Courage, Myth and TimTheTatman among critics of Fortnite\u2019s BRUTE Mech explanation Epic GamesA number of popular Fortnite content creators have been reacting to Epic Games\u2019 bizarre reason for not removing the B.R.U.T.E. mechs from the battle royale title. Since its release at the start of Season 10, fans and personalities have been begging Epic Games to give the robots a major nerf, or ideally remove them from the game entirely. Finally, the developers addressed players on Thursday, August 15, but their response was less than satisfactory, explaining that the mechs allowed \u201ceveryone to have a shot at that first elimination or Victory Royale moment,\u201d claiming that the players who previously struggled to find kills are getting more, and that experienced players are still finding the same amount of eliminations on average.\u201d Unsurprisingly, Epic Games\u2019 admission that the mechs were there to help bad players win matches didn\u2019t go down too well with the community, with popular content creators who shot to stardom thanks to the popularity of Fortnite voicing their anger at the blog post. Tim \u2018Overwatch account underneath the tweet of the post, writing: \u201cI\u2019m coming home, dad.\u201d The streamer than revealed his in-depth thoughts on the announcement, tweeting that he loves Fortnite but \u201cthese choices with the mech boggle my mind. Hope that some balance is found soon, hard to enjoy the game at the moment.\u201d I love @FortniteGame but these choices with the mech boggle my mind. Hope that some balance is found soon\u2026 hard to enjoy the game at the moment. \u2014 timthetatman (@timthetatman) August 15, 2019 TSM pro player Ali \u2018Myth\u2019 Kabanni echoed Timthetatman\u2019s thoughts, using Twitter to argue against the idea that Epic should continue to add items just to stop it from growing stale. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what to say about the most recent post Epic made,\u201d wrote the 20-year-old. \u201cI don\u2019t want items in the game just for the sake of keeping things \u2018fresh\u2019. I\u2019m not a game dev, but I\u2019m not sure if turning out content that\u2019s unproductive is a good plan for the long term.\u201d I dont even know what to say about the most recent post EPIC made. I dont want items in the game just for the sake of keeping things “”fresh””. I’m not a game dev, but I’m not sure if turning out content that’s unproductive is a good plan for the long term. :confused: \u2014 Myth (@TSM_Myth) August 15, 2019 Sypher \u2018SypherPK\u2019 Ali was also unhappy with the blog post, using his stream to argue the mechs were overpowered \u2013 no matter how few eliminations-per-match Epic claim it has. The 23-year-old raged: \u201cIf you added a gun in the game that has a button that randomly one person in the game dies, without a chance of counterplay, that button would still exist, right? And you can say that the button only accounts for 1% of deaths in the game. \u201cThe thing is, that doesn\u2019t matter. Every kill or death with the BRUTE is one too many! The BRUTE has very limited counterplay, and it allows players who don\u2019t usually get kills to have that opportunity!\u201d While some streamers made their annoyance clear, others like Jack \u2018CouRageJD\u2019 Dunlop and Ben \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo simply decided to ditch Fortnite for the night, and move on to other titles. 100 Thieves member CouRage responded to the tweet by advertising his own stream, telling people to \u201ctune into me playing Minecraft,\u201d where he was attempting to name a pig after Timthetatman, while DrLupo went off to play Dungeons and Dragons, a game which has \u201cno mechs.\u201d Guys \u2013 please tune into me playing Minecraft here I\u2019m trying to name my pig Tim https:\/\/t.co\/2jQ2ONdjPp \u2014 Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop (@CouRageJD) August 15, 2019 While it\u2019s possible that Epic Games may see all the outrage from the community and decide to adjust course, their blog post seems to indicate that they plan to stick to their guns regarding the mechs \u2013 a move which could see even more streamers shift away from the game for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Courage, Myth and TimTheTatman among critics of Fortnite\u2019s BRUTE Mech explanation Epic GamesA number of popular Fortnite content creators have been reacting to Epic Games\u2019 bizarre reason for not removing the B.R.U.T.E. mechs from the battle royale title. Since its release at the start of Season 10, fans and personalities have been begging Epic Games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}