[Win]Unable to launch Fortnite on Heroic due to Heroic still thinking its not up to date when it is.

Currently the only way to launch the game is by going into the library on Heroic and click the play button, Shortcuts don't work, including adding it to Steam.

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 6:51 PM

post the log of the game and Heroic after trying to launch it from a shortcut. also post a log of a shortcut's creation from within heroic
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worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:12 PM

is this enough? i dont know how to get a log of the shortcut being made

C2mWY03.txt11.97KB

awake-maroon•10/16/23, 7:13 PM

try two things:

click the 3 dots menu > force update if available
once that done, if you still have it saying there's an update, check the game settings and check Ignore updatesIgnore updates or something like that

Aawake-maroon try two things: - click the 3 dots menu > force update if available - once that ...

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:14 PM

wouldn't that redownload the update?

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:14 PM

which is what i dont want

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:14 PM

cause the update is already installed

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 7:14 PM

only if it failed the first time, note the "if available"

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:15 PM

there isnt an update, the update was already downloaded

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:15 PM

it was done through Epic games

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:15 PM

isnt Heroic supposed to sync?

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 7:15 PM

click the button anyway since arieljuod knows what he's talking about

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:16 PM

besides this was already on.

Ccolossal-harlequin click the button anyway since arieljuod knows what he's talking about

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:16 PM

that'll reinstall the update again

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:16 PM

which isnt what i want because updates are very common

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 7:16 PM

i cannot stress this enough. it will install the update only if there is one available

Ccolossal-harlequin i cannot stress this enough. it will install the update only if there *is one av...

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

it doesnt

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

this is something that it always does

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

then it failed the first time

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

it didnt

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

oh my god

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

i updated through epic games

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:17 PM

how hard is it for me to convey that

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:18 PM

this is the first time it downloads an update

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:18 PM

the game works perfectly fine if launched directly from the library menu

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:19 PM

last time it did this, it reset my selections and i had to reinstall half the game

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:20 PM

my main issue is i dont want to download and install the update twice every two weeks

colossal-harlequin•10/16/23, 7:20 PM

to answer your question on how hard it is to convey that, i don't know. apparently incredibly since what you are saying is not coherent to me.

pick one or the other, don't use heroic and epic at the same time.

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:21 PM

or third, actually make Heroic check if the update was already instealled with EGS

awake-maroon•10/16/23, 7:39 PM

how did you add fortnite to heroic? did you import the game or used the Epic Games Sync feature? if you enable the sync in the settings it should keep things in sync with epic

awake-maroon•10/16/23, 7:41 PM

we use legendary in to interact with the epic store, if you have the epic game store sync enabled in heroic's settings and it still doesn't keep things in sync it would be useful to check if the problem is heroic's or if it's actually legendary

Aawake-maroon how did you add fortnite to heroic? did you import the game or used the Epic Gam...

worthy-azureOP•10/16/23, 7:42 PM

Im using epic games sync

awake-maroon•10/16/23, 7:45 PM

I'd recommend checking if the problem still happens with just legendary https://github.com/derrod/legendary, if that's still failing then it's something to report on that discord probably

in the game settings > logs there's a button to open the logs folder, there should be a legendary-....loglegendary-....log file with the last information with get from legendary, might be useful to check if legendary ir reporting any issue (try disabling/reenabling the sync also)

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 12:27 PM

this is why i didn't want to do a force update

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 12:27 PM

i have to redownload half the game again

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 12:30 PM

Because everytime it does it fucks up the game files and it needs to redo everything

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 12:37 PM

yeah had to reinstall the whole damn game

Ccolossal-harlequin to answer your question on how hard it is to convey that, i don't know. apparent...

wispy-olive•10/17/23, 1:49 PM

You can use both epic and heroic with epic games sync

Wworthy-azure this is why i didn't want to do a force update

brilliant-lime•10/17/23, 4:32 PM

Thats a epic problem then

brilliant-lime•10/17/23, 4:33 PM

Not heroic and legendary if it always downloads the whole game in the official launcher aswell

awake-maroon•10/17/23, 5:23 PM

the issue here is:

the game is updated in epic
heroic doesn't understand the game was updated (probably the legendary - epic sync is not working proparly)
(the complain is not that an update downloads a lot of things, the complain is that, after updating the game, heroic doesn't see it was updated)

what I want to understand is if the sync is not working because heroic is doing something wrong or because legendary is doing something wrong

awake-maroon•10/17/23, 5:24 PM

what the user is saying is that after doing a forced update in heroic, that corrupts the game in epic too so it nees to redownload a lot of data

awake-maroon•10/17/23, 5:24 PM

the thing is, if the issue happens with legendary removing heroic from the equation, I think it's a discussion that should happen in the legendary discord

awake-maroon•10/17/23, 5:30 PM

I do know legendary has some issues with fortnite (like the download starts in a weird % for example in heroic), so maybe it also has some issues when updating it, also the fact that fortnite has the selective downloads that not many games have

I think it's worth to check:

legendary's logs (settings > logs > open folder > look for the latest legendary.log file)
try disabling/re-enabling the egs sync feature (maybe it runs again and it updates the metadata?)
try using legendary alone without heroic to know if the problem is heroic or not

Aawake-maroon I do know legendary has some issues with fortnite (like the download starts in a...

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 6:52 PM

try disabling/re-enablingthe egs sync feature (maybe it runs again and it updates the metadata?)

turning the sync off and on does fix it, that's how i fixed it last time. the thing is i want a more permanent fix to this

~~I'll try to dig up yesterday's logs as I'm not able to reproduce the problem again due to me reinstalling the whole game again~~
Okay so the issue persisted after a full reinstall, ill try to get a legendary log out of it.

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 6:56 PM

i just read this on the legendary log i just got and now i have some suspicions

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 6:56 PM

here's the full log

Xpog2HA.log49.58KB

awake-maroon•10/17/23, 7:41 PM

hmmmm looks like legendary is failing to sync the updated game, would be good to report the problem in legendary's discord, there's more people there that can help debug this problem

worthy-azureOP•10/17/23, 8:36 PM

im not on their discord

colossal-harlequin•10/17/23, 8:41 PM

https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/827882205048733697/846967692740919316

[Win]Unable to launch Fortnite on Heroic due to Heroic still thinking its not up to date when it is.

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