GameSession->KickPlayer(...) not actually kicking the client from the server

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So I am trying to kick unauthorized players out of the server using this method from the AGameSession class:

virtual bool KickPlayer
(
    APlayerController * KickedPlayer,
    const FText & KickReason
)

However, the client does not get kicked from the server when I call this function. Does anyone know why this may be the case? Note that I am calling this in the InitNewPlayer function in my server’s AGameModeBase class.

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It turns out that KickPlayer returns false when called in InitNewPlayer. However, for my needs, since I needed to kick players who did not pass a certain value when calling OpenLevel through the Options parameter, I simply overrode my server’s AGameModeBase class’ PreLogin function to set the ErrorMessage parameter to any value after parsing the Options to check whether or not the player passed a specific value or not.

The documentation for the PreLogin function can be found here