Recently, if you play the game Fortnite, you may find that there are a number of top players who change their screen resolution from the traditional 16:9 to 4:3. As a result, the stretched appearance of the whole game looks wider just like a pancake.

You might wonder why do these top players stretch the screen resolution. Let’s take a look to the game CS:GO, in which, if you stretch the resolution, each individual character model will be stretched as well. Subsequently, with the stretch of the character model, the area of hitboxes also become wider, allowing you a larger target to shoot. That is to say, in the game CS:GO, stretching the resolution can provide gamers a competitive advantage so that gamers can improve the probabilities to shoot the target.

By now, you may have known why there are so many players stretch the resolution in the game Fortnite. That is because the gamers in Fortnite also want to improve their probability of shooting the target just like int the game CS:GO.

However, the results are not always satisfactory. It turns out that the effect of stretching resolution on Fortnite does not as well as the effect on CS:GO. Let’s see the reason together. When we stretch the resolution in CS:GO, the character model is really wider and the the area of hitbox also increase at the same time. But when we do this in Fortnite, the characters will get shorter when they become wider because it increases the vertical FOV. So in fact, the hitbox and the probability to shoot the target do not increase but even will decrease. Nevertheless, there are still many different voices towards this thread that gamers stretch the resolution in the game.

Recently, the Fortnite Summer Skirmish is held, which is an 8-week series of competitions where the winner will be awarding $8,000,000 as prize money, which is a high stake in the video games. The format will change each week. If it is a must to say there is a competitive advantage that should only be skill, not other elements such as screen resolution, even if it could create some effects like placebo.

Besides, I think it is a horrible thing to see Summer Skirmish keep panning to players using the stretched screen. And I know there are many people who have the same feeling with me because the same thing was screaming on Twitch chat every time. In addition, it really creates a bad influence on the enjoyment of the game itself when the gamers see streamer streaming.

With regard to the resolution 4:3, there is no necessary to be removed by Epic Game from the Fortnite. But I think we, most of the gamers, should say no to the behaviour stretching resolution in order to enjoy playing games, let alone Fortnite Summer Skirmish and Battle Pass Season 5.

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