Fortnite C4 Remote Explosives Have Been Temporarily Disabled

Tuesday, July 24th has seen Epic Games take to the official Twitter account of Fortnite in order to announce that it has decided to temporarily disable the powerful C4 remote explosives. 

The announcement stated that the reasoning for the temporary disabling of the Fortnite Battle Royale C4 remote explosives is due to a bug with the item that was causing the C4 to not damage structures after damaging a player. 

We've discovered an issue with Remote Explosives not causing damage to structures after damaging a player first. Due to this, we'll need to temporarily disable the item. We'll update you when we have more information.

— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) July 24, 2018

Many members of the community will likely be extremely happy to hear that the infamous remote item in Fortnite will no longer be in the popular battle royale game for an unspecified amount of time, as the Fortnite item has been the subject of controversy as of late. 

Due to the power of the remote explosives in destroying large structures easily, their quantity of four explosives and their relative ease in being found due to their low rarity, a large portion of the Fortnite community has felt that the remote explosives are too powerful and are ruining the most important feature of the game in the building. 

With Epic Games' recent statements regarding its intention to reduce the frequency of every battle being a large scale build fight, they have taken measures to introduce a varied amount of anti-building strategies for players, but many individuals are frustrated with the current state of the controversial item in Fortnite. 

While these players will be happy to see the disliked item being removed from the title, the reasoning for the temporary removal being to fix an issue with the Fortnite C4 remote explosives not damaging structures is most likely not what these players had in mind for its removal. 

At the time of this writing, Epic Games did not provide an exact length of time for how long the C4 remote explosives and that it will update the community with more information when it is available. 

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)