Epic Records "Biggest Day In Fortnite History" As 44 Million Players Return To The OG Island

I played Fortnite once, had no clue what I was doing because there I no tutorial, and went out to buy Splatoon instead.

I still find it funny people on twitter say it’s a dead game lol….well the first thing that’s wrong with my sentence is that I said “Twitter said”

Honestly great marketing strategy. It gets people like me who haven’t played in 5 years back into the game. Sure it’s probably lazy but I mean it works and everyone is happy

It a shame how many QOL features had to be cut to bring all these people back

@CaleBoi25 Correct me if I'm wrong, but Splatoon doesn't tend to go big on tutorials either does it? I remember a basic 'How to move, swim, use special etc' but one of the barriers I've always had with Splatoon that's stopped me playing anything other than turf war is that I don't know and always forgot how the other match types work.

Anyway, Splatoon and Fortnite... both great games in their own right. But I've played a lot more Fortnite because (a) its F2P so me and my kids can play it for nothing, none of this 'need a copy of the game each' malarkey, and (b) if the kids are not around to play with, I can play solo Battle Royale and not get hacked off with the randoms I've been teamed up with. Why can't we play Solo Turf War in Splatoon? 8 players, 8 ink colours, Go!

Fortnite OG island is the new McRib.

@EaglyBird But literally nobody calls it that 😑

@SMUGSLOTH69 Darn you Elon! shakes fist in the air darn you!

At this point, Fortnite just feels too big to fail (like Mario or Pokemon). I just hope it's never at the point of popularity where it's considered for Smash or a Nintendo crossover like Minecraft was.

@FawfulsFury

What do you mean? The enhanced graphics due to the Engine update, are great.

The climbing is there and awesome as you can reach areas you prior needed to build. They just changed the map back. They even added the Respawn-busses to the old maps. Cars are not drivable, no fuel, no gold, ... That´s all stuff which came later and is nothing QoL related.

The only thing I hate about it, are the spammed explosives. Everyone is just using a rocket launcher to win. In group matches they even use the launcher as shotgun, so the attacker dies, too, as it does not matter as you team mate can revive you. That sucks.

All control related stuff is exactly like last season.

I just hope Epic understands the importance of the simple old maps. The overloaded future maps are less fun.

@gcunit That is true, I forgot that Anarchy Battles don't have a tutorial. Nonetheless, Fortnite didn't even tell me how to attack! So I still prefer Splatoon. To each his own, I suppose!

This must be the most number of players in a single day for any game ever. This is an astounding achievement, even by Fortnite standards.

@gcunit I’ve lost so many games to a grenade launcher

online gaming seems like such a waste of time to me and always has. but fortnite feels next level with it.

@Geit_de I noticed the “no gold” today after 4 days of playing.😂 The only thing I really ever used it for was hiring npcs, which are gone, so no harm, but I still miss collecting it. No gas, we’ll hadn’t even noticed that, but I do miss hoping into and driving cars. Not sure why they even have shopping carts in solo play? 🤷🏻‍♂️ And how the heck am I supposed to use a grappling hook in a vehicle? 😝 Will be glad when this is gone and things get a bit more modern. 👍

@rjejr

There is no use for gold as the currency back than was "materials", until they added additional stuff. Same is for gas. Also the shopping carts where there from the beginning, the same way they are now. The revive-busses are in there in single player, too, even if they are useless.

You can drive the golf carts, which is a four player vehicle. Just hop on any other seat and fire. Golf and shopping carts were the only drivable vehicles and there at the beginning. Later on the ballers, planes, helicopter and stuff were added. Ballers and Planes will be within this time travel season, too

@Boo_Boy52

Yeah, the explosives are spammed like hell and in endgame the chances are high to loose. People even use rocket launchers as close combat shot guns, which is insane. In duos, trios and squads his team mates revive him and they game on. On the other hand sniper rifles and big ammunition, which are the best way to react are spawning in a very low rate.

This balancing is ruining the old setup a lot and is not as it was back then. Especially as the revive bus was added way later.

@Geit_de yeah but you do have lots of scoped ARs which is nice

I enjoy a little Fortnite every now and then but I tried this new update and saw over 15 features such as cars and swimming have been removed to make way for the original island. So yes it's a lot less fun to play now haha. I highly doubt the hype will stay. Cause a lot of content was cut. I also don't really understood why they did this since most people wanted the old map. Not the old game. The new features have remarkably improved the gameplay and even the meta. I even saw instead of 40+ items in the shop every day they now have 5+ items a day. So I really don't know how long this will last.

@ToDaisy that is why they kept it short for just one month. As mentioned in the comments, QoL features have been cut to bring back the old experience and it is ok, clearly it is ok when looking at the player numbers. The player base will stay after this season, and if a % of these returning and new players stay too due to the hype then it is a total victory for Epic. We'll return in less than a month to the previous features again.

Fortnite is for people who choose quantity over quality. Not saying it's bad even, I've never played it, and I'm sure it's fun. But it's the pop figures of video games.

Wow, I got bored of this game years ago. It's such a repetitive gameplay loop. Each time my friend that plays daily explains that he essentially plays it like an idle game, waiting around till the end just doesn't sound appealing at all lol. Grats to them though

@EaglyBird Nah it's twitter, like velcro the owner doesn't get a say in the matter. Not that it matters, dead platform now.

@CaleBoi25 Yeah that was pretty much my experience lol. I even tried to play it with a kid before and they were trying to guide me along and tell me how to play it. No joke, it made me feel like such a boomer struggling and just not getting it lol. Now I know how my parents felt when I tried to play games with them lol.

we still wait for local multiplayer via wireless - you could simply select an area from the whole map ! i hope the fans manage to finally accomplish that fortnite and overwatch get it !

@Geit_de I've been playing the game nearly every day for over 2 years and I always forget I can get in a vehicle that isn't the drivers seat. I think I accidentally did it once but didn't know how, I just always see the square for drive button - I'm playing on PS5 b/c it looks so much better than Switch - and push the square button. I'll try getting into some other seat in the golf cart tomorrow, haven't had any problem finding the plunger guns. Thanks.

On the other hand, Rocket League hasn't gotten a big update in years, . I am indeed sad as it is a very good game.

@rjejr

Yeah, I swapped to PS5 after I was able to purchase one, too.

It looks better (water/reflections, textures, render distance), but epic is using this bug-fest to promote their engine, which is just stupid, as Fortnite does not utilize even the smallest features, like the seamless transformation of objects, when you come closer. If you land or just travers by glider you can see pop ins all over the place and not to mention the known game bugs, which reappear frequently after fixing.

@Geit_de Does seem like a pretty ugly game to promote your engine, but maybe they're just promoting 100 player battle royale?🤷‍♂️ I did try the MAtrix thing, that was nearly real life, very impressive. Not gonna run on Switch, maybe Switch 2. Maybe.

Good news, I was driving around in a cart today bored w/ seemingly nothing to do, and I came across 3 plunger guns just sitting there, so I was able to change seats and fire at a tree, so mission complete, thanks for the help. 👍

@rjejr Sure the matrix demo is amazing, but everytime a new version of the engine is shown Fortnite is highlighted by the press as the first game using the new engine version. Yeah, a completely broken game is using next to none of the new features of the engine.

Glad I could help.