CheatManager doesn't Exist on Package Game HELP!

Development Programming & Scripting C++
1

It seems that CheatManager Doesn’t Exist on Package Game
I have Tried:

  1. Running all mode(Standalone, Windows, Viewport) on Editor it works fine I get access to my CheatManager
  2. I run it on Multiplayer(2-3 Player) Everything works fine. I can RPC my CheatManager to Both server and clients
  3. When I run it on .bat File Standalone it’s when I can’t get access to my CheatManager
  4. I cant access it on my packaged game as well.
2

Cheatmanager doesn’t exist in the packaged game by design.

3

Anyway to work around it?

4

Don’t use cheat manager for something it was not supposed to be used for? Why do you need this?

5

We used it for debugging and sometimes we used it to force reset some bug that might happen during Playtesting on steam. So ya, during Playtesting the package games can’t seems to have access to CheatManager and thus we are trying to figure out a way around it.
And cheats sometimes are fun to play in game. We used to store cheats all over the place like in PlayerController or Playerstate sometimes even in Gamestate and that is a bad structure. Now that we found out that UE4 actually have something called CheatManager and was refactoring everything into it but can’t be access on package game might be abit of a problem for us

6

Yes, GameModeBase has

virtual bool AllowCheats(APlayerController* P);

Override that function in your GameMode class and change the criteria to allow the CheatManager.

I do not agree with Zeblote here, if there is a function that allows you to override and modify when to spawn or allow it, it’s okay to do that, but take into account that the user will have access to a lot of commands very development-related like going to other maps, show debug information, or modify behaviors.

If you want to take care of the player’s experience, probably is not a good idea to grant access to all that.

1 Like