Because the very starting of Could 2024, it has been Star Wars season in Fortnite. The collaboration spans throughout 3 modes of Fortnite together with Battle Royale, LEGO, and Fortnite Pageant. The collaboration included components from the Star Wars franchise corresponding to weapons, beauty objects, world modifications and extra. Nonetheless, the cosmetics part of the collaboration appears to be creating an issue within the recreation, which is why the devs have banned them in the meanwhile, be taught extra beneath.
Fortnite bans Yoda Gear Pack because of recreation crashing glitch
It appears the difficulty is being brought on by the Yoda Gear Pack beauty that was launched throughout the replace. Gamers who’re utilizing the emote ‘Zoidberg Scuttle’ whereas sporting the again bling are experiencing their recreation crash completely. As quickly because the participant begins dancing via the emote, Yoda’s face on the again bling begins glitching out, which causes the sport to crash. You possibly can see the glitch in motion in iFireMonkey’s video beneath.
When you do the Zoidberg Scuttle emote whereas sporting the Yoda backbling, there’s a excessive probability that you’ll crash your recreation.
This is because of Yodas face bugging out with the emote.
There may be additionally studies that this may crash individuals in your squads video games as effectively pic.twitter.com/N0N5LLuIEp
— iFireMonkey (@iFireMonkey) May 7, 2024
As quickly because the glitch began occurring the gamers made the builders conscious of it, and the Fortnite Standing account acknowledged the sport crashing problem and acknowledged that they might be investigating the issue and offering an replace quickly. Quickly after they launched a follow-up tweet stating that they might be quickly disabling the Yoda Again Bling together with the Disassembled C-3PO and Dagobah Luke cosmetics till they give you a repair.
As a result of a problem that will have been inflicting crashes for some gamers, we’ve quickly disabled the Yoda Again Bling whereas the workforce is engaged on a repair.
We’ve additionally eliminated Yoda, Disassembled C-3PO, and Dagobah Luke from the Store. pic.twitter.com/jUojQBjuQz
— Fortnite Standing (@FortniteStatus) May 8, 2024
In the mean time the difficulty appears to be solely with these cosmetics, different objects and components within the recreation appear to be working completely high-quality. Epic is understood to patch these points quickly and it’s only a matter of time earlier than the repair arrives.