Multiplayer Respawn Problem

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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Hello, I am having some problem with multiplayer respawning player on death. So I have a function in Game Mode takes care of the respawn, here;

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And in Game Player Controller I have another script called Respawn Request, which calls the function in the game mode. here;

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And, I call this function in the player controller, in the actual player when he is dead.

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So the problem is, as you can see I binded X to respawn as well. For debugging. When I press X, server player and client respawning themselves which is totally fine. But when I shoot one with the other, the problem begins. If client shoots server, server gets respawned, which is what I want. But if server shoots client, server himself again gets respawned.

So I dont understand why X key is working fine on respawning but when I call it on damage it doesnt work fine. Thanks in advance.

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From the pictures you posted, it seems the problem might be that your Respawn event in your PlayerController class is is a server only event. The server always has the PlayerIndex = 0, when you are a listen server. So when you are using your event only on server it always gets the server PlayerController. For a dedicated server it is similar. you are always getting the first player.

Hope this helps.

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That solved the problem. Even if I put Get Player Controller instead of Self, it goes back to the same problem again. Get Controller and Self are working fine.

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Do not use GetPlayerController(0). Instead use

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Could you please accept my reply as the answer cliking on the green icon? Thanks!

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Do you remember what it was? I’m having this problem also but i cant see the picture.

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Hello! Yes, If I recall correctly it was the “GetController” node. Although this might not solve it for you. If you still have issues I recommend you to create another post in a.h. with your problem. Regards.

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Thanks! I figured it out, GetController did not work for me so I did Get all Actors of class player controller and a for loop to check if it == get player controller with a branch. for some reason this worked for me but not get player controller, weird.