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Multiplayer Game Development with Unreal Engine 5

By : Marco Secchi
Book Image

Multiplayer Game Development with Unreal Engine 5

By: Marco Secchi

Overview of this book

If you’re fascinated by the immersive gaming experiences that enable multiple users to engage in collaborative or competitive gameplay, this Unreal Engine 5 game development book is for you. In this book, you’ll learn the foundational principles behind multiplayer games. Starting with a sample project, you’ll learn how to set up a networked system and make it work. Once the prototype of the project is functional, you’ll start adding game logic, including obstacles and AI opponents, to heighten the challenges and engagement, offering a captivating experience for players. Next, you’ll learn how to debug and optimize the project, before finally deploying the game build and integrating it with cloud services such as the Epic Online Services system. By the end of this book, you’ll have the confidence to develop and manage multiplayer experiences using the Unreal Engine environment, taking your newfound programming skills in your upcoming projects.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1:Introducing Multiplayer Games
5
Part 2:Networking and Multiplayer Games in Unreal Engine
10
Part 3:Improving Your Game
15
Part 4:Deploying Your Game Online

Adding character stats

Before introducing property replication and implementing it in the project, our thief hero needs to be ready for such a big step: that’s why I’ll guide you through the creation of a set of statistics that will be plugged into the Character class.

The first thing to do is to define your character stats. In particular, you will need the following data:

  • A walk and a sprint speed, to handle the different paces of your character during gameplay
  • A damage multiplier to manage more powerful hits whenever the character levels up
  • A level-up value to check whenever the character has reached the next level
  • A stealth multiplier that will handle how much noise the character makes when walking or sprinting

You may have noticed that your character has no health – that is because this is a stealth game and players will have to move carefully through the dungeon. Once they are discovered, they won’t have the option of facing...