I believe the console is stripped from the game if you use the Shipping build configuration when packaging your game. If you use the Development build configuration then you can still open the console using the ~ key (if that is the key you have setup). I was stuck on this issue for hours the other night when I couldn’t open the console to connect to a remote server. Then I realized it was because I used the Shipping build configuration. As soon as I switched the build configuration to Development it worked fine.
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