With OG Fortnite Chapter-1 Season-1 being released just tomorrow, I’m hoping that Zapotron can be added. While I doubt it will be added in the main OG C1S1 mode (though I’d like it if it was), I believe this would be a great time to add it into Creative mode, especially with the new OG mode being released as part of Battle Royale.
I don’t know if the same developers working on the game now are same ones ones who worked on it back in 2017, but if not (or even if they are, but it’s been so long that they might not remember all the details of the oldest versions of the game), they may need to be filled in on a bit of the very early history of this game. Here’s the history of the Zapotron, based on research I’ve done:
I found that this weapon was added in a very early version of Chapter-1 Season-1 (so early in fact that there weren’t official season numbers yet, and so this time in the game’s development is typically called Season-0). Specifically, it was added to Battle Royale back on September 26, 2017. The Zapotron is a laser gun that uses its own type of ammo called Cells (I think these are like power cells that power it). Here’s a link to the official Release Notes for this update (dated just one day prior to the update going live) where it mentions the Zapotron https://www.fortnite.com/news/ea-1-6-3-release-notes .
It had a charge feature where you held down the fire button to charge it, and release to fire it. If you just tapped the fire button, it would fire immediately but be a weaker shot. If you held the button until it reached full charge before releasing it, the shot would be stronger. In either case though, the shot was so strong (even uncharged) that the weapon was considered to be too overpowered, and was actually removed from the game in less than a day. WOW!
Sadly I didn’t start playing Fortnite until Chapter-1 Season-5 so I completely missed my chance to use this weapon in battle. And even sadder is the fact that it never was added into Creative mode, when Creative mode was made, and still to this day is not in Creative Mode. I know a lot of stuff is being added back into Fortnite now with OG mode being released tomorrow, including things like old weapon graphics that (like the entire Zapotron weapon) had previously been completely removed from the game. So I’m hoping that you can add the Zapotron back into the game, and even if not in OG mode, please add it to Creative mode. The Infinity Blade which was a much later addition to the game, and like the Zapotron got removed due to being overpowered, did eventually get added to Creative mode. I would love to get a chance to actually try the Zapotron out, so please add it back to the game, even if only in Creative mode.