While you were sleeping: Police cars were quietly removed from the Battle of Fortnite

Multiplayer Royal Battle Fans Fortnite noticed that it was no longer possible to find police cars on the game map. Changes previously reported by the portal Kotakuseem to have been made along with the start new season.

Reddit forum dwellers found that all police cars in the game were replaced with civilian versions. In addition, cars of law enforcement officers were removed from the creative regime of the royal battle. Now using item Junk rift only ordinary cars are spawned.

Epic Games declined to comment.

Nevertheless, edition of the Wall Street Journal, citing its own source inside the development studio confirmedthat these changes were a carefully considered decision in the light of the assassination of George Floyd and the subsequent widespread global demonstrations against police brutality.

After the start of the new season, cars in Fortnite cannot be temporarily controlled, but such an opportunity will return after the water leaves the flooded part of the game map. Apparently, Epic Games does not yet want the players of its most popular royal battle to use police cars in order to harm other gamers, shoot videos of this topic and put them on public display on the Internet.

After the death of an African American George Floyd protests erupted throughout America. In addition, an initiative was launched around the world. Black lives matterwhose purpose was to highlight the problems associated with police brutality and the eradication of racism. The officer, who is directly responsible for the death of Floyd, was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. This threatens him with a long term of serving a sentence. The other three officers were charged with complicity in the murder.

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