Not even the world champion in Fortnite, Kyle “Bugha” Giersdorf, stands a chance against the new mechs. After being crushed by a B.I.E.S.T. live on a Twitch stream, the outcry was huge. The protest against the powerful vehicles is now so massive that Epic is likely on the verge of a nerf.
Who is Bugha? He recently won 3 million USD just a few weeks ago when he became the world champion in the Fortnite Solo World Cup with his outstanding gameplay.
The 16-year-old has since become one of the trending streamers on Twitch – is being promoted by the streaming platform itself and is in the public eye.
Mech 1 – World Champion 0
This was the situation: On August 7, Bugha was live on Twitch with top players Timothy “Bizzle” Miller and Danny “Dubs” Walsh. They were playing the new “Trio” mode in arena format.
Especially Bizzle is considered by many to be among the cream of the crop in Fortnite. But well, he was already dead at the start of the clip.
During the stream, Bugha enthusiastically builds structures that brought him so much success at the world championship. But the mech has no problems with that. Bugha still screams in Terminator style: “I will take care of the robot,” only to be crushed shortly after.
After that, he yells: “Oh my God. I will never play this game again” and logs off immediately.
Seconds later, he has calmed down a bit and says: “Epic Games, take them out immediately. I know you are watching my stream. Take them out.”
The announcement of never playing again had probably already faded away.
Fortnite is likely to nerf the mechs soon
What’s the deal with the mechs? At the start of Season 10, Fortnite introduced these extremely powerful “two-person” vehicles into the game. Since then, pros have been constantly complaining about how incredibly powerful these mechs are and that they dominate the games:
- Either you are in such a mech and win
- or you get killed by a mech.
Building and shooting, which is so important to pros, does little against the “beasts”. The driver can crush everything while the shooter still blasts his victims with shotguns and rockets.
Epic has already announced that they will reassess the strength of the mechs. At the moment, everyone is expecting a nerf for the beasts soon – maybe already in the update next week or even via a hotfix.
This is what it’s about: At the beginning of a season, Epic often brings something that completely shakes Fortnite up and caters to the “casual players”.
That was the case with the airplanes already. But with the mechs, it seems they have really gone a bit overboard this time.
Over the course of a season, Fortnite often tones these things down and turns Fortnite back into a “Bob the Builder” game with a noticeable skill gap.
At the beginning of Season 10, however, Fortnite is bringing quite a bit that contradicts
