The Unreal Engine is a game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter game Unreal. Although primarily developed for first-person shooters, it has been successfully used in a variety of other genres, including stealth, MMORPGs, and other RPGs.
Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) is the latest version of the award-winning Unreal Engine technology that brings high-fidelity experiences to PC, console, mobile, VR and AR platforms.
As a developer you have access to complete C++ source code for all your UE4 games and projects. This means you can modify or extend any part of the engine to suit your needs. You can even reuse code from your own projects as well as use code from other developers in their projects!
Ue4 Connect To Dedicated Server
There is no way to connect to a dedicated server from the UE4 client. The server targets are not currently supported from this engine distribution.
The only way to connect to a dedicated server at the moment is through a command line interface.
You can connect to your dedicated server with any Terminal Emulator (Tera Term, Putty, etc.).
UE4 Linux Dedicated Server
UE4 Linux Dedicated Server is a pre-configured server that can be run on a Raspberry Pi, or other similar devices. It is currently available for Linux distribution only.
The following are some of the key features of UE4 Linux Dedicated Server:
UE4 Linux Dedicated Server does not require any installation on your system. Just download the zip file from https://ue4devs.com/downloads/ and extract it to any folder of your choice. You will find a LaunchServer script in that folder which can be used to start the dedicated server.
The LaunchServer script accepts multiple command line arguments which can be used to specify different configurations for running the dedicated server (e.g., startup map). The following are some of the most commonly used arguments: -startupmap <map name> – This argument specifies the name of the map to load when starting up the dedicated server. -port <integer> – This argument specifies the port number on which to run the dedicated server (e.g., 27015). If left blank, it uses whatever port was last used by this particular instance of UE4 Linux Ded
UE4 Connect to Dedicated Server
Unreal Engine 4.19 added support for server targets, which is a way to run servers on the cloud or on dedicated hardware. We have been working hard to bring this feature to UE5.0 as well!
The current version of UE5 comes with a Linux distro that can be used as a dedicated server (more details here). However, there are some limitations:
The command-line interface is not available, so you cannot run commands like “start” or “stop”.
You cannot target a specific game build using the -build= parameter in the command-line.
UE4’s Steam Dedicated Server is a feature that allows you to run your game server from within the Steam client. This means that you can start and stop your server from within the Steam library.
To use this feature:
1. Make sure that your UE4 project is set to use the latest version of UE4 (currently 4.17). You can do this by going to File > Project Settings > Engine Version, and selecting “Use Version From Steam”.
2. Download and install the latest steamcmd release for Windows or Linux from here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steamcmd.
3. Run the following commands in a terminal window on your machine:
cd <Your Project Directory>
./steamcmd +login anonymous +force_install_dir ../MyProject +app_update 257850 +exit
The SteamOS distribution of Unreal Engine 4 is not supported on the Linux dedicated server. If you are attempting to run a game server using this distribution, you will get an error message like:
UE4Linux Dedicated Server [Engine] A server target is not currently supported from this engine distribution
UE4Linux Dedicated Server [Engine] Server targets are not currently supported from this engine distribution
UE4Linux Dedicated Server [Engine] A server target is not currently supported from this engine distribution
UE4Linux Dedicated Server [Engine] Server targets are not currently supported from this engine distribution
The SteamOS Steam client and the SteamCMD command line tool both use different versions of the Unreal Engine than what comes with your Unreal Engine 4 license. The version of UE4 that comes with your license is designed for Windows only and does not support anything other than Windows as a target platform.
There are currently known issues with dedicated servers for UE4 on Linux.
The server targets are not currently supported from this engine distribution.
If you have any other questions or concerns related to this issue, please submit a ticket to our Support Portal: https://support.epicgames.com/
UE4.23 is currently not supported from this engine distribution. This means that if you wish to use dedicated servers, you will need to download the 4.23 source code and build it yourself using the instructions in the UE4 documentation.
The Steam build server does not support Linux at this time.
Ue4 dedicated server is not supported on linux.
I have tried to install it on a debian 9 machine, but I could not get it to work.
The engine distribution does not include the game source files, and therefore cannot be built from source.
You can build the engine from source, but you would need to modify your build settings to include ue4/content and use the linux dedicated server binary in order to get this working.
While we would love to support UE4 Linux, Unreal Engine 4 does not currently have a Linux client. This means that the Linux server is simply running the Windows client and using the same game files as a regular Windows server.
The only way to get around this would be for Epic Games to release a Linux client, but they have no plans to do so.
The same goes for dedicated servers for Unreal Engine 5, as there is no dedicated server support in that engine yet either.