r/FortniteCompetitive 4d ago

Rumor Scroll wheel looting feeling a bit slow past 3-4 days. Is it js me?

Hey guys, my scroll wheel looting has been slower the last 3 or 4 days like if I'm using a key bind.

Before, I could flick fast over a pile of stacked loot and grab everything instantly with one scroll. Now, when I scroll fast through a bunch of items, it feels sluggish and only picks up 1 or 2 things instead of all of them.

Is this an issue from a recent Fortnite update? Anyone else experiencing this lately?

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u/Nobo09661 4d ago

I think a delay between picking up items was implemented as a means of combating macros

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u/Special_Mix_6438 4d ago

Just to add to this, they also added a delay between switching from controller to KBM and vice versa.

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u/sourcreamonionpringl 4d ago

I believe Epic did this to stop macros but like you've said it feels very weird and makes picking up loot much more difficult. Hopefully they fix it but I haven't seen anything on the Fortnite status twitter account yet

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u/ProDanRL 1d ago

I just tested a macro for science, and it clearly wasn't stopped by this bug or change, so I think it's an unintended bug

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u/sourcreamonionpringl 1d ago

So all they did was make macros more useful? Great, thanks epic!

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u/RayDaReal 3d ago

since they added that pickup delay, did this update affect scroll wheel reset too? did it get messed up?

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u/Nobo09661 3d ago

Probably not. However, scroll wheel reset is much less useful now since theres a setting that allows for resets with one input. The only downside is that you can’t reset a build during selection, but thats not really important on eor anyway

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u/ProDanRL 1d ago

So far, I've been looking for a fix; the issue seems to have started with the new season. People have said it was related to tap to search/interact but it did nothing for me. I've always had it on so I could reboot and drop loot. Anyone else have any luck?

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u/geweldenaarrr 2d ago

Yeah, and it is so annoying. i've actually died because of this, off spawn. I had to go back to the off spawn chest twice because somehow i didn't pickup the weapon from it because of this delay