Changing padding of a UIPadding parented to a player's chat slows down execution of the legacy "wait" function

Bug Reports Engine Bugs
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PC Info: Windows 10 22H2
Impact: Medium
Frequency: Consistently
Date First Experienced: 5/23/23
Date Last Experienced: 5/26/23

Parenting a UIPadding to a player’s “Chat” GUI with chat version “LegacyChatService” and changing any padding property will slow down wait’s execution. The task variant of wait is unaffected.

Reproduction Steps:

  1. Join the reproduction game
  2. Press the “Add UIPadding” button

Expected Behavior: The timer should count up normally.
Actual Behavior: The timer slows down.

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Thanks for the report! We’ll follow up when we have an update for you!

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Hi just a quick update – this has been bumped up in priority and will be likely worked on at some point in 2024. Will update with more info when we have it.

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Hi @matboff with the migration to TextChatService, we will close this ticket as will not fix.