Drop Item button works on items not in the player's inventory

Summary

The new inventory UI doesn’t appear to invalidate the selected item on drop and allows the player to continuously drop it.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Select and Drop an item
  2. Continue clicking Drop Item without selecting another item

Expected Result

The item is dropped and subsequent clicks do nothing.

Observed Result

The item is dropped and gets tossed every time Drop Item is clicked.

Platform(s)

PC

Video

Thanks for the report! This should be fixed in the next major release (38.00).

The cause of the bug was that the UI was not clearing the selected item when it was dropped or left the inventory. We will still allow DropItem to be called on items outside the player’s inventory (but not in another player’s inventory), as there are valid cases where you might want items to “drop” with animation / effects / etc in the world e.g. when an enemy is defeated or a loot chest opened.

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Love the explanation and the extra info as to why this may still be wanted :slight_smile: 10/10 for info feedback.

FORT-985564 has been ‘Closed’ as a duplicate of an existing known issue. Origin Issue: FORT-954604

FORT-954604 has been added to our ‘To Do’ list. Someone’s been assigned this task.