Game will not load past opening cut scene and character select screen

You're either 1. blocked by a firewall and it can't connect to the EOS server or 2. you don't have write permissions to the AppData folder.

Originally posted by Maron:

Originally posted by SOLIDAge: You're either 1. blocked by a firewall and it can't connect to the EOS server or 2. you don't have write permissions to the AppData folder.

Get rid of the funny "phone home to load saves", or watch us get rid of it by dumping the game.

There is no "phone home to load saves". You can play the game just fine in Steam's offline mode.

Originally posted by Patrick Star:

Originally posted by SOLIDAge: You're either 1. blocked by a firewall and it can't connect to the EOS server or 2. you don't have write permissions to the AppData folder.

Interesting... I'd really appreciate some (even if cheap) error message like "Cannot connect to EOS", to give some pointer...

While my firewall is not blocking anything, it might be possible that my DNS blocker is blocking something, which is needed. However, no other issues in any other game (which might use EOS)...

Any hints of which domains it could be?

I don't disagree and will raise it with the team. https://www.epicgames.com/help/en-US/c-Category_TechnicalSupport/c-TechnicalSupport_GeneralSupport/which-domains-need-to-be-whitelisted-to-reach-the-epic-servers-a000086907