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How do I actually use the Initial Players on a Server?

I got all the Initial Players but I see that they are only Entities, which I cannot really use for anything. The PlayFabServerAPI does not seem to have any function that use Entities. I have tried using PlayFabProfilesAPI.GetProfiles to get the PlayFabId but to use this function I need to be logged in which will not work on a server. I might be able to use it to allow specific player onto the server when they authenticate but I am not sure of that yet.

I would really like to use it to get the profiles of the players that will be on the server so I can later send out that info to the other players and to know that this info will not change when someone reconnects until the server is initialized.

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Rick Chen avatar image Rick Chen ♦ commented ·

As far as I know, the initial players come from clients' session config when they connect to the server. You can set the playerid to be PlayFabId on client side.

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szilagyimatyas444 avatar image szilagyimatyas444 Rick Chen ♦ commented ·

Interesting, so what I have is the PlayFab Matchmaking creating a server session and when that server boots up it has a list of initial players and those seem to always be the EntityIds. Can you clarify what you mean by the client session config? I need this to work before they ever even connect to the server so I can load and cache their profiles.

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szilagyimatyas444 avatar image szilagyimatyas444 commented ·

Using the PlayFabAuthenticationAPI.GetEntityToken allows the server to use the ProfilesAPI, and GetProfiles then returns the PlayFabIds from the entities

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Infer Wang avatar image Infer Wang szilagyimatyas444 commented ·

6696-image.png Yes, you can put the player's entity in request body to get it after calling Authentication - Get Entity Token - REST API (PlayFab Authentication) | Microsoft Learn

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Dimitris-Ilias Gkanatsios answered

I assume you mean the parameter here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/playfab/multiplayer/multiplayer-server/request-multiplayer-server?view=playfab-rest

InitialPlayers is used to perform a simple validation on the player IDs that will connect to the server when it turns to Active.

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