Feedback Be Careful with Pre-processor defined NetworkVariables

In this example code from the BossRoom sample, they have a NetworkVariable that is only there for the Editor, or if the DEVELOPMENT_BUILD flag is set (by checking that box on Build menu, presumably).

The pitfall associated with this, is if you ever have an Editor connecting with a built player without the "DEVELOPMENT_BUILD" flag, your serialization will fail because this entity existing on one and not the other creates an offset in the FastBufferReader / FastBufferWriter by the amount of bytes that it takes to serialize this.

And that... from my last few weeks experience... is a hard F***ing bug to track down.

 

thanks bro It's really so hard to figure that and that offset will break everything it's a fatal bug.