Fortnite (new game by Epic Games)

I must admit I'm a bit concerned about this game. Seems like its been in development for a long long time now. Haven't heard much news about it either. Just got to get in the alpha and im sure I'll be less concerned.

Ventures into the unknown are always challenging and take a long time!

Ok, I've been playing a bit more these days: I'm starting to get really good items, I finally understand what was the base for (empower the heroes and get more items to craft, an i right?). Ammos are difficult to find and to craft as they require lots of different assets. It's often a problem but it asks the player not to spare them. I kinda like that but it puts me in difficult positions sometime.

I still don't understand what are the beacons for.

The gme is quite awesome though. This is something for all type of players. Exploration, killing, destroying, crafting, building, team building and a bunch of systems.

Thanks for the feedback add it on the alpha forums if you'd like, your free of the NDA worries there

Launch trailer and release date announced (25th July)

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/pre-order

Wow who is publishing this EA?

Shit looks dope, everyone's really excited for it here at work too! We all just pre-ordered. Can't wait. Congrats @2d-chris

@dux seems like they don't have a boxed version, so it's most likely self published? Tencent owns 48% of the company, so they sure have the infrastructure to handle that.

This looks really fun!

glad to see it's coming out soon

Edit: Oh and congrats 2d! :)!

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5 hours ago, [HP] said: Shit looks dope, everyone's really excited for it here at work too! We all just pre-ordered. Can't wait. Congrats @2d-chris

@dux seems like they don't have a boxed version, so it's most likely self published? Tencent owns 48% of the company, so they sure have the infrastructure to handle that.

It was more a comment on the ridiculous pre order price tags that I associate with EA.

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3 hours ago, dux said: It was more a comment on the ridiculous pre order price tags that I associate with EA.

oh... lol

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1 hour ago, FrieChamp said: Glad to see this seeing the light of day finally!

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/pre-order/deluxe

Regarding the business model: what exactly do I get if I buy the "Rare Starter Hero Pack"? Rare skins for the heroes or the ability to play 8 heroes from the start (otherwise they would need to be unlocked by XP) or...?

Yeah this is what confuses me. Also the pinata packs. I take it they give cards which you can combine to make new skins/weapons/heroes?

We were gonna get the 150$ version, until we realize that the two extra copies that come with the package is just the bare bones version with no heroes, not the delux. that's rather disappointing. Whoever came up with all those 4 versions of the game didn't fully think about this it feels like, nor do they do a good enough job explaining what they are.

Cinematic trailer!

Out on 25/July. Actually really looking forward to this.

This looks awesome! Definitly gonna try convince some friends to get it with me after release if it meets expectations.

Better be good chris!

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14 hours ago, FrieChamp said: So I am hearing this can be purchased for 40 EUR now but the game will turn into a F2P game come 2018? Whaaat?

It's early access.

Gotta be one of the most exhausting first couple hours with a game I've had in awhile. Not sure how helpful it is to front load this much of your progression/mission/item menus/systems etc this early. I'm being bombarded with information and now idea as to how it applies to the actual core game. Survivors. Defenders. Schematics. Items from crates. No idea what any of it is for. This is sort of par for the course with F2P but this is some next level shit. Would probably be better off just letting me get into the game itself and not explain all these things that don't seem to have any application yet. Took me 4 missions to figure out there are no loadouts for weapons and you can just equip them during the game, which I remembered being taught to me early on but I forgot about by the time I trudged through the rest of the intro.

Just get people in the game. You got me doing homework before I get to have 2 minutes and 30 seconds of gameplay and then it's back to the menus marking off exclamation points for about the same amount of time.