Key Takeaways
- A professional Fortnite player encountered a game-breaking map bug that forced Epic to call off a tournament.
- The new Oasis map overlapped with the Battle Royale map, creating a strange-looking hybrid map.
- Fortnite is currently amid Chapter 2 Remix, a re-imaging of the old Chapter 2 featuring hip-hop icons.
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.
An Unholy Map
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 this issue.”
The unholy amalgamation has been retired by Epic Games, never to return, we hope. Those who laid eyes on the Weeping Shafts may never recover mentally. Unfortunately for Takii and his fellow professionals, the time they invested won’t count.
Fortnite is currently amid the Chapter 2 Remix, a hip-hop-inspired ‘remix’ event of Chapter 2 featuring Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Ice Spice and Juice WRLD. You can find Snoop at The Doggpound where defeating him rewards players with Snoop’s Drum Gun. A tribute to Juice WLRD, who was a massive Fortnite fan before his death, exists in the Doggpound. A chair bearing ‘999’, a number Juice often referred to, is present in the location’s executive suite, and it can’t be destroyed.
Starting life as a tower defense game, Fortnite has become one of the biggest video games out there. Its battle royale mode dominates popular culture, featuring concerts by megastar musicians and crossovers with just about every brand imaginable, from Marvel to the NFL.