I agree the game feels weird, but not in comparison to PvE (which I don’t have) - it just feels ‘off’ in general. I was unable to get into it. Plus, I’m not very good at the game, so I spent most of my time in queues waiting for the next match.
Fortnite so popular the EPIC Launcher has a login queue?
Yep. That’s been happening on weekends. The game is somewhat popular, one could say.
battle royale is really big on twitch
Theres 40 million accounts made of the game, and at times theres 2 million people playing.
Many big streamers play Fortnite Battle Royale and one of them can easily have 8000 people watching.
Is popular? yes, thats the understatement of the year.
My high school aged son is obsessed with Fortnite battle royale, as are all his friends and his giant high school in general. Kids talk about it in class, in their group chats, at practice, walking home, and I imagine that phenomena is not unique to our little slice of Chicagoland. He’s upstairs right now, face-timing with some friends and playing some rounds. And swearing. There’s a lot of swearing.
It’s free to play the battle royale part, and the gunplay feels good/is fun, with the addition of the building, which is also fun. I’m not surprised it’s doing well.
I still like the PvE better by a fair bit though, even though it’s a hodgepodge of grind and loot box action.
I wish the PvE mode was worked on more, with focus on paths and traps being a better option over guns. There is an Orcs Must Die void in my heart that this game could fill.
Yeah, I’ve been wondering if you could set yourself up as a constructor who doesn’t ever shoot a weapon, just using traps and pathing exclusively. Could be a fun project if I ever figure out how to start from scratch.
It is impossible because you can’t predict the paths of the baddies though. I’ve built so many traps and walls that were never used. Painful.
You can’t even do that in Orcs Must Die. Fortnite is not a turret defense game, is a fort defense game. You build forts that players defend, not towers so the base defend itself.
You can do that in orcs must die depending on the level. And it was curiosity and a willingness to try something that may seem impossible to see if might be made to work. I like thinking about stuff like that and trying it, especially if a game’s become easy mode.
IIRC, you did see enemy paths in orcs must die. Fortnite sure could use that system, along with a bunch of other changes.
The husk aim for things like players and the objetive. And they break walls if what is between them and that objetive is too big a investment. So I don’t think a paths systems would really work. The husk behave more like enemies in a RTS game than like the classic mobs on a turret defense game that follow some tracks.
They could simulate what happens. There are rules to weather husks break things or go around. I think the rule is 3 spaces. If a husk needs to walk 3 spaces to get around an obstacle, it will instead attempt to go through it.
All they need to do is spawn phantom husks that will walk to the intended targets and act the way real husks do. You would just indicate they would attack a wall section and then move on as if they had destroyed it and continue the simulation.
Apparently they hit 3.4m concurrent players
I played PUBG something like 6 months ago and while I thought it was OK I kind of bounced off of the idea. Most matches seemed to be 45 minutes of scrounging for equipment that was often hard to spot or hiding under cosmetic clothes in boring empty houses only to be sniped by someone lying prone in a bush a mile away.
On a whim I tried Fortnite’s Battle Royale recently and had a far superior experience. The game is much better optimized (even runs like butter on my OG Xbox One). The art style is consistent and the Saturday morning cartoon vibe just has me laughing when I am killed where PUBG just left me sour.
Being able to build and destroy the environment is quite fun and allows for more creativity than PUBG’s dour self-seriousness.
Most importantly I love the initial exploration phase in Fortnite Battle Royale. The fact that loot glows colorfully and chests emanate a chiming sound elevate the excitement and joy of discovery. I love just happening to spot a purple or orange glowing weapon in the far distance exploring Fortnite’s island or seeking out hidden chests that might be in a nearby sealed room or attic.
Due to the microtransaction-riddled endless-treadmill PVE ‘Save the World’ release a while back I almost entirely wrote off Fortnite, but for me, Epic hit a homerun with Battle Royale. Such a fun game to boot up and play a quick round between other tasks.
To be fair to PUBG, the release version runs much better than the early access version did 6 months ago. That said, it’s nowhere near getting a 60fps mode on console like Fortnite is. Epic obviously has the advantage of engine optimization being a core competence.
I personally have tried the BR mode in Fortnite in a while. I’m interested to jump in and try it again once the new ballistic model is added.
Big update for season 3, which begins today – now you can buy or earn contrails to look at while you dive down, and different cosmetic backpacks can be equipped. I also noticed if you are building a wall and run out of materials, it’ll auto-switch to the next available material type which is super handy. You can also equip different loading screens.
The final prize for season 3 is an awesome John Wick clone model. I can get behind this, gentlemen!
(In fact, based on the rate of development and interesting goal additions in the seasons, plus the fact that it’s free to play to begin with, I’m calling it: Fortnite will be bigger than PUBG. It’s just a matter of time.)
I seem to have locked myself out of Fortnite on Xbox. Tried the game a while a go on PS4 but decided to give it another go on Xbox this morning. Apparently that is not possible if both your Xbox Live and PSN account are connected to the same Epic account. I keep getting a “Your Account can not play on this Platform” message. It is also not possible to disconnect my Xbox or PSN account from my epic account without going through customer service. But they seem to have removed any reference from their website on how to actually contact that customer service. Making a new account doesn’t work either since my Xbox Live account is already connected to a account. So there is no way for me to get into Forntine on Xbox, I’m stuck. :-(