AFortniteplayer has discovered a glitch in Chapter 3 Season 4 which causes them to launch extremely high up in the air, with the resulting fall causing them to die instantly. While the rollout of any new content for a live service game can usually include its fair share of bugs and glitches,Fortnite’s issues seem to be a bit more prevalent as of late.
Epic Games' ever-popular free-to-play battle royale title kicked off its new chrome-filled Chapter 3 Season 4 on September 18. The new season, titled “Paradise,” so far seems to be anything but - bugs and glitches aside - with several major characters gettingswallowed by liquid chrome inFortnite’s season trailer.
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TheFortnitebug in question was posted by Reddit user u/Floating_egg, who has posted footage of the glitch to one of the developer-supportedFortnitesubreddits. In the clip, viewers will see the player,equipped with the John Wick skin, running around the perimeter of a roof at Tilted Towers. At about seven seconds in, the player drops off the side to ground level, only to jump and be launched higher than even Rift-To-Go levels. The player then begins falling back down, narrowly missing mantling the roof edge, and ultimately falling to their death.
Comments on the post range from sympathetic to dismissive, with some saying they’ve experienced a similar issue, while others assert that this particular bug isn’t something new toFortniteChapter 3 Season 4. The comments also seem to indicate that this particular bug is caused byFortnite’s relatively new mantling ability. Introduced during Chapter 3 Season 2, mantling allows players to grab and hoist themselves up onto ledges, making it much easier to gain elevation. However, this bug takes that elevation gain to literal ridiculous heights, and seems to be affecting a number of players.
The mantling bug isn’t the only glitch being found inFortnite’s latest season. Another player has shared images of aFortnitebug that removes all water from the battle royale map. The player lands near Synapse station, where screenshots show a complete absence of any kind of water source anywhere on the map, including the island’s surrounding ocean. Fish are still shown swimming, indicating some kind of functionality, although its unclear if boats were still findable and usable.
DespiteFortnite’s new season presenting a handful of problems, other new content seems to be solving one. The latest update nowallows hiredFortniteNPCs to resurrect players, making the AI more useful than ever before. With the recent bugs and glitches more than likely to be addressed in a new patch, it should be exciting to see what’s in store for this season ofFortnite.
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