Ambient Occlusion disabled on UEFN and Creative maps on Nintendo Switch 2

Summary

Ambient Occlusion is missing in Creative and UEFN maps on Nintendo Switch 2, this was broken in v40.00 and removed in v40.30

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

Open an island, place props, observe lighting

Alternatively, opening any map in discovery and observing the lighting should reveal that there is no Ambient Occlusion

Expected Result

The map should have Ambient Occlusion

Observed Result

The map does not have Ambient Occlusion

Platform(s)

Nintendo Switch 2 (docked only)

Additional Notes

This is a global issue! but it very much affects creative and especially UEFN maps leading to odd and unintentional lighting in maps not designed to Ambient Occlusion turned off, especially because the Nintendo Switch 2s lighting was not designed to have this turned off!

FORT-1110962 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.