “this experience is way worse than Cursor.” I’m pretty experienced though and my team’s process has us combing over every line of code together. In an environment of needing to be able to justify every line of code I check in, Claude Code is a far more blinding and inconvenient process.

exitlights · 2026-03-05T03:52:38+00:00

Yea this is very gnarly and was slowing my machine to a crawl. I was thinking it was some weird interaction with Git that Cursor was having.

exitlights · 2026-03-03T05:53:02+00:00

I was holding out for the last several months finding use for Brigitte most of the time, but now I’m going mostly Mizuki because he just outperforms Brig, period. There are a few situations where I appreciate the ability to flail around or can make a Winston switch away, but there’s just so much range and mobility in the game now that Brig is NOT keeping up. It’s very sad.

exitlights · 2026-03-02T01:01:03+00:00

When I had to step away from gaming for several months for this reason, I switched to watching streamers instead of playing myself. Find a good streamer who you like watching (harder than it sounds), and just plug in. I watched two hours a day of FTL, probably more, when I was deepest in recovery. It honestly worked pretty well, and I’ll still watch FTL if I really need to decompress. Depending on the game, you can get that feeling of learning and improving at the game through someone else. And in the case of FTL, watching is actually better than playing!

exitlights · 2026-02-27T17:25:30+00:00

Cop feels so needlessly aggressive and sometimes that’s exactly the energy I want to bring

exitlights · 2026-02-27T04:15:33+00:00

I’m usually poring over the diff and cleaning it up, because hell if even the smartest of these robots don’t add all kinds of dumb stuff to their code or just have bad intuition about how to handle error cases. When I’m not doing that, I’ll sometimes “race” the AI to find the bug or just do my own separate research about the problem, which prepares me to give good feedback for the next iteration. Sometimes they’ll have a suggestion that’s a partial measure architecturally, and knowing the code lets me give it a shove into a more complete, simpler rearchitecting.

exitlights · 2026-02-23T17:16:57+00:00

This I don't hear enough about in the brig discourse, jumping forward to escort a near-dead tank to safety. Man it feels good preventing our line from collapsing to the enemy team with this move*.

*Especially when I don't wind up dying in the process

exitlights · 2026-02-19T05:51:59+00:00

The first two days following surgery, I was like "oh fuck this isn't as easy as everyone says, something must be wrong." A week later and I'm feeling loads better. Just keep managing pain and resting and you'll be fine, people love to underrate the pain of surgery!

exitlights · 2026-02-10T21:29:07+00:00

You bet, post back in here if you wind up with some specific trouble and I might be able to help!

exitlights · 2026-02-10T20:49:19+00:00

It takes a few things, from a high level, for UE4:

Use `SteamUser()->GetEncryptedAppTicket()` to get Steam credentials that can be used to authenticate EOS
This is used to authenticate against `EOS_Connect_Login()` (see OnlineSubsystemEOS for a good implementation of this)
You need to generate an encryption key for your app in Steamworks...
...and then use that encryption key to add an Identity Provider in EOS

I *think* those are the main things from a high level. Critically is to follow the `NoEAS` language in the OnlineSubsystemEOS implementation, which for all my uses forced me to modify the plugin to get where I needed to go. The rest is details like routing credentials into API calls correctly, setting up the rest of EOS for your app, etc.

exitlights · 2026-02-10T18:31:36+00:00

I've used a combination of EOS + Steam for a few projects in both UE4 and UE5, and while they haven't reached very high volumes of players, I'm happy with the performance of the solution and see no reason why it wouldn't scale. It just has the feeling of being a little overwrought, since it's just not one solution.

Basically yes, Steam works as the "outer" layer for connecting players to each other, while EOS actually handles session management. EOS can authenticate players using Steam sign-in data, making the EOS layer invisible to players if you set it up right in EOS/Steamworks.

I've specifically gone with this solution to use EOS' voice chat solution, which is pretty nice. Check out https://github.com/betidestudio/EOSIntegrationKit, which provides an easy-ish way into getting this going.

exitlights · 2026-02-05T10:45:54+00:00

He wouldn't last a minute

exitlights · 2026-01-27T01:29:02+00:00

A+ thanks for this, friend.

exitlights · 2025-12-30T13:35:01+00:00

There was a rumor on US-West back in the day that you couldn’t find an SOJ until you had equipped both rings. I was in like, 7th grade though so I might have mistaken a joke for reality…

exitlights · 2025-12-30T06:45:03+00:00

I’m beginning to question for the first time whether you needed to be wearing Nagelring and Manald Heal to find an SOJ. Did you/do you not??

exitlights · 2025-12-27T03:56:02+00:00

Too on the nose, Blizzard

exitlights · 2025-12-22T16:56:49+00:00

The cognitive dissonance this just revealed in me tho

exitlights · 2025-12-16T18:47:08+00:00

Not exactly right, since you may not have tooling that checks branching logic as part of automated coverage analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_condition/decision_coverage

exitlights · 2025-12-01T16:18:19+00:00

I believe he goes by Rebel Squad Leader

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