Guided Missile temporarily disabled due to bug
Announced through a tweet by Epic Games, the Guided Missile has been temporarily disabled today, October 12:
The Guided Missile has been temporarily disabled while we investigate an issue.
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) October 12, 2018
The reason for this appears to be a bug which allowed you to remain invisible (and use weapons) when spam firing the Guided Missile while consuming a shadow stone. This was explained by @FNBRLeaks on Twitter just hours before the announcement was made:
Wanna go Invisible with Weapons?
— Fortnite: Battle Royale Leaks ? (@FNBRLeaks) October 12, 2018
- Spam shoot w/ a Guided Missile while consuming a Shadow Stone.
*shadow stones have been disabled*
While it isn't the main issue, Epic employee MrPopoTFS has confirmed over on Reddit that a fix will be coming in v6.10 to address missiles not firing in the direction the player is facing:
No statement has been made on whether players will be punished for using this exploit. We'll update this post once the Guided Missile returns.