island matchmaking privacy set to "private only" is not working

Summary

Major matchmaking bug: every game that was set to private only mode is now public when joining.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Matchmaking

Steps to Reproduce

set island matchmaking privacy to “private only”

Expected Result

When joining a private mode, no one else can join except your friends.

Observed Result

when you join is into a public lobby, the private mode is no longer working.

Platform(s)

Every platform

Island Code

3060-0976-8639

Could you let us know which of these is happening?

  • I log into my island in Private mode, and people who are not on my friend list can join my island/Match.
  • I set my Island Settings in UEFN to Private only, and people can launch it in public mode?

Hi Flak!

I set my Island Settings in UEFN to Private only, and people can launch it in public mode.

Here’s an example of a map that is set to private-only mode, but when you join, it puts you into a public game that has already started.

7808-8734-4407

Thank you so much for the follow-up, I’ll pass this along.

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I am having the same problem and its a massive issue. I have an aim training island that is designed to be a private experience where 4 players can lobby up and start the game. Instead, now there is no such thing as setting a island to private only, so by default all players who load into my game for the first time are loaded in to a public lobby.

This compeletely ruins the aim training experience because there are people who just load up on boogie bombs, bunkers, etc and as soon as you load in they boogie bomb you and kill you. They also bunker off all of the aim training scenario selections, etc. For whatever reason kids seem to enjoy this a lot, so its almost guaranteed to have it happen everytime you load into a game.

I REALLY would like to be able to make my map private-only again, but the best you can do is set to “party choice” for island matchmaking without breaking your map entirely it seems… when I set to private only it gives a matchmaking error everytime.

Thanks!

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Publishing a map in ‘Private Only’ mode doesn’t function correctly, it behaves as if it were in public matchmaking. Currently, the only solution is to set the map to ‘Public and Private’ mode, so players can manually select the private option.

FORT-971190 has been ‘Closed’. We’re unable to reproduce this issue.