My boyfriend has been trying to connect his xbox fortnite account with his pc. when he signs in with his xbox credentials it says "you must be externally authenticated to upgrade your account.". Please log in you must be externally authenticated to upgrade your account.. 3) once you sign in create a new epic games account using the psn that said it was connected essentially when you first launch fortnite, if you don’t connect it to epic games, it creates a ghost account that is tethered to the psn..
Whole fortnite had been reset! i contacted epic games and they told me i had to link my ps4 to a brand new epic games account so when i pressed link playstation it said ''you need to be externally authenticated to link your account so i told epic and they told me to contact you!. In the very near future, you’ll be able to unlink a game console from one epic games account and link it to a different account, which is perfect if you haven’t spent too much time on. This is how i fixed mine. okay so i skipped the epic games login when creating my new psn account eg.. (gamer2) which leads to automatically making it a ghost account. #1. sign into your original epics account that has stats eg..
