Fortnite: Epic Games change stance on explosive damage update following community backlash [Hotfix released] UPDATE: The hotfix to revert the explosive buff has now been implemented. The hotfix has been deployed and explosives no longer damage players through structures. Thanks again for the feedback and discussion you provided. \u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) November 2, 2018 One of the most controversial changes in Fortnite Battle Royale\u2019s November 1 update was the buff to explosives. Now, Epic Games have made a decision to backtrack entirely. The somewhat perplexing decision to allow 25% of explosive damage to \u2018penetrate through structures and the environment\u2019 received a great deal of backlash from the Fortnite community, particularly professional players. Clips and Twitter rants quickly began to pop up all over social media once the v6.21 patch went live, with most players agreeing that it made explosives far too powerful. It would seem that the feedback did not fall on death ears, as Epic Games\u2019 Design Lead, Eric Williamson has confirmed that the changes will be reverted entirely at some point today (November 2). \u201cWe\u2019ll be reverting the explosive damage change today,\u201d Williamson explained on Twitter. \u201cThanks for your feedback.\u201d We’ll be reverting the explosive damage change today \u2013 thanks for your feedback :slightly_smiling_face: \u2014 Eric Williamson (@erwil9) November 2, 2018 This was confirmed shortly after by the official Fortnite Twitter account: \u201cWe\u2019ll be releasing a hotfix today to revert the changes made to explosives damaging through structures. Thanks for the discussion and feedback.\u201d We’ll be releasing a hotfix today to revert the changes made to explosives damaging through structures. Thanks for the discussion and feedback. \u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) November 2, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite: Epic Games change stance on explosive damage update following community backlash [Hotfix released] UPDATE: The hotfix to revert the explosive buff has now been implemented. The hotfix has been deployed and explosives no longer damage players through structures. Thanks again for the feedback and discussion you provided. \u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) November 2, 2018 One […]<\/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-73031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73031","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=73031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}