Find Sessions / Join Sessions by IP address

[Muzaheed (ahsan Muzaheed)]

@TheFoyer;206807

Yes you can. I just posted this response on Answers the other day. I’ll copy/paste it. (But you’ll want to use OnlineSubsystemNull and make sure LAN is checked on create session.

So 2 things that helped me accomplish MP over the web. I used a 3rd party plugin for REST Api’s called VaRest. I built out a simple node.js server to retrieve json objects posted over the internet. The beauty of using node.js here is I can easily manage an object of servers. And I can easily purge those servers after X amount of time. I hosted this app on my web server. But you could even host it on your own computer and use a dynamic dns service that the clients connect too (if your IP is dynamic).

When the host creates a new game via the menu, it will create the multiplayer session using the methods in the twitch stream. I use VaRest to POST to my API, things like host name, game name, map. The server grabs the clients IP address and appends that to the object. Next, the Join Game screen is simply a browser list. I use VaRest again here and created another API endpoint for grabbing the list of servers. When the user has selected the server they want to join. I run a simple console command “open [ip address]” and the game connects. You must open and forward port 7777 tcp/udp on the hosts router/machine. This is my temporary solution until I can implement steamworks SDK.

it is a simple peer to peer connect . right ?
can u use all the functionality of multiplayer session that way?