Hey there, I am fresh to UE5. I wanted to simulate my game to view my Landscape and I therefore put the BP_ThirdPersonGameMode into “GameMode Override” in the World Settings. I saw in a video that it should make a character directly spawn at my camera Location when playing with Alt+P, but instead I am still floating and can only move my camera around with holding the right mouse button. I can spawn at a given location by right-clicking → “Play From Here”. I dont know if I have to enable some general settings to spawn at my camera position.
Also: When I add a “PlayerStart” it doesnt work.
If your “start game” button/menu is set to “simulate” rather than “play in editor,” then it will just Simulate. And the whole point of Simulate mode is that it doesn’t spawn a player.
Other reasons may be that your game mode isn’t correctly selected in the world modes (or in the project defaults.)
Or your GameMode doesn’t have the right PlayerController, or right default Pawn.
I encountered a similar issue and could manage to solve it. What worked for me was dragging the ‘GameMode’ and dropping it onto the ‘Game Override’ option found within the ‘World Settings’ of the respective ‘Level’. And, the character was correctly spawned, as expected.