Bypass Signal Remote Cooldowns

Summary

Cooldowns on Signal Remotes can be bypassed by swapping to an item or pickaxe or different inventory slot immediately after firing either primary or secondary action.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

Have any signal remote with a cooldown via the signal remote manager device, then in game, when fired the remote immediately swap to a different item or inventory slot, including pickaxe

Expected Result

No matter what, the signal remote should have a cooldown after being fired.

Observed Result

The cooldown is bypassed, allowing the user to fire the signal remote again

Platform(s)

PC, Xbox, PS4/PS5, Switch, Mobile

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FORT-1145904’s status has changed to ‘Ready for QA’. A member of the QA department is investigating the issue.