Player stuck in CONNECTING.. when trying to rejoin a Private Playtest match (39.11)

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

When player leaves and immeditely in Lobby tries to re-join a Playtest build, Player stuck in CONNECTING.. screen for a long time, and eventually is back to Lobby (consoles) or Fortnite crashes (PC). This started happening in 39.11

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Other

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Start playtest game with two players (“A” and “B”)
  2. While a round is ongoing, A leaves the game
  3. In Lobby, A immediately clicks PLAY butto to re-join the ongoing game
  4. (After a while the “Island found” text is shown and Connecting screen opens)

Expected Result

After a while in Connecting screen, A re-joins the game without problem.

Observed Result

Player A is stuck in Connecting screen for a long time.

On Console, maybe after 7 minutes, Connecting-screen closes and A is back in Lobby.

On PC, Connecting-screen shows longer (maybe 10 mins?), and eventually Fortnite crashes

Platform(s)

PC, PS4, PS5, XBoxOne

Island Code

0431-7421-3201

Additional Notes

Re-joining was possible still yesterday (Dec 17), before 39.11 update, using the same private version for Playtest.

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same issue. I can Connect Private Lobby. But cant Connect Public lobbys is just loading..

Mapcode: 1530-3156-8570

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Same issue. I can connect to private island for the first time but then rejoin stuck in Connecting

Also I can’t join to the party in private or live session (always show Matchmaking #1 error)

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Now I realized same happens in the Public version of my island (7907-0947-9097)

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FORT-1034954 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

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I’m getting reports from players that this is also happening on my map (9585-8458-8959). Reported as stuck connecting/loading into the map while other of my maps they are able to load in normally with no issues. Not sure why this is the case but has only been an issue as of today.

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Hi, I have the same problem with my map : 3533-5038-7728