Fortnite producer says Epic's mass layoffs will impact the game in ways the remaining teams "cannot even fully understand"

"Our teams volition person to prime up the pieces"

Following Epic Games' wide layoffs, a Fortnite shaper has said that the devs near down "cannot adjacent afloat understand" the benignant of interaction the occupation cuts volition person connected the crippled during this twelvemonth and into the future.

"None of them merit this and it's not astatine each reflective of their enactment oregon their impact," Fortnite gameplay shaper Robby Williams wrote successful a Twitter thread astir the layoffs, which saw long-serving Epic unit similar Fortnite main technologist Evan Kinney abruptly fto go. "What comes adjacent is precise hard and painful. Our teams volition person to prime up the pieces and effort to support moving forward, but we cannot adjacent afloat recognize what benignant of impacts this volition person connected the crippled for the remainder of the twelvemonth and apt beyond.

"I'll proceed to bash my champion to support making the champion crippled for you, and I'm assured that my peers consciousness the same, but delight beryllium diligent with america arsenic we navigate this pugnacious clip and bash our champion successful spite of these genuinely gut-wrenching losses," helium added.

Not agelong aft announcing their plans to occurrence much than 1000 unit into the prima - successful a determination CEO Tim Sweeney blamed connected a downturn successful Fortnite's popularity, immoderate "industry-wide challenges", and having "taken a batch of bullets successful a conflict which is lone successful the aboriginal days of paying disconnected for ourselves and each developers" - Epic enactment shutdown dates connected 3 Fortnite modes. Rocket Racing, Ballistic and the Festival Battle Stage are each acceptable for the chop this year, but adjacent those moves are acceptable to make enactment for developers, who'll person to grip the shutterings and marque definite assorted bits of Fortnite linked to the departing modes tin unrecorded on.

Sweeney and Epic's execs besides won't beryllium sparing the whip successful presumption of pushing the remaining teams to make caller additions and amended existing elements of the game. "What we present request to bash is clear," declared the CEO successful his company-wide layoff letter. "Build awesome Fortnite experiences with caller seasonal content, gameplay, story, and unrecorded events; accelerate developer tools with greater stableness and capableness arsenic we germinate from Unreal Engine 5 and UEFN to Unreal Engine 6. And we'll beryllium kicking disconnected the adjacent procreation of Epic with immense motorboat plans towards the extremity of the year."

I presume helium finished penning that, lazed backmost connected his banana-skinned chaise longue, and signalled for a chug jug of grapes to beryllium tipped into his rima by a servant who's required to bash the default creation 24 hours a day.