Instigator is no longer automatically set when spawning actors from blueprint

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Aug 20, 2024

Actors that are spawned from blueprints will no longer have their instigator automatically set to the instigator that spawned them. This is a regression in 5.5, because in 5.4 and earlier a null Ins ...

Enabling ZenLoader causes editor crash when undoing Level Instance deletion

UE - CoreTech - Sep 5, 2024

Crash reported through UDN. With ZenLoader enabled, deleting a level instance and triggering Undo causes a crash in  ULandscapeComponent::PostEditUndo() The user has provided an example project th ...

[CrashReport] Fatal error: Cast of nullptr to Object failed

UE - Gameplay - Oct 5, 2017

This is a common and longstanding crash that has affected many users since at least 4.11. Source context not available (error in user code?). User DescriptionsI was duplicating a Set function in c ...

World Memory Leaks crash with a hidden sublevel to a redirector

Tools - Dec 8, 2020

From UDN: The reason it crashes is because Child doesn't get garbage collected, which is because it still has the RF_Standalone flag. UEditorEngine::EditorDestroyWorld clears RF_Standalone flag ...

GameInstance and subsystem initialization order is incorrect for Play In Editor

UE - Gameplay - May 18, 2023

The order of world and game instance initialization is different between a true standalone game (cooked game or an editor build with -game) and a Play In Editor game. Specifically, in Play in Editor ...

Event Dispatcher not being called in 4.6

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Dec 8, 2014

ED nodes in 4.6 but are not being executed in standalone or cooked games. Also, users receive compile errors when the project is saved and reopened that resolve when the blueprint is recompiled. ...

AddChildActorComponent in Construction Script Causes Pending Kill Error

UE - Gameplay - Blueprint - Feb 16, 2016

When using AddChildActorComponent in the construction script of an actor and attempting to get a reference to the child actor that is stored in a variable on Event Begin Play, the editor throws erro ...

PlatformerGame app crashes after opened on tvOS

UE - Platform - Mobile - Nov 30, 2016

PlatformerGame is crashing when packaged and launched on tvOS. Assertion from console log:Nov 30 11:03:12 Apple-TV-Joey PlatformerGame[519] <Notice>: Assertion failed: FMath::TruncToInt(drawableSize ...

Pre-UE5 serialized FVariant FVector data corruption when deserialized in UE5

UE - Framework - LWC - Jan 15, 2024

FVariant is a struct that implements a union of data types, including FVector. When assigning an FVariant an FVector value in engine versions UE 4.27 or earlier, the FVariant will deserialize incorr ...

Calling UBlueprintMapLibrary::GenericMap_Find with a non-existent key causes a memory leak

UE - Framework - Blueprint - Apr 15, 2025

When Calling UBlueprintMapLibrary::GenericMap_Find with a non-existent key, the function construct the default structure in-place on the given pointer without destroying the object. This behavior ca ...