Unreal Engine 5 First Person Shooter Course (Multiplayer)

About Course

The ultimate Unreal Engine 5 first person shooter course

Unreal Engine 5 First Person Shooter is a complete beginner-friendly course that teaches you how to make a FPS game with full multiplayer functionality—no coding required. Using Unreal Engine’s powerful Blueprint system, you’ll create your own multiplayer first person shooter inspired by games like Counter-Strike.

Learn how to make a FPS game with multiplayer – even if you are new

You don’t need any prior experience to start. This course walks you through how to create a FPS game in UE5 from an empty project. Whether you’re a game developer, artist, designer, or hobbyist, you’ll gain all the skills to build a fully functional shooter.

Use Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints to create a full fps shooter game from scratch, including:

Character creation, movement, and animation using the Enhanced Input system
Weapon systems: equip, drop, shoot, reload pistols and rifles
Inventory with drag-and-drop functionality
Health, armor, and player damage systems
Player spawns and death, team selection, and winning conditions
Level design, lighting, and performance optimization
Game user interface with avatars and overlays

You’ll also receive the full finished project to explore and build upon.

Build your own Unreal Engine 5 FPS with easy, step-by-step follow-along tutorials:

Making a multiplayer game in Unreal Engine 5 has never been easier. From beginner to advanced, you will learn basic to advanced concepts from the ground up with clear, follow-along Unreal Engine 5 tutorials and practical examples. By the end, you’ll know exactly how to create a FPS game and feel confident building your own Unreal Engine FPS for portfolio or commercial release.

Taught by a professional Unreal Engine game developer

With 9 years of experience, I’ve released a full Steam game, created 11+ courses for over 40,000 students (average rating: 4.8+), and am currently developing. Farmtale 2. I specialize in Unreal Engine blueprint visual scripting, lighting, game optimization, and more. This course is built on real-world experience.

Join a thriving and friendly game developer community on Discord

Get 24/7 support on our dedicated Discord server by clicking here. Share your progress, ask questions, and get inspired by other creators like yourself.

Enroll now and bring your shooter to life.

Want to expand your skills?

If you’re curious about 2D games, dive into How to Make a Platformer Game in Unreal Engine 5 (2D). You’ll master essential mechanics like jumping, double-jumping, and moving platforms—all designed to help beginners create their very first polished platformer!

How to make an Unreal Engine 5 first-person shooter with multiplayer.
How to add character movement and animation.
How to equip, drop, pick-up, shoot and reload weapons from pistols to rifles.
How to create a complete inventory system with drag and drop functionality.
How to deal damage, including health and armor.
How to design levels from scratch from materials to lighting.
How to spawns and respawns players after death.
How to add team selection with winning conditions.
How to create and display user interfaces from avatars to overlay of game elements.
How to create and add visual and audio effects.

Course Content

01. Introduction

02. Environment Creation

03. Player Movement

3.01 Importing the Characters

02:56
3.02 Parent & Child Blueprint Classes

04:53
3.03 Setting up the Character

08:31
3.04 Game Mode & Player Controller

04:58
3.05 Input Mapping Context

05:14
3.06 Adding the Input Mapping Context

05:13
3.07 Blueprint Interface

06:53
3.08 Player Movement

07:07
3.09 Importing the Player Animations

03:27
3.10 Creating IK Rigs

06:58
3.11 Creating an IK Retargeter

06:49
3.12 Fixing the Hands

05:40
3.13 Retargeting the Animations

04:36
3.14 Introduction to Blend Spaces

03:35
3.15 Unarmed Blend Spaces

08:40
3.16 Introduction to Animation Blueprints

03:53
3.17 Movement Speed & Direction

07:47
3.18 Multiplayer Crouch Input

02:34
3.19 Multiplayer Crouch Function

11:54
3.20 Crouching Animation Blueprint

07:29
3.21 Variable Replication

03:08
3.22 Animation Smoothing

02:46
3.23 Multiplayer Walk

06:00
3.24 Walking Animation Blueprint

04:46
3.25 Multiplayer Jump

04:59
3.26 Jumping Animation Blueprint

07:37
3.27 Introduction to Enumerations

02:47
3.28 Switching Movement Variables to Enums

10:46
3.29 Switching the Animation Transition Rules

06:08
3.30 Fixing the Player Size

03:54
3.31 Setting the Movement Speed

08:18

04. Player Aim

4.01 Aim Offset Blend Space

02:04
4.02 Preparing the Aim Offset Animations

04:56
4.03 Adding Animation to the Aim Offset

02:31
4.04 Calculating the Aim Direction

05:47
4.05 Adding the Aim Offset

02:19
4.06 Adding Player Camera to Head

06:27
4.07 Hiding the Player Model Head

03:10
4.08 Adding a Third Person Mesh

03:04
4.09 Camera & FPS Smoothing

04:04

05. Player Movement Improvements

5.01 Adjusting Movement Speed

02:38
5.02 Adjusting Animation Speed

10:14
5.03 Fixing the Camera Wall Clipping

05:50
5.04 Fixing the Jumping Crouch

06:01
5.05 Fixing the Remaining Crouch Bugs

01:07
5.06 Preparing the Footsteps SFX

05:27
5.07 Timer by Event

06:51
5.08 Multicast Replication

09:17
5.09 Footsteps SFX Conditions

13:03

06. Spawn System

6.01 Placing the Spawn Points

05:53
6.02 Storing Spawn Point Information

08:07
6.03 Importing the UI Assets

04:21
6.04 Importing a Custom Font

02:54
6.05 Introduction to Widget Blueprints

05:26
6.06 Displaying the Team Selection UI

12:32
6.07 Dynamic UI Size for All Screen Sizes

05:13
6.08 Designing the Team Selection UI

21:24
6.09 Button Sound Effects

03:05
6.10 How to Spawn Actors

07:19
6.11 Player Spawn Location

05:32
6.12 Game Mode Blueprint Interface

02:15
6.13 Finishing the Team Selection Logic

05:08
6.14 Spawning the Player

04:27
6.15 Setting the Input Mode

03:14
6.16 Placing a Spectator Camera

05:41

07. Pistol & Rifle Animations

7.01 Pistol Blend Spaces

05:50
7.02 Rifle Blend Spaces

03:58
7.03 Pistol Aim Offsets

02:23
7.04 Rifle Aim Offsets

02:14
7.05 Blend Poses By Bool

04:15
7.06 Blend Poses By Enum

05:53
7.07 Pistol Animation Blueprint

03:05
7.08 Rifle Animation Blueprint

02:20
7.09 Finalizing the Animation Blueprint

06:38

08. Equipping & Dropping Weapon

8.01 Importing the Weapon Assets

03:16
8.02 Setting up the Weapon

05:50
8.03 Enabling Physics

04:03
8.04 Replicating Actors

01:22
8.05 Weapon Overlap

04:34
8.06 Setting the Weapon Type

02:31
8.07 Checking if Player Has the Weapon

04:09
8.08 Looting the Weapon

11:17
8.09 Creating the Weapon Socket

10:00
8.10 Creating the Remaining Sockets

05:51
8.11 Attaching Weapon to Hand

14:05
8.12 Attaching Weapons to Back

10:58
8.13 Overlapping Two Weapons at Once

13:33
8.14 Creating the Weapon Structure

05:08
8.15 Creating the Weapon Data Table

09:10
8.16 Using the Function Library

08:03
8.17 Adding the Weapon Name

03:08
8.18 Replacing the WeaponType Variable

05:03
8.19 Drop Weapon Input Action

02:02
8.20 Drop Weapon Logic

04:48
8.21 Drop Weapon Rep Notify

09:51
8.22 Resetting the Rep Notify Value

06:18
8.23 Weapon Interaction Boolean

05:25
8.24 Removing Interaction from Dropping Player

07:07
8.25 Weapon Player Interaction Improvement

08:03
8.26 Looting Weapon with Keyboard Key

16:58
8.27 Setting the Equipped Item Type Correctly

02:28
8.28 Fixing the Looting “Accessed None” Error

05:18
8.29 Cleaning up the Code

13:04
8.30 Fixing a Small Replication Issue

07:22

09. Weapon Switching

9.01 Weapon Switching Input Actions

02:11
9.02 Weapon Switching Logic

07:47
9.03 Equip and Unequip Weapon RepNotify

04:47
9.04 Equipping Secondary Weapon

02:30
9.05 Creating Animation Montages

02:04
9.06 Adjusting the Animation Blueprint

04:37
9.07 Equip Animation Multicast

05:59
9.08 Setting up the Weapon Display Widget

02:41
9.09 Designing the Weapon Display UI

06:09
9.10 Displaying the Weapon Display UI

04:05
9.11 Coding the Weapon Display Functionality

06:02
9.12 Adding Weapon Thumbnail to Structure

08:26
9.13 Unequipped Weapon UI Opacity

05:21
9.14 Adding Equip Sound Effects

08:15

10. Weapon Shooting

10.01 Creating the Crosshair UI

03:09
10.02 Displaying the Crosshair

02:52
10.03 Adding Weapon Properties to Structure

01:11
10.04 Shoot Weapon Input Action & Structure

08:41
10.05 Creating the Weapon Shot Timer

18:21
10.06 Line Trace By Channel

13:21
10.07 Adjusting the Player Collision Settings

08:31
10.08 Creating the Muzzle Flash Sockets

02:35
10.09 Shooting VFX & SFX

06:26
10.10 Preventing Shooting During Equip Anim

05:56
10.11 Creating the Ammo UI

06:04
10.12 Setting the Initial Weapon Ammo Amount

06:37
10.13 Creating the Ammo UI Logic

04:52
10.14 Update Ammo UI

05:02
10.15 Hide Ammo UI

06:03
10.16 Calculating Ammo

06:20
10.17 Reload Weapon Animation

05:20
10.18 Reload Weapon Functionality

11:27
10.19 Shooting Conditions

07:31
10.20 Reload Weapon With Keyboard Key

05:48
10.21 Reload Weapon on Weapon Switching

03:31
10.22 Adding Pistol Shooting

03:06
10.23 Stopping Shoot VFX on Weapon Switching

07:13
10.24 Shooting Animation

13:52
10.25 Out of Ammo SFX

07:45
10.26 Bullet Impact VFX & SFX

22:02
10.27 Bullet Spread

05:39
10.28 Placing the Weapons Correctly

05:14

11. Health, Armor & Damage

11.01 Designing the Health & Armor UI

12:01
11.02 Applying Damage

09:33
11.03 Player Info Structure

01:46
11.04 Player Info Data Table

05:08
11.05 Setting the Base Health & Armor

04:45
11.06 Health & Armor UI Functionality

05:08
11.07 Updating the Health & Armor UI

04:09
11.08 Dealing Damage to Health

04:23
11.09 Dealing Damage to Armor

05:13
11.10 Preventing Looting Multiple Rifles

05:43

12. Death & Respawn

13. Team Score

13.01 Designing the Score UI

06:18
13.02 Designing the Team Win UI

02:18
13.03 Score and Team Win UI Functionality

05:38
13.04 Keeping Track of Alive Players

07:07
13.05 Keeping Track of Dead Players

03:09
13.06 Keeping Track of All Spawned Players

01:40
13.07 Checking the Amount Of Living Players

06:03
13.08 Team Win Announcement

13:17
13.09 Adding the Team Score

07:34
13.10 Respawning the Players

04:28

14. Game Improvements

14.01 Adding Impulse on Weapon Drop

04:46
14.02 Improving the Weapon Weight

03:12
14.03 Removing Reload SFX on Weapon Drop

05:46
14.04 Adding Team Announcement Win SFX

05:47
14.05 Adding Enemy Hit Indicator

08:28
14.06 Adding Ambience SFX

02:10
14.07 Removing Mag When Reloading

09:21
14.08 Fixing Reload Bug on Weapon Switching

03:28
14.09 What Now?

02:04

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Sehr gut und verständlich erklärt und ein tolles Projekt, hat richtig spaß gemacht.
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About Course

The ultimate Unreal Engine 5 first person shooter course

Learn how to make a FPS game with multiplayer – even if you are new

Use Unreal Engine 5 Blueprints to create a full fps shooter game from scratch, including:

Build your own Unreal Engine 5 FPS with easy, step-by-step follow-along tutorials:

Taught by a professional Unreal Engine game developer

Join a thriving and friendly game developer community on Discord

Want to expand your skills?

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

01. Introduction

02. Environment Creation

2.06 Lighting the Environment

2.07 Environment Optimization Tips

03. Player Movement

3.01 Importing the Characters

3.02 Parent & Child Blueprint Classes

3.03 Setting up the Character

3.04 Game Mode & Player Controller

3.05 Input Mapping Context

3.06 Adding the Input Mapping Context

3.07 Blueprint Interface

3.08 Player Movement

3.09 Importing the Player Animations

3.10 Creating IK Rigs

3.11 Creating an IK Retargeter

3.12 Fixing the Hands

3.13 Retargeting the Animations

3.14 Introduction to Blend Spaces

3.15 Unarmed Blend Spaces

3.16 Introduction to Animation Blueprints

3.17 Movement Speed & Direction

3.18 Multiplayer Crouch Input

3.19 Multiplayer Crouch Function

3.20 Crouching Animation Blueprint

3.21 Variable Replication

3.22 Animation Smoothing

3.23 Multiplayer Walk

3.24 Walking Animation Blueprint

3.25 Multiplayer Jump

3.26 Jumping Animation Blueprint

3.27 Introduction to Enumerations

3.28 Switching Movement Variables to Enums

3.29 Switching the Animation Transition Rules

3.30 Fixing the Player Size

3.31 Setting the Movement Speed

04. Player Aim

4.01 Aim Offset Blend Space

4.02 Preparing the Aim Offset Animations

4.03 Adding Animation to the Aim Offset

4.04 Calculating the Aim Direction

4.05 Adding the Aim Offset

4.06 Adding Player Camera to Head

4.07 Hiding the Player Model Head

4.08 Adding a Third Person Mesh

4.09 Camera & FPS Smoothing

05. Player Movement Improvements

5.01 Adjusting Movement Speed

5.02 Adjusting Animation Speed

5.03 Fixing the Camera Wall Clipping

5.04 Fixing the Jumping Crouch

5.05 Fixing the Remaining Crouch Bugs

5.06 Preparing the Footsteps SFX

5.07 Timer by Event

5.08 Multicast Replication

5.09 Footsteps SFX Conditions

06. Spawn System

6.01 Placing the Spawn Points

6.02 Storing Spawn Point Information

6.03 Importing the UI Assets

6.04 Importing a Custom Font

6.05 Introduction to Widget Blueprints

6.06 Displaying the Team Selection UI

6.07 Dynamic UI Size for All Screen Sizes

6.08 Designing the Team Selection UI

6.09 Button Sound Effects

6.10 How to Spawn Actors

6.11 Player Spawn Location

6.12 Game Mode Blueprint Interface

6.13 Finishing the Team Selection Logic