# Editor only spawning one playercontroller despite number of players selected

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/editor-only-spawning-one-playercontroller-despite-number-of-players-selected/425951>\
**Category:** Community & Industry Discussion\
**Tags:** playercontroller, pie, unreal-engine, editor, question\
**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/editor-only-spawning-one-playercontroller-despite-number-of-players-selected/425951 "2018-05-25T17:39:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_b3a426ff1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_b3a426ff1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_b3a426ff1)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 5:39pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/editor-only-spawning-one-playercontroller-despite-number-of-players-selected/425951/1 "2018-05-25T17:39:28Z")

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At first I thought it was a problem with my gamemode but even with default gamemode, only one playercontroller is ever spawned. I reverted back to a previous version of my game and still the same. I then booted up the content examples project and tried that with 2 players and again only one playercontroller is spawned. I’m not sure if I accidentally changed a setting or what but something is not working as I expect it to.

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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_b3a426ff1](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_b3a426ff1](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_b3a426ff1)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/editor-only-spawning-one-playercontroller-despite-number-of-players-selected/425951/2 "2018-05-25T21:58:34Z")

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I have a theory if someone could confirm or deny: does the world outliner only show PlayerController 0? I.E. is the world outliner a client’s view rather than the server’s view?

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**Author:** ![sarchasm](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@sarchasm](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/sarchasm)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/editor-only-spawning-one-playercontroller-despite-number-of-players-selected/425951/3 "2022-02-21T07:23:27Z")

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I think so because if you look in Outliner in PIE at the header it says “CLIENT 1”