Fortnite guided missiles temporarily removed after players report permanent invisibility glitch

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A bug with Shadow Stones was letting players fire weapons incognito.

Fortnite's guided missiles have proved somewhat problematic since they were added back in March. Initially, they were too powerful, and Epic Games removed them for a full three months before reinstating them—only for players to discover that a missile's turning speed was linked directly to the game's framerate. Yesterday, Epic again had to remove them for repairs, seemingly because players found a bug that let you turn permanently invisible if you combined guided missiles with Shadow Stones. 

Epic didn't mention the bug when it disabled the weapon—the game's Twitter account simply said guided missiles had been "temporarily disabled while we investigate an issue"—but it came just a few hours after players started talking about the problem. It also didn't give a time frame for how long a fix would take. 

In other missile-based news, an Epic employee confirmed on Reddit that player complaints about the missiles always heading directly north as soon as they're fired would be addressed in an upcoming patch.

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Samuel Horti
Samuel Horti

Samuel is a freelance journalist and editor who first wrote for PC Gamer nearly a decade ago. Since then he's had stints as a VR specialist, mouse reviewer, and previewer of promising indie games, and is now regularly writing about Fortnite. What he loves most is longer form, interview-led reporting, whether that's Ken Levine on the one phone call that saved his studio, Tim Schafer on a milkman joke that inspired Psychonauts' best level, or historians on what Anno 1800 gets wrong about colonialism. He's based in London.