“Maybe this is the perfect time to get back into action,” I thought. “It will give everyone a level playing field against all the new members.” I was so wrong I should have known this from the moment I walked into the lobby and realized I had absolutely no idea how to get into the game.
The ‘Game Mode’ box, which included ‘Solo’, ‘Duo’, ‘Squad’ and, at the time, a strange special event, was just an empty rectangle with none of the aforementioned options.After searching the menu for about 5 minutes (the font is especially small On Switch) I finally found an option to select a game mode. I couldn’t believe what I saw.
If you, like me, have taken a break from the Battle Bus for the last few years, you may not have seen the Game Mode screen for a while, so take a look at the screenshot above. I was vaguely looking for something akin to a “solo” match, but with a string of unintelligible words, unfamiliar celebrity faces, and more tie-ups than his end-of-phase MCU movie could possibly imagine. encountered. .
I vaguely remember the announcement that Fortnite would let you create your own island, but I wasn’t expecting so many options to exist. I finally managed to find the “Battle Royale” mode in the “Popular” section of the browse screen. How long would I have been searching if I had just started aimlessly scrolling through the sensory overload that hit me the moment I arrived?
Once I got past the first hurdle, I entered the game (after a fairly long load time) and started a few games. actual playing. On the surface, thankfully this is the same old Fortnite. You land on an island with 100 other poor souls of his, desperately gathering the best weapons you can and start dispatching your competitors to be the last to survive. But it didn’t take long to realize that almost everything else had changed.
In defense of Fortnite, I hadn’t kept up with the in-game storyline (yes, there’s a plot) for the last four years, so I realized I didn’t know exactly what I was doing, so I took a quick online refresher course. I had a need. map location. The likes of Dusty Depot, Tomato Town, and Fatal Fields are all gone, replaced by equally alliterative drop spots like Lazy Lagoon, Coney Crossroads, and Rocky Reels.And the battle royale map is now absolutely Large scale.
After all, the original map known as Athena Map or Athena Royale has been blown up and reassembled several times since I last played it. The island we are currently discovering is the amalgamation of several different worlds (I think) and is known as Asteria (perhaps?).
In any case, I went through the first few games as usual. I found a relatively remote location, wiped out anyone who chose to land near me, and spent the rest of the game just defending the Storm Edge while avoiding it. As many battles as possible. I didn’t know where I was most of the time, but getting to the last few survivors is still a pretty heart-pounding experience.
What took me a while to get my head around is just how much is packed into it. thing The game is gone. There used to be weird quests and missions you stumbled across during a match, but now the world is full of XP bonuses, weapon mods, “capture points”, gold bars, jobs, NPCs and bounties. . , and so on, and so on, but the important thing is that most of these things I had absolutely no idea how to do.
Even what I thought was basic has changed. Do you know what a chest is? Some of them now require a key. Do you know how to drive a car? It sounds like you need to keep refueling. It’s still a lot of fun, but I can’t help but feel that it’s lost a bit of the simplicity of the original “100 people start, 1 person stays” format.
But maybe that’s the point. Having been back in the game for a while, it’s clear that Battle Royale is no longer Fortnite’s biggest or definitive. The other game modes, while overwhelming in number, have managed to create a platform for just about any kind of play experience imaginable. They’re the same game (you guessed it), but with a twist like “No Build” battles, consisting of standard game modes. you can’t build Other, non-combat-based objectives feel closer to Fall Guys than any of the online shooters I played years ago.
did fortnite really do that platform Is it for the game, not the game itself? perhaps. Doesn’t he know what’s going on in 90% of battle royale matches anymore?Absolutely. But even watching Ariana Grande pull a shotgun on Spider-Man and then mercilessly pat his dematerialized corpse, it still gave me a good time.
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