GameState not replicete in time on client

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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Hello.

Did anyone had this problem or bug?

I work on lobby menu. In my **GameMode ** in event OnPostLogin i add new connected player to array **AllPlayers ** - in this array all player controllers

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After that in my player controller i start function PCSetupLobbyMenu which is create lobby menu(widget) on connerted client. Function type - Run on owning client

After that i use function GMUpdatePlayersListInLobby (run on server), this function are in GameMode.

Function GMUpdatePlayersListInLobby

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In this function every player controller run function PCUpdatePlayerLists (Run on owning client).

In this function i get GameState and for each element in GameState->playerArray i create widget add it as child in my PlayerList Widget.

All works, but works only with delays

I use delay in PlayerController->EventBeginPlay 0.1 second and in PlayerController->PCUpdatePlayerLists - 0.3 seconds

It doesn’t work without delays because when PlayerController->EventBeginPlay GameState doesn’t exist on client.

Am i right or problem in something else?
How to fix that and work without delays?
Anyone know in what oder UE4 create classes and start game?

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can anyone correct error in replicate in title? replicate == replicate

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its not bug very probably. im using many delays in my multiplayer game… probably its do-able without delays but you must exactly know game “flow” and make consecutive calls i think…

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i think i found solution.

i found post where is said that this is the order in which ue4 create classes.

Player Controller -> HUD -> Game Mode -> Game State -> Player State ->Level

So i just relocate my functions to playerState and it works without delays

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I had the same issue and am also now using player state. Using ticks in playerstate I check each tick to see if my custom players state is ready on the client. Once it is I disable ticks and notify the player controller of the client that it has a playerstate ready to process. On the server the player states are ready in 0 ticks. On the client it looks like it takes around 2 ticks for the playerstate to be fully replicated on the client side.