What is the correct way to Save and Load PlayerState?

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Hi

I’ve been trying to setup a PlayerState class for my Multiplayer game, this is my first time experimenting with this so I could definitely be doing something wrong somewhere but what is the right way to Load data stored in the player state for new joiners?

eg: a player dies, new player comes and sees dead player in their idle state eventhough they look dead for other players who are already ingame.

I tried saving their “Dead” variable to a new custom PlayerState (using a Run on Server then Multicast Events) then applying that to their owned pawn from the GameState each time a new player joins but that didn’t work for some reason, dead player still appears idling for new joiners.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Reason for that behavior is that multicasts don’t respect state, i.e. they are not meant for stateful changes. Read through this article so you know better.

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I ended up just using GameState instead, it worked for literally every other actor so I did the same for players aswell, not sure exactly why GameState works but PlayerState doesn’t but this seems to be working well enough for me for now.