Advanced Sessions Plugin with Steam - Find Advanced Sessions only finds player hosted listen servers, can't find dedicated servers

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UE 4.23.1 Source Build w/ Steamworks v142

Advanced Sessions Plugin for 4.23

Testing with two separate machines / Steam accounts that are both associated with the project on Steamworks

We’re currently testing Steam integration with our project. We’ve implemented our AppID and everything seems to be working fine. Players can host servers, and those are discoverable via Find Sessions. However, when I run dedicated servers (packaged separately using Project Launcher), they are not found. They are visible using Steam’s Server Browser under the Internet tab. I can also directly connect to the dedicated server by using ‘open steam.xxx’ from the client, and that works fine. But they’re not coming up using Find Sessions.

Any help would be appreciated, this is new territory for me. Is this acting as intended? Or should the dedicated servers be discoverable?

Thanks

Edit: Additionally, when I disable Steam by running with -nosteam on the command-line for both dedicated server and client, the dedicated servers are then discoverable with Find Sessions with null online subsystem (through LAN only). So it seems that this is specific to Steam?

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Well, I scrapped the Advanced Sessions Plugin, and went with SteamCore plugin instead for extra functionality.

The plugin allows me to request everything from the steam server browser, and populate server lists in-game with it, filtering by my AppID. Basically just duplicating the all same info you get from the server browser but showing it in-game. So I’m able to see my dedicated servers now. Then instead of using Join Session node, I connect directly to them with the console command “open steam.xxx”. As shown here: SteamCore & Finding and Creating Multiplayer Games - eelDev

I can still use Find Session to discover player hosted listen servers. But at least now I can populate a list of dedicated servers.

Slowly figuring this stuff out…