In Fortnite: Battle Royale, a new client was used at the start of the big $500,000 ESL tournament in Katowice. This caused all sorts of bugs, glitches, and a lot of frustration!
What happened in Katowice? The big ESL tournament in Katowice (Poland) caused a lot of trouble and frustration for the participants. Due to many technical problems and bugs, some professionals were significantly hindered and fell far behind their capabilities.
Among other things, the following problems occurred:
- FaZE professional Nate Hill was caught by the Quad-Crasher glitch and got eliminated quickly
- Player Marki was actually down but couldn’t be eliminated
- Issa from Ghost Gamer suddenly couldn’t move his camera anymore
- Other players reported nasty lags that ruined their chances of victory.
The famous professional NICKMERCS even experienced a complete system crash before the final round. But instead of restarting the game, the organizers just kept going. Even when 6 to 8 other players dropped out in solidarity, it seemed to be of no concern to the organizers.
Furthermore, the headsets either attacked the ears with static shocks or there was simply no sound to be heard.
Professionals complain about the catastrophic state of the game
The numerous errors and problems led to considerable anger among the affected professionals. After all, it was about a prize pool of well over $500,000, and as a participant, you do not want to deal with such unnecessary technical issues.
“The event was not my best experience,” NICKMERCS remarked as the understatement of the week.
Why was the event so plagued by errors? The main reason for the many issues was likely the new game client of Season 8, which came to the servers fresh and likely without extensive testing just before the tournament. This was probably a very bad idea, as much frustration could have been avoided.
Even beforehand, many professionals were angry because, among other things, Season 8 arrived a day before the tournament started and removed popular loot locations from the professionals’ training.
Now these critical problems added to the mix.
Actually, Epic did not want to bring such actions anymore:
