Epic Calls Off Fortnite Tournament Over Game-Breaking Map Bug

Epic Calls Off Fortnite Tournament Over Game-Breaking Map Bug

From TheGamer (Written by Jack Coleman) on | OpenCritic

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Takii, a professional Fortnite player for One True Army, was forced to abandon several games in a row during the Reload Performance Evaluation tournament after encountering a persistent game-breaking map bug (thanks, GamesRadar+).

As seen in a post made by the player, players enter a lobby but quickly leave when they realise that something is very wrong with the map. The newly added Oasis map overlaps with the main Battle Royale island, creating a cross-dimensional hellscape. The names blend together on the mini-map, overlapping Sunburnt Shafts and Weeping Woods. Sunburnt Woods is a place no player should ever visit. Other location names are outside the confines of the map, like Dirty Docks and Craggy Cliffs.

Takii explained that he backed out because he thought the lobby was bugged, and the match wouldn't count, but he encountered the same problem in his next four games. A couple of hours later, the Fortnite Status account announced the tournament had been cancelled. "We've cancelled the remainder of the Reload Performance Evaluation Cup due to an issue causing multiple maps to be present in a match," the statement reads. "Thank you for participating in the Performance Evaluation Cup, which helped identify...

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