It's a new week, which means there's a new collaboration in Fortnite. A week after South Park continued with the 6-7 meme, the live-service battle royale is sticking with animation with Adventure Time, another beloved — albeit for different reasons — show that has been a longtime fan request.
There's Fionna the Human, Ice King, and Lemongrab, plus a host of other additions, including an emote based on Cake the Cat titled “Cake's Narrative Flapjacks.”
It costs 300 V-Bucks, has your character do a flapjack and jump in the air with joy.
No big deal, right? Well, no. That's because the emote has seemingly brought back “jiggle” physics to the game for its female characters, definitely unintentionally.
On Reddit, where the discovery was first shared, players noted that it's almost certainly the result of an animation mess that then gives the impression that “jiggle” physics are actually in the game.
They are obviously not in the game.
But until that bit is fixed, this is the result:
“It's not actually jiggle physics,” someone wrote on Reddit. “The animation is just messed up, and it looks like a bone in the chest might have a double transform on it. Which means it moves 2x as far as it should. And that bone controls the midriff up to the middle of the chest.”
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TheGamer tested the emote independently and can verify its unintended consequences.
Fortnite has had to deal with “Jiggle” physics and other NSFW stuff in the past
Since Fortnite is a game primarily played by children and also involves IPs that often have strict usage guidelines, Epic Games usually handles such matters quickly.
Players may remember that at the beginning of September last year, Fortnite removed the ability to combine certain emotions to create an indecent combination. As a result, players could no longer use an emote when another player has activated Party Hips or Poki emotes. Those who tried after the fix met with nothing.
Way before that, in 2018, was the first instance of “jiggle” physics in Fortnite, which was the result of a certain skin, plus emote, combination. Not only was it fixed, but Epic Games issued a statement calling the situation “embarrassing.”
“This is unintentional, embarrassing, and it was careless of us to let this ship,” an Epic representative told IGN at the time. “We are now working to fix this as soon as possible.”
We'll update this story if things change.
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September 26, 2017
- ESRB
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T for Teens – Diverse Content: Discretion Advice, In-Game Purchases, User Interact
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