In Fortnite: Battle Royale (PC, PS4, iOS, Android, Switch & Xbox One), the purple cube has caused utter chaos. During the final round of the Summer Skirmish tournament at PAX West, gravity was almost completely nullified.
The last round of the Summer Skirmish: Another round of the Summer Skirmish was held at PAX West. Epic Games’ first official tournament has a large prize pool.
Overall, the prizes totaled 8 million US dollars. Of that, 1.5 million was reserved for the winners of the final games during PAX West.
It was about a lot of money, and all the players were highly focused on the game. But then a bug struck and caused a tremendous chaos!
Final Zone lands in Anti-Gravity Field
The final showdown in Round 4: The 4th round of the Summer Skirmish had been running for some time, and nearly two dozen players were seeking refuge in the ever-shrinking safe zone from the deadly storm.
Interestingly, the safe zone was located in one of the anti-gravity zones that the mysterious purple cube has been distributing across the map for some time.
Gravity ruins final game phase: At first, no one probably thought much of it. Perhaps one or two players even welcomed the altered game conditions where everyone can jump much higher and further.
But soon, utter chaos reigned because gravity in the zone was not reduced but completely nullified. As a result, many players soon flew helplessly through the air. Some landed in the storm and immediately burned up.
Some players floated helplessly around and were shot down by less affected opponents. All the sophisticated endgame tactics were rendered useless.
The player who ended up winning was the one who had a bit of luck and kept their nerve.
Epic disables gravity feature for tournaments in the future
Bug or feature? After the round ended, naturally people wanted to know what had happened. Was the gravity chaos a feature that Epic wanted to use to spice things up?
Many players would have found that quite foolish since, after all, it was a significant amount of money at stake in the tournament.
Epic takes action against bug: Epic soon confirmed that the crazy gravity was indeed just a bug. It was likely triggered by too many players being in the anti-gravity zone.
To prevent that from happening again, the gravity fields were disabled in later games. Additionally, there was another match as compensation.
