A new option in the latest Fortnite update allows you to switch off emotes that can be used aggressively, including Take the L and Whipcrack.
For an online shooter, Fortnite Battle Royale is a pretty laidback game, and few people take it all that seriously. A minority do though and they can be very obnoxious about it if they want to, often while using some of the game’s more provocative emotes.
There’s been enough complaints that Epic Games has added a new option with the v29.30 update, so that you can ensure you never see the emotes and that when someone performs one in front of you their character just seems to be standing still, with no emote sound.
The four emotes covered are Laugh It Up, Take the L, Whipcrack, and Make It Plantain. Although Epic Games can add or remove more whenever they choose.
In a tweet, Epic Games stated that, ‘We want emotes to be a source of good vibes, but a few (*cough* Take the L *cough*) can sometimes feel a bit overly confrontational.’
By adding such an option this technically makes it easier to add even more ‘confrontational’ emotes, since now Epic Games knows people can just turn them off if they want to.
To activate the new option all you need to do is go to the Social Privacy section of the settings, where you have the choice to turn them off completely or only see them if they’re performed by friends in your party.
The new feature comes at the same time as a major leak of Epic Games’ plans for the rest of the year, revealing a number of new music artists for Fortnite Festival, the addition of Star Wars to Lego Fortnite, and tie-ins to movies such as Mad Max, Pirates Of The Caribbean, and Marvel for the Battle Royale.
Also revealed this week is the fact that Samus Aran from the Metroid series almost appeared in Fortnite and would’ve been the Nintendo representative in the game, at the same time as Kratos and Master Chief were added.
Many suspected that was the plan in 2020, during Chapter 2 Season 5’s Gaming Legends Series, but few were surprised when Nintendo backed out.
According to an interview with former chief creative officer Donald Mustard, on Game File, Nintendo didn’t want its characters appearing on other formats and insisted that Epic Games only add the skin to the Nintendo Switch version.
Epic Games declined though, insisting that all versions of Fortnite should have the same content.
Although that still doesn’t explain that one mysterious Fortnite trailer that featured Kirby but had him blurred out in the Xbox and PlayStation versions (he’s been blurred out in all versions of the trailer now but you can still just about make him out in the opening seconds of the video below).
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