Six years ago Cliff Bleszinski of Epic Games announced a new game called Fortnite that was aimed exclusively at the PC market. It was a co-op team shooter game set in a cartoony apocalypse where you can build structures to protect yourself and your teammates from the oncoming Zombie hordes. The game has been in development for over six years and is still in early access and has blown up with the launch of the in game Battle Royale mode. One huge inspiration for Fortnite Battle Royale was the early 2017 Player Unknown Battlegrounds also known as PUBG. When PUBG hit the scene it solid very well catapulting it to the top of the Steam and Twitch charts and Epic Games saw...
A first person shooter on iOS? How does that work exactly?
Virtual thumbstick on the left for moving, thumbstick on the right for aiming. There is a button to jump and you tap the screen to collect items. Works better than it sounds but it's not my preferred way of playing it. Epic has mentioned it will add support for iOS MFI controllers at some point which should basically make it akin to playing it on a console.
As long as they let you join games with only people on mobile that do NOT have controllers that sounds like it could work well.
I popped in for a couple matches and suuuuuuucked. I'm pretty ok with knowing I'll never win one but it's fun.
Yeah, it is fun. I killed someone in a match, that was great. Then I was in another match where I was in the last 10.
That sounds basically identical to my night. :D
I tried it last night. Got killed right away.
In a game where people run around killing each other, i'd expect that.
I just came in 31st. I am soooo awesome. :)
You're practically godlike!
...compared to me ;)
Ha! My number was inflated by the fact that I landed in an area that nobody was in. I ended up getting one kill before getting killed.
19 and the storm killed me. I floated to the very outside of the map and tried to make my way in. It was a good way to learn a little bit about the game.
That's kinda the problem I have. I wish there was a bot mode where you could set AI difficulty, just to get a handle on the mechanics without worrying about survival.
Right. But I find that part of the fun. It's a game you can't get too attached to because it doesn't last very long. I find that kind of experience really... in a way... freeing because it's not about being very good. I really enjoy it for the loner aspect and trying to figure out the best way to land in an area no one is around, find some weapons and derp my way to a kill or survival.
Sometimes I get into a gun fight right away with someone but I try and hit the edges of the map and survive until pushed in but by the time it's just me and 20 other people they are SO much better than me. But it's still fun to play.
Jon, it sounds like we have the same strategy. :)