Now Epic drastically reduces chance Fortnite's hated mechs will spawn

Epic has quietly made a big change to Fortnite's much-hated mechs - but if you're playing the game's standard modes you won't see any difference.

After promising a design change to help balance mechs in a blog post last Friday, fans reacted with a fairly unanimous shrug of the shoulders. Adding a warning laser to the robots' infinite ammo gun, fans said, just wasn't enough.

Over the weekend, the Twitter hashtag #removethemech trended worldwide. Epic, it seems, noticed.

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