Join in-progress is broken in many ways.

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Matchmaking

Summary

Joining in-progress players can spawn even when “join in-progress” is set to “spawn on next round”, and placing a damage volume on the spawn pads that enables when the game starts prevents them from both spawning on the next round and spectating for the rest of the game, forcing them to leave the game.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Set island settings to:
    -Max lives: 1
    -Join in-progress: Spawn on next round
    -Rounds: Anywhere between 3-100
  2. Attempt to join the game in-progress
  3. To test the other issue, place a damage volume set to “elimination” that enables over the spawn pads to eliminate AFK players after 20 seconds (in my example)
  4. Attempt to join the game in-progress

Expected Result

Players should immediately go to spectating while joining in-progress, and spawn on the next round with no issues.

Observed Result

For issue 1:
-Players will spawn regardless of island settings.
For issue 2:
-Players will get their camera stuck at the location of the spawn pads and be unable to spectate. On the start of the next round, the players will be stuck on an all-black screen stating “starting game” and be unable to play for all rounds moving forward.

Platform(s)

All

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Can confirm this bug. I have Spawn on Next Round in my island and players are still spawning regardless. Next round they play like a normal player though.

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Having almost the same issue on my map. My map has no spawn limit and “join in-progress” is set to “spawn” but when a player joins they would only get 1 life and when eliminated they go to spectate for some reason.

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The status of FORT-740568 incident has been moved from ‘Unconfirmed’ to ‘Needs Triage’.

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Have you found a solution for this?
This is EXACTLY my problem.
Everything like you described.
They don’t get to spectate no matter what definition we set.
When people join in my map they only see whats in front of the spawn pads…
I’ve set Join in progress to Spectate, and this happens, I set to Spawn next round, this happens, I set to Spawn on Team 1 (Is for choosing team) this still happens!
And I tried another, Just Spawn, because I have that damage volume to eliminate AFK players and still the same Bul**** (the idea here was, if they spawn and die, they should go to spectate as I have set that option to spectate any team) but what happens is the player gets to spectate himself… in another words, gets stuck on the same place, without the possibility to change the spectated player…
I’m getting really tired of this…