New Map Is not Going Into Discover Even After 4 Days While Spam Maps Get Discover Time

[Belastrah]

Summary

We have a brand new map that we worked on for endless amount of days to get perfect, and it’s still not in Discover even after 4 days? We also had our playtesters and own players play the game for 30+ minutes and more, but still this didn’t even move the map into discover.

All the data from the screenshot below is most of own players sent to the game. We specifically also planned our release for Friday in order for the map to go into Discover on Saturday, but even after us and our own players played the map on Saturday and Sunday, it still didn’t move the new map to be tested in New and Discover. It’s also was not placed in any Discover categories yet.

This is really disheartening for creators like us who work painstaking on every island experience and who focus on creating quality experiences, and then not receive any single Discover time over a 4 day period.

Also we plan our releases in order to be available to our players over weekend because this is the time they can play, but what is the point of having a game studio and your planning is of no use because you just never know if Discover will work or not.

How come we had our players play the game Saturday and Sunday and this didn’t even push the map into Discover while the 20+ spam maps with same thumbnail and exact same game shows up in Discover 1 to 2 hours after being published?

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Publishing

Steps to Reproduce

Refer to above. Our new map didn’t get any discover yet after 4 days, and also has not been placed into any Discover categories.

Expected Result

Refer to above. Our new map didn’t get any discover yet after 4 days, and also has not been placed into any Discover categories.

Observed Result

Refer to above. Our new map didn’t get any discover yet after 4 days, and also has not been placed into any Discover categories.

Platform(s)

Refer to above. Our new map didn’t get any discover yet after 4 days, and also has not been placed into any Discover categories.

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5510-8361-5736

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[13HARAMBE37]

Because they have cracked the discovery algorithm and know more than You do.

[Astrotronic]

Hi Belastrah,

I know in the past the time from release to being featured on a Discover Row would happen in a day or two.

Recently, in my experience it could take about a week. For example I released a map on May 16, and it was not until May 26/27 that it was shown on discover.

And another that was released on Oct 2 that appeared in discover on Oct 8.

[13HARAMBE37]

just gonna leave this here, obviously something is broken

[FragileNucleusGames (FragileNucleusG)]

If you think about it, things getting delayed is not hard to explain. There are just a lot more maps now trying to get on Discover. This is not because we have new creators and islands, and less players. It’s because we have artificially a lot more creators (multiple accounts per creator) and a lot more islands (duplicates of many maps). If each island is promised a number of impressions, your island is basically waiting its turn. This makes it extremely hard to time your release.

I don’t think the situation will improve unless:

• People stop spamming when spamming loses its effectiveness, for example.
• Spamming is disallowed on the platform by Epic. We’ll also need sanctions and better methods to detect spamming (whether by the same account or through multiple accounts).
• Discover is made to give less impressions per island. In other words, islands are quickly handled by Discover.

Thankfully, we have one solution now. You can created a marketing campaign to promote your map. The bid amount and budget can be as low as you can afford. Spam maps don’t typically make enough money to be put there. They make an income through sheer numbers of free exposure.

[SiL3nT.Killa (SiL3nT_UEFN)]

I have games I made months ago that never made it to discover. I see spam maps that stay in discover for months at a time. I try to be unique and make fun games/environments while people are copying, duplicating, and spamming the exact same games over and over and being awarded for it.

[Bug-Reporter]

FORT-1023815 has been ‘Closed’. The issue reported is not caused by a bug in the tool.

[Belastrah]

Awh yes, its very discouraging for all us creators who want to make quality experiences. It’s now 7 days, and still new map didn’t go into Discover. Sad.

[LumoKazeX]

I’ve spent this week to optimise three of my games, and I gotta say it’s pretty unusual that none of them got put in this discover tab once their update got uploaded, never happened to me on a single game before

[Belastrah]

Yah, I feel you. Our new games always used to get Discover, especially if we have our playtest group play them to get the stats up. But this time even that didn’t help. It is also prominent after the last two updates of UEFN that this started happening to us with our current games that we updated. Updates of our games now also takes a long time to go into Discover New & Updated, if at all. And one of our maps in Fall Guys that we updated over 2 months to make better that always was in the Music Category #1 is not all of a sudden not getting much Discover anymore. I feel like things has changed since this advert thing launched.

Also do you guys know if we still get 50000 impressions for new maps, or is it now 5000 impressions? Because today I noticed on the new map that still didn’t go into discover it now mentions 5,000. Looks like Epic needs to make a new podcast if stuff has changed so we can better understand.

Also the below is still impressions from current followers and our own players as the map didn’t go in Discover yet. So do we not get any exposure anymore for new maps or what is up nowadays?

[Belastrah]

Oh wow. Thank you for posting this. I checked out the Kpop category today, and this seems to be ongoing. One dude has 10+ of same map, all dominating the More Islands tab.

[Belastrah]

An update for the community on this issue. I have now two new maps, and neither have gone into Discover yet. Even though new experiences and designed from the ground up with my verse logic developed over many months.

MAP 1 - Published 21 November 2025
After 16+ days still not in Discover.

MAP 2
And then Map 2, published on 25 November 2025 still not in discover after 12 Days.

UPDATES TO PREVIOUS MAPS
What I can also update on is that our FG experience when updated again, finally went into New & Updated again last week. Happy about that.

[Belastrah]

Another update, I reached out to customer support and stated the issue with both my new maps not going into discover in 2 plus weeks, and now with the third one, probably gonna have the same problem. They responded by stating I should follow the in UEFN report function. When you launch the map in the UEFN editor, go to HELP and then select Report Issue, once you do, it redirets you to create a forum thread like this one.

But when I created this post, Epic closed this thread:

[SiL3nT.Killa (SiL3nT_UEFN)]

I’ve got games I published months ago that have never been in discover…

[markez_9]

Please Fortnite or fix it or bug my maps too, I want to be promoted as they are

[13HARAMBE37]

Just keep updating and put more effort into the map. Recently new and updated is glitching, seems like they did some fixes so updates might do the thing.

[markez_9]

Trust me I keep updating it and never get on that row… its broken

[Falin_UEFN]

Same bro