Guard devices do not save changes

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Reference ID

82862910-43bd-059b-5c51-f5b65379bd5c

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Summary

Guard devices many times will not save changes made to the device. Even if the device visually shows the change the device behaves as if it has not been changed. I think this only happens when you switch to a different skin other than the default Shadow.

Steps to Reproduce

Place a guard device. Switch to the Ghost skin. Set different settings for the device. Make copies of the device. Make changes to those devices (leave on Ghost). Play session and then stop and make more changes and push changes. After a point the changes stop working. Even if the device shows the change. Switching back to Shadow will sometimes fix issue.

Expected Result

Guard device should work as the settings are shown and set.

Observed Result

Guard devices many times will not honor the settings that the user has set.

Platform(s)

windows

Island Code

3938-8715-8617

Additional Notes

I know at least one other person who has documented similar issues with the guard device. This code is the one where I really noticed the issue and spent the entire morning troubleshooting it. I have since switched all the guards to the Shadow skin to remedy.

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I’m seeing the same exact thing. I have a simple map I’m playing with where I wanted to spawn a guard when a button is interacted with.

I made a guard spawner with “Guard Team Option” set to “Team Wildlife & Creatures” plus “Guard Type” to “Random”. When I push changes, it defaults the “Guard Team Option” back to “Team Index”. The guard spawned ends up on the same team as my player, and I’m unable to damage them.

Strangely enough setting the same guard spawner to “Guard Type” “Shadow” did fix the problem. When I pushed changes it registered the correct “Guard Team Option”.

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Yeah, this can be really frustrating!

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Experiencing the same. In fact when placing them in UEFN they aren’t even showing up in game. I am having to place them in Creative to even make them appear.

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