Proximity Chat / Attenuate Voice not functioning properly

[Rubique]

Summary

As reported previously from other users, proximity chat is not consistently working in live versions of islands. In the island code below, users are able to hear voice fully across the island with the voice chat settings below. No, I’m not in party chat.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

join the island code listed.

Expected Result

voice should attenuate

Observed Result

voice does not attenuate

Platform(s)

all

Island Code

2977-5695-7180

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[Bug-Reporter]

FORT-1032285 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

[RutinaDeMewing (ϟˢᶜᵒʳᵖⁱᵒⁿƑaustøメ)]

It’s a bug that has been around for more than 3 months. My island is losing a lot of players because of this, and absolutely nobody is fixing it. I find it shameful. I’ve provided all the information they ask for (logs, etc.) here:

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logs fortnite attenuation voice.zip (6.3 MB) Hi, I’ve just uploaded the logs you asked for. I also want to give you one more important detail: Proximity chat works perfectly before publishing the island. But once the island is published, it almost never works. To give you an idea, it only works in about 1 match out of 50. In the rest of the matches, the chat behaves as if proximity didn’t exist — if someone talks from the other side of the map, I can hear them clearly, no distance effect at …

[BadCowboy01]

I have the same problem as you; it's been going on for three months, and I don't know what to do anymore.

[Rubique]

FortniteGame.log (10.2 MB)

FortniteLauncher.log (216.4 KB)

FortniteGame-backup-2025.12.15-21.35.51.log (18.2 MB)

Game logs

[Rubique]

[2025.12.15-21.39.53:125][610]LogVoiceChatManager: [37bf] [000001975499A460] Joining channel Type=GameServer Name=EU.Any.fb8ffe9b87a24f37a078d8f5431fb68b.Minigame_PlayerCreated_C_2147482646_minigame0 bIsTargetActive=false bIsNotListening=true RAS=5 bAlwaysOn=false VoiceChatChannelType=NonPositional SpatialMode=None RenderingMode=Default

This line seems to be the key difference between when it works and doesn’t work for different islands. Even though I have all the proper settings it’s set to “VoiceChatChannelType=NonPositional SpatialMode=None RenderingMode=Default”

rather than: “VoiceChatChannelType=Positional SpatialMode=Proximity RenderingMode=DistanceAttenuation”

[RutinaDeMewing (ϟˢᶜᵒʳᵖⁱᵒⁿƑaustøメ)]

3 months and nobody fixing it …