Changelog.

This week we shipped our new Base and Hero Class System, as well as the long anticipated Economy System.

Web Console

Changes

• Our new Base and Hero Class System has launched, with a much improved UI. Find it in the Console under Systems.
• Economy has been launched. This also brings a fresh new UI for managing your games Economy and Currencies. Find it in the Console under Content.

Unity SDK

Changes

• Economy - LootLocker's economy system is released 🎉 With this you can now create virtual currencies, in game economies, and so much more. Read more in our blog post announcing the release.

Bug Fixes

• The LootLocker Editor extension that shipped in v1.2.6 had a few bugs that have now been fixed.
  • Primarily, the build error for a rouge [HideInEditor] decorator has been fixed
  • Adding the SDK from github url should now work
• The new flag on messages is fixed

Unreal SDK

Changes

• Economy - LootLocker's economy system is released 🎉 With this you can now create virtual currencies, in game economies, and so much more. Read more in our blog post announcing the release.
• Improved Errors - The way that LootLocker tells you what's wrong has changed. Instead of the Response.Error field there's now a structure: Response.ErrorData that contains some more valuable information. Read more here: https://docs.lootlocker.com/reference/error-codes
• Exposed method CreateHeroWithVariation to Blueprints
• Added ability to equip global asset with the default variation for heroes
• Added Public_UID to the authentication responses

Bug Fixes

• Fixed build problems for Unreal Engine 5.3 when packaging for Linux

Game API

Changes

• The Game API of course benefits from the new Economy System, allowing you to use virtual currencies, in game economies and so much more. Read more in our blog post announcing the release.

Server API

Changes

• The Server API of course also benefits from the new Economy System, allowing you to use virtual currencies, in game economies and so much more. Read more in our blog post announcing the release.

Admin API

Changes

• The Admin API of course also supports the new Economy System, allowing you to create virtual currencies, in game economies and so much more. Read more in our blog post announcing the release.

Web Console

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with not being able to view players using the legacy Google platform

Unity SDK

Changes

• GetProgressionTier - You can now get the tiers in a progression!
• Admin extension - If you're using Unity 2021 or newer, look at a new way to manage API Keys inside Unity! You can find it under Tools/LootLocker/Menu on the top of Unity!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the MacFsWatcher include error
• Errors return correctly again

Unreal Engine

Changes

LootLocker Unreal SDKs now support Unreal Engine 5.3 🎉

Web Console

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the price on assets could be hidden by mistake in a situation where it should be shown.

Game API

Bug Fixes

• A bug was fixed which had caused duplicate white label users to be created. The duplicate users have been removed, but this means some white label users who changed their password, might have the wrong password on their user now.

Admin API

Changes

• Added thumbnails to response for Hero default loadout.
• Added character class name, exception count and default loadout to Hero List endpoint response.

Web Console

Changes

• Users will be asked to confirm their game name on game deletion as an extra precaution

Unity SDK v1.2.5

Changes

• Meta/Oculus - Added support for authentication using Meta/Oculus
• Last active authentication - You can now query the SDK through GetLastActivePlatform() to see which authentication method was last used on this device
• Heroes - The SDK now supports interaction with the hero feature.
• List Player Characters - A new method to list all the characters that a player has
• Improved error messages - We are revamping how we deal with error messages (See https://docs.lootlocker.com/reference/error-codes) and the SDK now supports this structure. This means that the old Error data (response.Error) has been deprecated, the same data now lives inside the field response.errorData.message. Along with it, you now have the new fields code, doc_url, request_id, and trace_id for improved ability to find the fix for your problem.

Unreal SDK v2.0.11

Changes

• Multiple Google Platforms - Google sign in now supports signing in from different google platforms.
• Last active authentication - You can now query the SDK through GetLastActivePlatform() to see which authentication method was last used on this device
• Meta/Oculus - Added support for authentication using Meta/Oculus
• Obfuscation - The SDK now obfuscates sensitive data before logging
• List Player Characters - A new method to list all the characters that a player has

Bug Fixes

• Replace the game key with the Session Token in custom headers

Unreal Server SDK

Changes

• Support for UE 4.24 and up - LootLockerServerSDK now supports all Unreal versions from 4.24 to 5.2
• Asset instance progressions - You can now use progressions on asset instances
• Diagnostics data added to request headers.

Bug Fixes

• Guest player lookup now uses the correct search term
• Hero methods use the correct HTTP methods
• HTTP Client is only created once

Web Console

Changes

• Our new pricing is released, and you can now see it in the console! You can read more about it here: https://lootlocker.com/blog/new-pricing-2023

Bug Fixes

• You can once again delete Server API keys in the console.
• The colors for the player list environment pill now follow the same color scheme as the rest of the console.
• Fixed an issue where Data Entities couldn’t be deleted

Game API

Changes

• We have improved the performance and reliability of session registration for Sign in with Apple and Google Sign In.

Web Console

Changes

• You can now choose which of your Asset Image Types to use as a thumbnail in the LootLocker Console! Go here to set it up: https://console.lootlocker.com/assets/settings/image-types

Game API

Changes

• A large rework of Player Storage has been completed this week, resulting in much better performance and stability. We did have a few issues immediately surrounding the launch of this as some of you might have noticed. These have been resolved and everything is running smoothly now!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where promoting asset candidates with thumbnails attached, would not work for some games.

Admin API

Changes

• Added the ability to mark an Asset Image Type as thumbnail, resulting in thumbnail images being returned in the Admin API.

Web Console

Changes

• We have introduced Access Control which allows you to control which users have access to which features. This is a feature that has been requested by many of you and we are happy to finally be able to provide it. You can find it in the Game Settings page. You can also read more about it here: https://lootlocker.com/blog/access-control
• Updated the side menu for Assets, moving Contexts from Game Settings to the Asset menu
• Improved the Add Asset menu, making it possible to create Contexts when creating new Assets
• Users can update their name in settings

Admin API

Changes

• Added support for Access Control

Documentation

Our documentation has seen various updates and improvements these last few weeks, including:

• Updated screenshots for the Web Console
• Updated and improved examples for both Unreal Blueprints, C++ and Unity
• We have added a section on getting help: https://docs.lootlocker.com/support/getting-help

Game API

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue related to White Label Login, where enabling “Block Unverified Players” would not function correctly, causing player to not be prevented from logging in. It now works as intended.