Here’s some really scary news if you were among the millions who installed Fortnite on an Android device from the game’s website. Apparently the installer contained a “dangerous security flaw” that would allow hackers to covertly install additional programs.
Epic had greater incentive to sell the game directly and cut Google out of a share of the profits. Google, who offers the game through its own Google Play store and takes 30% of the sales through that platform, chastised Epic Games for putting players at risk. So while a Epic got out a fix for the installer shortly after discovering it, Google decided to broadcast Epic’s epic failure to the world anyway.
Epic bit back at Google by saying, “It was irresponsible of Google to publicly disclose the technical details of the flaw so quickly, while many installations had not yet been updated and were still vulnerable.”
On a brighter note, Epic Games did put out a new state of development post to share what’s coming for this battle royale game. Fixes to controller aiming, weapon balance, and matchmaking logic are on the way, if they haven’t arrived already. And yes, the ability to remap your controller should arrive sometimes later this year. Epic reported that it’s making progress on improving game performance in the 50v50 mode and growing its player support team to handle the increased load.
