Guard's set to team "neutral" are aggressive for seemingly no reason

Summary

Before version 39.30, guards set to team “neutral” would remain neutral to a player unless provoked (attacked, etc.) Now, guards on team “neutral” will attack the player even when no action to provoke the guard has been committed.

Also note: I also have “allow hire conversation” checked. The second screenshot shows the “conversation/NPC” icon on the minimap even when the guard is attacking.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Place a guard spawner
  2. Set team to “neutral”
  3. Start game
  4. Peacefully approach the guard
  5. See the guard is alerted/aggressive with a “?” or “!”

Expected Result

Guards set to team “neutral” should be neutral unless provoked

Observed Result

Guards set to team “neutral” are always alerted/aggressive

Platform(s)

All

Island Code

2843-9957-1902

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I would also like to add that this glitch only appears in playtests, and published version. It does not appear in edit sessions and creative 1.0.

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Same issue its pretty severe, i use a lot of these as background actors or even as npc’s to talk to i need to erase most and replace some with characer devices

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thanks for posting this. I went to hire someone and they murdered me.
Casey Ownz! TMNT Hockey 0511-3500-6206 by valleydweller - Fortnite

Same happens to me, also they don’t seem to spawn in on timers correctly, or at all at times. Seems fine when I playtest but as soon as published/private they behalf this way.

I just noticed this too in one of my maps where I have a lot of Guards set to be Neutral, so it is changing dynamic of the map by really ruining the gameplay.

Epic, please, fix it soon.

I had the same problem, thanks for the post.

FORT-1045331 is now ‘In Progress’! Our team is actively working on it!

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Thanks, can you give us an heads up when its fixed? We can only check by publishing and i rather dont publish broken games

Any update for when this might be fixed?

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