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Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Island Settings
Summary
For many months now, the Join In Progress option has been interfering with and preventing a lot of mechanics from working efficiently.
It isn’t a cut and dry issue, for example trackers no longer assign to players who join in progress no matter what you do.
Timers will not appear on the screen for players who join in progress
Players who join in progress will not “Split evenly” despite the island setting being enabled
Each update the list of problems caused by “Join In Progress” appears to grow longer and longer
This is already a substantial issue for creators but if it continues to happen without being addressed, maps are going to become more unplayable than they already are!
Steps to Reproduce
For my key example, i stated that players who join in progress, will not have a tracker assigned to them.
Step 1 - create an island.
Step 2 - allow players to join in progress
Step 3 - add trackers to your island which will be visible on the hud
Step 4 - have these trackers assign to player when joining
step 5 - publish the game
step 6 - start a game and then have someone join whilst the game is in progress
step 7 - you will see that trackers do not assign for the player who joined.
This is just a brief example of the ways join in progress breaks important mechanics for islands!
Expected Result
If the system was working as intended, i would expect Join In Progress to NOT impact mechanics for players unless specifically required.
For example, trackers should assign for players even when joining in progress unless i specifically set it up not to.
I would expect all mechanics to run smoothly and not behave differently when players join in progress
Observed Result
The actual observed result is a variety of mechanics (my example being trackers) do not work as intended for players who join in progress.
Either the mechanic does not apply correctly, it does not track correctly, or it simply does not work for people who join in progress.
Platform(s)
PS5
PS4
XBOX SERIES X
XBOX SERIES S
PC
MOBILE
NINTENDO SWITCH
Additional Notes
This is a MAJOR problem and likely needs to be addressed before the situation spirals and more mechanics become effected by this issue.