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PearlTheSaltyGem

PearlTheSaltyGem

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I've been watching some game play of a game called fortnite and i like the game style and how it plays.

What you people think about the game?
 
Imagine a freemium mobile game where the goal is to nickel and dime you as much as possible, but in PC form.

Welcome to Fortnite.
 
A Witty Name said:
Imagine a freemium mobile game where the goal is to nickel and dime you as much as possible, but in PC form.

Welcome to Fortnite.
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As someone that has played those freemium games a fuck ton, Fortnite isn't comparable to anything freemium or P2W. I see no reason to buy anything because money doesn't really do shit as far as I know. As a new player I got to #5 and only lost because I didn't really get the hang of building which seems to be crucial in late game.

As for the game in general I think it's good fun, but the gunplay is shit compared to other shooters. This isn't because it's a TPS either, it's because of the RNG and unsatisfying it is to shoot anything at range. Imo the only TPS games with amazing gunplay are Loadout and Gigantic. This game would be a fucking classic if it actually had Loadout's gunplay. zzzz
 
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I largely ignored Fortnite for a long time, but recently I realized just how many people I know play it, so my curiosity was piqued. I decided to look up a gameplay video to see what all the fuss was about. I found the first 10 minutes or so somewhat interesting. It was the battle royale formula I had heard a lot about, but cartoony and quirky like TF2. I was intrigued, so I kept watching.

Eventually, the streamer/player ran into an enemy player in a field. I expected to see a normal firefight like I would in any other game, but instead I watched in complete bewilderment as they suddenly began walking into fucking mid-air while the Towers of Babel rose beneath them. This wasn't the only occurrence of this phenomenon either; every time he ran into someone outside the city area of the map, he and his opponent would break out into the same autistic carpentry dance and try to be the guy slightly higher up. I read the comments, thinking I wasn't the only one who thought this was absurd, but most of them were along the lines of "wow, this guy is good, he's gonna go far".

I don't know if this mechanic was intended, but it reminds me of what happened with Chivalry, where some retarded bullshit the devs didn't anticipate ends up giving you a complete advantage, and the only way to compete is to learn how to exploit it also (in the case of Chivalry, you crouch and look directly upward when you swing or some shit like that).

Everything else about Fortnite looks okay I guess, but if that's what high-level play looks like, I'm not going to bother.
 
Monsieur Guillotine said:
I largely ignored Fortnite for a long time, but recently I realized just how many people I know play it, so my curiosity was piqued. I decided to look up a gameplay video to see what all the fuss was about. I found the first 10 minutes or so somewhat interesting. It was the battle royale formula I had heard a lot about, but cartoony and quirky like TF2. I was intrigued, so I kept watching.

Eventually, the streamer/player ran into an enemy player in a field. I expected to see a normal firefight like I would in any other game, but instead I watched in complete bewilderment as they suddenly began walking into fucking mid-air while the Towers of Babel rose beneath them. This wasn't the only occurrence of this phenomenon either; every time he ran into someone outside the city area of the map, he and his opponent would break out into the same autistic carpentry dance and try to be the guy slightly higher up. I read the comments, thinking I wasn't the only one who thought this was absurd, but most of them were along the lines of "wow, this guy is good, he's gonna go far".

I don't know if this mechanic was intended, but it reminds me of what happened with Chivalry, where some exceptional bullshit the devs didn't anticipate ends up giving you a complete advantage, and the only way to compete is to learn how to exploit it also (in the case of Chivalry, you crouch and look directly upward when you swing or some shit like that).

Everything else about Fortnite looks okay I guess, but if that's what high-level play looks like, I'm not going to bother.
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Pretty much why I don't play it. If it didn't have the building aspect, I'd enjoy it.
 
Downloaded Fortnite onto my Switch having only vauge knowlege of what it was, but figured I'd give it a go. Jumped into a match, found myself freefalling onto some island. Somehow managed to land in a tree. Decided to use that as a tactical advantage and scope out the place from my vantage point not to mention figure out the controls, and in the process of trying to find my "attack" button accidently started building a wall. So now I'm building some shitty treehouse and still can't find out how to attack. Decided to abandon my fort and actually play the game, though I've still not figured out how to use my weapon. Found a gun, or just had a gun, I don't know. If I had entire walls in my pocket I'm sure there was a gun in there too. I can switch weapons but fuck me if I can figure out how to use them. Finally figure out how to shoot which I promptly keep getting confused with the "switch weapon" button, foiling my plans to pull off an epic gamer headshot on the single random player that I managed to come across. Around this time I realized that I did not take into consideration that this is the game that has the electric death wall thing that encroaches upon the map. My poor character who already was struggling with the basics of using a hatchet was now incapacitated by a sudden burst of god knows what and was crawling on the ground. At which point I left the match having come to the realization that Baby's First Shooter might be a little too complicated for me.
 
MerriedxReldnahc said:
Downloaded Fortnite onto my Switch having only vauge knowlege of what it was, but figured I'd give it a go. Jumped into a match, found myself freefalling onto some island. Somehow managed to land in a tree. Decided to use that as a tactical advantage and scope out the place from my vantage point not to mention figure out the controls, and in the process of trying to find my "attack" button accidently started building a wall. So now I'm building some shitty treehouse and still can't find out how to attack. Decided to abandon my fort and actually play the game, though I've still not figured out how to use my weapon. Found a gun, or just had a gun, I don't know. If I had entire walls in my pocket I'm sure there was a gun in there too. I can switch weapons but fuck me if I can figure out how to use them. Finally figure out how to shoot which I promptly keep getting confused with the "switch weapon" button, foiling my plans to pull off an epic gamer headshot on the single random player that I managed to come across. Around this time I realized that I did not take into consideration that this is the game that has the electric death wall thing that encroaches upon the map. My poor character who already was struggling with the basics of using a hatchet was now incapacitated by a sudden burst of god knows what and was crawling on the ground. At which point I left the match having come to the realization that Baby's First Shooter might be a little too complicated for me.
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Jesus goddamn backflipping Christ have you ever heard of a fucking paragraph? You can use the enter key on your keyboard like so:

To create spacing between groups of thoughts. So a normal human being might actually read it, and not see a big fucking block of breathless nonsense. Because I actually read what you wrote, and it wasn't just a heap of word salad as I initially thought it would be. But now I have a huge migraine from looking at your text wall and I'm mad about it.
 
Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
Jesus goddamn backflipping Christ have you ever heard of a fucking paragraph? You can use the enter key on your keyboard like so:

To create spacing between groups of thoughts. So a normal human being might actually read it, and not see a big fucking block of breathless nonsense. Because I actually read what you wrote, and it wasn't just a heap of word salad as I initially thought it would be. But now I have a huge migraine from looking at your text wall and I'm mad about it.
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I will make sure to make my posts as long and difficult to read as possible from now on.
 
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