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You can now invite people to playtest your game during development without the need to publish your island!

Team owners and administrators can now create playtest groups for their projects in the new playtest tab of their project pages. This will generate a private island code for a specific version of your project and provide you with a link that you can share with testers that enables them to join the group and access the private island code.

Up to 50 playtesters are able to join each playtest group and they will be unable to edit islands. Playtesters must be 18 years or older to join a playtest group.

Read more at: https://fn.gg/Playtest

Fortnite Island Creator Rules have had an update! Please take the time to read through the revised rules and process here: https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-island-creator-rules

The Changing Booth Device has been reenabled and is working in Fortnite Creative and UEFN.

For any islands that are still experiencing these errors, here are the steps to resolve / mitigate:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/critical-verse-devices-are-not-spatially-loaded-anymore/1312688/15

We’ve made a change to how you report bugs when working with the Fortnite Creative Toolset or UEFN. To make a bug report, you now post it directly to the Epic Developer Community forums, using the form on the “Issues and Bug Reporting” forum.
When creating a post, choose “New Issue” in the “New Topic” dropdown on the top-right of the forum.

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The Fortnite lobby is getting an update! Every island will soon be able to have a unique background image, either created with third-party tools or using the new Photo Mode Capture Mode.

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In preparation for the v26.30 update, we’ll ask you to upload a lobby background image as part of the publishing process in Creator Portal.

Check out the documentation on ...

Currently, when groups of friends queue together to play an FNC or UEFN island they are not guaranteed to be matchmade into the same team. With the 26.20 update, republished islands where the team size is four or less will have an updated matchmaking experience.
When the size of the party is equal to or less than the team size, the party will be guaranteed to be placed on the same team. When the size of the party is greater than the team size, (e.g. four friends queue to play a 3v3 game), the party will be split with as many party members placed on one team as possible.

For upgraded islands, you will see a new island setting, ‘Team Fill Option’ with two options:

• ‘Party Choice’ gives your players the option to fill their team as they can in Battle Royale
• ‘Must Fill’ forces player’s teams to be chosen by the matchmaking system

There are no changes to islands where team sizes are greater than four. The change to upgraded islands wil...

We’re aware of an issue where some thumbnail images are not loading properly in Discover. We are checking into it, and we’ll let you know when we have more information.

We’re aware of an issue where Verse devices are no longer being spatially loaded, which is leading to validation issues. This issue should not impact play and live edit sessions. We are checking into it and we’ll let you know when we have more information.

We’re aware of an issue with texture compression that is causing the reported project size in UEFN to increase. We’re working on a fix and will let you know when we have more information.

Due to an issue, we have disabled the Changing Booth device in Fortnite Creative and UEFN. Please be aware that any islands using the device may not work properly. We will let you know when we have more information.

Upgraded Devices Deadline Approaching!

A reminder that all islands made with Fortnite Creative will transition to v2 Devices in our next update, v26.30. Please try the V2 devices and report any issues in this forum thread.

Coming Soon: Unified Memory Calculation

Accompanying upgraded devices in the v26.30 update, your island will use a new memory calculation method that affects the memory cost of ...

We've updated the publishing flow to better guide you through the process of publishing your islands, live now in the Creator Portal. Check it out!

Players and creators,

We have fixed an issue where players were unable to mantle properly in some UEFN islands. Creators have been having players respawn after spawning into the game for the first time as a workaround. This workaround is no longer needed.

Check out the new Fab content from Davis3D, Polyart Studio, and Rocksalt Games!

The assets in these packs are all:

• Collision-ready
• Optimized for Fortnite vertex, materials, and texture budget
• Scaled to Fortnite units

Read more at https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/new-content-in-fab-alpha/926605/15

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For the first time ever, you can check out what’s happening with UEFN and Fortnite Creative at Unreal Fest! Meet with experts from Epic Games, network with other developers and creators, and check out the opening session to see what’s coming in the UEFN Roadmap.

Check HERE for more information!

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The Community Momentum Row has launched! This row features experiences that new and returned players to the Fortnite ecosystem seek out and play. We will continue to iterate on this row and other row designs to empower creators.

This is the first of several features intended to support creators who are promoting islands outside of the Fortnite ecosystem. Stay tuned for more as we are also working to launch new user acquisition metrics in the Creator Portal in the coming weeks.

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Hundreds of new assets were added to the Fab library in August. Check them out in our monthly roundup!
All assets are collision ready, optimized for vertex, materials and texture budget and more.
[Read:](https://create.fortnite.com/news/spotlight-fab-content-added-to-uefn-in-august-2023)

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For the first time in Epic MegaJam history, Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) entries are welcome and encouraged. You can find all UEFN resources along with rules, and prizes on the official 2023 Epic MegaJam Creator Portal page. Make sure to sign up if you haven’t yet!

@kalishane_eg has also set up a ⁠#megajam-2023 Discord channel 1 for everyone to share feedback, ask...

We are aware of an issue where some Discover thumbnail images are missing. We are checking into this and we will let you know when we have more information.