Handling Late Player Joins in Verse

When a player joins a game in progress, you don’t want them to have to wait as a spectator for a new round to start. Ideally, a new player should be able to spawn and start playing immediately. To handle this, you need to add the new player to TeamMap, subscribe to their elimination event, and grant them their first weapon.

Follow these steps to grant players weapons and subscribe to their player events when they join a game in progress.

1. Add a new method OnPlayerAdded to the team_elimination_game class. This method promotes any player that joins the game in progress to the lowest weapon tier of another player on the team.

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   |  | OnPlayerAdded(InPlayer : player) : void = |
   |  | Print("A New Player Joined!") |
   

   OnPlayerAdded(InPlayer : player) : void = Print("A New Player Joined!")

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2. Get the team for the new player using GetTeam[] and store it in a local variable Team. Retrieve the FortCharacter for that player and save it in a variable FortCharacter.

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   |  | OnPlayerAdded(InPlayer : player) : void = |
   |  | Print("A New Player Joined!") |
   |  | if: |
   |  | Team := GetPlayspace().GetTeamCollection().GetTeam[InPlayer] |
   |  | FortCharacter := InPlayer.GetFortCharacter[] |