[Persona] Processing time for replies too long, players leave

Summary

We have been testing Persona from 41.10 with testers from our community, and we noticed that when they prompt to interact with the NPC, during the processing stage, the phase will often take too long or even never complete, confusing players and making them abandon the interaction. We don’t have a repro, but we noticed it during one of our playtests with the component so we wanted to flag it. It only happened to one of our testers, so its not 100% reproducible. Use the playtest code to repro, on world 1 (Sunny Summer)

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What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Scene Graph

Steps to Reproduce

Load a character with persona device that fires on interacting with them
Test with a high ping scenario (we are assuming is the cause?)

Expected Result

When talking to NPC, they reply back within 1-3 seconds

Observed Result

When talking to NPC, processing stage may take up to 10 seconds and rarely it never completes

Platform(s)

PC

Island Code

8365-2820-4883 (Playtest code)

FORT-1126293 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.