[Matchmaking] Infinite loading screen for party members on published island

Summary

Infinite loading screen for party members during public matchmaking on published island.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Matchmaking

Steps to Reproduce

1-Form a party of two players.

2-Queue for public matchmaking on the published island.

3-When the match is found, party members get stuck indefinitely on the loading screen.

4-Workaround: If the party leader transfers the leader role to another member and receives it back, the loading screen issue is bypassed and players can successfully join.

Expected Result

Party members should successfully load into the public match together without getting stuck on an infinite loading screen, and without needing to manipulate party leader roles.

Observed Result

Party members are permanently trapped on the loading screen during public session startup unless the party leader role is manually swapped back and forth between members.

Platform(s)

All platforms (PC / Consoles)

Island Code

5086-4006-6419

Additional Notes

The issue occurs consistently on public matchmaking for this specific island code. No custom Verse matchmaking scripts are used, pointing to a potential backend party session synchronization bug

Also happening to me, did you modified your verse before releasing the update?