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Advanced Multiplayer Chat System

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Overview

Advanced Multiplayer Chat System adds a complete in-game text chat layer to Unreal Engine dedicated-server projects. It covers global chat across servers, per-server chat, private messages, invites and moderation, and it ships with a native client window (RWSChat) for reading and sending messages.

It is aimed at multiplayer games that run more than one dedicated server and want players to stay in contact no matter which instance they are connected to.

Features

  • Global chat - message players on other servers, not only the one you are connected to.
  • Same-server chat - talk to players on your current dedicated server.
  • Private messaging - private messages work globally between players on different servers.
  • Invites and friend requests - send game invites and friend requests through the same system.
  • Spam prevention - a cooldown between messages limits repeated spam.
  • Bad-word filtering (on/off) - filtered words are bleeped out automatically.
  • Character limit - cap message length; the default is 2048 characters.
  • Pause chat - incoming chat pauses while a player scrolls back through older messages and resumes at the newest messages.
  • Player options - clicking a player opens options to filter the client list, invite or send a private message.
  • Custom attributes - pass custom data (for example invite or friend-request information) between the global server and clients.

Requirements and dependencies

  • Engine version: Unreal Engine 4.25 through 4.27 and 5.0–5.6.
  • Current release: built against Unreal Engine 5.6; versions 5.5 and 5.4 are maintained for teams that have not moved yet.
  • This is a native Unreal Engine plugin; client and dedicated server builds are supported on Windows.
  • An Unreal Engine project with dedicated server support.
  • The global chat server component used to route cross-server chat and private messages, as described in the plugin documentation.
  • Configuration of the chat client list and chat settings during initial setup.

Documentation and support

  • Documentation: /docs
  • Support and contact: /contact
  • NextLevelPlugins Discord: https://discord.gg/nextlevelplugins

Documentation & support

Documentation

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