Item Spawner devices are broke

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Summary

I have a map with 254 item spawner devices. It worked great. I quit working on the project in July. I just came back to finish it up. It now appears 1/2 or more of the devices won’t spawn.

Steps to Reproduce

Put 254 item spawners on a map. Give each a verse tag name, such as “coin_spawner”. Enumerate through all of the “coin_spawner” tags at startup and tell them to spawn. A bunch of them won’t do it.

Expected Result

The devices should all spawn.

Observed Result

Perhaps half or more of the devices do not spawn.

Platform(s)

Windows 10, UEFN 2.0

Additional Notes

This did work fine until July. It is October and now when I take a look at my project, which has had no changes to it since then, it now has this behavior.

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Glad I’m not the only one who’s experienced something similar.

I made a game mid last year with some item spawners set to spawn an item randomly out of a list, and at the time of launch it all worked perfectly. I came back to it a while ago and found that somehow they are all broken now and nothing spawns. I have a few item spawners that still work so long as they are only dedicated to one item, so whether the random spawn function has broken I don’t know.

I don’t know of a fix so I’m just having to botch a workaround by replacing it with other loot sources. While I’m on the point, default Fortnite chests still don’t work after being reported as broken about half a year ago. They either only spawn the makeshift weapons, or no weapon at all.