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Hello, I am new to game development, but a 15 year software development vet and I've built an entire gameplay system for backend services for my game. I've decided that I'll run one server per map in ...

We are setting up a Gamelift FlexMatch rule set with expansion on minPlayers. What we want to achieve: - at the beginning, minPlayers as 4 - give first step 30s to have more chance to group 4 players ...

Hey all, we are running into an issue when upgrading our engine from Unreal 5.2-5.3 where it is not compiling seemingly because of the way C++20 handles header includes and possibly other features. Is...

Let's say a new player is joining via backfill. I want to update him to the matchbackfill data with StartMatchBackFill method. How can I get his matchmaking attributes such as team, skill attributes e...

I am using Gamelift with Unreal Engine and the c++ server sdk documentation for 3.x is very ambiguous. I am trying to call the startMatchBackFill() method from the server SDK and not able to find a p...

One of the API call from my gamelift server is failing due to certificate issue. I tried installing certificate using: certutil -addstore CA C:\game\PATH\Certificates\###.####.crt. However, the co...

So I have a queue based matchmaking system where I am lowering the minimum players needed every couple of seconds. What I am noticing is, sometimes matchmaking takes too much time and then I might upd...

I have noticed a few tickets are failing with status 'GameSessionError, server not in a state to accept player' once I stop backfill for the session. How can this issue be addresed? How can I ensure t...

Looking for any new or old Lua code samples that still work in O3DE. I have been struggling to find the correct syntax when writing scripts. Even the old lumberyard samples are missing. For example, I...

I have a matchmaking rule set for 100 players. i want backfill to have high priority over creating a new session. But I'm seeing that backfill priority is for only algorithm "extensivesearch". However...

Lets say I have my own local servers which I want to use with flexmatch for matchmaking. Is this possible?