AGameStateBase::HasBegunPlay

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.14

#include "GameFramework/GameStateBase.h"

Access: public Specifiers: virtualUFUNCTIONBlueprintCallableconst

Description

Returns true once the world has called `BeginPlay` on all actors. Replicated via `bReplicatedHasBegunPlay` so clients can query this without requiring server authority.

Caveats & Gotchas

• This reflects whether `BeginPlay` has fired world-wide, not whether a particular actor has begun play — use `AActor::HasActorBegunPlay()` for per-actor checks.
• On late-joining clients the flag arrives as a replicated bool; there is a brief window after connection before it replicates, during which this returns false even though the server has begun play.

Signature

UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category=GameState)
ENGINE_API virtual bool HasBegunPlay() const

Return Type

bool

Examples

Gate gameplay initialization until BeginPlay has fired Blueprint

Guard logic that requires BeginPlay to have fired C++

if (AGameStateBase* GS = GetWorld()->GetGameState())
{
    if (GS->HasBegunPlay())
    {
        InitializeGameplay();
    }
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.14

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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