For a while now, members of the community had been begging the developers to remove the Shockwave Hammer from Fortnite since it was too glitchy, which made it too overpowered and unbalanced to remain in the game. So, to solve this issue, Epic Games removed the Shockwave Hammer from the game and released a maintenance patch to bring it back fully fixed.
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The maintenance patch was released and it brought back the controversial Shockwave Hammer but, unfortunately, it also made it so some players couldn’t log into their accounts. For a few hours now, Fortnite fans have been met with a message that said nothing except “Checking Epic Services Queue” and that it would take about an hour for them to be logged in and put back in the game - they could either wait out the queue to try and get in or reset it.
Services are working for certain players, so it is unknown why there is an issue for some gamers trying to get back into the game. Epic Games works pretty fast and try to solve these technical problems to give players the best experience possible when playing Fortnite. As soon as everything is running perfectly once again, everyone will be able to jump out of the Battle Bus just like before and try out what else this update brought to the game such as the returning Burst Assault Rifle.
The Burst Assault Rifle had been in the game a while ago, and it was a great weapon so it will without a doubt be classified as one of Chapter 4 Season 1’s best weapons; perhaps the Burst AR is exactly the right counter for the now unvaulted Shockwave Hammer. Hopefully, this weapon won’t cause as many issues as the Shockwave Hammer and there won’t be a hotfix to remove it within a few days of it being in Fortnite.
Fortnite is available now for Mac, mobile, Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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