Not only converted islands. I’ve just tested the “reconnect to the same session” scenario for the live code of my island College RP (it’s a non-converted UEFN island). I’m not able to join back, and have been stuck on the connecting screen for the last 10 minutes.
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Its incredibly frustrating that more and more players are complaining and nothing can be done about it. This critical bug has been around for four days now cant you at least give us an update on the status please? @Flak
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This is also happening to my map on Public games (0678-0014-4695)
players are stuck loading the map and are forced to completely shut Fortnite down.
Game-breaking is an understatement.
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Also happening on my islands, this is extremely gamebreaking.
I think it is caused when a player joins a game for the first time, than leaves and at a later point tries to reconnct to the same game getting stuck in an endless loading screen.
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Yes, however it can also happen less commonly on an island instance/server you have not yet joined.
This needs a hotfix ASAP, just noticed it’s happening with my map and I have a sponsored campaign running. Annoyed would be an understatement.
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Happening on my maps as well needs a fix asap. ~
Had it happen on xbox and cloud xbox and public matchmaking.
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same issue, even public map. This affects the core gameplay experience, especially causing critical damage to replayability. our player says “the most annoying bug ever“. What’s the status of the investigation right now?
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i really hope this get fixed soon..
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@Flak hey. Any updates on this? It’s been 15days… game breaking bug
Can confirm this is still happening too
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So not long to wait (3 days, some server problems have been fixed and new ones like
Android FN Menu → “Return to Lobby” after just entering Island resulting in an app crash and restart of EPGL app restarting Android FN on ALL islands. Then Server login failure crash etc….
There are lots of other threads, but none have 57 Votes! like this one
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That’s because this one is literally a map killer and crashes fortnite… it is a really really big deal for all of us that work to make money from this ecosystem. 57 votes actually seems low for the severity of this bug.
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This is critical, so I don’t understand why it’s being left unresolved.
Is it an issue that only affects a very small number of people?
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Sorry for the delay in getting an update. This issue is a priority, and the team is digging in. We’ll let you know when we have more information.
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Thank you!! So glad to know it’s finally being worked on
I would like to bring up, though, that many of us spent money to be in the sponsored row the past few weeks whilst this has been an issue, preventing people from consistently joining our games, damaging our metrics, and wasting our money. The clicks-to-plays ratio + CTR is quite disproportionate (in fact, from my own metrics, cut in half) compared to before the update because of this. It’s also severely damaged session length metrics, due to the inability to rejoin a session.
Obviously I’m not asking for handouts, but it would be nice to know that the team is aware of how badly this affected creators and their games the past 3 weeks, and will take steps going forward to ensure that something like this isn’t a common occurrence. It’s a very serious issue that caused a lot of problems, especially for smaller games with fewer active lobbies, and this is particularly true for games that were launched or revived during this period.
For example, it completely destroyed the re-launch of my game that I spent the entirety of 2025 working on, which was already previously killed outside of my control due to discover issues and broken devices that persisted for over a year when UEFN first released.
I fully understand that the team was on break, so it’s really just a case of unfortunate timing, and I can’t blame them for not being around to fix it - Epic’s company-wide winter break is much deserved, and I would never want the team to feel at fault for something like this happening when they’re not around. But, with that said, it did cause serious problems nonetheless that we as creators couldn’t do anything to alleviate, which is just another item to the pile of things that have been making creators less and less enchanted with this ecosystem, so I do feel we need some reassurance that the team will make moves to ensure things like this happen less often, and if they do, that there will eventually be systems in place to resolve them as quick as possible.
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FORT-1034954 has been ‘Closed’ as a duplicate of an existing known issue. Origin Issue: FORT-1035002, Origin Topic: It seems it is impossible to play two creative games in a row