How to Package a Dedicated Server in Unreal Engine

How to build Unreal Engine from Source: In this video, we go over how to set up and package a dedicated server for your Unreal Engine project. Dedicated servers are becoming a popular alternative to other game server options such as listen servers and peer-to-peer for multiplayer games. Dedicated servers provide many advantages over having clients partake in hosting the game such as security, reliability, fairness, and better performance. However, dedicated game server hosting involves a separate machine and program running from the client. The unreal engine game server program is somewhat different than the client program in that the server is typically headless, meaning that it doesn’t render graphics, device input, sound, and other player-oriented features because the server’s main responsibility is to use client request information to update the state of the game world and that the clients have the data required to recreate that game world while being efficient.