The streamer Turner “Tfue” Tenney is number 1 on Twitch and known for his Fortnite skills. However, after the new update in Fortnite, he got upset. Because Epic had fixed his favorite loophole in Slurpy Swamp with the patch: The shield exploit in Fortnite no longer works.
This is the background: In Fortnite, shield potions have existed for ages. In Chapter 2, Fortnite now showed where this shield potion is made: in the landing zone “Slurpy Swamp.”
Here stands a factory that extracts and produces shield potions from a “shield river.” Near the factory, there are also large tankers from the “Slurp” brand filled with shield potions.
Destroying the tankers yields shield points. That’s why Slurpy Swamp is such a popular landing spot.
Exploit saved seconds for a quick start
This is the shield exploit: If you want to break the tankers in Fortnite with a pickaxe, it takes a few hits and takes a while. However, it was possible to build a structure under the trucks, resulting in them being destroyed and the player receiving the full amount of shields with less effort.
For pros like Tfue, such a trick provides a few seconds advantage to quickly start a match with 100 shield energy.
This is how Tfue reacts: In a match after the latest patch in Fortnite, Tfue lands at the start of a round right at such a truck, quickly chops down a tree for materials, and places pyramids under the trucks. However, they no longer destroy the truck: The trick has been fixed. Tfue now has to spend valuable seconds destroying the truck “normally” in Fortnite.
Tfue reacts as usual with restraint:
“Epic, are you kidding me? Go fuck yourselves. It’s like you watched my stream… I mean seriously, why are you doing this?”
Tfue
Tfue is upset that an Epic employee specifically spent time making this trick impossible. And he was even paid for it. Tfue seems to feel this as a personal affront against him.
“That was then his priority. But why? Did it really affect the game?”
Tfue is annoyed that he now has to hit the truck again for “30 minutes.” In the clip, the destruction of the truck takes 5 seconds, with 7 hits needed with the pickaxe.
