Cheating always seems to be a topic in the Fortnite scene – whether pros are being accused of using hacks, macros, or only some light teaming. There isn’t a tournament that goes by that doesn’t have one pro or another come out with a cheating allegation.
Fortnite opened the door to an entire new breed of pro players. The online solo competitions allowed anyone to compete, make a name for themselves, and rack-up hundreds of thousands of dollars in earnings.
As we saw with people like Kquid and SerpentAU, this meant that players were able to make a name for themselves while cheating. Specifically, Kquid showed us that even some talented players aren’t above cheating to gain an advantage.
We’ve heard a ton of accusations levied at different pros in the community – both named and unnamed. After the SerpentAU debacle, multiple pros came out and talked about the rampant use of Macros that pros allegedly use for double-movement. Zayt even called out Tfue by name on Twitter and in a statement to us.
On July 30, Fortnite YouTuber ThatDenverGuy posted a news recap video of the day’s happenings. In the video, he covered a couple of tweets show pro players calling out others in the community for cheating. The tweet that sparked his and our interest was from Cented, who called on Epic to investigate players using “soft aim” hacks to help them hit their shots.
This is far from the first time that we’ve heard about cheating at the highest levels of the Fortnite community, and it probably won’t be the last. Fellow pro, Yung Calc, also posted a tweet that suggested pros could be cheating. “Just joined a discord where literal hacks are being sold, what if there are pros actually hacking?” he wrote.
We reached out to Calc and Cented for clarification on these tweets and neither has responded at the time of writing. To be fair, they’re both playing in the Bugha Cup for four hours and probably aren’t checking their Twitter DMs. We spoke with Denver who also sent out some DMs, however, and he never heard back from the players in question.
There’s a chance that there might be some mutually-assured destruction at play, here. If a large number of pros use some sort of cheats or are good friends with other players who do, they may never be able to name names without implicating themselves or their friends. This is, of course, only speculation and we have no concrete facts supporting the idea.
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This isn’t the last that we’ve heard of this story. We’re digging into it more, as is Denver. We’ll likely have some more information for you on the topic tomorrow or next week, so stay tuned.
There seems to be something brewing under the surface, here. We may never fully get to the bottom of it, but we’ll try.
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