I'm on Steam, same issue. 

People are playing - they were logged in before....what gets me is the server status is still showing as good :/
Add your vote to this issue someone has started on the Issue Tracker: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/75391
Checked on PTN discord:
this is working for me - https://github.com/rfvgyhn/min-ed-launcher/releases
The Readme clearly says Epic users have to change files:Can confirm this workaround works for now. And no files need to be deleted or anything, just follow the README if you wanna do it yaself.
Now what can i get up to while most players are offline? lol
EDLaunch.exe
(e.g. EDLaunch.exe.bak
)MinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe
to EDLaunch.exe
. This step is required becauseEliteDangerous/.egstore/*.manifest
), this could be avoided. Please openEDLaunch.exe
with MinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe
./autorun /autoquit /edo
I wonder if anyone works on the weekend? Maybe only on MondayLeave things alone it's FDev problem, they are working on it
Friday 7:12pm in UK.
BB
Even for the basic Windows launcher it's a nope:The Readme clearly says Epic users have to change files:
Epic Client
1. Delete or renameEDLaunch.exe
(e.g.EDLaunch.exe.bak
)
2. Copy and renameMinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe
toEDLaunch.exe
. This step is required because
Epic doesn't allow changing the game's startup application. If someone knows how to modify the
game's manifest file (EliteDangerous/.egstore/*.manifest
), this could be avoided. Please open
a [new issue] if you can help with this. This also means any time the game updates or you verify
your game files, you'll have to replaceEDLaunch.exe
withMinEdLauncher.Bootstrap.exe
.
3. Update your launch options to auto start your preferred product
1. Click Settings in the Epic Games Launcher
2. Scroll down to the Manage Games section and click Elite Dangerous
3. Check Additional Command Line Arguments
4. Set the value to/autorun /autoquit /edo
4. Launch your game as you normally would in Epic
Seems not! Maybe for a lucky few.MinEDLauncher is still capable of launching the game