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Tengis said:
Fortnight just... isnt good. The only good mechanics in Fortnight are done better in other battle royale games. The building aspect of the game is absurd.
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Always looked cheesy as hell to me
 
Blakestr said:
I've never understood why any of these round-based games (or at least barely any) don't have a "respawn lobby" where dead players can just play deathmatch while they are waiting for the round to end. You could sharpen your skills so you don't have to sit out as much next time... barely any games do this, it should be the standard.
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I think the having to wait out the round provides an intentional penalty for people to succeed, because being killed off and having to wait sucks.

So it adds a tiny bit of motivation effect.
 
Tengis said:
Fortnight just... isnt good. The only good mechanics in Fortnight are done better in other battle royale games. The building aspect of the game is absurd.
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I always thought it was ridiculous Fortnite became more popular than PUBG.

PUBG was a way better game, at least when it was first out in Steam Greenlight.

I feel like PUBG hit it's peak in late summer (August?) 2017 when they added a first person game mode. It prevented people hiding behind walls while simultaneously looking over them and bullshit like that.

The game was beautiful, could tax a high end GPU, had a huge map, and was reasonably "tactical" in nature. Aside from its rather ridiculous death match premise it hit all of my buttons.

I put about 70 hours into it in August - October or so of 2017 that year, and enjoyed it.

Though I have to admit, that with just one map, the novelty started to wear of when I pretty regularly started getting Chicken Dinners or finishing in the top 3, and I stopped playing.

I loaded it up again a couple of years later for shits and giggles, and while there were more maps which was nice, I felt that they dumbed the game down. They watered down the graphics to cell-phone levels, and the gun play was more twitchy and a lot less "tactical" feeling and satisfying. I played one round and then decided they had ruined the game and never touched it again.

Fortnite on the other hand was just stupid internet meme bullshit from the very get-go. I only ran it once, when I was testing it to see if it was appropriate for th ekiddo when he was younger. I determined that it was absolutely retarded, but otherwise mostly harmless.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I always thought it was ridiculous Fortnite became more popular than PUBG.

PUBG was a way better game, at least when it was first out in Steam Greenlight.

I feel like PUBG hit it's peak in late summer (August?) 2017 when they added a first person game mode. It prevented people hiding behind walls while simultaneously looking over them and bullshit like that.

The game was beautiful, could tax a high end GPU, had a huge map, and was reasonably "tactical" in nature. Aside from its rather ridiculous death match premise it hit all of my buttons.

I put about 70 hours into it in August - October or so of 2017 that year, and enjoyed it.

Though I have to admit, that with just one map, the novelty started to wear of when I pretty regularly started getting Chicken Dinners or finishing in the top 3, and I stopped playing.

I loaded it up again a couple of years later for shits and giggles, and while there were more maps which was nice, I felt that they dumbed the game down. They watered down the graphics to cell-phone levels, and the gun play was more twitchy and a lot less "tactical" feeling and satisfying. I played one round and then decided they had ruined the game and never touched it again.

Fortnite on the other hand was just stupid internet meme bullshit from the very get-go. I only ran it once, when I was testing it to see if it was appropriate for th ekiddo when he was younger. I determined that it was absolutely retarded, but otherwise mostly harmless.
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I put a couple hundred hours into Pubg when it first came out... I was in the military active duty and got off work at like 2am and would play until 4am. I stopped playing once I played Apex Legends because I couldnt believe how bad Pubg looked, ran, and "felt" in comparison to the "polished" feel of Apex. The net code in Pubg was so bad at first - there was definitely some kind of ping issue or disconnect in how the game handles the clients. You would point blank blast the hell out of something and then rubber band a bit and die from their gun shots.

I played a mobile knock off of Pubg for a couple days simply because my friend was laughing at how much better it looked, ran, and "felt" compared to real Pubg on a powerful PC lol.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
I always thought it was ridiculous Fortnite became more popular than PUBG.

PUBG was a way better game, at least when it was first out in Steam Greenlight.

I feel like PUBG hit it's peak in late summer (August?) 2017 when they added a first person game mode. It prevented people hiding behind walls while simultaneously looking over them and bullshit like that.

The game was beautiful, could tax a high end GPU, had a huge map, and was reasonably "tactical" in nature. Aside from its rather ridiculous death match premise it hit all of my buttons.

I put about 70 hours into it in August - October or so of 2017 that year, and enjoyed it.

Though I have to admit, that with just one map, the novelty started to wear of when I pretty regularly started getting Chicken Dinners or finishing in the top 3, and I stopped playing.

I loaded it up again a couple of years later for shits and giggles, and while there were more maps which was nice, I felt that they dumbed the game down. They watered down the graphics to cell-phone levels, and the gun play was more twitchy and a lot less "tactical" feeling and satisfying. I played one round and then decided they had ruined the game and never touched it again.

Fortnite on the other hand was just stupid internet meme bullshit from the very get-go. I only ran it once, when I was testing it to see if it was appropriate for th ekiddo when he was younger. I determined that it was absolutely retarded, but otherwise mostly harmless.
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That reminds me of a time I was playing Fortnite teams of 4 with random people. There was some kid playing that had his microphone always on and I could hear his parents talking in the background.
I had a furry character and as I was reviving the kid I could hear the dad saying "Stay away from that guy, never go near anyone like that". I was laughing my ass off the rest of the game.


Anyways, people like to hate on Fortnite or whatever game is popular, especially if it's seen as competition to the game they like, stealing players away.
I haven't played Fortnite for years but there is a reason it's one of the most successful games of all time and makes billions of dollars a year.

There is goofiness in it, it isn't a super serious realism game, but there is a serious competitive side too. There have been 100s of millions of dollars in prize money and the top end so extremely competitive and skill based top end players that take a break for a year aren't even good enough to qualify for tournaments when they come back.

There is also a lot of cool tech behind it, Epic spared no expense in improving Unreal Engine specifically for Fortnite.
It has by far the lowest end to end latency of any BR game, basically as good as CS but with hundreds of players.
It's playable on phones and even a nintendo switch, but you can crank the settings on PC with ray tracing, nanite, and all the latest UE5 stuff.

Anyways, I don't even play it anymore, but I just think it's kind of stupid when people hate on it and other popular games, it just feels like old guys yelling at people for having fun.
 
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