# Join Session does not work (Steam, Advanced sessions plugin) **URL:** \ **Category:** Programming & Scripting\ **Tags:** unreal-engine, question\ **Created:** [May 26, 2024, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/join-session-does-not-work-steam-advanced-sessions-plugin/1873895 "2024-05-26T14:33:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Nightwolf](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/nightwolf/32/917179_2.png) [@Nightwolf](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Nightwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/join-session-does-not-work-steam-advanced-sessions-plugin/1873895/7 "2024-05-31T20:54:15Z")
> [@Steam sessions can not return player count](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/steam-sessions-can-not-return-player-count/384598/14): > > There is a function called “Update Session” that you can access through the session interface that allows you to update the current session with new settings. What you want to do is from the game mode call the update session and provide new settings. The gamemode offers 3 important things in this case post login, abiliy to detect when player joins logout, ability to detect when player leaves GetNumPlayers, has an accurate number of current players. it only runs on server so makes sense to u… Just found this as well in my digging… im about to start digging into the documentation for steam and Advanced sessions in case thats whats causing our problems Have you tried your game not using Adv sessions does it work? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/join-session-does-not-work-steam-advanced-sessions-plugin/1873895)._