Fortnite Bug Sends Players Flying High Into the Sky and to Their Deaths

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A Fortnite player has discovered a glitch in Chapter 3 Season 4 which causes them to launch extremely high up in the air, with the resulting fall causing them to die instantly. While the rollout of any new content for a live service game can usually include its fair share of bugs and glitches, Fortnite's issues seem to be a bit more prevalent as of late.

Epic Games' ever-popular free-to-play battle royale title kicked off its new chrome-filled Chapter 3 Season 4 on September 18. The new season, titled «Paradise,» so far seems to be anything but — bugs and glitches aside — with several major characters getting swallowed by liquid chrome in Fortnite's season trailer.

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The Fortnite bug in question was posted by Reddit user u/Floating_egg, who has posted footage of the glitch to one of the developer-supported Fortnite subreddits. In the clip, viewers will see the player, equipped with the John Wick skin, running around the perimeter of a roof at Tilted Towers. At about seven seconds in, the player drops off the side to ground level, only to jump and be launched higher than even Rift-To-Go levels. The player then begins falling back down, narrowly missing mantling the roof edge, and ultimately falling to their death.

Comments on the post range from sympathetic to dismissive, with some saying they've experienced a similar issue, while others assert that this particular bug isn't something new to Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 4. The comments also seem to indicate that this particular bug is caused by Fortnite's relatively new mantling ability. Introduced during Chapter 3 Season 2, mantling allows players to grab and hoist themselves up onto ledges, making it much easier to gain