Epic announced plans to reward players with the Arcana glider for the bugs surrounding the Unvaulting event. They ran into a few more bugs when trying to compensate players today.
Fortnite ran into some bugs during the Unvaulting event, which led to a disappointing result for some players. The timer counted down to 0... but nothing happened.
As a result, Epic announced that they would reward everyone who logged on with the new Arcana Glider. They also said that they'd refund anyone who purchased the glider.
We apologize that some players were unable to view the Unvaulting event. Anyone who jumped into the Unvaulting playlist will be granted the Arcana Glider in the coming days. Players who purchased the Arcana Glider previously will be refunded their V-Bucks.
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) May 5, 2019
Today was the day where Epic planned to reward their players but ran into a snag that sent an inappropriate amount of V-Bucks to some players. Other players even experienced removed items when they logged onto Fortnite.
The official Fortnite Twitter account addressed the issue and stated that they were working on a rollback.
While processing the grant of the Arcana Glider from the Unvaulting Event, we ran into errors causing abnormally incorrect values of V-Bucks to be granted and items to be removed. We are working through rollback and proceeding with the grant. We’ll update when that’s complete.
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) May 8, 2019
If you were one of the lucky ones who got a bunch of free V-Bucks, be careful. Your instinct might be to spend them on items for yourself or gifts for others, but they likely won't be in your inventory too long.
The most likely thing that will happen is that any purchases you make before the rollback will be reverted - even those you make from non-refunded V-Bucks.
I'd caution you to be careful spending V-Bucks until the rollback is complete. Fortnite will update us on Twitter.
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