Servers Randomly Freeze and Players Get Disconnected After Recent Update

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

After the recent update, I have encountered an issue where the servers randomly freeze during gameplay, causing players to be disconnected and sent back to the lobby. This happens without any specific pattern but has been consistently occurring while playing normally.

Please select what you are reporting on:

Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

Launch the game and load the map.
Play the map normally.

Expected Result

The server should remain stable, and players should not experience disconnections during regular gameplay.

Observed Result

The servers randomly freeze, and players are disconnected, returning to the lobby.

Platform(s)

All

Island Code

7314-4269-5911

Video

This issue has occurred 3 times so far, all during private lobbies.

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Okay, so the reason for the server crash is the ballistic weapons. If you have the saved version of the ballistic weapons from the save point device and then rejoin, and those weapons are loaded, they are the ones causing the lag. Switching quickly between them is what triggers the issues.

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Thank you for reporting this, we’ll get someone to take a look and we’ll let you know if we need more info.

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Good news, this is the same issue as Save Point Device not saving ballistics attachments + causes holding such weapons to have visual bugs - #10 by Bug-Reporter

FORT-854209 is ‘Closed’ as ‘Fixed’. The issue will be addressed in 34.00.

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FORT-859999 has been ‘Closed’ as a duplicate of an existing known issue.