The proximity chat is totally buggy since yesterday’s update.
you can’t hear all the people around you and sometimes no one can hear you even though you can hear them.
Please select what you are reporting on:
Unreal Editor for Fortnite
What Type of Bug are you experiencing?
Audio
Steps to Reproduce
Join any island in creative mode with proximity chat enabled, go to the voice game channel
(Choose a map that accepts a lot of players with a lot of players in it to see that proximity chat is buggy).
Expected Result
Hear everyone correctly
Observed Result
you can’t hear all the people around you and sometimes no one can hear you even though you can hear them.
Jumping in to confirm this. We run one of the popular hangout maps that relies on proximity chat, and this bug has completely crippled our island.
Our player count was cut in half —literally overnight— right after the update. On top of that, our community is flooding our DMs saying they can’t play because voice chat is broken.
We spent the last couple of days debugging this to make sure it wasn’t our fault. Here’s what we found:
It’s happening on every single one of our islands, not just the main one.
It’s also happening in our unpublished islands that we were working on.
The nail in the coffin: we can reproduce the bug on a brand new, blank project with nothing but proximity chat enabled.
It’s clear proximity chat itself is broken. Hope this info helps you guys track down the problem and get a fix out soon.
