Fortnite High Stakes Event Delayed Due to Controller Bug

Popular battle royale game, Fortnite, was expected to receive patch v5.40 later today which would bring along a bunch of changes, including the new High Stakes event. Even so, according to a new tweet from Fortnite, the update is existence pushed dorsum to Thursday due to a controller issue the development team plant in patch v5.40.

Due to the discovery of a critical controller issue, we'll be moving the release of v5.xl and High Stakes to Thursday September 6.

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) September 4, 2018

The Loftier Stakes issue, which will bring a new Getaway Manner LTM to the game, is awaited due to the new format of gameplay that it brings, and also for the new Wildcard peel that we now know will not be a function of challenges, and instead volition be bachelor for purchase through the item store. Other than that, players volition also have a bunch of 'High Stakes' challenges to unlock additional rewards other than the usual weekly challenges that the game receives. Exercise keep in heed that if you want the new Wildcard skin, you'll have to buy it, considering the High Stakes challenges do not grant the skin as a reward, instead you can get 5000 XP, a new crowbar harvesting tool, and an exclusive spray by completing the High Stakes challenges which Epic announced at PAX West, and we have covered here.

Coming back to the weekly challenges though, the team also confirmed that Week 9's challenges will besides exist delayed by a day, and will now exist bachelor to complete on Friday instead.

This also ways that Challenge unlocks will be pushed dorsum a twenty-four hour period from Th 9/six to Friday 9/7.

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) September four, 2018

The delayed patch v5.40 is expected to bring a agglomeration of major changes to Fortnite, including storm harm to thespian built structures towards the cease of the game, a new grappler item to brand information technology easier for players to get from one part of the map to some other, and changes to the stacking values for some items.