[MAJOR] Teams Switch to (Breaks Game) Not Working

Reference ID

47436766-4234-6fc2-f897-32bb3cfde5a4

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Summary

PLEASE HELP.

This bug is the worst one yet, Since January 2024.

Team 2 and Team 1 are assigned. Game Starts.

  • If a player dies that is Team 1 or Team 2,
  • Players on Team 1 Become Team 2, and team 2 become Team 1.
  • Additionally, Join in Progress / “Gamplay” Player spawner is spawned on by one player, and switches the teams of ALL PLAYERS during active gameplay.

BARNACLE BART is Team 2 GOLD
BILLBONES is Team 1 SILVER

Somehow the players on BARNACLE BART team 2 GOLD Unexpectedly Switch to SILVER or WHITE On the GOLD team BARNACLE BART. It is hard to explain. The players were team Gold, but the Team Gold changes and becomes Team White or Silver randomly, and screws up the Silver team and Gold team Players.

The TEAM itself Is switching colors, and becoming unrecognizable to other devices on its own during gameplay. (Possble that gamplay spawners are causing the bugs with TEAMS) When a join in progress player spawns on “Gamplay” spawner, the teams switch colors again on the scoreboard for ALL PLAYERS.

The players on BILLBONES SILVER Team 1, Switch to TEAM GOLD BILLBONES
Then the Game does not recognize them as Team 1 or 2 anymore?

Teleporters, Evaluators, and Mutators no longer recongize the Team at all with a game full of players, thereby, breaking the entire game.

Example:

  • If a player chooses team Red, they will be changed to team Blue when another player in the game changes to / spawns in game as team Red.
  • If a mutator zone is meant to teleport players inside it on team 1 or 2, it will not be able to. The players are stuck.
  • The players in the game, all objectives break as the players that were on team Red that changed to blue midgame are on an unrecognizable team # that does not exist, thereby making it impossible for them to play the game.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Choose a team, then other players choose a team or are designated a team.

2. After the teams have been assigned, the team colors on the scoreboard change to a different team color for no reason for all players.

3. ALL PLAYERS are even changed to teams when nothing assigns any event or binding for this to happen!

THIS IS ONE BUG THAT HAS ROAD BLOCKED ME FROM PERFORMING WELL FOR A LONG TIME

Expected Result

  • ALL PLAYERS should remain on the TEAM, and the TEAM SETTINGS should not irratically change in the middle of a game, such as the team color, team name, team size, etc. This is very strange undesirable behavior. Once a player chooses or is assigned a team at game start, later in the game, they should never change team randomly, but the TEAMS are Breaking on their own, for no apparent reason.

Observed Result

  • Players are changing teams in the middle of a game when nothing tells this behavior to occur. It is random in the middle of gameplay. This breaks the Game as a whole.
  • PLAYERS SHOULD NOT FORCE BE CHANGED TEAMS WHEN ONE PLAYER DIES, ALL PLAYERS CHANGE TEAMS.
  • THIS IS A BUG WITH TEAMS AND INVENTORY / JOIN IN PROGRESS / PLAYER SPAWNER DEVICE/ OR ISLAND SETTINGS.

Platform(s)

windows

Map Code

7385-3224-0691

Additional Notes

  • Players that spawn on (Join In Progress) spawn pads, that were waiting in the AUTOSTART countdown are spawning on the disabled spawn pads as well.

  • For some reason 2 players spawn on Join in progress spawn pads (TEAM 1 or TEAM 2 specific) in the waiting area.

  • This also causes the teams to break, change colors, and no longer teleport etc.

  • These are undesirable behaviors and consided a massive bug breaking the entire game.

PLEASE SEE IMAGES BELOW

(I also have videos of livestreamers who recorded the game being broken by this bug)

SINGLE PLAYER EXAMPLE:

TEAM 1 IS GOLD (End of gameplay screenshot)

TEAM 1 Observed Result : Same Team 1 as image above

  • Team randomly switching colors from GOLD to WHITE
  • Team numbers assigned no longer working when a new player spawns or even pregame.

MULTIPLAYER EXAMPLE:

Players are assigned a team and started the game.

  • Team 1 is not recognized to teleport by a Team 1 Teleporter
  • not recognized either by any devices associated with Team 1 or 2 at this stage

PLAYERS ALL SWITCHED TEAMS AFTER THEY ALREADY CHOSE TEAMS

  • Occurs during gameplay randomly for TEAM 1 and TEAM 2 when a player from Team 1 dies and respawns on a spawn pad.
  • Players stuck in Pregame waiting area because mutators and triggers and teleporters do not recognize Team 1 anymore. 1st team in mutator assigned to teleport team 1, but the team does not teleport. Team Colors change and very strange behavior with teams and inventory devices.

Another Example:
I am an AFK Player, I die in pregame lobby, I am respawned (Team 2 Index Spawn Device)
Team 2 is gold.

OBSERVED IN GAME (BarnacleBart Team is WHITE, Not GOLD like is supposed to be)

EXPECTED Here is what it is supposed to look like (shows this at game end) This is a major bug

Overall, this is changing the team colors, and unseen team data is being broken when this happens. Players are being reassigned objectives, it is horrible and is breaking the game leading me to wonder where do I begin fixing any of this or is it completely out of my control.
I have been having problems with this for months and now I see that by redoing my entire island, changing it over a dozen of times, that this has been a bug with teams for quite some time.

Please look into this I can submit logs and anything you need.