Tracker UI elements do not appear on screen for Join in Progress players during Matchmaking Play mode for published islands.

General Issues and Bug Reporting
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Summary

When using the Tracker Device to show quests and other information to players, the Tracker Device will not display it’s UI elements to players that Join the game late.

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What Type of Bug are you experiencing?

Devices

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Place a Tracker and use a Button Device to assign the tracker to the interacting Player. Tracker sharing settings do not matter.
  2. Publish the Island. (Edit Mode > Play does NOT reproduce this bug.)
  3. Join the Island and start the game.
  4. Interact with the Button Device and the Tracker will be assigned to interacting player.
  5. Have Player 2 join the same game session.
  6. Have Player 2 interact with the Button Device.
  7. The Tracker will not appear on Player’s 2s Screen.

Expected Result

The Tracker UI should appear correctly for late joining player’s screen.

Observed Result

Late joining player’s are not correctly assigned the Tracker UI.

Platform(s)

All

Additional Notes

This X post contains other Creative users input which may contain additional repro steps.

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The status of FORT-807454 incident has been moved from ‘Needs Triage’ to ‘Closed’. Resolution Reason: ‘Duplicate’

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I can confirm this is happening for the last 2+ years.
Tracker UI doesn’t show up on screen with Join-In-Progress, no matter the settings.

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Sadly this has been a bug for years, hopefully we can get JIP trackers to finally work!

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Can confirm this has been an issue for a long time. There are simply no reliable ways to assign trackers to join in progress players, it is simply pure luck whether it works or not.

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yep you are correct.

To make you aware tho the tracker does to my knowledge assign but the UI doesn’t show

I tried in verse and still its pot luck hit and miss

You can however add a button to assign the tracker and this will always show. I know not ideal but yea if even verse doesn’t fix it currently then idk what the solution is