Summary

  • Epic Games is adding a toggle to hide "confrontational" emotes in Fortnite to reduce player frustration.
  • Take the L, Laugh it Up, Whipcrack, and Make it Plantain will all be turned off if players activate the option.
  • Fortnite fans are unsurprisingly made at the addition, claiming Fortnite is being "baby proofed."

Fortnite players across the planet will have undoubtedly been antagonized at some point during their time playing. You're in a tense battle against another player, both of you ducking, diving, and building ten-story skyscrapers to try and get a crucial advantage. Unfortunately, your skills are left wanting, and you're taken down, only for the opposing player to pop the 'Take the L' emote over your body. Infuriating.

In an effort to try and reduce the amount of boiled blood in your average Fortnite session, Epic is soon giving players the option to remove "confrontational" emotes from the game. In Fortnite's v29.30 update dropping tomorrow, a new toggle will be added to the "Social Privacy" settings of the game that will allow you to either only see confrontational emotes from your party members, or to just remove them entirely.

As for the emotes that Epic considers "confrontational", there are four that you'll no longer be able to see if you switch this toggle on. There's Take The L, which Fortnite references in the option's announcement tweet, as well as Laugh It Up, Whipcrack, and Make It Plantain. To be honest, if I was showered with bananas upon getting knocked out of a Fortnite match, I would be furious.

Fortnite Fans Are Unsurprisingly Pretty Miffed

Despite this almost certainly being a completely optional toggle for parents to throw on their child's account to stop them from throwing their controllers at the wall, the reaction to the update from Fortnite fans has been less than civil. Already, Epic Games is being accused of "baby proofing" Fortnite, claiming that the game has "gone soft" and declaring that this is the worst thing to ever happen to the game.

If anything, this is just going to make Fortnite players get a little bit more creative with their taunts, so the toggle's general effect on the game will be negligible at best. There are still plenty of emotes in the game that can rile you up, and I honestly think someone Default Dancing on top of you is a fate worse than death.

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