Really disappointed by the #UE move to #Fab and the new patterns that came with it. The licences are more confusing (and I'm not sure they're not less generous) and the free stuff being just a few (not always UE) items and every 2 weeks has been such a hassle I gave up ages ago. Used to be a nice little check in but now it just feels shabby. Search is still unbelievable lame. 😿
G-BRNM, Chichester-Miles Leopard, on static display at Farnborough Air Show, 7th September 1996.
This was an attempt to create a market for a very light, 4 seat BizJet with very small, fuel-efficient engines.
It didn't go too well…
Or at all!
Oh. This is terrible. I found where my tools hide. It's a page that mixes tools with video games I grabbed. They used to be in separate places. I thought it was just the video games. Noooo. The tools haven't got their icons. I have to mouse-over a couple of hundred identical icons to see what's there.
Great job.
At least, I've found them.
Why are there 11 icons all named Web UI? Is this an Unreal school thing? Are these tools not hosted on Fab? Wtf?
Just bad UI. Developer hostile.
I can't wait to download something to search for where it went.
And where are the Unreal bits that are not called Web UI?
Wtf is Safe Delete? Are all of these icons for tools I had that Epic decided I should delete?
I can't tell anything about any tool without a mouse-over. Horrible. I wonder how we know we have upgrades?
There was an icon to sync with Epic Games, but it's nonfunctional. Perhaps because Linux is an afterthought. Was that how we are supposed to get upgrades?
All of the video games have their icons. None of the tools do. Because you have to mouse-over to even see text to learn what they are, it's going to be gobs of great fun.
I have - or had - many more tools than games. But the page looks smokin', and that's all that matters anymore.
I'll go tell the meatheads that I found it, and that I'm sooooo thrilled.
NOTE: You don't always download what you have purchased. You get a link and an icon. When you actually insert it into a game, them it downloads the actual content.
I LOST A LOT OF WHAT I PAID FOR! WHERE IS IT, EPIC?
I'm looking to find bits of saved product I bought and was given for free that was in my Unreal Vault that is now inaccessible in Linux. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if I hadn't moved everything around to accommodate Unreal Engine's incessant need for more powerful computers to develop with, and some issues with mastodon and jitsi-meet playing nice. I deleted a lot of old files, which would have included much of it. When they decided to suddenly destroy the Epic Games Store, all hell broke loose in Linux. The content I use to develop with is no longer accessible.
Can't use Lutris to run the Epic Games Store. It cannot connect.
Can't use Heroic Game Launcher to find it. I can log in to Epic Games. I can log into Fab. I can't find the content I paid for. But I did get to prove who I was more then once. Customer friendly.
No help for this, but plenty of help if I want to buy a copy of Uncle Tommy's Cute Cabin.
Fab wants to sell video games. Its GUI is user hostile to developers.
Where the fuck is my stuff, Epic?
Someone in a forum said you could run Epic Games Launcher in Lutris. There is no Epic Games Launcher available in Lutris. There is the Epic Games Store, which still exists, can still be installed, and sits with a forever spinner "downloading content" after that without any network activity. Which is why I noted, "it cnnot connect." Amazing planning.
Really disgusted with the lack of information, documentation, or real help for Linux developers caught off-guard by a shitty move by a company that is loathe to respond when unpaid people will do that for free on forums.
This is not how to win friends and influence people, Epic.