I’m working on a splitscreen multiplayer game and I’m having a problem. I start with a player select menu that lets you choose 2, 3, or 4 players. If you choose a 4-player match and then go back to the menu when the game is done, it always loads 4 players even when you select 2 or 3 player. Those players stay in existence even on the menu screen. I looked at this post and it sounds like there isn’t any solution other than a custom C++ script that doesn’t work any more.
I tried using Destroy Actor on the player controller and the get controlled pawn of player controller. Didn’t work.
Is there really no way to remove players after they’re created? That’s incredibly weird. We’re making a multiplayer game but if you can’t select a 3-player match after a 4-player one that’s a big problem. Does anyone know a way to remove players?
Hi, did you end up finding a solution to this problem?
No. I can’t find a way. We had to just make it so you can’t go back to the menu once the game starts. The players are created in the level blueprint, so if you load a different level, they stay in existence, and if you load the level again it creates more players so there’s suddenly 5, 6 or 7 players, which is obviously not good. We just made it so that when you select start game (after choosing number of players) in the menu, it loads the level and never goes back to the menu until you exit the game. I just made a “Play again” option in a pop-menu that appears in the actual level when a winner is announced that resets everything in the level manually.
I solved this by having it remove (in reverse order from 3 going down to 0 in a for loop) the players that I saved in a savegame object file as “Not Joined”. This seems to work pretty well.
Thing is, I needed 4 players before the game starts in earnest and they enter the level with Pawns, but I need to remove those players that are no longer involved once they get into the arena. I think players persist between levels is the reason.