Unreal Engine 4.21 Released!

[Stephen_Ellis]

@NextWorldVR

Does anybody know how to FORCE this (what I have been told is “automatic”) update/Hotfix 4.21.2 to go ahead and UPDATE or HOTFIX?

Automatic?!! NOT SO MUCH,…

Assuming you have used the Epic Games Launcher for your initial installation of the Unreal Engine 4.21, updating to Hotfixes follows a similar method.

• Open the Epic Games Launcher
• You may immediately notice the yellow button that normally says “Launch” now says “Update”. If so, just click it.
• Otherwise, click on the “Unreal Engine” option on the left sidebar, and then click on the “Library” option on the top bar.
• You should see your 4.21 engine slot here. If it is not already listed as 4.21.2, then it should give you the option to update.

[northstar]

Epics Unreal engine 4… best ‘game’ i’ve ever played… looking forward to 4.22 with two new ‘free’ levels, control rigs linked to sequencer (i was just thinking of making something like that) and niagara… i’ve run out of challenges in life, i can only challenge myself now (life was wayyy too easy)… thanks Epic for all the good times…

happy international womens day to all of you… i can’t keep quiet (no no no) (smile)…

[anonymous_user_d750d84a]

@jfharp125

Having trouble running a steam dedicated server with 4.20+. Steamworks says (pertaining to development builds) to create a steam_appid.txt in the exe location with your appid. Doing this with 4.19.2 worked fine…Steam API initialized fine for a dedicated server without the need of the steam client running in the background. But for 4.20+ Steam API failes to initialize. I’m currently trying to debug the engine code (Online Subsystem, et al.) to find out what changed caused the halt.

Anyone else having this trouble?

Found the problem…the SteamServerInit was failing, I needed to copy the steam dlls into the exe location to fix…perhaps there is a more proper way to fix that I’ll research later. Didn’t have to do this for 4.19.2.

Nice to see the authentication stuff working from the log. I’m curious as to how that works. Is it that the client generates the auth ticket from the user who has access to the game on steam, then the server will generate an auth ticket for the user wanting the join and checks it’s ticket with the one sent from the client and if they match then the client can join? Is it something like that? I’m curious to test it using a user with the game package running with the steam client in the background who does not have permission for the game (i.e. has not bought it) to see if the ticket will get rejected from the server in that case.

[VKleinMP]

Nothing to see here…

[DevTechnoDESIGN]

Do you access the page through file:// protocol? If yes, try access the page through http:// protocol

[anonymous_user_dd48c810]

• New: If you create a widget using CreateWidget from inside another widget, we now check if the world context object is a widget. If so, we use it as the outer source for the widget, thus ensuring things like design time flags are properly carried over.

I am curious about the fix for this. I’m currently working on a project that shipped on 4.19.2 and we are running into issues around something of this nature. As we are not quit ready to switch to 4.21 (it is planned in the near future to switch to this or 4.22) and we have an update we need to ship, I’d like to back port the change if possible. Just need to know which commit it happened in.

[anonymous_user_4d1abccc]

How do you download this Ureal Fix. Where is the link?
Thanks.

[Jezcentral]

@cbkitt321

How do you download this Ureal Fix. Where is the link?
Thanks.

You open the Epic Launcher.