So here you are again, squaded up with your friends ready to get the Victory Royale that seems to have eluded you game after game. You’ve had a long, stressful day, and you’re ready to kick back and game with your friends on "Fortnite" for the rest of the night.

You’ve got your snacks ready, your drink off to the side, your parties ready to go, and you’re in the pregame lobby discussing where you guys are going to land. After some heated back and forth you finally decide to land "Retail Row." This is your spot. When you’re playing solos, this is where you go. You know it like the back of your hand. You know exactly the route you’re going to take.

The battle bus floats in, and you and your squad anticipate the perfect time to jump in order to land first and maximize the amount of loot you grab before all hell breaks loose. You jump and dive towards the ground, picking your spot to pull your glider and safely land on your building. Once you touch down you enter your building through the roof, of course, sweeping each room, grabbing every gun, every med, every ammo crate, every hidden chest. You end up with decent gear and you’re feeling confident that this is your game.

However, little to your knowledge, another squad has landed close by and one of them has spotted you. In the chest he opened up, he got a bolt action sniper and now he's on the roof, waiting for you to emerge from your building. Now that you’re geared up you decide to make your move toward the rest of your squad. You exit through the front door because you’re not expecting somebody to be waiting for you, but he is. The second he sees you he takes his shot and you’re knocked down.

Instantly a wave of panic comes over you as you call out his location and tell your squad to get over to you. “He’s going to eliminate, get over here now!!” “I’m coming,” one of your teammates calls out, but he’s too far away. Another shot comes in and that’s in, you’ve been eliminated before the game even really started.

Now you’re forced to watch in agony as the rest of your squad loots your character and plays on the rest of the match without you. It’s only the first game of the night, but your character is dead, and you’re forced to watch as they play on without you.

You hear them in the chat, you hear their call outs, you watch their fights, but you have nothing to contribute, so you’re forced to sit in salty silence until the next game starts.