Update: Nov. 16, 2023:
Epic posted a short statement on the Fortnite Twitter account addressing the community’s concerns.
“More on today’s rating announcement. About 7% of Fortnite Outfits can only be equipped in islands rated Teen. Over the next year we will enable most of these Outfits to be compatible with all ratings by having them auto-adjust appearance based on the island you want to play.”
Original Story:
The Fortnite 27.10 update is here, and the age and cosmetic restrictions are going over poorly with some fans of the multiplayer game. They’re not happy with the user interface updates either. Or the map. Or, well, anything.
The Fortnite Reddit is full of posts complaining about the changes and calling Fortnite 27.10 the game’s worst update ever. The most common issue players have is with the age rating system. Epic said in a statement that it introduced the rating system to standardize games and other creations that players add to the Fortnite creative platform as part of their “commitment to providing families with tools to make informed decisions about which experiences are appropriate for their children.”
It’s official. This is THE worst update in Fortnite history
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The problem is, it disables a large selection of skins if you’re playing something rated E10+ or lower. The rules governing what skins count as age-appropriate seem a bit random as well. It looks like any skin with a gun as part of its kit is automatically barred, despite Fortnite being a game about shooting people, though a few random, cartoon-like horror characters got the axe as well, including Mincemeat.
WHAT DID MY MAN MINCEMEAT EVEN DO </3 pic.twitter.com/PsgiN13sDA
— iFireMonkey (@iFireMonkey) November 16, 2023
Meanwhile, Michael Meyers from Halloween is totally fine for children, as is anyone carrying knives or other non-firearm weapons.
These restrictions only apply to player-made experiences, and even then, the creator has to opt in and decide the rating themselves. It’s not hard to see why fans are less than pleased, though. When skins cost roughly $20 or more, you don’t expect to suddenly have them restricted.
Fortnite 27.10 also changes the game’s font. That sounds like a minor thing to complain about, but it is genuinely awful. Fortnite used to have a distinct visual style, one that the text complemented and helped strengthen. Now, it looks flat and more than a little dull, with hardly any trace of the original style left.
“I wish we could go back to the chapter 2 look, when their passion and drive for IMPROVING the game had peaked,” one Redditer said. “I’m sad to say this, but this isn’t the Fortnite I fell in love with all those years ago.”
And if that weren’t enough, the map isn’t quite what Epic promised. It’s meant to be a throwback to older, classic Fortnite maps, but it’s missing features and scaled some down to the point where they might as well not even be there.
Is anyone else disappointed in the map?
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Epic hasn’t commented on the skin issue, so whether any of these changes are permanent remains to be seen.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
