Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Today we bring the series to a close by adding Datastores to our game to allow us to save the players progress between sessions, allowing them to purchase and select custom towers. I also make a quick fix to the map voting system from a previous episode.

RESOURCES
Roblox Docs (Wiki) create.roblox.com/docs
Roblox DevForum devforum.roblox.com

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:32 Fixing no map vote
5:00 Setting up DataStoreService
8:15 Loading Player Data
17:07 Saving Player Data
22:25 Handling Server Shutdown
27:45 Getting players chosen towers
34:18 Adding round rewards
40:32 Testing ingame
42:25 What Next?
46:43 Fighting Off The Teddy Horde
47:00 Confirming it all works
47:45 Outro

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