Player persistent data is randomly wiped on join for players with existing saved data

Summary

Some players report that their data was wiped when launching a new game, this happened randomly, and to some players and it has increased in frequency in the last two weeks

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Join the island as a player who has no saved data, play the game normaly and get to the end game.
  2. Leave the session entirely.
  3. Rejoin the island as that same player.
  4. Observe the player’s persisted values on load.
  5. Repeat steps 2–3; the failure occurs on a random rejoin rather than every one.

Expected Result

On rejoin, the player’s previously saved persistent data loads intact.

Observed Result

On some rejoins the playe’s data is wiped. All is return to defult initial values.

Platform(s)

PS5, PC

Island Code

8920-0084-1283