What is the Default Pawn class and what is used for?

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I’m newbie in Unreal Engine and also in games development.

I have developed my own version of Pong game (sources here) and I’m confuse with the behaviour of DefaultPawnClass: Its creating another Paddle in game (I posted a question about it here).

I have to questions:

What is Default Pawn class?

And, what is it used for?

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Its the Pawn that get automaticly Spawned when you start the Game and gets Possesed by the Default Controller. In your case you create 2 Paddles from GameMode but you already get 1 Spawned by default for the Player.