8-Bit Shotgun + Save Point Device causes performance issues (hitches, lagspikes)

Summary

The new 8-Bit Shotgun causes freezes, lagspikes, after player’s loadout has been loaded through Save Point Device x amount of times. Causes big lag spike when damaging with the 8-Bit Shotgun.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Create a blank map
  2. Place player spawner
  3. Place item spawner with 8-Bit Shotgun
  4. Place a sentry nearby with Respawn on timer
  5. Place Save Point Device with Auto-Save on, and bind Load Player when receiving from Sentry On Eliminated.
  6. Start the session and eliminate the sentry around 20-30 times with the 8-Bit Shotgun to really make the effect noticeable.

Expected Result

Should not cause hitches/lag spikes when damaging with 8-Bit Shotgun.

Observed Result

Causes big lag spike after inventory has been loaded through save point device x amount of times. It becomes extremely noticeable after 30 reloads with the 8-Bit Shotgun.

Platform(s)

PC

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Here you see it very pronounced after 30-40x:

Additional Notes

Side note: 8-Bit Shotgun also adds points to Score, and it’s not possible to turn off, which might be annoying when using Score for eliminations or other things.

FORT-1143028 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

Here one more example that shows the hitches happen only with the 8-Bit Shotgun, it doesn’t hitch when using another weapon: