Can't retrieve a listing of all entries in a Steam Leaderboard

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We need to implement a high scores list in our game, I am thinking of using Steam Leaderboards for that task. They are basically exactly what we need. However, it seems there is no way to retrieve a list of all leaderboard entries, only for certain players. But for obvious reasons this is not an option if one wants to show a full listing of the leaderboard in the game.

So, how is one supposed to access a Steam Leaderboard via the UE4 online subsystem?
If there is no such option in the online subsystem, what else is the intended way to achieve this?

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Hi ,

Have you tried using the Read/Write leaderboard options?

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Hello , please read my original question again. I am not asking for how to read one single leaderboard entry, as the BP node you suggested would do. Instead I need to read a range of multiple values, e.g. 5 before my current user, and 5 afterwards. Or even the whole leaderboard at once. I know that these features are supported by the Steam SDK!

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While I believe the Read Leaderboard node would work (run a forloop to check the integers before and after the original position), I have found some posts about leaderboards that may prove helpful:

Please check these out and see if their responses are helpful for what you need.

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For the records: I ended up with using the Steam SDK directly. Do you see any drawbacks in that approach?

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Hi ,

As far as I am aware directly accessing the Steam SDK should not be a problem. If you continue having errors with this please post back here and I’ll be happy to look into the error further.

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Ok thanks. So far direct access to Steam SDK seems to work fine …

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Hello ,
I need to show a leaderboard too. How did you manage to get the full leaderboard by accessing the Steam SDK directly?

Thanks in advance.

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From what I can tell so far it seems to be sufficient to add “Steamworks” to the dependencies in your Build.cs file:

    PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "OnlineSubsystem", "OnlineSubsystemSteam", "OnlineSubsystemUtils", "Steamworks" });
    PrivateDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] { "Steamworks" });
    AddEngineThirdPartyPrivateStaticDependencies(Target, "Steamworks");

Then include the Steam header file in your code:

#include "ThirdParty/Steamworks/Steamv132/sdk/public/steam/steam_api.h"

For the rest: just checkout the Steamworks SDK docs :slight_smile:

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Nice, thanks a lot! :slight_smile: