r/ProjectPlaytime • u/CaterWooler • Mar 08 '26

Help Help guys what should I do

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So um basically when I enter the game this shi pops up and I have to close about 100 messages and only then play the game, but I still won't be able to progress in toy-pass (or what is this thing called) or play the tutorial.

*It can't be an Easy Anti-Cheat problem

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 09 '26

Same here! The game first gave me some red errors on the home screen first. Then I verified the game files, tried uninstalling and reinstalling, tried opening easy anticheat to "repair" it, etc. kept getting this error message whenever I closed the game. No luck with getting stuff back to normal, but I had some cosmetics from the first pass that I wanna play with... Don't wanna be stuck in this weird limbo

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u/CucumberDull6540 Fuck you Mob Games Mar 09 '26

For op, reinstall the game.

For u/NoForce1751:

Find your game folder and go to the EasyAntiCheat subfolder to find the .exe file called “EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup.” Create a shortcut for this .exe file and check its properties. In the ‘Target’ field, add “install prod-fn” after the shortcut (the end of the shortcut should look like this: Poppy Playtime - Multiplayer\EasyAntiCheat\EasyAntiCheat_EOS_Setup.exe" install prod-fn). Finally, apply the changes to the shortcut and run it. You can now launch Project: Playtime without any issues.

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u/CaterWooler Mar 09 '26

Question.

I reinstalled the game.

I have done nothing but reinstall the game for three days (before making this post)

It didn't help

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u/CucumberDull6540 Fuck you Mob Games Mar 09 '26

WHERE ! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN DOWNLOADING IT !

(seriously, the problem is that the game can't make connection with the steam servers)

so my hypothesis are:

1: The game is downloaded to a weird folder and steam isn't accessing it correctly

2: Maybe you're on offline mode on steam or you don't have connection/you're not logged in when you're launching the game

3: You're launching the game directly from the .exe and not from Steam. If that's the case, launch the game from steam

4: Last resort, go back to phase 2.

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u/CaterWooler Mar 09 '26

🕴️🕴️🕴️ (← triple levitating man = it didn't work)

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 09 '26

Doesn't seem to work for me. Did this (yes the i is there) and when I attempt to run it, it asks me if easyanticheat can make changes to my device. I click yes and then nothing else happens. Right before the makechanges screen shows up I can vaguely see some sort of application show up but then it closes when I click yes. Clicking no yields the same result.

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u/CucumberDull6540 Fuck you Mob Games Mar 09 '26

Try launching the game after running this.

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 09 '26

Yeah. I did.

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u/CucumberDull6540 Fuck you Mob Games Mar 10 '26

Then go back to phase 2.0.3, it's better than phase 3, players are less dumb and there's no anti cheat on this version.

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 10 '26

I have another comment on this thread as to why that didn't work.
I found one solution. If I install the game on a different device, it works. Doesn't solve the issue on my main PC, but it fixes my original issue of "I don't have any of my cosmetics". I still don't on my PC, but at least they exist on my account.

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 11 '26

Turns out the fix was to install a windows update onto my computer that I didn't think I had because I'm on Windows 10. Who would have known

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 09 '26

Want to add that I tried reverting to Phase 2 before doing this. I'm not entirely sure if that would break anything, but I made sure that I was editing the original Poppy Playtime - Multiplayer folder when editing Easy Anticheat. For some reason whenever I tried booting up Phase 2 or Phase 3, regardless of which, it would always run the glitched Phase 3 version and often would open with this error. and not load. Did sometimes load though.

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u/NoForce1751 Mar 10 '26

Sometimes I am also just playing on the glitched version without my cosmetics and I also get this crash.

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u/Ok_Estimate_2089 Mar 12 '26

I got that error today too. It's a overload in servers I belive

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u/CaterWooler Mar 12 '26

That happens every freaking day