CRASHING A SERVER with SPIKEY STADIUMS in Fortnite Battle Royale - Summary

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**Title:** "Breaking Fortnite with Dumb Science"

**Summary:**

* The author, a gamer, discovers a new item in Fortnite called "Spiky Stadium" which can be spawned in-game.
* Instead of playing normally, they decide to conduct "dumb science" experiments with the item.
* They exploit the item's properties to build an excessively tall tower, surpassing the game's maximum height limit.
* As they ascend, the game experiences severe lag, delays, and eventually **crashes the server**.
* The gamers successfully "break" the game, creating a "floating tower" that remains in the sky at max height.
* The session ends with the gamers joking about Epic Games (Fortnite's developer) not being pleased with their antics.

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1. **New Porter Fortress**: A new Porter fortress was introduced, described as a "port afford on steroids".
2. **Exclusive Spiky Stadium**: A new exclusive item, Spiky Stadium, was introduced, which spawns a stadium.
3. **Supply Drop Contents**: Opening a red supply drop yields 200 impulse nades and one stadium item.
4. **Server Limitations**: The game's server was broken due to excessive use of stadiums, causing delays and lag.
5. **Height Limitations**: The game has a maximum height limit, which the players attempted to break.
6. **Method for Breaking Height Limit**: A method was discovered to build a tower using invisible stadiums to climb higher.
7. **Improved Method**: A player named Doogie (also known as Faceless) found a more efficient method to build the tower.
8. **Recorded Height**: Players reached a height of 495, higher than the battle bus and the racing track.
9. **Game Performance Issues**: The game experienced severe lag, connection timeouts, and eventually froze due to the excessive height and stadium usage.
10. **Server Crash**: The players believed they crashed one of Epic's (the game developer) services due to their actions.