In Fortnite , professional players usually accuse the developer Epic of responding too slowly to bugs and issues. When Epic fixed an exploit in a short time, professional player Dennis “Cloak” Lepore lost his temper.
What kind of exploit was it? Players discovered a trick to adjust their “Field of View”. By tinkering with Fortnite’s game files, they could change the settings.
This allowed them to essentially play Fortnite in the “Stretch” resolution, where models appear slightly wider and are therefore easier to hit.
However, Epic does not want that: They explicitly prohibited professionals from changing the resolution. During competitive matches like the ongoing Fortnite World Championship, everyone is supposed to play in standard resolution, or “Native”.
This posed a real problem for many professionals who had gotten used to “Stretched”.
Therefore, one player was very happy when he seemingly found a way to play like before: with the exploit.
Professional player Faze Cloak praised the new resolution: The game looked “super” and it was in 1920, he said live on stream.
Cloak is considered one of the best Fortnite players in the world, having won the Winter Skirmish with his partner Tfue and more than $250,000 in prize money.
The exploit was fixed quickly: Before the resolution exploit could spread widely, Epic had already reacted.
A player inquired on Discord whether the “FOV Slider Trick” was allowed. If so, many would surely use it in the World Championship qualification starting Saturday, April 20.
As announced in the Fortnite Discord, Epic fixed the problem in no time.
This is why the professional is so upset: Professional Dennis “Cloak” Lepore takes the quick fix as an opportunity to criticize Epic. According to him, it only took 30 minutes for the bug to be fixed.
- This little thing gets fixed in no time
- In contrast to serious bugs that are in the game – and which take months to be eliminated.
Cloak is among the players who have heavily criticized Epic in recent weeks, for instance, for setting the resolution to Native or the dominance of the baller in Fortnite.
Cloak was also the one who pointed out that the $30 million Fortnite World Championship will run with three different seasons and thus three fundamentally different versions of Fortnite.
This is what it entails: In the competitive part of Fortnite, unrest is spreading about the fix. Many there would like the “Field of View” slider as a feature and more control over how they play Fortnite.
Players feel patronized by Epic. Currently, the atmosphere between Fortnite and its e-sports athletes seems increasingly tense, often leading to frictions and conflicts – especially where so much money is at stake during the World Championship.
