[MAJOR] Player can no longer move or interact as Rocket Racing mobile HUD persists after the player respawns

Summary

When a player on a mobile platform with touch input drives a rocket racing car (Device_DelMarVehicleSpawner) and respawns (programmatically or manually), the HUD from the rocket racing car will persist and consume all input. The player can no longer move or interact with the world. Another respawn will not fix the issue. Only re-entering a RR car again and properly existing it will help. However existing a RR car for a touch based player is also impossible (see Mobile players with touch input cannot exit the Rocket Racing car).

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Stability

Steps to Reproduce

Enter a rocket racing car on a mobile platform with touch based hud input and manually respawn. The player will still see the RR car HUD and can no longer proceed with the experience as they will be stuck.

Expected Result

The RR HUD should be cleared on player respawn.

Observed Result

The RR car HUD persists and makes it impossible for the player to move or interact after respawning.

Platform(s)

All platforms with touch based HUD input

This issue has been fixed for mobile, but persists for PC and console. The rocket racing vehicle HUD shows when a player manually respawns while inside it on PC and Console.

Full replication steps from my own Trello Card (Video of bug on Trello too):

Replicate:

  1. Start Fortnite on any platform.
  2. Connect a bluetooth controller or keyboard + mouse and only use it. Do not use touch input on mobile.
  3. Start a creative match.
  4. Enter the portal on the spawn island to enter your island.
  5. Open the map and click the island settings tab.
  6. Click the “Mode” tab and then expand the “Spawning” header.
  7. Set the “Spawn Limit” setting to “Infinite”.
  8. Now scroll down and expand the “Eliminations” header.
  9. Set the “Allow manual Respawn” setting to “Yes”.
  10. Now click the “Content” tab in the top bar.
  11. Click devices on the left and search for the “RR Vehicle Spawner”.
  12. Place the RR Vehicle Spawner in your island.
  13. Enter the RR Vehicle.
  14. Click the menu button to open the game menu.
  15. Click the “Respawn” button and then click Respawn again to confirm.
  16. Notice what the HUD looks like after you respawn.

You will notice the HUD looks like the RR Vehicle HUD you were just in before you respawned. This happens on all platforms, except for touch input on mobile.

FORT-869117 has been ‘Closed’ as a duplicate of an existing known issue.

Does this mean it is being tracked internally or why was this closed?

@Flak can we please get the internal / known issue number.

It was marked as fixed in 36.10. Not fixed?

This was fixed for mobile in v36.00, but was not fixed for any other platform.

I just double checked now. Please read the comment from June 12th for replication steps, a video and more info.

I guess the ticket is then marked as fixed / closed correctly as the report for mobile focused. Epic usually wants separate tickets if the issue reappears or some condition change.

This was fixed on all other platforms in v36.30

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hi all,
This has been fixed in 36.30 on all consoles (mobile, Switch 1, XB one X).
The poster now says that RR has a couple of PC users with problems.

The original RR 5196-0233-5799 mobile is working in 36.30 and respawns happen into the game and menu opens in mobile to new games.

Therefore there is a new post about the PC VERSION and its local to some PC users
5196-0233-5799
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RR on Mobile (Samsung Android G10 WORKS) and so does the other consoles.

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