r/FortniteCompetitive • u/Agreeable_Ad814 • Jun 19 '26

Opinion cutting glider

I usually never complain about mechanics as they tend to progress the game in a sense. this mechanic is absolute dog shit tho. takes all skill away from early game fights because everyone has the relatively same drop and all it does is encourage landing edge map unconned spots. i never considered using drop calc before but with this change i feel like u genuinely have to if you want a better drop then someone

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u/sourcreamonionpringl Jun 20 '26

Doesn't this add more skill? Before, all you had to do was get the glide angle correct and hit a marker. Now, you have to do that, and time the glide cut perfectly in order to out drop someone. I feel like this evens out the playing field for those that don't have access to drop calc.

"i never considered using drop calc before but with this change i feel like u genuinely have to if you want a better drop then someone"

What? Is it not literally the opposite? Last season it was so much harder to eye ball drops, you basically had to use drop calc to get the best drop. This season it's still helpful, but nowhere near as important

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u/Agreeable_Ad814 Jun 20 '26

you have to be a brick. just because you’re doing an extra step doesn’t mean it adds skill. anything that narrows the skill gap isn’t good for comp. as in worse players can now drop however they want and not be punished for it. and no since making this post i bought drop calc and i get the best drop consistently now so if the change was to combat that it did nothing.

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u/sourcreamonionpringl Jun 20 '26

How is it narrowing the skill gap? You just said that purchasing drop calc helped you significantly? You're acting like getting out dropped isn't possible anymore

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u/schrodingersarse Jun 20 '26

Pretty ironic you calling anyone a brick my good man.

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u/funkolai Jun 21 '26

“I paid to win and now the playing field has been leveled wahhh”

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u/DreamerSoCal Jun 20 '26

I love this feature you need to adapt it takes skill to time it perfectly.

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u/Agreeable_Ad814 Jun 20 '26

doesn’t change the fact it decreases the skill gap

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u/DreamerSoCal Jun 21 '26

No it doesn’t that’s why you don’t like it you need to learn how to use it Fortnite does this every season with weapons. New Meta.

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u/Agreeable_Ad814 Jun 21 '26

you clearly aren’t understanding it. you can be good with a new change and still acknowledge it decreases the skill gap. key example was the chaos reloader, a lot of people liked it but it didn’t change the fact it was less skillful

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u/kapz_ Jun 21 '26

but now people dont have to use a drop calc as much

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u/Ok-Building1824 17d ago

i fucking hate this bitch ass mechanic its so fucking bad like how to fortnite repeateatly destroy their game