kamehameha and deku smash being in the map at the same time is the most insanely fun thing ever idec that i never got a dub (lost my final match in #2 to a john wick fuuu) but i genuinely love almost every weapon. keyword almost, burst rifle is ass. epic is obv having a really hard time with ue5 conversion cause they keep removing shit because it bugs everything. augments are still really fun, just wish id stop getting bow ones. i got the president helsie skin which is the one i really wanted so I'm considering that my finish line.

I hadn't played Fortnite since it came out back when PUBG exploded. It feels like playing the third entry of the franchise by now and its great.

The BR that I enjoyed the most was Apex, which I had to drop because of the dreadful servers and underwhelming battle pass, meanwhile Fortnite seems to drop new content weekly, is stable, its battle pass is cheaper with more rewards, while also having a halo forge like where I played a Souls like game that was pretty decent.

With the knowledge that this game just changed engines (Unreal 5) I just can't see how other BRs can compete, if a BR will survive it will be this one.

I can’t speak for everyone, of course, but I was totally enamored with this season in the beginning. I absolutely adored what felt like everything about it for the first month or two, but the last month or so I was running into extremely severe server lag. I play on a PS5 with a solid Internet connection, so I had no clue where this was coming from. Had asked some friends if they were experiencing it too, and many of them were running into it as well. Mind you, it wasn’t a one-time thing, I was running into said lag fairly regularly (with some stabilization at either very late or very early hours).

Aside from that, kind of reflecting on the season as a whole, I just wasn’t invested in the story, or characters, maps, mechanics, etc like I was in seasons prior. I really love the RPG feel of augments, and I love the graphics and battlepass updates, but that’s… kind of it? Once the luster of it all wears off, you realize there’s not much substance there to sustain player engagement. Overall I did get some enjoyment out of it, but it was rather disappointing by the end.

Coming to terms that Fortnite may be your favorite game is tough. I'm at the point in the double digits in the past 6 years that this game has existed that I have not only maxed out the battle pass but that I played daily and still got excited about a win or completing a hard challenge or even getting a sick kill. I wrote a whole thing when the last "build season'" dropped about how building was core to this game and why it's a mechanic that made every other game feel lesser because of it. Then no-build came around about a year ago and it made me love the game even more, and now after a year of sitting on it this is the best game ever made. Multiplayer wise but also, and this may sound like a side tangent, but my reservation of playing a long 100+ hour RPG is that I grind for 100's of hours but once the game ends, that's it. All that is confined to that game and yeah the story may be great but I know at the next game that's it, I'm starting from square one so what's the point of the grind. Here, I come back because not only only do I love the game, but I want to have those rewards, I want to own every character I can and I love doing it. I play this game as a single player game I have for over 3 years. I play each challenge like I am in a world full of random NPC's and I'm just trying to get XP. I drop in with that goal but quickly I start getting some kills. 1 turns to 3, 3 turns to 5, 5 quickly becomes 10 and then the challenges don't matter I'm going for a win, I zero in and maybe I lose maybe I win but I'm invested every game. The Challenges are the backbone to my enjoyment but that game drives that love. On the last day of the season I was just as invested as every other week and it's been years of this. I love fortnite it's a perfect game to me. Fuck you if you don't agree

probably the most consistently fun multiplayer game in years, and im glad internet society at large has stopped pretending fortnite isnt fun as fuck. granted im saying this as someone who has played... uhh... 548 hours on and off since release? (probably a bad thing)

in a world where every multiplayer game is trying to be HyperCompetitive Metagaming Play 18 Hours A Day to Keep Up With Being Good Enough To Queue For A Game, fortnite sections off its playstyles well enough that a guy like me who just wants to have fun can actually just do that. nobuild continues to be The Way To Play this game, in case you were unaware and queued into the normal mode which is pretty much overrun by sweats lol

this season particularly is great, augments are among the best additions in quite some time, and it finally gives me something good to use gold for lmao. hammers were great too, for the time they were in at least. only iffy additions i think are the Anime Items which were insanely overpowered at one point but i think complaining about that is like complaining about items in mario kart, like come on! its stupid but its fun!

also balancing seemed like much more of an issue for them this time than the last time i remember really playing this game, but i dont know if thats just because i was playing enough to be aware when they vaulted the hammer for like the third time lol. it was still pretty fun though, even when you lose to something stupid its not that hard to laugh it off due to how unserious the whole atmosphere around this game is.

but yeah? tldr? fortnite is fun? and good? excited for the next season

After playing the season preceding this, everything here was like a breath of fresh air. I liked the smaller map and the locations it brought us. The Oathbound weapons were pretty fun and I especially loved using the Shockwave Hammer, even if it was too easy to get early kills with. Augments were absolutely a welcome addition. The unique modifiers can be selected at random to accommodate for your own play style, and it makes battle royale feel less stagnant. I've got mixed feelings on the quests though; most of them varied from being good to just ok, but the Oathbound and Find it in Fortnite quests were sleepers. Nothing but walking around half the goddamn map and playing boring Roblox-tier games. Overall it's not a bad season. If they had crossed over with a better anime instead of Mid Hero Macadamia, I would have been generous and gave it 4 stars but we can't have nice things.

I haven't been a Fortnite lifer or anything, but imo that back half of Chapter 3 (after they rolled out Zero Build along with Apex-style mantling) is the best this game has ever been. So, Chapter 4 had a lot riding on it. I think this new season hasn't quite gotten back to that highwater mark yet, but they're still doing a great job making every weekend feel a little different from the last.

The new island is nicely put-together, and does feel like three separate zones instead of one big funnel. Because of that layout, though, the spiciest locations are farther off-center now, which can be interesting but oftentimes also a letdown. (I can't count how many times I've almost cleared out Brutal Bastion only to have to dip from the last firefight as the storm rolled in, making all those sweat and tears seem like a wasted effort.)

I still miss the creative flexibility of last season's Chrome mechanic too, but the mix of new stuff still has a nice, high-chaos feel to it. The dirt bikes are stupid fun, but mostly as a means of fucking around in the mid-game since they're too finicky to have much impact towards the end. Instead, mastering the right-click on the hammer ended up being the big new movement skill this season, but that bounce ability is so powerful in the end game that every last circle comes down to "do you have a hammer, and does it have more charges than the other guy". No? Welp. Sorry, bro. Enjoy your one-shot Deku smash.

Still: friggin' Forknife y'all! It is a good video game!

The new map? Wack.

The Battle Pass? Wack.

Deku Smash? Wack.

An aggressively average start to the latest Chapter of Fortnite. Playing it felt more like a chore than any semblance of fun. To be fair though, it's probably a result of burnout. Still, I'm thinking that my time with this game is almost over.

It's always hard to "review" a game where the majority of my enjoyment comes from the fun I have with friends.

That being said, man I had a lot of fun with friends during this season! The gravity hammer was awesome. I think my favorite part of the season was when both the Kamehameha and Deku Smash were on the map at the same time. Just pure chaos and I loved it.

Otherwise, the map refresh was great and the graphical update was incredibly impressive. Fortnite finally looked cutting edge and that made the experience feel more premium than it did before in my eyes.

I fully completed the Battlepass this season as well but I definitely felt less motivation to do so since the final skin is just not as interesting as last season's Spider-Gwen. Another thing I did not like were the heat ratings. God I hated that week period where NPCs were just constantly aggro.

Fortnite continues to be a really fun game that I love to play with friends. It's not perfect but I have a great time almost every session. It's also the only multiplayer shooter I'm playing that has incredible implementation of Gyro controls on PS5!!! That alone just makes it feel incredible to play.

Anyways, I think I ran out of things to say but yeah, Fortnite good.