Epic Games Now Working With Nintendo To Improve Fortnite Performance On Switch

I figured out what it is I dont like about this type of fps, it's all the jumping I see online just looks so stupid to me.

Try Fortnite on the Switch when it came out, don't really care for it at all would much rather play Paladins anytime.

They weren't working with them before?

@TheOpponent
My impression is that rather few western third parties are privy to working directly with Nintendo's in-house technicians on game optimization.

But seeing how this is Unreal Engine 4, which Nintendo is using for Yoshi's new game as well (and seeing how Fortnite is kind of a big deal, I guess) working with Epic on this is really helping themselves as well.

I'm so glad a big developer such as Epic Games actually reached out to Nintendo for a helping hand in optimizing their game. I feel sooo many other games could have turned out to be better ported on the Switch if those devs maybe swallowed their pride and asked for help.

Stability in Fortnite form!

I've played it, seems good enough to me...

@Lthoise
Surely some devs are above asking for help, though I do also sometimes hear from those that do, that Nintendo are a little unwilling to spend much time on assisting them. They're busy people after all.

Unreal Engine 4 and its primary showpiece on the system is likely kind of important to Nintendo, however. The engine is included in all development kits, and I could see why they would want all devs to feel assured their game would run well on the system.

Just get the bloody carear tab on it ffs

@Spoony_Tech I just hate the building and cross-play.

I don't know, I think it's completely playable even now. Glad to see them improve it, though.

I played quite a bit weekend past and it was grand, to be honest.

@Balchad The building has a second control scheme in the settings that's so much better it should probably just be default. I very much recommend trying it out, it's a different experience.

@FTPinkRabbit That nice and all but I just hate building as in I feel like it would be better without it. I just want some normal shootouts without someone building the Eiffel Tower in front of me. It stops almost all combat and it just looks stupid.

Guys Fortnite is not for everyone like every game and its not typical Nintendo but its got its own merits. Its not world craze for nothing. Its a win to have this on Switch

I was playing yesterday and the game stopped working properly toward the end of a match (I got stuck in a flight of stairs and could not get out. Half of the buttons on my left Joycon stopped working). I quit and played my PS4 version.

I just want them to fix the gyro. It was working fine at the launch in June, but one of the recent updates messed it up. It used to work just like Splatoon, but now it's all weird. InvertIng aim doesn't help it either because that only affects the Y axis.

Not going to mess with moving software around to install it on system disk space.

Two Words:
Amiibo Functionality

BOOM!!!!!

This will be a good thing to see fixed. However they better fix the pro controller gyro sometime soon. The controller has been unusable since around July. It's annoying having to switch back to joycon everytime I want to play Fortnite.

@Pod i think this use to be the case, but now i think Nintendo are defo making efforts to bridge that gap between themselves and western developer.

I hope we see more of this, id like to think they have worked with Bethesda too.

We as fans also need to throw our support behind western developers who make this effort.

I'll download fortnite when the updates for the switch are ironed out.

Comments section please, why even bother responding if you have a zero-sum response.

Oh I don't like this game. Eh? Don't read the article much less respond... dumb.

Some others have not experienced these issues, okay well did you read the article? We all have identical Switch consoles so there aren't winners and losers. If you are playing the game from internal storage these problems maybe are not tangible. I will say for me the problems have persisted worsening until the game is nearly unplayable.

@OptometristLime I play on Internal and it’s also crazy bad for me. I find it funny that people still say they aren’t experiencing the issues and acting like they don’t know what’s going on when Epic themselves have confirmed the problems.

Maybe Sony was right not to allow crossplay on their version XD

The game runs perfectly in Docked mode, potable however... It looks awful, they upped the dynamic resolution and it looks like 360p at high distances, it really sucks.

@subpopz Except that’s far from the truth. The game is 100% confirmed to run better on the One X:
https://youtu.be/GtepPbQEIM8
As are most other new releases that make use of the One X hardware 🙄

@subpopz Best comment :crylaugh:

@WinterIceFox The game certainly does not run perfectly in docked mode. It cannot maintain a locked 720p resolution or a locked 30fps with consistent framepacing (33.3ms), making the experience a stuttery, blurry one, with the stutter directly impacting the responsiveness of the controls, making the game difficult to play when the drops occur.

For the game to be perfect, it needs a locked resolution and stable framerate with perfect framepacing at all times for a smooth, consistent experience. I’m hopeful that Epic and Nintendo will be able to achieve this for both docked and handheld (via dynamic res for the latter).

It’s good to see Epic going to such lengths to help make the experience smoother all around. Hopefully this fix will make it much better.

I really don't understand why these issues are arising now on the Switch. Fortnite is not a particularly visually impressive game and can run on tablets full of bloatware and often inferior hardware.

@Djgoa AMEN

I hate the rendering in issues. Even when installed onto the system itself and not on the sd card still having rendering issues both docked and undocked and this sucks. Tbh I'm very happy for this fix on Thursday but what I'd truely be happy for is if epic finally takes switch people serious and gets us a stats/career tab so everyone on switch can see how they've been doing. Unfortunately it seems like epic only takes ps4 xbox and PC players gaming seriously. For God sakes it's almost season 6 yet NO STATS ON SWITCH

Haven't really experienced these issues myself but its good to see Epic working hard to resolve the issue

@Prizm If Sony wants to not allow crossplay I think it’s lame but maybe it’s a good business decision for them. It makes ME not want a ps4 but I’ve started to realize my opinions on such matters rarely align with what the majority cares about.

And if that was the extent of it I doubt I’d care much at all. But the fact that once you link your account to the ps4 you can’t use it in Switch or Xbox and there’s no way to reverses it is truly scandalous and should not be allowed to stand.

Apparently it only when playing with friends that cross play is even enabled anyways which I misunderstood initially. I thought everyone was in one big matchmaking pool except ps4.