After 36.00 update, other members of the UEFN Team can no longer join Edit Session from Social menu.
Earlier, when the main member had started Edit Session in UEFN, other team members were able to join by selecting the “Join Game” under the PC player in Social menu.
But now, in Social menu, the PC player is seen being in “UEFN Session”, but there’s no “JOIN GAME” button under that player, even though that player is in Edit Session.
Some more info:
Other members I tried are on XboxOne / PS5 / Android, so not platform specific
Same thing happens with two different projects, so not project specific
It happened already ~5 hours ago, so not a short-lived temporary glitch
I didn’t encounter this problem until updating to 36.00
Please select what you are reporting on:
Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Live Edit
Steps to Reproduce
Log into UEFN with an UEFN Team owner account
In UEFN, open a project and select “Launch Session”
Wait for the session to start
Remaining steps are on another device (Xbox/PS5/Android):
4) Log into Fortnite using an account that is in the same UEFN Team as the tea
5) Go to Social menu
6) Select the UEFN Team owner in Social menu
Expected Result
On the other device, there should be button “JOIN GAME” under the Team owner
Observed Result
There is no “JOIN GAME” button under the Team owner
While in the lobby with the spare account too when you launch session it only took my main account in and the spare then had to press join game before it took all lobby players in.
I can confirm this too. And it is true for Edit Sessions and also for Playtests. Before I was able to quickly join the Edit Session via Social Menu with my second account, but now after update to v36.00 there is no option for that.
If I am not in the party, there is only “Request to Join”, but when I click on it, then I have to confirm it on my first account, but nothing happens when I do that. I need to go to the main screen of a game lobby and click on a yellow button to join the map (Edit Session).
And if I am in the party already, there is nothing to click regarding joining the session. There is only red button “Leave Party” under the name of my first account that started the Edit Session. So even in this case I need to go to the main screen of a game lobby and click on a yellow button to join the map (Edit Session).
So the whole process takes much more time and more clicks then before.
Yes, makes it very difficult to test JIP features. we used to be able just “join game” with alternate accounts. So we could exit and rejoin as needed to test JIP features. Now it is very cumbersome and half the time doesnt work and I have to end the session completely and go back to lobby. Huge headaches. Please fix this ASAP. Needed for testing.
