Major Features​

• Epic Games, Discord, Twitch, and JWT authentication providers added
• Text Chat now includes a Realm chat room that spans all GameServerProxy's in the realm
• You can allow players to create custom chat rooms
• Source-code users can define a custom ticketing flow
• We introduced a "Realm contact" so players can favorite other PlayerCharacters
• Guilds/alliances can be opted-in to use scoped to realms instead of the director
• You can now have zone-specific server game data
• You can now have global director and realm data
• Introduced URedwoodPlayerStateComponent which replaces ARedwoodPlayerState to allow flexibility with other gameplay systems. ARedwoodPlayerState will continue to work until v5.0.0, but it is deprecated with a warning.

Bug Fixes​

• [RPG Template] Turned off bFollowPawn in B_OverworldPlayerState, which is the default setting; it was enabled in a prior release by accident
• [Plugins] Fixed issues with running PIE without the backend
• [Plugins] Fixed RedwoodChat compiler error for UE 5.7

Bug Fixes​

• Fixed UE sometimes crashed when stopping PIE
• Fixed UE sometimes crashed after sync items were despawned and garbage collected
• Fixed running yarn issue for Standard licensees

Major Features​

• Guilds & Alliances are a group management system you can use in game logic to determine membership
• Players can now create ephemeral Parties to stay together in queuing and matchmaking
• We now deploy a Text Chat server with Redwood with several room types
• You can automatically synchronize GAS abilities, effects, and attributes with GAS Persistence
• SendGrid no longer offers a free tier, so we added the ZeptoMail email provider
• HCP Vault was discontinued so we added many more secrets providers
• We finally support more than DigitalOcean hosting by supporting deploying to any Kubernetes cluster

Another patch to fix some minor issues in the backend!

There was no change to the Plugins or Templates in this release; just bumped the versions​

Bug Fixes​

• [Backend] Fixed packaging for macOS Dev Initiator on Apple Silicon (macOS + Intel CPUs are not supported without purchasing source code)
• [Backend] Allow spaces in your project folder (specifically fixed an issue for deploying to Kubernetes)
• [Backend] Updated the default DigitalOcean vm-type in config/node/default/deployment/kubernetes/_index.yaml

We've been listening to your feedback and have decided to make Redwood more affordable with the following changes:

• The royalty rate was halved to 2%
• Royalties are capped at $200k USD per game
• Royalties are waived for revenue earned prior to a Public Release

We also reintroduced a one-time fee Royalty-Free License for a limited time/quantity! Grab it while it's still available by contacting us.

Quick patch release to fix a few minor issues!

Bug Fixes​

• [Plugins] Fixes a compiler error related to a missing include in RedwoodGameStateComponent.cpp
• [Backend/Plugins] Fixes issue with characters spawning in the wrong location based on old zone transfer transform
• [Backend] Prevent characters from opening multiple matchmaking/queuing tickets; subsequent Join calls will be ignored if a ticket is open
• [Backend] Fix issue where endedAt columns for the various game server tables were not being populated when the server instance and/or proxy stopped
• [Backend] Fixes issue with deploying the match-function service to Kubernetes

New Features​

• We now have a Friends system! You can search for players by username or nickname, request, respond, block, and get the connection/online status of friends; the RPG Template comes with an example widget (activated via the crate interactable in-game)
• Redwood now creates an admin user by default via configuration which is automatically used by the CLI tools
• You can create normal, non-admin users from the CLI
• You can configure a default proxy for a realm and use the new create-default-proxy CLI command, which optionally can be automatically started when the backend boots up
• There's a new SetCharacterArchived function in the UE plugin and example in the RPG template for (un)archiving characters; eventually archived characters will be deleted from the DB after the configured archival period
• All Realm Instance Configs will now inherit from config/node/default/realm/instances/redwoodBase.yaml which makes creating multiple realms much easier now
• We've improved the organization of the docs and continue to regularly add more documentation

Quick patch release to fix a few minor issues!

Bug Fixes​

• [RPG Template] If you downloaded 3.0.1, there were 2 lines of code in Source/ProjectNameClient.Target.cs and Source/ProjectNameServer.Target.cs that would prevent you from opening it up in a non-source version of UE. You can ignore this is you don't have this issue.
• [Backend (Dev Initiator)] Fixed an error about not finding the "prisma" executable, introduced in 3.0.0

New Features​

• [Backend (Dev Initiator)] When running with the Dev Initiator, UE servers will now use a deterministic set of ports 7000-7099 (inclusive) which makes it easier to make firewall and port forwarding rules

We released a live playable demo of our RPG Template, so you can play with it before downloading the project yourself!

This coincides with the Redwood 3.0.1 release which fixes several bugs and is more robust 💪; checkout the full details below!