Fortnite players are upset over a new change that affects several emotes in the game, as they can no longer be used under certain conditions.
One of Fortnite’s well-known features is its massive list of emotes. These range from Epic’s original dance emotes to those from collaborations, and everything else in between.
Players often use these to express themselves, be it celebrating a win after eliminating the last player or simply taunting the enemies. While it’s long been a fan favorite feature, of course, things aren’t always sunshine and rainbows.
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The community is well aware that there are players who tend to use certain emotes for other, more suggestive purposes (looking at you, Party Hips.) Now, it appears that Epic has finally patched out the ability to use certain emotes this way, drawing the ire of the community.
Fortnite players are furious over new emote change
Through social media posts, players have started pointing out that some emotes, such as Bring It Around and Ride The Pony, can no longer be used when you’re too close to someone else, specifically if they’re doing the Poki and Party Hips emotes.
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Instead of having your character perform the selected emote when you pick it in the communication wheel, they’ll either just do nothing or shake their head. Previously, this wasn’t the case at all.
Epic has yet to speak up about the matter, but some players in a Reddit thread claimed “Freaky” emotes have been patched to no longer be usable next to other emotes.”
Many in the thread speculated that this sudden change may be a response to Roblox getting backlash over a similar matter with its own custom emotes.
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So far, many players aren’t too pleased with this kind of change, blasting it as a form of alleged ‘censorship’.
“I would be fine with this if it were for game modes rated E and E10. T-rated ones should be left alone,” said one user.
“Dumb change, was funny to do on my friends. And the fact they’ve made an initial change without announcing it means they’ll likely want to make more changes like this in the future, which isn’t good,” mentioned another.
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Meanwhile, several users are convinced this is merely a “band-aid fix”, as people will eventually figure out alternative ways to do something similar by using a combination of other emotes.
Some fans are hoping Epic will rethink this change, and only time will tell if they do.