How to add/hit a breakpoint when testing multiplayer

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  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I cannot add a breakpoint when running local server with 2+ players.

  2. What is the issue?
    I need to be able to debug multiplayer support. I can only add breakpoints when i run play on a single player in Roblox Studio. Is there a way to add breakpoints when testing/running with 2+ player mode?

  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    Did lots of searching with no answers.

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Bumped for an answer on this? Can work around this if needed, but an answer for clarity would be appreciated :slight_smile:

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Bumping this because I’m having the same problem. I’m surprised to see this isn’t a feature, especially for a multiplayer game… I would think multiplayer breakpoint debugging would be a feature…

I guess we have to resort to the old school print debugging method then.

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I’m having this issue as well. I’m testing against a race condition related to my custom leaderboard dealing with player’s swapping teams. I haven’t figured out a way to reproduce the bug in single player, so being able to use breakpoints would help me a lot.

If this feature does not exist, can someone let us know?

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Bumped once again for an answer? Could print but, printing isn’t as good for debugging, an answer for clarity would be appreciated!

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Another bump.

I keep telling myself that testing multiplayer is just that, a test, with no debugging. The breakpoints for clients are good. The stack traces reference the server code very accurately, all within the client output panels.

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Because I’ll get called necro if I leave it a couple more days, I wanted to say that since posting this I’ve twice hit breakpoints on the server when testing multiplayer. I’ve put a lot of hours in in that time and I can’t say for sure what changed. I wish I could get back all the wasted hours cleaning up debug print/log statements.

Definitely happened to me twice. Sorry I can’t say 100% solved and prove with video as of now, I’ve mostly been polishing front end effects since.

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Lol, this is the top ranking answer now I’m searching for a way to clear breakpoints from previous multiplayer test sessions. Both clients hit the same breakpoints that I’ve disabled, deleted, and restarted Roblox Studio to try and prevent.

I could put a sleep in the beginning so I can disable before they get hit, but right now, I don’t have opportunity and it causes the animations of both clients to freeze going forward.

I have to say, stubborn, undying, breakpoints in multiplayer testing is far better than no breakpoints.

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Let’s bump this please cause I need an answer I have a bug that only happens when 2+ players are in the game and not when I test only by playing