Ninja explains why Fortnite\u2019s explosive buff wasn\u2019t all bad Ninja \/ TwitterEpic Games\u2019 decision to revert the changes made to explosives in Fortnite Battle Royale might be one of the most popular that they\u2019ve ever made, but some players saw an upside to the buff. The update to explosives allowed 25% of explosive damage to \u2018penetrate through structures and the environment\u2019 and it received a large amount of criticism from the Fortnite community, particularly professional players. Clips, Reddit posts and Twitter rants about the buff took over the internet soon after the v6.21 patch went live, and Epic Games eventually announced that they would be releasing a hotfix to revert it entirely. However, Ninja played devil\u2019s advocate during a Twitch stream after the buff originally went live, saying: \u201cHow annoying is it when somebody is just sitting there in a one-by-one? Literally in a one-by-one only.\u201d Ninja clearly believed that the changes to explosives would stop players from \u2018turtling up\u2019 as often and that it would reward more skillful players: \u201cThe only time a good player turtles up like that is when he\u2019s been sniped or when you\u2019ve got a bunch of damage on him. \u201cSo it\u2019s like, now that actually just applies that pressure for them to actually, you know, do something.\u201d While the Ninja\u2019s opinion might not have fallen in line with the general consensus of the community, it seems likely that Epic Games were thinking along the same lines when they put the buff into effect. Fortnite\u2019s developers may have decided to revert the changes entirely as a result of the community\u2019s feedback, but Ninja\u2019s statements make it clear the end goal of reducing the \u2018hide in a one-by-one\u2019 meta is one that should be pursued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja explains why Fortnite\u2019s explosive buff wasn\u2019t all bad Ninja \/ TwitterEpic Games\u2019 decision to revert the changes made to explosives in Fortnite Battle Royale might be one of the most popular that they\u2019ve ever made, but some players saw an upside to the buff. The update to explosives allowed 25% of explosive damage to […]<\/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-76731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76731","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=76731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}