Ask Epic Anything: Devices | July 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM EDT

I have a question about devices that require a message type variable during configuration (e.g. billboard devices).
I think that these devices are envisioned to support localization in the future.
What exactly is the logic behind this localization process that you plan to implement?

Any update on when the Melee Designer will be added back to UEFN?

Is there any plans to make it easier to stop players from getting assigned to a random team every new round? Right now many creators make complex systems that switches everyone back to their selected team every round start. You would need to do this if you have a team selection system in your first round. It is always a ton of work and difficult to make without bugs. The past few years I have seen so many creators having issues with how it switches the players to a random team each round.

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This is a great idea - instead of having to use accolade devices to check if players made it to certain areas/checks we could use a lightweight logging device that shows up in its own tab in island analytics

Vehicles in FNC/UEFN are very limited and lack compatibility with many devices. In the near future, will it be possible to use vehicles with teleporters and player spawners (for example allowing players to spawn with a vehicle on a pad, or allowing players on vehicles to both be teleported) ?
Updates of this kind would allow more complex racing and driving games, with easy-to-setup checkpoint and respawn systems.

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Currently it can be a little tricky to figure out why a device function has failed. Is it possible to make functions failable? I would like to be able to catch if a function fails so that I can handle the error appropriately. Also, will we eventually be able to see why a function failed and get some sort of error context back?

Do you have any plans to bring creative 2.0 to consoles? I’ve been wanting to use the new system but I only have an Xbox.

If it is planned, could we get a estimate on when it will release?

Will the security cameras and turrets from chapter 2 season 2 ever be added to creative?

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Hello! I have a question that would heavily impact how my map works: Will the Save Point Device only save things like the states of Switch Devices as on Creative 1.0 or will it also be possible to save variables that are made with Verse coding? Thanks for your answer.

is there any plans to customize weapons in 1.0 to for example, change the weapon’s name and damage?

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Will we eventually be able to use all existing Fortnite Outfits for the Character Device and Guard Device, specifically in Fortnite Creative? UEFN already has this functionality, but it’s disallowed or whatever. This would certainly help for more creativity with NPCs, as being limited to a very small selections of Outfits is, well, limiting.

Edit: To expand on Guard improvements, will we finally get more weapons and weapon rarities for Guards to use?

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Regarding the guard spawner, are there any plans to attach more weapons to the device and skins?

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Are we going to get source code in Verse for devices?

Will we be able to subclass devices in the future?

Can the Color Changing Tile device have an on-damage-taken event added to it?

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Will there be Boss device and will it have the Caretaker?

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Would we in the near future ever be getting bigger islands and more islands to choose from?

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Do you like OnlyUp map ? Nice i plan to build the higher one to arrive on the moon at 344.400Km via UEFN. I discover that after 2000M device (like trigger, button, etc) doesn’t work anymore with streaming on !!!

Do you know this limit ?

Leaderboad device to show best players for a map. Today several creatore make It manually managing a lot of update. Will be nice to have a dedicated device storing data and showing leaderboad list (time, kill etc)

What do you think about ?

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There is currently no device that can affect server ping, right? I noticed my ping is much higher as I got closer to the memory cap. Hoping this isn’t related to devices but just the servers themselves.

Can you add simple flexible AI logic to the guards? A lot of strategy games could benefit from guards standing still when shooting instead of moving around.

Wen save device on 2.0

What kind of devices can we expect in the very near future, generally speaking.

Question for everyone!

What have you seen a creator do with Fortnite devices that really made you think? or something you’ve seen done that wasn’t an imagined use case?

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