A Postmortem on Implementing AutoPlay in UE4

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Implements a non-AI fixed-path AutoPlay for UE4.17.2 that reads plain text coordinate-and-button files recorded by a simple recorder, runs on PS4/Xbox One Dev kits, and drives players between waypoints while replicating inputs, executing commands, looping and retrying; development takes ~2 months plus 1 month to reach feature complete, data ends up as 20 data files with ~400 revisions, the runtime handles 31 States and bug checks (Kill‑Z, >5 minute travel, total time) and yields ~900 work-days of automated runs and PGO data.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:53Contents
3. 1:25Introductions
4. 2:53Automation 1. Data Updating
5. 3:17QA/QC
6. 6:40Automation 3. System Management
7. 7:37AutoPlay Introduction: Example 1
8. 11:11AutoPlay Objective 1
9. 12:56AutoPlay Objective 2
10. 13:44AutoPlay System Overview! Recorder
11. 15:14AutoPlay System Overview: Recorder
12. 17:14AutoPlay Objective 4
13. 18:08AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Movement)
14. 20:02AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (State)
15. 22:01AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Spedal Situations)
16. 22:40AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Special Situations)
17. 24:24AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Bug Detection & Tagging)
18. 24:44AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Battle)
19. 25:49AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (PGO Battle)
20. 26:23AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Other Features)
21. 27:11AutoPlay System Overview: AutoPlay (Launching)
22. 27:45AutoPlay System Overview: List
23. 29:09AutoPlay Objective 5
24. 29:52AutoPlay Implementation Costs
25. 31:26AutoPlay Operations: Workflow
26. 32:58AutoPlay Operations: VCS Rules
27. 33:54AutoPlay Results Usages 2
28. 35:13AutoPlay Results Usages: Summary
29. 36:42AutoPlay Results Bottlenecks
30. 37:54AutoPlay Results Future Improvements 1
31. 38:36AutoPlay Results Future Improvements 2

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