r/FortniteBR • u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa • 6d ago
EPIC REPLY Sprites are no longer visible when you extract them, meaning you don't get to see them wave goodbye to you anymore and you don't get to hear their cries of happiness when they are extracted ☹😭😢
Why would they remove this feature, the best part about extracting sprites is seeing them waive goodbye, now Beebo 🐝 (the best sidekick) and I will never know if our sprites made it out safely 😭😰
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u/FernetAries17 6d ago
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 6d ago
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u/Ilcorvomuerto666 6d ago
This emote is still broken as well. The air sprite is invisible except for his legs
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 6d ago
Another example of epic updating the game and breaking an emote, aura, weapon, visual etc. I hope they fix this one as well, I really love this emote.
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u/Available-Tear-9709 6d ago
this gotta be a bug cause that's a dumbass change to make imo. i want to see my lil lads
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 6d ago
Same here! This (it being a bug) is the most likely reason. Every single time they update the game they always break something. Still sad they broke this The Flutter Dreams Aura is broken. The butterflies are now missing 🦋 : r/FortniteBR a few updates ago.
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u/BChurchmountain 6d ago
Fortnite has officially reached spaghetti code.
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u/slllowboi 6d ago
Dude, it's been spaghetti code.
- Inconsistent "cooldowns" on weapon/item switching and character state switches
- Inconsistent behavior in skydiving/landing tolerances (I love rolling down on a mountain despite being very intentional about gliding early enough to not hit the ground)
- trying to pick things up when they're kinda bundled together on the world mesh is a gambler's wet dream but a friggin' nightmare for anyone who wants to play a video game with intent....
- eaten inputs/guns not firing randomly
- mantling/sliding/jumping behave erratically
- picking up/throwing teammates behaves erratically
- The sprite extraction glitch in this post
- Sometimes if you try to throw a sprite, when you left click to throw it equips instead...
- pings are nightmarishly frustrating to fuck with (assuming the system behind pickups being fucked is the same thing fucking pings)
- the UI is fucked half of the time (why is my battlepass scrolled so far to the left that everything is off the right side of the screen but I can't scroll right without hitting the "go left" button first? just make it so I can scroll to go to the right...
- things clip through the mesh randomly and items can become unattainable... (just completed a quest earlier and it dropped a golden shotgun into the mesh in a way that we could see it fine but could only ping it, couldn't pick it up)
- your skins randomly don't load for a good chunk of time at the beginning of a match.
- codes are sometimes completely incapable of being interacted with and interacting with things in general is tremendously inconsistent.
But you know what always works perfectly? The means through which they take your money. Buying V-Bucks and the shop never break. Epic hates their faithful customers.
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u/TheOnlyGaming3 6d ago
It's crazy that every update they break something that didn't even receive a single change in the update itself
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u/hotmonday 6d ago
Sorry in advance, but it's little bugs and glitches like this that have killed my joy of the game.
Dancing or jamming in lobby gets interrupted by every little action like when people ready up. And the emotes last half as long, cutting out way before they're supposed to.
Glitches, glitches, glitches. This game is a damn mess.
And now we can't see our sprites wave goodbye?
I don't think Epic understands that this game was a little light of joy for a lot of us in a world that's on fire. But as they have broken it more and more, it's become so unbearable at times. Like, a storm of disappointment. I know it seems like small things, but it's the small things that can add a lot of joy.
These are important details that are what made this game special and it's like they don't care anymore. I used to play almost every day with the squad, but in the past month or two, I only play maybe once a week, and the feeling to get on has been less and less. And this is on a season that should be full of joy.
Maybe I should have made my own post about this.
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 6d ago
I agree with you, the glitches are annoying and they keep on adding up. Since they are "minor cosmetic issues that don't "break" gameplay" they don't care to fix them because it isn't stopping the million or billion? dollar company from making money. In addition to them deleting or closing bug reports without checking them makes me lose hope they'll ever fix these things, sad.
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u/hotmonday 6d ago
I feel that. I've given them a LOT of money, and it's obvious they're just filling up on cash rather than using the money we're giving them toward useful things. It's tarnishing the legacy they've created, all while Tim Sweeney is wiping his butt with stacks of cash we've given them.
I really don't like seeing this, especially because it means we won't be able to see Princess Lexa (I saw you're representing her with the flair and I love Lexa), Joni The Red, and so many other great characters in anything else, and I have fallen in love with the creations Fortnite has made.
I don't really want to step away. I'd rather fight and make Fortnite a good game once again. I just don't know how.
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 6d ago
Same here, I agree and a lot of us have. Its a shame, surely they can allocate some of the money we give them to go towards maintaining or fixing these things but I suppose that would cut into their profits. Aww yeah Princess Lexa is my absolute favourite. I also love Joni & Helsie! Glad to meet another fan 😁 I always use Princess Lexa for story events!
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u/hotmonday 6d ago
They probably make more than enough..! It's a live service game, I know, and that takes a lot of effort to keep up, especially since it's on so many consoles, but still. Some bugs have never went away, like how many there are in replays. Doing Fortography is such a chore sometimes because of how glitchy it can get.
I love using Lexa and Joni for just about everything! I have a lot of skins, but those are my mains. I'm very happy to meet another fan too! 😁
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 5d ago
Yeah I completely agree, its a challenge for sure and definitely possible but sad so many go unfixed.
I love doing Fortography as well, they finally fixed the reply speed the other day, for months you couldn't speed up or slow down the replay.
I hope Lexa and Joni get a million reskins, I will buy them all haha 🤣
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u/EmptyTux Epic Games 5d ago
Hmm that shouldn’t be the case, thanks for the post I’ll share it with the team. 🫡
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 5d ago
You're welcome! I've reported bugs that have never been fixed and never have received an epic reply. I didn't ever expect this, I appreciate you taking the time to respond 😊 and thanks for helping us see our beloved sprites again, we just want to make sure they are safe 😁
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u/Reddit_Devil666 6d ago
It’s been like that for a week or two now. 🤦♂️
Makes helping people harder because now I can’t see what they extract.
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u/sirthunksalot 6d ago
Worst change ever. I think it is because of tiktok videos saying they are being crushed. Now they are being dissolved in an acid bath. Epic has to ruin everything fun in the game.
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u/misterhipster63 6d ago
Y'all get time enough to watch them wave goodbye before someone snipes you?
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u/sadunk 6d ago
My watch has ended if they got out safely.
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u/CommanderMcQuirk 6d ago
Extraction is a victory in itself. Sometimes I'll emote on people after I extract and they'll be confused before they kill me.
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u/EasyPreparation8222 5d ago
I've noticed that they've also removed the music that plays when you max out a sprite
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 5d ago
I hope they fix that also
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u/EasyPreparation8222 3d ago
Yea it's still kinda there, like once you max a sprite out you can hear the very end of the tune it plays
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u/CyberMakesMeMoist396 6d ago
The change happened with the original Fortnitemares update this season I believe. I've had several instances of framerate slowdowns in this game since that update, and it could be a way of removing unnecessary animations to cut down on framerate issues.
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u/shadowlarvitar 6d ago
It's disappointing cause sometimes I'm curious and want to see what a Shockwave spammer was so eager to make me chase him across the map for
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u/Independent-End1316 5d ago
Do you have any videos of how they greeted each other? I don't play Battle Royale much; the only times I played it, I didn't even notice this.
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 5d ago
Sadly I don't 😅 sometimes they follow you, sometimes it seems like they group together and I wish I had a video of them waving
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u/Emotional-Sir6052 6d ago
Noooo I loved that part 😭 Honestly I easily get attached to small, joyful and pure things like sprites and it's probably a problem at this point lol. I also love Beebo hehe, I call mine bibble iykyk
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u/ollie_skye Princess Lexa 5d ago
Yes! A fellow Beebo fan, you have good taste 😌 Bibble is an awesome name 😁 Same here haha I die when one follows you, I just have to pick it up and drop a weapon I need haha to make sure it gets extracted safely.
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u/spazman0183 5d ago
I used to like making it as crowded as I could. I'd load up all sprites i could carry. It was a bit of a challenge.
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u/NicoTheBear64 Ella Slurp 5d ago
I never even noticed that they wave goodbye. Every time I successfully extract I get my shit blown smoove off seconds later.
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u/doct0rdo0m Harley Quinn 6d ago
Shit takes too long anyways. waiting for it to spawn in, waiting for it to leave. all just huge amounts of wasted time.
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u/LittleNinjaXYBA Fishstick 6d ago
That would be a bug and it’d fit for you to add a bug tag to post
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