UGameplayStatics::RemovePlayer

function Engine Blueprint Since 4.0

#include "Kismet/GameplayStatics.h"

Access: public Specifiers: staticUFUNCTIONBlueprintCallable

Description

Removes a local player from the game, cleaning up their PlayerController and optionally their pawn. Used to disconnect a player in split-screen or local multiplayer.

Caveats & Gotchas

• You cannot remove the primary player (player index 0). Attempting to do so has no effect and will log a warning.
• If bDestroyPawn is false and the pawn remains in the world, nothing automatically re-possesses it — it will become an AI-controlled orphan unless you handle it manually.
• Calling this during Actor construction is flagged as unsafe in Blueprint (UnsafeDuringActorConstruction meta).

Signature

static ENGINE_API void RemovePlayer(APlayerController* Player, bool bDestroyPawn);

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Default
Player	APlayerController*	The PlayerController of the local player to remove.	—
bDestroyPawn	bool	If true, the pawn currently possessed by this controller is also destroyed.	—

Return Type

void

Example

Remove the second local player and destroy their pawn C++

APlayerController* P2 = UGameplayStatics::GetPlayerController(this, 1);
if (P2)
{
    UGameplayStatics::RemovePlayer(P2, true);
}

Version History

Introduced in: 4.0

Version	Status	Notes
5.6	stable	—

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