If there is one thing that really angers Fortnite players, it is the possibility that before the game starts and the battle bus prepares to empty its passengers onto the Battle Royale island, some of those players have an unfair advantage.

The whole concept of the game is based on equality, after all. No skin gives one player less of a target to hit, no matter how big Chapter 2 Season 2’s Brutus looks. No weapon should be deadlier in one players hands compared to another, and yet it’s exactly that threat that this week has seen player power influence the popular Esport in a way it never has before.

Despite the ‘level playing field’ element to Fortnite, there have always been ways of gaining an advantage over other players. We all recall the ‘ballers’ of late Chapter 1. Who can forget the disastrous Airplane’s, typically hovering around as late at the top five players in a solo until shot down in flames? But the recent ‘Aim Assist’ row in the professional Fortnite gaming world is something else.

Put simply, the only players to have an advantage are PC gamers who then use an external plug-in controller to get an aiming assist that helps them find their target not through their own skill but through external help.