Multiplayer Game Development with Unreal Engine 5: Create compelling multiplayer games with C++, Blueprints, and Unreal Engine's networking features Paperback – 6 Oct. 2023

Overall, this book is very well put together and the chapters build on each other nicely. You don't have to know too much about Unreal, Blueprints or C++ to approach this book, but it certainly helps if you have experience or read around these topics first.There are 2 things stopping this from being a 5-star bible.The first is that Chapter 10 was quite buggy - The Actor instructions won't work as described (This is because a collision object is required for the previous code for Interactions to actually work) - it felt like a sloppy copy and paste job, which is not unusual for a Packt title, but spoilt what was otherwise proving to be a great exception to that rule.The bigger problem I have with this title is that the penultimate chapter (Deploying Multiplayer Games) had the potential to make this book worth it's weight in gold, alas, it was a bit of a cop-out. It explained obtaining and compiling a custom build of UE5 very well, but then proceeded to use a black project rather than grasp the nettle and use the game you've been developing in the previous 13 chapters - which is a real shame. It would have had much more real-world application and so, in the end, you do indeed get shown how to compile a server build, but it's utterly useless and doesn't demonstrate client discovery over the Internet (which would have been outstanding).If you're new to this topic, it's a worthy purchase, just don't expect to be able to ship something by the end of it.