Fortnite Junk Rift item disabled across all game modes Epic GamesEpic Games announced on the official Fortnite Twitter account that it would be removing the Junk Rift item from all modes temporarily on August 25. The junk rift item was first released in patch v10.10, and like the B.R.U.T.E Mech, was quickly derided by competitive players who argued that it fundamentally compromised the game. The way the item works is that it is thrown and a rift opens up over your enemy, dropping a random object on them. On August 25, Epic announced that it would be disabling the item across all games modes because of an issue. Junk Rift is temporarily disabled Seemingly out of the blue, the official Fortnite Twitter account updated players and said it would be removing the Junk Rift item from all modes due to an \u201cissue\u201d in game. Read More: Top 5 most controversial updates in Fortnite – \u201cDue to an issue with Junk Rifts, we\u2019ve temporarily disabled them in all game modes. We\u2019ll provide an update when we have more information.\u201d the tweet read. Due to an issue with Junk Rifts, we’ve temporarily disabled them in all game modes. We’ll provide an update when we have more information. \u2014 Fortnite (@FortniteGame) August 25, 2019 Junk Rift had already been disabled in Arena playlists on August 22 due to audio issues and the announcement was quickly met with praise from pro Fortnite players such as Team Liquid\u2019s Ryan \u2018Chap\u2019 Chaplo who praised the item\u2019s removal. \u201c+1 for removing Junk Rift from arena -1 for keeping the terrible vehicle in the game\u201d he tweeted, before realizing that it was only temporary. +1 for removing Junk Rift from arena -1 for keeping the terrible vehicle in the game\u2014 Chap (@LiquidChap) August 22, 2019 Competitive players hate the Junk Rift Season X of Fortnite has so far proven to be its most controversial, due to the backlash received from players and the competitive scene over the addition the B.R.U.T.E. Mech and Junk Rift item. Read More: Vaulted Ballers available in Fortnite again – Fortnite World Cup winner Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2019 Giersdorf took to Twitter on August 20 to urge Epic to \u201cremove the junk rift\u201d as he and other pro players were not a fan of the item. Those who hate the Junk Rift will need to get in as much play time as they can while it\u2019s disabled, as it seems that the controversial will be making its way back as soon as they fix the \u201cissues\u201d with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite Junk Rift item disabled across all game modes Epic GamesEpic Games announced on the official Fortnite Twitter account that it would be removing the Junk Rift item from all modes temporarily on August 25. The junk rift item was first released in patch v10.10, and like the B.R.U.T.E Mech, was quickly derided by competitive […]<\/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-73365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365","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=73365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}