Fortnite: Ninja criticizes Epic Games for adding planes and Infinity Blade to Winter Royale Top Fortnite streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has criticized Epic Games for the timing of their updates coinciding with the Winter Royale tournament, saying \u201cit\u2019s not what I qualified for.\u201d The Winter Royale is Epic\u2019s first ever open tournament, boasting a $1 million prize pool across the NA and EU competitions, which players qualified for through the in-game playlists. Anyone could qualify, meaning it levelled out the playing field by not using any invitationals, but Ninja was among the few who placed high enough to make it in. However, on December 11, the new Infinity Blade was added to Fortnite, but instead of being in its own limited time playlist, it was added to every single mode \u2013 including the Winter Royale matches. The Infinity Blade is a single spawn weapon, which grants players double health and shield, and even regenerates health and shield upon every kill. It gives the player who wields it a higher jump and the ability to smash down builds instantly. Combined with the addition of the plane at the start of Season 7, as well as some major map changes, the version of Fortnite which is being played in the Winter Royale finals is vastly different to that which qualifiers were played on, as Ninja explains. Ninja was somewhat empathetic to Epic\u2019s predicament: \u201cWe qualified for this when Risky [Reels] was still in it, obviously the snow map, that\u2019s understandable, they\u2019re not going to delay a whole Season for this tournament.\u201d But, like many competitive players, Ninja thinks the inclusion of new planes and the Infinity Blade was a step too far, saying \u201cto add the sword and to have these planes, in this tournament, it\u2019s just not what I qualified for.\u201d Ninja also said that the addition of the Infinity Blade and planes was a direct cause for some players not qualifying. GGs to everyone who qualified today! I did not so I will be hosting a viewing party for the finals \ud83d\ude00 Love doing those anyways with some drinks and epic additional commentary! Planes and swords were what caused a HUGE amount of top players to not qualify and for that I am sry \ud83d\ude41\u2014 Ninja (@Ninja) December 11, 2018 The problem for Epic lies with the balance between new updates which the majority of the casual player base can be excited about, with the needs and wants of the competitive community. More: CouRage finds hilarious way to advertise his Twitch and Fortnite creator code on TimTheTatman\u2019s stream – Not having the Infinity Blade kept separate in its own LTM would have been a simple solution to this, but Epic clearly wanted it to be a main feature of Season 7. Other pro players, such as Ghost Gaming\u2019s \u2018Bizzle\u2019 and FaZe Clan\u2019s \u2018Avxry\u2019 have also been vocal about just how detrimental this new update has been for competitive Fortnite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite: Ninja criticizes Epic Games for adding planes and Infinity Blade to Winter Royale Top Fortnite streamer Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins has criticized Epic Games for the timing of their updates coinciding with the Winter Royale tournament, saying \u201cit\u2019s not what I qualified for.\u201d The Winter Royale is Epic\u2019s first ever open tournament, boasting a $1 […]<\/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-73638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73638","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=73638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}