Proximity chat not enabling when attenuation is set to ON

Summary

When proximity chat is enabled (attenuate voice), the expected result doesnt happen, and all players can be heard from any distance.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Audio

Steps to Reproduce

Enable Attenuate Voice and distance

Expected Result

As you move farther away, peoples audio will become quieter until they can no longer be heard

Observed Result

Players can be heard from any distance

Platform(s)

PC

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Additional Notes

This was a bug last week, and the other maps it affected have been fixed, but mine has not. Must be a different issue.

Yes they clearly messed something up with the update of September 25th, in our map it works normal most of the time but sometimes u can hear each other trough the whole island.

Getting the team to take a look.

@RealKrootzy Could we get your logs?

Also, to double-check, you’re not on the party channel, right?

No, it is set to everyone. I tried in all the possible voice modes

Thank you for the logs, the team is looking into it.

FORT-988744 changed to ‘Needs More Info’. We’re missing information that would help us determine the source of the issue.

@RealKrootzy could we get your client logs after you reproduce the issue? (not the editor logs)

Since nobody is answering you and I’m starting to get fed up with having this bug for almost two months, tell me what information you need. I’m willing to provide it and do everything possible to get this fixed as soon as possible.

@RutinaDeMewing Could we get your logs after you reproduce the issue?

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 all.

This issue has been happening since the setting “Proximity Chat” was renamed to “Voice Attenuation.”

If you need more information, the specific island where this is happening, or anything else, just let me know and I’ll send it to you as fast as possible.

And I’m sorry for taking so long to reply.

Hi, I want to provide additional details about the proximity chat issue:

  • Island code: 9653-9433-1421

  • Match where proximity chat worked: Tuesday, December 9, started around 23:30 PM, ended about 1:10 AM on Wednesday, December 10. This match reached 40 players.

  • Match where proximity chat didn’t work: Exactly 24 hours later, Wednesday, December 10, around 23:30 PM, on the same island, without updating it.

As you can see, the chat worked in one match but failed in the same island 24 hours later, even without changing anything. This clearly shows the issue is not related to the map itself or my settings.

If you need any more information, the specific island file, or anything else, please let me know and I’ll provide it as fast as possible.

FortniteGame.log (10.2 MB)

FortniteLauncher.log (216.4 KB)

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

Here’s more logs