Published islands prioritizing new instances over filling islands

Summary

Players loading independently into my island are provided new instances rather than joining matches in progress, leaving them alone on an 8 player combat arena map.

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Matchmaking

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Have one player load into island 6258-0672-8947

  2. Have other players load into the island independently (not partied with the player from step 1)

Expected Result

Players from step 2 should be placed in the island instance with 7 of 8 available combatant slots remaining.

Observed Result

Players are given their own combat arena with no other players loading in at any point. All players and island stay in a “1/8” state where players are regarded.

Platform(s)

Tested on PC, Xbox Series X, and PS5

Island Code

6258-0672-8947

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