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Fortnite: Battle Royale |OT| 100 Players on Epic Battlegrounds
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Ehhh... willing to bet they have very similar accuracy ratins. The Scar is probably higher though. You can practically snipe with it.
Sometimes you get lucky RNG and sometimes you don't. I'm not willing to believe blue > purple until I see concrete statistics.
Not that it matters because I can't fucking play the game anymore....
Had someone try that in squads. They made a huge wide base of brick stairs. Maybe even 3 wide and 10 tall. I guess they ran out of stone because they started building the floors with wood. So we just shot the wood out and 3 fell to their deaths. The third either died to the storm or we got them later. We won that round.
I think for that strategy to work it would have to in squads. My buddy and I started with 1k wood and around 200 bricks and metal. After building up two staircases for stability we had to go into a single bridge of platforms because we started to run out. With more people we'd have had more stability and more resources.
We're definitely gonna try again when we've got at least 1 more friend with us.
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https://twitter.com/FortniteGame/status/927551213746446336
Fortnite twitter teasing a MGS cardboard box style bush. I dunno about this.
The whale concept isn't too new in video games, but it is just disappointing to see player defend it. I was looking through the replies of a tweet by the Fortnite account for a $15 pickax skin. Like, I know it is F2P, but that shit is more expensive than the last couple of games I bought. $5 for gliders is pushing it for me as well. You see that stuff for 30 seconds a game.
I said before I wanted to support the game a bit since I liked playing the Battle Royale mode, but these prices are prohibitive. Then on top of that I have to buy the premium currency which means I will probably have "change" in a currency I cannot use outside of that game and have to wait for something else I want to buy to roll around.
Fortnite twitter teasing a MGS cardboard box style bush. I dunno about this.
The whale concept isn't too new in video games, but it is just disappointing to see player defend it. I was looking through the replies of a tweet by the Fortnite account for a $15 pickax skin. Like, I know it is F2P, but that shit is more expensive than the last couple of games I bought. $5 for gliders is pushing it for me as well. You see that stuff for 30 seconds a game.
I said before I wanted to support the game a bit since I liked playing the Battle Royale mode, but these prices are prohibitive. Then on top of that I have to buy the premium currency which means I will probably have "change" in a currency I cannot use outside of that game and have to wait for something else I want to buy to roll around.
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I understand most people's frustration with the item prices but there are only so many items available right now, I've put in 65 hours of BR and I have no intention of stopping anytime soon. I happily gave Epic 25 bucks worth of currency, the value I'm getting overall for my time is worth paying the high prices for items.
Re: The Bush...
Which is pretty interesting. Doesn't actually change much from the normal function of bushes. Except you can actually use it wherever.
Which is pretty interesting. Doesn't actually change much from the normal function of bushes. Except you can actually use it wherever.
Great news on the 20 million players! Glad to see more people are checking out this game.
Not as great news on the bush consumable. Not sure why they're leaning into the bush strategy in this way, but we'll see how it goes I suppose. If it's got like a 15-20 second timer on it, it's probably not as big of a deal. It'll also lead to funny situations where people are disguised as a bush while inside buildings. I'm slowly selling myself on this as I type so I'm just going to stop now...
Not as great news on the bush consumable. Not sure why they're leaning into the bush strategy in this way, but we'll see how it goes I suppose. If it's got like a 15-20 second timer on it, it's probably not as big of a deal. It'll also lead to funny situations where people are disguised as a bush while inside buildings. I'm slowly selling myself on this as I type so I'm just going to stop now...
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Agreed. Both games can coexist just fine, as they offer different experiences.
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I think this fits just perfectly. You need something like this, a hiding spot where you can really escape when someone saw you. Since you can't even lay on the ground and don't have high grass, bushes were the best thing you could do to just hide a bit if you want. I like it to play a bit more defensive and this could be perfect for when your teammates are dead and you have a 3 or 4 people squad hunting you. I don't want to have every potential confrontation end in a big shootout, no thanks, i will probably need the limited ammo for other moments. I hate it when my teammates just want to shoot on everything they see. -.-
This item will be great!
This item will be great!
People will probably just put a couple of rounds into each one on general principles.
It's utility will depend on where final circle lands. Some places a bush will be Uber-ninja level disguise, others it will stick out like a sore thumb
Which is a risk for them, as they may give away their own position, depending on where they are and what bushes they suspect.
I believe the damage fall-off on the pump is bugged? The range right now is absolutely ridiculous.
Another example.
omg that's amazing lmao. so there ARE vehicles in here ;)
That second link shows to me that spamming walls is too strong. Probably need like a cooldown between placements.
It's happened to me like 5 times now. I do get lag/freezing and desynch sometimes but watching the footage back I don't think those were the causes.
I've seen this happen quite often. Even the semi auto's range is pretty ridiculous imo.
This one is amazing too.
I can't believe this is a thing. Luckily it can only happen in team games :)
Nah, working as intended. The game is very, very biased towards offense, already. If your only way to deal with someone defensively spamming walls is by shooting the walls, you aren't very creative.
I am not saying the walls are bugged, so your working as intended comment is off.
You said it's too strong, I said it's meant to be that strong to compensate for the fact that the game is really, really lethal.
Yup. Risk - benefit equations FTW
More I think about it, the more I think it could add something really interesting to the dynamic
No cooldown is needed. The placement is fine as-is for the skilled crafter. It's a good counter, especially when you're in a 1 on 2, or more, scenario. Wall spam to get the advantage or to make a hasty retreat.
I'm okay with a certain amount of wall spam. But when you're instantly replacing walls over and over and over, it becomes too much imo. Sometimes you're shooting walls more than you're shooting people.
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Also, what is a skilled crafter? If it means spamming walls, that is not skilled at all. That is what I hope is nerfed, not building forts.
That's such a strange thing to want to nerf. Spamming walls is a legit strat to get out of dodge in some situations.
I don't think it's a strange thing to want to see toned down. I think building forts is fine, using it to make quick cover is great too. But rebuilding the same wall over and over and over makes fights more boring than it could be imo. I am not saying get rid of it, I am saying tone it down some.
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They might be holding back for future content perhaps?
Like a lazer raygun is sort of just a scar but with lazers. Maybe when they get to the 2nd map, which is probably long away, they'll have weapons unique to it.
I know the zapotron, which is a laser sniper rifle, was deemed unfit for the mode. Probably because they don't want a hit scan charge sniper rifle. Odd, since the RPG exists ;)
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They might be holding back for future content perhaps?
Like a lazer raygun is sort of just a scar but with lazers. Maybe when they get to the 2nd map, which is probably long away, they'll have weapons unique to it.
I know the zapotron, which is a laser sniper rifle, was deemed unfit for the mode. Probably because they don't want a hit scan charge sniper rifle. Odd, since the RPG exists ;)
Slowing down building would make things more boring, I would think. The zany and spam construction makes things unpredictable and challenging.
Patch notes I assume go live early tomorrow morning.
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/v-1-8-2-patch-notes
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/v-1-8-2-patch-notes
Sounds good. I'm loving how often this game gets updated. Good stuff.
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