Ninja explains why streamers boycotting Fortnite over BRUTE mechs won\u2019t work Epic Games \/ Mixer: NinjaSome of Fortnite\u2019s most popular streamers are publicly \u2018boycotting\u2019 the game due to the controversial BRUTE mechs, in the hope that Epic Games either remove or significantly nerf them, but Ninja is unconvinced it will work on the ever-stubborn devs. BRUTE mechs were added at the start of Season 10, and it didn\u2019t take long for players to realize how insanely powerful they were. Streamers and professional players quickly grew tired of being blasted out of their builds by the mech\u2019s unstoppable rockets, and with so few counters the mechs have become almost a guaranteed win for the player using it. So some of these streamers, namely Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins and Ben \u2018DrLupo\u2018 Lupo, decided to drop the game entirely and play rival BR PUBG for the time being, waiting out the mech\u2019s removal. They\u2019re still waiting however, and Ninja thinks they could be waiting a long-time, arguing that even if he, DrLupo, TimTheTatman and former FaZe pro Dennis \u2018Cloak\u2018 Lepore all stopped playing Fortnite completely, Epic wouldn\u2019t change their plans. \u201cI guarantee, if all four of us stopped playing this game, and start playing like PUBG or Realm Royale, they still wouldn\u2019t remove the mechs,\u201d Ninja concluded. Lupo and Ninja have in fact boycotted Fortnite \u2013 opting for mostly PUBG, although TimTheTatman has returned to Epic Games\u2019 mech-filled battle royale. The developers did make a small nerf to mech\u2019s spawn rate in competitive modes, but have generally done little to appease the complaining player base, who are unhappy with their existence at all. Ninja and co aren\u2019t the only ones to make their voices heard either \u2013 World Cup winner Kyle \u2018Bugha\u2018 Giersdorf and top Twitch streamer Turner \u2018Tfue\u2018 Tenney have both made it very clear that they want Epic to remove the BRUTEs. The v10.10 update for Fortnite was set to release on Tuesday, August 13, but has been pushed back as Epic investigate issues \u2013 players are hoping that the mech will addressed in a big way with this update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja explains why streamers boycotting Fortnite over BRUTE mechs won\u2019t work Epic Games \/ Mixer: NinjaSome of Fortnite\u2019s most popular streamers are publicly \u2018boycotting\u2019 the game due to the controversial BRUTE mechs, in the hope that Epic Games either remove or significantly nerf them, but Ninja is unconvinced it will work on the ever-stubborn devs. […]<\/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-76727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76727","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=76727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}