In Fortnite: Battle Royale is soon the big World Championship. But since Epic has not removed a certain weapon, the grand finale could become quite boring.
Which weapon is it about? Currently, a certain weapon combination is tormenting at least the duo rounds in Fortnite’s competitive scene. We are talking about the dreaded “Double Heavy”. This refers to a setup where both players each use a heavy sniper rifle.
This was the following killer combination:
- The players choose a target that is well fortified.
- Then the first player shoots away the cover …
- The second player fires a fraction of a second later
- so the first bullet pierces the cover and the second usually kills the poor soul behind it immediately
Double heavy sniper is the most broken combo right now. from r/FortniteCompetitive
How often is this tactic used? Since heavy snipers are very rare, it usually only happens later in the game that a duo has two of them. But in the final battle, the chance is quite high that at least one team uses such a combo, and professionals are on guard.
How can one protect against the Double Heavies? The only sensible rescue against this tactic is to bring even more cover between oneself and the deadly killer bullets of the heavies.
This again means that professionals build even more cover than is already common in tournaments.
Why is this a problem? Since no player likes to lose in extremely high-class tournaments, like the upcoming World Championship, they do everything to stay in the game. Therefore, out of pure fear of the heavy sniper combo, builders tend to build as much as they can.
And no spectator likes to see a bunch of nervous professionals barricading themselves behind masses of cover and building more than shooting. That is boring and tedious.
Epic missed the chance to kick the Heavy Sniper in time
What Epic could have done: Many players complained about the combination of the 2 heavies. Even professionals like Chap from Team Liquid expressed their frustration on Twitter. Therefore, many fans hoped that Epic would remove the heavy sniper with today’s patch.
The signs were good, as a new and much less brutal sniper rifle, the Storm Scout Sniper Rifle, was expected for Patch 9.41 today. That also came. But instead of kicking another sniper weapon, all weapons remained in the game as usual, and the new sniper is now just additionally in the pool.
A week before the big World Championship, Epic probably doesn’t want to change much in the meta anymore. But this has led Epic to fail to curb a combination that many players find unsightly. It remains to be seen whether this will make the grand finale – at least in duos – more boring.
