Need help with storing data

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello Unreal Forums,

So I’ve been actively using Unreal Engine for about three weeks now and I must say that I’m a satisfied customer.
I do however have a question about player saves or whatever you want to call it. I’m developing a survival game (how original, I know) with my brother, but we got stuck on saving player data.
We both come from a webdevelopment background, but since we both don’t know C++ we have chosen to use Blueprints for our project. We need to be able to store data in a database, preferably MySQL.

I’ve searched my *** off the last couple of days on how to do it using Blueprints, and I’ve only found people referring to API’s and plugins.
I was wondering if anyone could explain to me (on noob level) how to integrate both C++ and/or MySQL to our Blueprint project, if even possible at .

Kind regards, thanks in advance, and sorry for the spelling mistakes (no native speaker),

Quantum

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You’ll probably want to look into the Save Game and Load Game (in slot) nodes.

You will need to probably create a derived class with of your data in there and cast a few things, but probably this is what you’ll want to do.

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Hello,
As Tucarius said, you can use game instance to save datas : https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Gameplay/SaveGame/Blueprints/index.html

I don’t know about sql possibilities but this is a way to do to find better solution.

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This may also help.

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Thanks for taking the to reply guys, but wouldn’t using SaveGame objects store it client-side?
That’s absolutely not what I want because of players then being able to alter those values.

Is there no way to refer to C++ code from a blueprint? And are there no ways to use an API / REST to connect to a SQL database?
No guides or tutorials someone could let me know about?

To me it seems storing values in a database is quite the important feature, how come this is so hard to do in Unreal Engine?
Anways let me know, and thanks again, I appreciate the replies.:o