Following a devastating wave of job cuts that saw over 1,000 Epic Games employees let go last month, Fortnite has officially deployed its first major gameplay update.
Interestingly, the latest patch takes a highly comedic approach. For a strictly limited window of just 24 hours, players dropping into the battle royale will experience a slew of wacky new features. The brief but bizarre event introduces a literal "finger guns" weapon, inflates character models with massive heads, and even allows players to ride on each other's shoulders.
While these lighthearted additions offer a temporary, chaotic shift to the game's traditional survival dynamics, they arrive during a remarkably somber period for the studio behind the multiplayer juggernaut.