The message “You have been kicked out from the server because of a failure to validate your account through Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) [Error Code 3]” signifies that the sport’s anti-cheat shopper didn’t confirm your account or set up a sound session with its verification servers. As a outcome, the connection is forcibly terminated earlier than the sport absolutely launches.

This error generally seems in multiplayer video games that use Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) for server-side validation, akin to Fortnite, Battlefield 2042, and Hell Let Loose.

EAC depends on a safe information alternate between the sport shopper, your on-line account, and EAC’s backend system to verify session legitimacy. If this alternate is interrupted by community interference, corrupted EAC modules, blocked EAC companies, or invalid sign-in tokens, validation fails and the server mechanically removes you from the session.

1. Restart the Game

Restarting the sport clears short-term glitches and forces Easy Anti-Cheat to re-verify your account credentials with its servers. This additionally helps eradicate short-term community interruptions which may be blocking the validation course of.

To do that: Close the sport utterly > Open your launcher > Relaunch the sport.

2. Update the Game

Updating ensures the sport runs on the newest model, which regularly contains bug fixes that resolve validation or connectivity points.

1. Open Steam in your PC.
2. Find Dead by Daylight in your Library.
3. If an replace is out there, click on Update. (*3*)
4. After the replace finishes, relaunch the sport and verify if the difficulty is resolved.

3. Verify the Game Files

Verifying recreation recordsdata scans for and replaces any lacking or corrupted parts that will forestall Easy Anti-Cheat from validating your account correctly. This ensures the sport operates with full, undamaged information.

1. Right-click on Dead by Daylight and choose Properties.
2. Go to the Installed Files tab and click on Verify integrity of recreation recordsdata.
3. Steam will mechanically re-download any corrupted or lacking recordsdata.
4. Once the method completes, relaunch the sport to verify if the difficulty is mounted.

4. Enable Cross-Platform Play

If you attempt to be part of a foyer with gamers on different platforms whereas Cross-Platform Play is disabled, the sport might fail to synchronize the foyer and you’ll be faraway from the session. This can look much like an EAC validation failure even when anti-cheat itself will not be the direct trigger. Enabling cross-play permits the sport to match you with these gamers accurately and reduces these compelled disconnects.

1. Open the sport and click on the Settings icon within the foyer.
2. Navigate to the Online tab and change Cross-Play to ON.
3. Try becoming a member of a foyer once more to confirm if the issue is resolved.

5. Launch the Game Using Another Account

Sometimes, outdated or corrupted account tokens can forestall correct validation. If you may have entry to a different account that may launch the sport, signing in with that account forces Easy Anti-Cheat to request a recent verification. After testing, you may change again to your primary account and verify if the error is resolved.

1. Log out of your present account within the launcher.
2. Sign in with a unique or your primary account.
3. After signing in, launch the sport once more and verify if the error now not seems.

6. Delete Easy Anti-Cheat and Verify Game Files

Corrupted, outdated, or lacking Easy Anti-Cheat parts can set off this error. If verifying the sport recordsdata alone didn’t repair the issue, you may take away the prevailing EAC parts after which confirm the sport once more. This forces Steam to reinstall a clear copy of the anti-cheat modules.

1. Right-click the sport in your Steam Library > Manage > Browse native recordsdata.
2. Delete all recordsdata or folders associated to Easy Anti-Cheat.
3. Press Win + R and kind %appdata%. If you see any folders associated to Easy Anti-Cheat, delete them. If nothing seems there, additionally verify C:Program Files (x86)EasyAntiCheat and C:ProgramKnowledgeEasyAntiCheat and take away any leftover Easy Anti-Cheat recordsdata from these areas.
4. Open Steam once more and confirm the sport recordsdata.
5. After verification completes, relaunch the sport to verify if the difficulty has been mounted.