June 29th, 2021 Livestream

Snutt & Jace Talk: Third-party Dedicated Servers are currently probably a scam

https://youtu.be/YXKvodUO14Q

Topics

• Features > Multiplayer > Dedicated Servers

Transcript

yeah by the way if you see a site out there saying that they've got like dedicated servers available that you can like pay to rent them they're like probably a scam or some [ __ ] step way I cause there there isn't a dedicated server version of the game yeah so be wary of that please folks there's like I've seen a couple of people that made a they claim to have made like headless versions of the game which is I guess like with mods it's somewhat possible to do that but it wouldn't be proper headless because a lot of

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a lot of code is still running on in the game that isn't supposed to be running, even if you're not rendering anything, because the the way to make a proper headless server in unreal engine is to make a build that is like that strips a lot of code that's not supposed to be running a lot of people are aware of how we performed yeah, so it's not there's like no way to make a proper proper dedicated server, and then there are sites that like claim to to have dedicated servers which is not true but then there's also sites that just host games which is essentially just like the same as having one of your friends just have a machine running and have the game running

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so just be wary of what that entails