In Fortnite, professional players like CouRage are complaining about the new Season 7. Their accusation: Epic only brings items that allow weak players to get kills without having to earn them.
This is the complaint of the professional players: Jack “CouRage” Dunlop is a professional player in Fortnite. He explains in a tweet and in a Twitch stream what Fortnite “pros” like him have problems with regarding the new items.
All new items in Season 7 of Fortnite are made for weak players:
With all these items, weak players would get kills that they don’t deserve. Fortnite is therefore in a “very frustrating state” for all players in the upper tier.
CouRage explains that he of course makes money from the game, but first and foremost he plays Fortnite because he enjoys it.
However, all new items coming would reduce the “skill gap.” Therefore, streamers and professionals who play every day are increasingly frustrated.
Pros Want a High Skill Gap
This is the skill gap: A “skill gap” refers to the difference between strong and weak players and how significantly it affects gameplay.
With a high skill gap, a weak player has no chance at all. With a “low” skill gap, even a beginner can defeat a professional if they get a surprise attack or simply get lucky.
This is what it’s about: In fact, Fortnite had a few months ago the problem that only one “way to play” was successful: Building massive fortresses and mastering the editing of those fortresses.
This made it difficult for everyone else who weren’t builders to achieve anything. Professional matches were often relatively boring to watch, because players “would build in.” The accusation of “turtling” emerged, a defensive style of play.
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Epic announced in June 2018 that there should be more ways to win than just building. Therefore, in recent months, many “mobility items” came to Fortnite:
Grappling hooks
Golf buggies
Quad crashers
and lastly the planes
They changed the way the game was played significantly in part. Vehicles, certain weapons, and explosives – all of this was directed more or less directly against building over the past months.
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