Fortnite players baffled over massive nerf nobody asked for Epic GamesFortnite players have been left confused after Epic Games issued an extreme nerf to the scanning abilities of Recon NPCs and POI Banners in the Battle Royale. Fortnite\u2019s Battle Royale mode has constantly been updated and tweaked by Epic Games as they try to keep things balanced. As developers typically have unleashed new content updates every few weeks and new season updates every couple of months, it can be tricky to keep it competitive. In Chapter 5, the talking points in the community have revolved around particular OP items and weapons. These include snipers, the Ballistic Shield and Medallions, which have all dominated the meta, caused mass divides and had nerfs. However, seemingly out of the blue, Epic has now puzzled players by issuing an extreme nerf to the scanning abilities of Recon NPCs and even disabled them completely for POI Banners. Fortnite players confused over Recon NPC and POI Banner nerf Fortnite player Leading-Pop5059 posted to the community: \u201cSo there\u2019s no point in recon NPCs, and who was even complaining about this?\u201d It was shown alongside a screenshot of a reported hotfix on February 23, which trusted creator and leaker HYPEX stated: \u201cNPCs & POI Banners no longer mark nearby enemies and chests.\u201d Specifically, Epic has entirely disabled the scanning of POI Banners, but instead of deactivating it completely for Recon NPCs, they have just drastically nerfed their ability. \u201cRecon NPCs now only scan the nearby area every 10,000 seconds instead of 45 seconds,\u201d they further explained. Many equally confused players flooded in with their comments. \u201cEpic try not to nerf everything into the ground challenge (IMPOSSIBLE),\u201d with another pointing out that \u201cit only scans once per game then? 10k seconds is 2.78 hours.\u201d However, various players soon suggested it was because of a glitch: \u201cScanning is bugged, so they made it so nothing can scan anymore.\u201d Despite one claiming that \u201cthe bug was that there was no audio played if you were scanned except the little diamond on your head which you could easily not notice.\u201d HYPEX has suggested that the glitch was instead related to \u201can issue causing darkened lighting issues for some players.\u201d At the time of writing, Epic Games confirmed they had fixed the bug that was causing darkened lighting issues, but scanning for Recon NPCs and POI banners is still disabled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite players baffled over massive nerf nobody asked for Epic GamesFortnite players have been left confused after Epic Games issued an extreme nerf to the scanning abilities of Recon NPCs and POI Banners in the Battle Royale. Fortnite\u2019s Battle Royale mode has constantly been updated and tweaked by Epic Games as they try to keep […]<\/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-73811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811","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=73811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}