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Epic Games store needs a consultant. Eight years later, Fortnite's glorious launcher is great for getting free games, but it's languishing in the company's other priorities. A few months ago a plan was revealed to overhaul the storefront, essentially making it look more like Steam. Now Epic Games has revealed that the improvements will also be coded with artificial intelligence.
"Programming is hard," the company wrote in its official announcement post for the newly released preview version of a modified launcher for the store. "So, instead of doing that, we've coded a new Epic Games launcher that's much faster and more responsive than the current launcher, and has a new look. It's the first version of its features. It's light. Think of it as a speedboat, not a yacht! Although it has advanced digital commerce technology like shopping carts."
Yes, posting anger bait seems to be part of the strategy here. Just a week after forcing in-house game developers to go AI-first and include genAI even in their artwork pipeline, Epic is publicly welcoming the technology and also sharing upcoming changes to where it wants millions of players to store their credit card information. The company even took a shot at Steam.
"We coded the Epic Games launcher faster than the other guy," posted Epic X's account. Don't believe us? Try it yourself in the preview." It was accompanied by a graphic showing that the genAI showcase was faster than Valve's rival in certain responsiveness metrics. This isn't just a gimmick or flexibility for the AI boosters on Elon Musk's social media platform, though. Epic's adults aren't kidding about wanting to make its storefront more attractive.
Career kids have a great start and love to work smart pic.
— Gold (@golden_aion) October 14, 2026
I strongly recommend that you remove all payment methods associated with your EGS account if you use it.
They publicly stated that the new update has a Vibe code, not giving me the assurance to keep my card linked to it.
— Pandan | GearGrit on Steam (@Weston_Mitchell) October 14, 2026
— James Tosha (@signalspikedev) October 14, 2026
First day of Epic Games launcher with code Vibe and I changed fortnite from performance mode to DX12 and it opened UEFN
— Reisshub (@Reisshub) October 14, 2026
Even outside of those glitches I posted earlier, bragging about the speed is crazy and it's experience, it's very slow like this.
— Chris Person (@papapishu.bsky.social) 2026-10-14T21:00:10.802Z
"It's completely rebuilt from the ground up," Epic Games store general manager Stmartin Keely told IGN. So it's a whole new technology stack, a whole new rewrite of the shell, which has a download manager, library, and the app itself, as well as a new store architecture. So features like discovery pages and product details have all been rewritten.
But the effect online has been a wave of people roasting Epic's Vibercode framework and the fact that the launcher looks tired in a way not usually seen for a product launch, and users are expected to take it seriously.
Epic also announced that it is bringing Fortnite to Linux via Proton, a compatibility layer developed by Valve. One of the VR mods on X wrote: "Daring them on Valve/Steam and then literally using Proton internally for Windows compatibility on Linux...". "This launcher is pretty funny, but it's funny, these people are funny." In the comments below Epic's announcement, one Twitch streamer wrote: "Are you seriously incapable of embarrassment? I'm not leaving Steam for this trash."
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed this week that Epic is "reengineering for maximum AI acceleration." "The goal is not to do the same thing with fewer people, but to make everyone here able to make more and better things, and bring benefits to all teams using Unreal," he added. The proof will be in what the company actually ships. Its Epic Review preview still doesn't pass the "more" or "better" test. Epic Games' new launcher is in preview for testing, and with any beta release there may be issues." Epic promises that these issues won't affect players when they actually launch their games, most of which don't have vibe code. At least for now.
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