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UE5 MMO Devlog 85: Potions overview

By ylazarev92 June 20, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/2LR6Np7vEmQ?si=5aszKURVsEM0rMrd In this update I introduce Potions into the game. These are new 'Consumable' Item types. Potions required several considerations: how to define potion effects in scalable manner enable stacking…

UE MMO Devlog 84: Introducing new fighter/mage defensive rages

By ylazarev92 June 20, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/05IXXKQYgcM?si=741NwHpQ7f5bQeW8 Over the past few weeks, I was working on removing the kafka dependency from the custom server solution. Instead I am starting to use GRPC to communicate between nodes.…

UE MMO Devlog 83: Introducing better AoE handling

By ylazarev92 June 6, 2025MMO Game development

This is another progress update, where I added some new AoE skills and the ability to select the location for the AoE effect. In order to achieve this, I used…

UE5 Devlog 82: How to toggle selected target actor using tab by distance

By ylazarev92 April 25, 2025MMO Game development

In the previous post, we created an event listener which will allow us to select the target by clicking the target actor. https://unreal-mmo-dev.com/2025/04/25/ue5-devlog-81-how-to-add-left-right-event-click-listener-on-actor/ Now, I want to create a new…

UE5 Devlog 81: How to add left / right event click listener on actor

By ylazarev92 April 25, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/72g1ukafFMw?si=269OdFdM_I156OuM You may have noticed that you don't see native events on your actors to detect left/right click event listeners. You could consider potentially adding something like a Cylinder mesh…

UE5 Devlog 80: Introducing Party system to our MMO game

By ylazarev92 April 24, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/BNRsmbHVGdI?si=vNTXKz2NbCdw8Iut This is a short progress update video where I showcase a new Party feature for the MMO game in development. The party system will allow users to form a…

Introducing chat system to our MMO game in UE5

UE5 Devlog 79: Introducing Chat system to our MMO Game

By ylazarev92 April 16, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/rfU0_pJisQk This is another update in our MMO development journey. Now, I've added new functionality to enable players to communicate to each other using chat. For now its a very…

UE5 devlog: adding new fighter skills and a blink

EU5 Devlog 78: Added new Fighter skills and a blink to the mmo game

By ylazarev92 April 15, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/QAMvocHV2mA The game is progressing smoothly and I've started to expand the list of skills available to the players. I've now got a relatively scalable skills framework set up and…

UE5 Devlog 77: How the Talent System UI was made

By ylazarev92 April 15, 2025MMO Game development

https://youtu.be/GmMUykL7b2k In this video we took a bit a look at all of the components and widgets which were required to create the talent system in the mmo style game.…

Devlog 76: Talent system code deep dive

By ylazarev92 March 12, 2025MMO Game development

In this video, I go through some of the code supporting the talent system which is integrated with the Unreal Engine MMO game that I'm developing. The server is written…