Fortnite Players Upset With New Restrictions On Skins, Epic Responds

Yesterday, Fortnite players noticed that immoderate of the skins successful their locker had a caller awesome connected them – a triangle with a yellowish outline and an exclamation people wrong – alongside a informing that said, "Items with the awesome tin lone beryllium utilized successful experiences rated 12+." Players were upset with the change, which arrived retired of nowhere, arsenic it made skins they antecedently utilized connected assorted originative islands unusable connected said islands owed to the caller property standing restriction. Developer Epic Games has present responded, revealing that astir 7% of Fortnite skins, oregon Outfits arsenic they're officially called, tin lone beryllium equipped successful islands rated Teen. 

Shiina connected Twitter posted astir the alteration yesterday, and it didn't instrumentality agelong for players to announcement that immoderate of their favourite skins were unusable connected originative islands rated Teen. The statement is that skins featuring circumstantial weaponry, similar pistols oregon knives, are the ones restricted from islands with a little property rating. But oddly, it seems rather strict connected that circumstantial criteria. For example, Michael Myers, a fearfulness icon and fictional serial killer, is allowed connected immoderate originative island. The Michael Myers skins doesn't diagnostic immoderate knives oregon pistols but it is, rather literally, the killer from the various Halloween movies. 

JoyfulTalmon connected Twitter posted a look astatine his locker successful Fortnite and each tegument successful the representation beneath but their Michael Myers tegument is property restricted.

It's rather odd, and players wrong the assemblage are unhappy – not lone are favourite skins nary longer usable connected definite originative islands, but galore of these skins are ones radical paid wealth for (often $10 to $20 depending) and present they can't beryllium utilized arsenic wanted successful the game. 

Game Informer reached retired to Epic yesterday aft the update went unrecorded to inquire immoderate questions astir the change. An Epic spokesperson pointed Game Informer towards the tweet below, which reads: "More connected today's standing announcement. About 7% of Fortnite Outfits tin lone beryllium equipped successful islands rated Teen. Ove the adjacent twelvemonth we volition alteration astir of these Outfits to beryllium compatible with each the ratings by having them auto-adjust quality based connected the land you privation to play." 

The Epic spokesperson besides told Game Informer that outfits aren't restricted based connected an idiosyncratic player's property oregon parental power permissions; it's based solely connected an island's rating. 

Notably, Epic says it's moving implicit the adjacent twelvemonth to alteration astir of the skins successful Fortnite to beryllium compatible with each ratings by having them auto-adjust quality based connected the selected island. Presumably, the Resident Evil Claire Redfield skin, which features a pistol successful a holster connected her thigh, volition auto-update to region the pistol, for example. But that's speculation for now, and lone clip volition tell. With hundreds of skins successful the game, it could instrumentality a while, which is apt wherefore Epic is giving itself an estimation of a twelvemonth to marque the changes. 

These changes get arsenic Fortnite is underway with its biggest play yet – Fortnite Chapter 4: Season OG, the 5th successful this chapter. The conflict royale precocious had its biggest time ever with 44 cardinal players acknowledgment to this throwback Season OG. If you haven't yet jumped in, here's everything you request to cognize astir Fortnite Chapter 4: Season OG.

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