Pro 'Fortnite' Players In Trouble For Cheating During Fall Skirmish

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Epic Games kicked off Fortnite's Fall Skirmish earlier this week, and with a prize pool of over $10 million, there's a lot on the line and pro players are taking it quite seriously.

Just for the first week of the event, Epic Games dished out $67,500 in prizes. In other words, this is a consequential amount of money up for grabs. And in the pursuit of this endless V-Bucks allowance and the glory, two pro players have cheated, and been caught.

Two of the players, "FunkBomb" and "NateHill," were notably playing with Bush Bandits, who were atop the club leaderboards. Playing duos together, at one point got eliminated, and rather than watch his partner's stream like everyone else, he tuned into the official tournament stream and started feeding NateHill information about what was going on, such as an enemy locations.

Now, if you've played even a few games of Fortnite, you'll know that knowing where enemies are offers a huge tactical advantage. Whether knowing you have a window to shield or heal, or just knowing where someone is so you can pop-up and get off some quick shots, it can change the tide of a battle, which is why it isn't allowed.

Nonetheless, the duos pair did this, while streaming, providing the Internet video evidence of their cheating. They have since taken down the streams -- as you would expect -- but the Fortnite community captured a clip of the cheating in action, and have put it up for everyone to view elsewhere.



At the moment, Epic games hasn't said what will be the course of action for the players, but presumably, they will be kicked from participation. However, given that they finished 27th out of 50 teams during the match in question, maybe they will skate by. Surely if they won, there would be a lot more attention and uproar about the situation.

Fortnite is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices.

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XBL-ABPosted:

Tinder Cane here and thought they were genuinely cheating, how is peaking cheating lmao i'm done



Guess you've never heard of stream sniping...

YinPosted:

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Maze How stupid do you have to be to cheat while live-streaming, especially during one of the biggest gaming events of the year


However there wasn't any signs of cheating in the video


It was in the audio. Guy was dead, calling out exactly where people are and how much health they had. He even said himself, "This feels like cheating, but..."

GroguPosted:

Maze How stupid do you have to be to cheat while live-streaming, especially during one of the biggest gaming events of the year


Don't think I could of put it better myself,

However there wasn't any signs of cheating in the video

YinPosted:

If they want to be serious about competitions, especially with that type of money on the line, they need to get them out. I don't care if they come in dead last. They are affecting other players.

MazePosted:

How stupid do you have to be to cheat while live-streaming, especially during one of the biggest gaming events of the year

TinderPosted:

Cane here and thought they were genuinely cheating, how is peaking cheating lmao i'm done

Two_FacedPosted:

Mario350 building is considered cheating anyways so who the fk cares if people glitch or cheat, cheating is a fun thing to do in fortnite due to building and unfun firefights, and yes im aware no one likes cheaters but still you have to agree that these "cheaters who arent aimbotting or wallhacking or any other cheating scum" more so playing how the game is meant to be played being good at killing people who wont engage in pvp and has to resort to building to win, honestly theres no pros in fortnite since fortnite takes all the skill away from br due to building, so i dont see why people are getting mad over others playstyle, who cares if they cheated or glitched to win its only fair when you are resorting to a handy cap called sucking at the game and need to make protection, no i dont condone cheating but still i dont seen any reason to ban glitchers, cheaters yes glitchers no, but what they did i wouldnt call it cheating since they arent using 3rd party software, what they did is called im worst then a cheater i have to watch the live feed to win because im garbage at the game



Ever heard of a period? And building isn't cheating imbecile, go play pub g

Mario350Posted:

building is considered cheating anyways so who the fk cares if people glitch or cheat, cheating is a fun thing to do in fortnite due to building and unfun firefights, and yes im aware no one likes cheaters but still you have to agree that these "cheaters who arent aimbotting or wallhacking or any other cheating scum" more so playing how the game is meant to be played being good at killing people who wont engage in pvp and has to resort to building to win, honestly theres no pros in fortnite since fortnite takes all the skill away from br due to building, so i dont see why people are getting mad over others playstyle, who cares if they cheated or glitched to win its only fair when you are resorting to a handy cap called sucking at the game and need to make protection, no i dont condone cheating but still i dont seen any reason to ban glitchers, cheaters yes glitchers no, but what they did i wouldnt call it cheating since they arent using 3rd party software, what they did is called im worst then a cheater i have to watch the live feed to win because im garbage at the game

TOXICPosted:

Good hope they all get a perm ban, spoil the game for everyone else just trying to have fun ffs.


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