Fortnite punishes players for shooting Black Market NPC

Fortnite’s Outlaw Black Market is open for business – but shoot the wrong NPC, and you’re out.

Chapter 6 Season 2 introduces a high-stakes economy with Black Markets, Outlaw Keycards, and Mythic items. Black Markets lets you buy rare gear using Gold Bars and Dill Bits. Each market has unique stock, including one Mythic item per location.

Outlaw Keycards unlock secret Black Market backrooms. Players earned the first keycard by draining Fletcher Kane’s gold reserves. The higher the keycard tier, the better the rewards – exotic gear, free bars, premium loadouts, and even Legendary loot. Mythic items, like Midas Drum Gun or the Lawless Sniper Rifle capable of ending the Kneecapper meta, make the grind worth it.

But there’s a catch. If you shoot a Black Market vendor, they don’t just fire back.

Fortnite will ban you from the Black Market if you shoot a vendor

Damaging the NPCs at the Black Market will ban you from shopping any mythics they sell. That’s right – one trigger-happy mistake, and you’re locked out of powerful weapons and gear for the rest of the match.

Fortnite’s been in a trollish mood lately. Outlaw Oasis’ bath tubs catapult you into the sky if you ignore the three-person rule, setting them up for a humiliating fall-damage death.

Now, Black Market vendors serve up the ultimate punishment – retail revenge.

NPCs have always retaliated when attacked. If they sold something or were hireable, they’d turn hostile. But because the Black Market is a massive community-unlocked feature, losing access feels extra brutal.

We worked hard to open these shops, only for Epic to introduce a ‘one strike, you’re out’ system that makes them feel like the real outlaws.

Despite the chaos, the Outlaw faction grind continues. The Common keycard is unlocked. The Fortnite community is now pushing toward Legendary. What happens when we finally get there? If history is any indicator, something ridiculous. And probably hilarious.