Team Rotation Is Not Working For Random Players

Summary

Players sometimes get stuck on Team 1 in games where “Team Rotation” setting is enabled. When a player joins, they are not fully “registered” in the game. You can notice this on the scoreboard, where their “Time Alive” stat does not update. When this happens, their character remains stuck on Team 1 even while other players rotate teams each round.

These unregistered players also break the “Split Evenly” mechanic, since the game does not recognize them properly. This leads to unbalanced game sessions for example, one team ending up with 11 players while the other has only 5, even though the mode is intended to be 8v8.

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What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Assets

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Have a round based game mode with team rotation setting enabled
  2. Join an ongoing game until you notice your character is not “fully registered”
  3. Notice your character stays on team 1 despite other players are changing teams

Expected Result

  1. Have a round based game mode with team rotation setting enabled
  2. Every player is rotating teams normally

Observed Result

  1. Have a round based game mode with team rotation setting enabled
  2. Some players are not registered fully and spawn next to spawn pads, also they are not rotating teams breaking the game balance.

Platform(s)

All platform

Island Code

0105-1573-8859

Video

Additional Notes

In the video you can notice three players who don’t have “time alive” stat. Those players are stuck in Cars team, which is team 1. In the end part of the video you can see one of these players spawning next to the spawn pad, while having the “flying animation”

FORT-956715 has been created and its status is ‘Unconfirmed’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

I noticed there are also players stuck on team 2, while other players are rotating teams. However, it is more common that the player is stuck on team 1.