How to detect when a certain player is leaving the game

[AtScripterBoy (Run)]

I’ve always done

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(playerLeaving)
	if playerLeaving.UserId == ourPlayer then -- Our player is defined before this
		--// Reset of my code here
	end
end)

Is there a way like player.PlayerRemoving?

[lrisDev]

Wym thats the way to do it???

What exactly are you asking?

[LeinoxHD_YT (Leinox)]

I guess you can check if an instance inside game.Players is removed as it’s probably a player, so you can just use game.Players.ChildRemoved:Connect(function(player) end).

[Gojinhan (HashCollision)]

No. Hacky + non-idiomatic, use the method roblox provides you.

[offizen]

That’s literally the same as PlayerRemoving

[WorstSpieler (王王王)]

Sorry im bumping up this thread that was 11 months ago, but I think what he means is that if he had a player value, like:

local LocalPlayer = game.Players.LocalPlayer

LocalPlayer.Removed:Connect(function()
print(“Is there something like this that worked?”)
end)

[5uphi]

maybe the problem was that if the player leaving is the last player the server would shutdown and prevent his code from running

if that was the case then you would do this

local ourPlayer = 873294834
local stopServerFromClosing = false

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(playerLeaving)
	if playerLeaving.UserId ~= ourPlayer then return end
	stopServerFromClosing = true
	--// Reset of my code here
	stopServerFromClosing = false
end)

game:BindToClose(function()
	while stopServerFromClosing == true do
		task.wait()
	end
end)

[BobbieTrooper (Jared)]

I just wrote something simple

local plrs = game:GetService("Players")
local UserId = 107637223
plrs.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	if plr.UserId == UserId then
		print(1)
	else
		print(2)
	end
end)

[WorstSpieler (王王王)]

My apologies again, like I said, I did not mean to bump this thread, and I rather just wanted to give my support. People will be here because this is a place that helps others. Either way, you should expect people to visit because many people have similar problems that they would like to be answered. And they don’t want to make a new discussion because Roblox sends them similar forums like this.

[GOODEVER]

This is my solution by the way:

player:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Parent"):Once(function()
   print("Destroying")
end)

A player instances parent should never change in normal circumstances. so if it does you can reliable say that the player left the game.

EDIT: @700000002 Rightfully pointed out to me in private, that using :Once is preferable here instead of :Connect. Since the latter is gonna be a memory leak unless specifically disconnected.

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Quoting @700000002: “The Player is not destroyed and is instead parented outside the DataModel when leaving the game thus preserving the connection indefinitely leading to a memory leak if :Once is not instead employed”