Billboards randomly not showing to Join-in-progress players

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

Billboards do not display values to all players. Join-in-progress randomly do not see values. See pictures.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Creative

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Verse

Steps to Reproduce

Add Billboards to a project. Use Verse to loop through active players in the game and use SetText and UpdateDisplay to change the Billboards value. Do this once every 10 seconds. Start a game, have other players join in progress. JIP players do not see all the values on the billboards.

Expected Result

All players should see the exact same values on the billboards.

Observed Result

All players should see the exact same values on the billboards.

Platform(s)

PC

Island Code

4480-7485-0111

Additional Notes

Pictures provided.

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Screen snips from each players perspective.

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we are seeing this as well, it’s a bummer bc that is the only way to display player names in world, as far as I can tell

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The status of FORT-788397 incident has been moved from ‘To Do’ to ‘In Progress’.

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just create a refresh function so when a player joins it refreshes what’s already on the board and the player will be apart of that and the board will update so it might get past any issues.

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I do refresh and it doesnt update the screen.

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hi
There is an example of Verse code at
【UEFN】Let’s display the score on the billboard | by Eisuke Kawano | Medium

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More info: If the value in each billboard does not change from previous refresh JIP players might not be able to see the value. It happens randomly. My fix was I changed every value (split second) during the refresh (every 15 seconds) and it solved the issue. I SetText ‘- - -’, updateDisplay and then immediately change it to value I want. This solves the problem. But it is a needless extra step. There is definitely a flaw in how BB’s get displayed to JIP players.

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Designing a new game and this is still broken in Version 32.00. Join in Progress players still cant see Billboards. Only way they display is if they are changed. Come on Epic, BIllboards been around since forever…pretty please.

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like trying to draw blood from a stone :rofl:

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I’m experiencing the same issue. The Billboard Device used purely for text is visible to some players, but completely invisible to others, and it’s mostly not displayed for players on mobile devices.

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but we keep getting new features that no one asks for, yet basic, game breaking devices make some games unplayable. These are the layups. Epic trying to make half court shots.

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i think Epic needs to be testing this stuff tbh as last big update is a prime example of what happens when no test or minimum tests are done.

I always said this bug forum/reporting/resolving is a issue

I suggested a way which is to make a team of epic staff and maybe 20 users who know the system enough to know what’s a bug/user error and they could build a relationship up and get things dealt with faster than the current method.

The tracker thing and billboard thing and map indicator/capture zone things are all still issues even having been reported months and months ago

Numerous users on the Discord would have no issue helping Epic in a private channel it wouldn’t cost anything other than trust and a chance to work by Epic

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Hi all, this is being worked on for a future update.

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thank you!