Cannot start as spectator

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Hello gents,

I’m having trouble finding how to have the game starts WITHOUT spawning a player.
As soon as there is a DefaultPawn set in the gamemode, the game will automatically spawn it.

There is this option in the GameMode blueprint : Start Players as Spectator, but it doesn’t help me, my pawn still spawn.

Google and Answerhub didn’t give me much help, I hope someone can.
Thanks !

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I have the same problem. No solution?

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So far no luck. I worked my way around it, but it’s very dirty and hope to fix that later…

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Same problems. Still not solution?

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Could you please share how you managed to work around it?

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You could start as a spectator pawn (using the default spectator pawn in the gamemode settings), then whenever you want to switch to your pawn, you could destroy the spectator pawn, cast to a spawner, spawn your playercharacter, then get your player controller, and possess the character after spawning!

This simple respawn tutorial should get you started in the right direction: https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Gameplay/HowTo/RespawnPlayer/Blueprints/index.html

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It seemed like the best way to do it :slight_smile:

Thanks

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If anyone is still having this problem I found that ticking Delayed Start would initially cause the GameMode to spawn the player as a Spectator. I was having this issue and clicked it on a whim and it worked.

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I can’t find “Delayed Start” inside Game Mode nor in anywhere in the editor… Was it removed? I really needed this option!!!

Should block on Load Stream Level does not seem to be working…

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Delayed Start is an option inside your custom game mode blueprint at the top of the category “Game Mode”. There’s also a bool for “Start Players as Spectators”.