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Fortnite update 5.40 arrived early Thursday morning, and it seems to have brought a few nasty side effects along with it. According to several users across the game's subreddits and social media channels, lag and rendering bugs have cropped up on mobile, PC and game consoles.
Fortnite 's developers at Epic Games were quick to call out iOS anomalies on Twitter as "an issue with performance," but no further update has been provided as the bug's impact seems to stretch a bit wider than previously assumed. "This game is super choppy for me even when I'm at 200 frames per second" wrote subreddit PC user StupidSteam782, adding "the game is almost unplayable."
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As seen in this PS4 video from Jose Ibarra on YouTube, there are several pauses in the action while building and shooting during a simple firefight. On mobile, players have encountered rendering issues that make the game's graphical elements appear less than stellar as well.
Given Fortnite update 5.40's recent launch, there's little doubt the new patch has something to do with the issues players have been experiencing. In addition to adding the Grappler weapon and a series of High Stakes Challenges, the 1GB download also included a few performance tweaks that may or may not be contributing to the latest shortcomings.
To its credit Epic has almost always been quick to identify and resolve bugs on this scale, but the developer's silence in this particular case is a bit worrisome. The lack of response despite dozens of user reports suggests a fix for the lag has been difficult to isolate. That being said, you can bet a client-side patch will be sent out to all platforms to address everything as soon as the kinks are fully ironed out.
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In times like these, it's important for Fortnite fans to remember that both Battle Royale and Save the World are technically in an early access state. That means the game is still in active development, which makes bugs like these slightly more common than on a fully released product. When you add large swaths of content to an existing framework, as Epic does with Fortnite on a weekly basis, not all patches are going to stick a perfect landing. These problems, while unfortunate, are often part and parcel to the early access process.
Fortnite is in early access across PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC and mobile. Issues with lag appear to be impacting all platforms.
Are you frustrated by lag in Fortnite right now? When will Epic fix this problem? Tell us in the comments section!
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