Hey! so I’m trying to make a multiplayer game for me and my friends, and I’ve been trying to find out how to implement online play in my project. But I have found only these complicated websites and stuff and then I find out they are only paid services and tbh I don’t wanna pay 10$ monthly Just to probs play once. And the only free ones I found are the built in LAN feature of Unreal. And some of my friends aren’t even in the same country or don’t want to unplug their pc’s/don’t have laptops to take to my place. So I don’t want to pay and I can’t use Lan.
SO I was wondering if there is any free alternatives for playing online with friends in my game, like Hamachi (Which I’ve tried and doesn’t work), A third party tool or plugin or a feature in UE4? Anything will be appreciated thank you
You don’t need a service like that in any way, you don’t have to use steam, epic or other, you can simply connect with IP addresses “Minecraft style”
You only need the services if you want to be able to send an invite or get a list of sessions, etc
Something like hamachi should have worked if multiplayer was setup correctly, as hamachi essentially puts you on the same LAN, you should be able to type in the IP provided and choose lan and it’ll find it
An option is also to run a listen server setup in unreal, where one of you guys host the session instead of a dedicated server which comes with a cost. If you just want to play with your friends in a build of the game you can always use this plugin (GitHub - mordentral/AdvancedSessionsPlugin: Advanced Sessions Plugin for UE4) to find each other over steam
