Chair device traps players by default on PC (Unmount is set to Unbound by default)

Summary

I reported this a while ago, mainly because I wanted the default to be never be “unbound”. Not sure if this is addressed in new accounts, but I can easily assume that thousands of existing PC accounts that played Fortnite before the chair device was introduced now have their Dismount key set to “Unbound” and its impossible for a player to find where the key can be bound as the settings do not directly tell you about chair devices specifically.

I can’t use this device in our maps in fear that it will trap players that don’t have the exit chair key bound to a key, or know how to find it.

This has to be interact key if unbound (or allow us to add that as with a toggle on the device “set exit key as interact”) then the exit key on the legend on the left is also shown as interact key.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

Place down a chair device
Load live edit and start game
Sit on the chair

Expected Result

Player can exit chair on all accounts (regardless their age) and all platforms using a key shown to the left

Observed Result

Dismount key shows as “Unbound” and player cannot exit the chair, being trapped and having to exit the map completely. Keyboard Bindings options page doesn’t mention which it is to “dismount” chairs specifically.

Platform(s)

PC

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This is addressed in new accounts, dismount is bound on keyboards and controllers. I’ll bring your concern about older accounts to the team, but we haven’t heard much about this since August of last year.

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Even if that’s the case (binds on new accounts), there are a ton of players that are still experiencing this and potentially will leave our games without caring to bother to bind the key, especially if it’s as hard to find as it is now.

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FORT-860769 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

I observed it too. It says unbound in hud when sitting but in my case it is a ui bug, because I can leave the chair. I have never manually assigned different buttons.

Sometimes car radio is unbound and it doesn’t work.

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