Something is game breaking wrong with popup devices. Published game doesnt not work

Summary

When you speak with a character it runs verse to show a popup device and it sometimes works sometimes doesnt sometimes its got multiple seconds of delay some menus dont show at all. Everything worked before 36.0 now its broken. This is a visual thing or something to do with the popup as the input trigger still gets asigned and works

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite

What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

Unsure as everything worked but the game i have published and are playing i noticed the issue and its devastating the game is broken

Expected Result

It should work as before 36.0

Observed Result

Its broken

Platform(s)

pc

Island Code

6854-8701-0605

Additional Notes

I will snip a video

Something is indeed broken - I’ve been developing class selection and other things using popup dialog device and the opacity for all buttons is turned down like 50% and they do not function anymore (after yesterdays new season):

Thanks for letting us know, we’ll get someone to take a look.

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Yea idk what to say. 13 weeks to create a game 2 weeks on updates to improve it and its broken in a seconds :frowning:

I understand things change ect but it should never break published versions

I requested before 2 versions one for publishing and one for session so you can test things ect then if all is good publish a new version with the new patch enabled this would solve so many game breaking issues. When you have very few players this is enough to stop them playing the game fully and all your time and hard work is gone with no return just wasted nearly 4 months of your life to be stopped by something out of your control. So frustrating ngl

@Flak

This is in a uefn session

Everything is working smooth and with no delay or lag ect so the issue is definitely with published islands only

Your specific issue might be related to published islands, but I was saying there is something else that has changed regarding popup devices/widgets (for me same issues arise inside UEFN session).
My guess is that since UMG allows 12 buttons with the latest update, some logic changes were made to how it functions, which causes wider issues than with simply published islands.

its still 6 buttons on the popup tho right ? 12 on the convo device im using the popup device

Popup dialog device allows only 6 buttons currently, yes.

However there were changes done to ‘CreativeModalDialogViewmodel’ that now supports up to 12 buttons:

My guess is that these 12 buttons will be made available to be used in popup dialog device soon as well (and MIGHT be the reason these issues are happening).

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I see yes something has changed and this could be it.

I’ve also identified the following issue related to PopupDialog behavior, and are reporting it here for reference.

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Yea this has broken my game drastically

Im a small creator created the game in 13 weeks and spent 2 weeks updating and this one update by epic breaks basically the game as every character has a menu via popup device.

The world streaming is messed up now

Sequencers are showing for everyone and not just single players its crazy

I seriously am thinking to go to another platform now as any hope of this game having players is basically gone and i need to seriously think about what i wanna create/achieve without all these issues every other week

It seems to consume all input too so itll show the popup then when it should reshow via verse it doesnt show for upto 20 seconds but consumes all input

Its now started in a session to the point i have to restart the session to get input back.

This is crazy like how are we suppose to create big maps when every update there are issues.

If you have a small map with low quality but a ton of players through some means you fine but if you create a big map with many mechanics device ect ect your doomed

Such a let down

hi @AtAshTag ,
There are big changes listed in the 36.00 release notes
36 00 Fortnite Ecosystem Updates and Release Notes | Fortnite Documentation | Epic Developer Community
Type Control + f and enter word conversation

This brings up

Conversation Template Deprecated

The Conversation Template in UEFN is no longer available from the Feature Template section. You can find the Conversation Template in the User Interface Template.

There are lots of other notes about
The Conversation device has new features and Conversation nodes that support new types of gameplay for your island:

  • Hide Conversations
  • Show Conversations

Looks like the whole lot is rewritten and published islands are affected because of the deprecation

Im on about the popup device jimbo not the convo device

I reverted from that convo device ages ago cos its buggy as hell too

FORT-920715 has been added to our ‘To Do’ list. Someone’s been assigned this task.