Epic Games disable pay-to-win Boundless skin in Fortnite
Epic Games has banned the pay-to-win superhero skins from competitive play in Fortnite while they work on a fix.
Issues with skins in Fortnite have arisen this season after the addition of superhero skins that paint the character completely black or white. As a result, these skins have been coined “pay-to-win” by the community due to how hard they are to spot in plain sight, especially in dark rooms.
As a result, Epic Games eventually removed all black and all white variants in update v15.30, but that didn’t last long, as popular Fortnite exploiter, Glitch King, managed to work around this update by utilizing a glitch revolving around changing the color of the skin.
You can see the glitch is done in the Twitter post below.
As a result of this glitch, Epic Games swiftly responded with a ban on the skin for competitive games in order to uphold competitive integrity.
Players should expect to see the skin restored in patch v15.40, but until then are free to refund the skin due to the glitches and limited access. The deadline for the refund is the end of the month but could be extended depending on how long the next patch takes.
We hope this is a lesson learned by the Fortnite team when it comes to skin variants. Hopefully, this doesn’t resurface as an issue in the future with another skin.