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As demonstrated on TikTok by Nickeh30, a number of the free cars in Fortnite – which can be found in the base free-to-play game or unlocked without spending money – make it easier for their drivers to be killed than some of the paid cars.

In the video, Nickeh30 shows how a Whiplash car, which is free in the game, has a large windscreen which means players can enter the passenger seat of the car, lean out the window and kill the driver by shooting through the windscreen.

He then demonstrates this with a number of other free cars, including the Werewolf, the Scorpion and the Masamune, by jumping into the passenger side of each and killing their drivers by shooting through the windscreen.

However, he then enters the passenger side of a Samurai, a car which can only be acquired with real money, and shows that the much smaller windscreen makes it harder to see the driver, let alone kill them.

“While it’s still possible to hit your opponent sometimes, it’s way more difficult than these ‘pay-to-lose’ cars,” he says.

The discrepancy between windscreen sizes has technically created a ‘pay-to-win’ situation, something Epic has said would never be the case in Fortnite.

As such, the company provided a statement to Kotaku saying it knew about the problem and was looking into a solution.

“We’re aware of the issue and have a fix planned for an upcoming build,” the company said.

It’s not yet clear if this means the windscreens will be changed entirely, or if some other change will be implemented to make it easier to kill drivers in paid cars, or harder to kill drivers in free ones.

 

[Sybrix]

Pay2Win FTW!

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

Hmm the way I be splaking shit, I'd never noticed.

Still won't pay, it's free to play.

So, give and take I guess.

 

[acm2000]

talk about sensationalism, car with smaller windscreen makes it harder to shoot the driver, fucking unbelievable!

 

[CGNoire]

Windscreen?

 

[IAmRei]

They can use FromSoft quote, Die is part of the gameplay

 

[Arsic]

They can use FromSoft quote, Die is part of the gameplay

 

[Cyberpunkd]

talk about sensationalism, car with smaller windscreen makes it harder to shoot the driver, fucking unbelievable!

No problem there, however it looks like all the free cars have much larger windscreens than paid ones...

 

[rm082e]

There's been a bunch of stuff like this. There's a character called Bushranger who looks like a bush. He was a paid character for a long time and if you stand inside a bush with that skin, he's a lot harder to see than other skins. They eventually made versions of his skin available in the battlepass.

As always: When the product/service is free, you are the product. If you don't like it, don't use "free" products/services.

 

[Evil Calvin]

No problem there, however it looks like all the free cars have much larger windscreens than paid ones...

'Windscreens'? ................. Windshields?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

'Windscreens'? ................. Windshields?

 

[JCK75]

The new season was extremely fun on launch
Then they wanted to add a solution for people on foot..
the solution should have been either chains of hades return (knock people out of the car) or bringing back the EMP grenade..
but no.. they chose boogie bombs.. and now the game is retarded.

 

[Valonquar]

Just use a boogie bomb to force them to jump out of the car entirely and mow them down while they are stuck dancing. Very gratifying.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

Fortnite is a fad. No one will be talking about it in 6 months.

 

[JCK75]

Just use a boogie bomb to force them to jump out of the car entirely and mow them down while they are stuck dancing. Very gratifying.

It's more broken than anything else.. the dance is supposed to end when you take damage but it does not.. it's broken as fuck when you can just toss an item and then murder an entire team with no effort.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Fortnite is a fad. No one will be talking about it in 6 months.

Right on. We'll all be moving to Concord soon.

 

[Loomy]

Holy shit lol

 

[ultrazilla]

"We knew we had a problem but didn't purposely fix it until somebody found out!"

Don't be fooled by PR talk. This was planned from the beginning. They're only "fixing" it now because they got caught.

 

[ReBurn]

Makes sense. How reliable could a free car really be?

 

[Robb]

You’re telling me they intentionally include poor game design in order to entice people to spend money?