Fortnite pros aren\u2019t happy about the game-altering connection issues some players face Fortnite players on the west coast of the United States have been having an increasingly tough time playing the game and one pro has demonstrated exactly why. With Fortnite\u2019s servers being housed on the east coast, players on the opposite side of the country frequently deal with high ping, making it hard to execute certain technical maneuvers. Building, one of the most important aspects of Fortnite, is heavily affected by the connection issue, as evidenced in a short video Fortnite pro \u2018psalm.\u2019 In the video, two players are facing each other and using the turbo building function to try and outbuild their opponent who is shooting them with an SMG. The player who resides on the east coast is able to successfully turbo build and prevent taking any damage whatsoever. The west coast player, however, is nowhere near as successful. A tale of two stories: An east player tries out turbo building. A west player, intrigued, attempts the same.. pic.twitter.com\/xTegZ2z67e \u2014 psalm (@psalmHotS) November 16, 2018 Things start off fairly well, but after a couple of seconds, the delay due to their high ping gives the enemy player enough of a gap to kill them very quickly. The disparity in ping is something that players have been dealing with for quite some time and it doesn\u2019t seem like it\u2019s going away anytime soon. As 100 Thieves pro \u2018Kenith\u2019 pointed out in a reply to the video, an Epic Games employee recently stated that \u201c80ms ping is perfectly playable, even competitive,\u201d to which many players heavily disagree. Kenith wasn\u2019t the only pro to respond to the video, as a few others found the video to be the unfortunate truth of the situation. FaZe Clan Dennis \u2018Cloak\u2019 Lepore TSM Karman \u2018Kaysid\u2019 Sidhu Fnatic Erikas \u2018Eryc\u2019 Vaitkevicius Lmaooo is this actually confirmed\/tested multiple times? I’ve had this happen to me so many times and that explains it \u2014 FNATIC Eryc (@ErycTriceps) November 16, 2018 compLexity Gaming Michael \u2018Hogman\u2019 Hogman Cloud9 pro Christian \u2018Criz\u2019 Rizk even took the moment as an opportunity to speak out against turbo building in general, saying that players \u201cshould have to ACTUALLY walk backward, build a stair, dodge bullets\u2026not just hold a button.\u201d The video has been gaining much steam both on Twitter and on the Fortnite Competitive subreddit, and given how closely Epic looks at player feedback, it wouldn\u2019t be out of the question to see some changes made in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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