Strange Rifts Are Appearing All Over Fortnite's Map Post Blast Off Event

Aaand here we go again...

These constant updates on what’s happening in Fortnite are going to get old.

As much as a I bag on the game I do give them credit. The underlying lore to the game is an interesting one if someone can tell what the hell is going on. with that said I still don't like the game.

@justin233 I came here to comment something very similar.

Sigh...

Yeah, just a few hours ago I defended it, but it's crossing a line. Yes it's a game relevant to Nintendo, but every in game event isn't necessary to cover to the point that a disproportionate amount of news is tied to one third party game while there's tons of other games and happenings on Switch. OTOH I'm almost enjoying it...it'll get worse when there's Smash news.

I get this feeling we get so much Fortnite coverage simply because it's easy and effortless to cover since news for it crosses all platforms feeds, and is obnoxious with pushing out twitter marketing/spam that makes it easy for a site like this to just pick up posts and turn them into articles, while other companies offer a slower trickle.

I wish dataminers and spoilers would do one. Imagine living in a world where a game or movie surprises u. I like the internet for reviews but it seems people are intend on being the first to say look what i found

I like the coverage but then again, I like the game.

@Djgoa It was no different 25-something years ago, though. Just, ya know, don't peruse places that don't fit your preferences.

Also, Snape killed Dumbledore. Vader is Luke's father. Samus Aran is a woman. Bacon comes from pigs. Parents have intercourse to create children. Life isn't fair.

@justin233 Well, I (among many other Nintendo fans) like the game, so it's great that NintendoLife is covering these! Besides, even if you're not interested in Fortnite, this is nothing away from you.

I haven't seen these rifts other than the sky overhead. Though last night I did come across an indestructible signpost with a Carbide poster on it. (It was in the fenced in patio attached to the back of a burger joint kitchen in that fast food area)

@KoopaTheGamer @Pablo17Agreed! Get my snippets of Fortnite info from a videogame website I enjoy? Sounds exactly like a media product I'd enjoy.

@NEStalgia some folks are starting to forget BotW was the same, so was Hyrule Warriors, so (has been) Smash.
Fortnite IS on a Nintendo console though, yeah? If only there were some way for people to not be forced to read articles they're interested in.... I'll get my popcorn while I try to solve this "free will" dilemma.

I clicked on the article because I wanted to see people complaining about Nintendolife. C’mon folks, just skip over the article if it doesn’t interest you. Nobody is forcing you to come to this website, let alone read an article you already know you don’t want to read before you even click it.

I play Fortnite pretty regularly with my fiance and friends, so I'm glad I can read about events on NintendoLife instead of IGN, which has the most awful community I've seen on gaming news sites.

@HobbitGamer Yeah, though one difference is BotW was a NEW game and all the information was new. Hyrule Warriors wasn't new but it wasn't covered quite as intensely. Smash is (in some opinions ) new and Nintendo was spoon feeding the smash info for E3 hype. Covering real news about updates, events etc is one thing. But covering the gossip column about the leaderboard antics, rumors, datamines etc for it is going a little overboard not just for a 3rd party but even first party games that have their own online fan sites and communities. Leave that to Fortnite fan sites and cover the actual content of a game on a Nintendo platform...platforms, timed/scheduled events, etc. That's why game specific community sites exist, for the smaller details and speculation. Ultimately the news should be proportional and relevant in equal measure. Mario Tennis just launched, and there's a dearth of coverage on it compared to Fortnite, while also being a mostly online game. Lots of other single player games are launching, but most of them get scarce mentions beyond the review and maybe a DF repost. Crash is getting a lot of mentions.

I'm all for covering it, but the extent of covering fairly random in-game specific stuff to the level NL is doing so smacks of 2 things: Fortnite (and Crash) is popular on the internet across many platforms, so NL gets to cram a very SEO optimized keyword into as many pages as possible as often as possible and get some of the search traffic their way, and because it's easy/low-effort to procure content for without much effort and make the page look more frequently updated.

I think that's the underlying thing people in the community have been rumbling about lately (even before Fortnite coverage which is just putting an exclamation point at the end now) without pinpointing the issue, the news is feeling ever more curated for SEO than for readers. All the inappropriately located articles about Fallout, the click-bait, the Fortnite coverage....it makes sense, but it betrays a lot of what built this into a quality site.

I found one in Lonely lodge, can't wait to see what comes of these!

@HobbitGamer spray it!

For all the arguments of what's worth posting news on, at least we can agree it isn't as bad as the Pokemon Go stuff, with articles that basically just declared mechanics were mere RNG when the title implied there was something to it (I'm looking at you, Wurmple).

...and I love Pokemon Go, but still didn't like that. I'll take actual news in Fortnite any day over that.

I blame the Time Lords.

@Djgoa The internet: Where everyone is a spoiled, obnoxious child, even at age 70. Of course it probably doesn't hurt that most of the population of the internet actually is spoiled, obnoxious children that we wouldn't pay 5 seconds attention to in person but on the internet they all seem indistinguishable from 40 year olds.

@NEStalgia Fortnite is always adding new things though. So while the game is old, the events and content in the game are new.

It's the biggest game in the world right now. Get used to seeing a few articles about it on a video game site.

The spoiled comments sound a bit ironic coming from someone complaining about something so trivial...

These Fortnite news are ruining Nintendo Life.

I love how most of the comments are people complaining about the article.
I am curious about the rifts and play 3-5 rounds of fortnite every day since coming to switch. I don’t think I’ll still be playing it in a year like most fans, but it’s fun and it’s free.

As a Pokémon Go player I have to ask.. are people still playing this? I already got tired of it & only jump on when a friend asks me to team.

Nope, nobody plays it.

@Matthew010 just like the end of season 3 where we had all sorts of outlandish theories about the map being obliterated and in the end it was ‘we added a crater to the map’

Rumours are abound it is involving time travel this time around. They’ll probably change 1 location and add tommy guns to the weapons, but it would be incredible if they rewound the game 200 years and changed the weapons to bows, flintlocks, muskets and swords.

@Klimbatize There's a difference between covering a multiplatform game on a general platform site, and covering content of said game in minutia more appropriate for a game specific site. There are Fortnite specific sites. There are Splatoon specific sites. The rumors/details/that-just-happened type news is appropriate for a game specific site much more than a general platform site. Similarly PushSquare is not covering every single rumor and news bit for the ongoing events in Black Ops 3. Black Ops 3 and general CoD sites exist to cover that news (but not cover news about Battlefield, Nier, and SpiderMan.) It's a matter of the right site for given content, and what proportion of a given site. There's a tremendous amount of other general platform news and stories that are absent from NL while disproportionate coverage is provided to select titles. A platform site that's sacrificing platform wide news for content more appropriate for single game fan sites because it's easy to do, and likely enhances search ranking is a disservice to those reading a platform news site.

It's not all or nothing. Nobody's saying Fortnite deserves no coverage as a game on Switch. It's the frequency of updates about small things in Fortnite and an absence of lots of other Switch related content, combined with the entirely non-Nintendo related posts from last month. As I said, just a few hours ago I was defending the content as well...but it's just getting a little over the top. Even Kotaku, a general gaming site, has only one Fortnite story up from the last 72 hours. NL has five.

It's not the coverage, it's the proportions that are getting under people's skin.

It's not hard to skip an article folks! I have no interest in RPG's so didn't click on the Square Enix article earlier today. Some people visiting the site are interested in fortnite and will want to read them and if these articles help attract more traffic then great, more clicks, more revenue, more cash for better content etc.

When u see an article you dislike and then click and comment anyway...

There's a horror creeping below the manor; I could not look nor could I look away! - -DD

Ah, the minecraft effect, "OH its popular that must mean it's trash and only little kids play it" good times. Speaking of minecraft none of you complain about minecraft articles and that game is old and getting updates.

@DanteSolablood I mean... really? You’re honestly asking of people are still playing this? 😐

Fortnite is overrated, but it's still an okay game overall. What DOES deserve great praise is how much they're updating the map through quirky events like this. Instead of just pushing out a random update and patching in a new location or aesthetic instantly, they add them in-game as you're playing the match. Instead of going in a match to see they spawned in a giant crater during a maintenance update, you see the meteors crashing to form it mid-battle.

Since Tom left, this site has really taken a hit. Recently, there's been about as much Fortnite news as there has been Smash news.

My kids were going nuts when Fortnite came to the Switch. I played a few times with them and thought it was borderline terrible (just found it un-fun). As I’ve played more & more with them it has really grown on me and we have been having a great time playing as a Squad. We logged in to see the Rocket lunch. Was pretty cool. Gotta give the developer props for the constant updates, new items and (for the most part) parity it provides to the Switch in relation to other consoles. Looking forward to finding out that these riffs bring

Rifts appearing all over the map? Well, here's hoping that no dinosaurs will come popping out of them...

@ThanosReXXX or Kaiju. Don’t think they introduced Jaegers in Fortnite yet

@Supadav03 Good one as well, although I do believe that mine fits a bit better: rifts are randomly appearing on the map, not made by an alien intelligence, as it was in Pacific Rim (far as we know, for now).

Don't know if you know the series, but my comment was a sneaky reference to the British sci-fi series Primeval, aired in Europe on the SyFy Channel (and in the States on BBC America) from 2007 until 2011, 5 seasons in total. In it, rifts also appeared randomly, and dinos came hopping out left and right.

Great series, by the way, if the topic interests you. It also had a decidedly less successful British-Canadian spin-off, called Primeval: New World, which was canceled after only one season.

I appreciate the fact they are doing many things to keep the game fresh in a way. I'm not the biggest player but now ive spent at least 40 on it I guess? Bought the early access on day one for ps4 and bought one battle pass on switch. I hope they put save the world on the switch.

I hope Nintendo gets the Battle Royale bug and make a Splatoon "Splat Royale" game

@HobbitGamer there is one failure in ur comment. Parents dont have to have intercourse. My daughter was brought into the world via IVF

@Djgoa WITCHCRAFT!!!!