Critical: When "Join in Progress" is set to "Spawn next round" players still spawn before the next round when they join

Reference ID

4f8efb95-4835-5d70-1601-1ca4ea10b753

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Summary

When “Join in Progress” is set to “Spawn next round” players still spawn before the next round when they join, they are supposed to spectate until the next round starts, instead they spawn as soon as they join.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Set “Join in Progress” to “Spawn next round”
  2. Start a match
  3. Have another player join in progress after the round starts

Expected Result

Player joining in progress should spectate until the next round starts

Observed Result

Player joining in progress spawns right away before the next round starts

Platform(s)

windows

Island Code

3729-0643-9775 - Already did a temporary work around in this island so it cant be used for testing this bug.

The status of FORT-730208 incident has been moved from ‘Ready for QA’ to ‘Closed’. Resolution Reason: ‘Fixed’

happening to me aswell, my box pvp map is now broken because of that. I hope they fix this bug asap!

Can also confirm it has happened to some of my maps after the latest update too.

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Happening on our maps after todays update, causing a lot of issues

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Can confirm this affects a large amount of maps.

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Can also confirm this affects my maps

Unfortunately I can’t find a workaround. What kind of work around did you use to fix the problem?

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Unfortunately this completely ruined our map, no workaround can be found for maps that have spawn pads in the arena.
“we tried to disable gameplay spawn pads few seconds after the game starts and enable new spawn pads that are inside of a damage volume… but the player still spawns in the disabled spawn pads… we also tried to do damaging event for joining player… and that also didn’t seem to work… making it impossible to fix, the join in progress option is fully broken… even if you put the option to spectate… the player will still spawn”

Same problem here!

Same issue, just spent an hour trying to solve this, my map is new and thought it was a bug in my map, tried everything I could think of…then searched and found this post…ugh.

Every time there is an update…ugh

Also, if set to spectate, they join. its says “switching to spectate”, but they dont, they join.

@PrettyBoyyAM Could you explain what you did for a work around?

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