I think we might! Seems like we could run the gauntlet with this one and keep polishing it each go around.
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Yuh this is probably the deepest I've gone into fully uncharted territory for a jam! I think with a couple more days for troubleshooting we might have gotten there, but it's still not obvious to me whether the crash is something we're doing or just a Weird Unity Thing going on with the janky new ECS stuff... I think it crashes specifically when pressing the rat throw button which would point to a problem in our code, but I haven't had a chance to verify yet! 😔
Eventually I figured this out by reviewing line-by-line my implementation against the AdvancedSession's. The fix was to add a few more parameters to our FindSession query to get it to properly pick up our Steam Sessions, which seems to require the Session be classified as a Lobby:
https://github.com/mrpropellers/megajam-2023/blob/main/Source/AntiquatedFuture/S...
SessionSearch->QuerySettings.Set(SEARCH_LOBBIES, true, EOnlineComparisonOp::Equals);
SessionSearch->QuerySettings.Set(SEARCH_PRESENCE, true, EOnlineComparisonOp::Equals);
Ok yup we tried to test with someone outside our organization tonight and ran into the same thing! Switched the backend over to Steam with the 480 appID but still running into issues. Off the top of your head was there anything else you needed to do to get it to work? We keep running into something like this when attempting to FindSession:
[2023.09.26-05.27.37:243][153]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Server response IP:[random IP 1] [2023.09.26-05.27.37:244][154]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Removed incompatible build: ServerBuildUniqueId = 0x00000000, GetBuildUniqueId() = 0x019a995c [2023.09.26-05.27.37:245][154]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Server response IP:[random IP 2] [2023.09.26-05.27.37:245][154]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Removed incompatible build: ServerBuildUniqueId = 0x00000000, GetBuildUniqueId() = 0x019a995c [2023.09.26-05.27.38:831][607]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Failed to respond IP:[My - host - IP] [2023.09.26-05.27.38:871][619]LogOnlineSession: Warning: STEAM: Failed to respond IP:[random IP 3] [2023.09.26-05.27.38:873][619]LogTemp: Warning: Found 0 sessions!
Well so far we've only been able to confirm with people inside our "organization" - but my understanding is that we can support external people matchmaking with the caveat that they have to sign into Epic every time, and they need to be willing to click through a screen with a big red warning at the top like so:
Hopefully we can confirm this within the next day or two!
Thanks for recording your session! We needed a few more pairs of totally fresh eyes to catch some of these issues. We were iterating on the tutorial elements up to and even a bit past the jam deadline; it definitely could use another couple passes. I've added a little extra info to game page to hopefully clear up some of the most confusing bits.
Thanks for checking it out! Yep in our brainstorming sessions we had imagined haunting the doors would be a way to keep teens trapped in a room for a short period to maximize fear extraction before finishing them off, as well has having the exterior be hauntable as well to have a way to catch them before they escaped into the woods. They both ended up in the "nice to have" bucket though when it came time to scope for the time constraints.