Fortnite is becoming Roblox, in the sense that it's a platform to host various experiences, and I'm actually all for it lol. Aside from the OG season, I haven't had much interest playing Fortnite as of late, so this has been really cool alternatives that still enable me to make use of all the skins I've accumulated over my "prime" years on the game.
Lego Fortnite is cool, it's basically Minecraft but all your skins turn into Lego versions (some skins don't work, which kinda sucks; either because they're "too violent" and not for kids, or because they haven't had enough time to make every Fortnite skin compatible with the mode yet. Some skins have "low-detail" generic appearances).
Fortnite Festival is really cool, a lot of the songs are charted well. The bass solo on Kendrick Lamar - i is really fun to pull off on Hard mode. The Weeknd's songs are well-charted as well. Default controls aren't great, so rebind to ASDF from DFJK if possible. Expert increases the amount of lanes to the traditional five-lane charts found in Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Rocket Racing is also surprisingly well-designed. I'm slowly climbing in ranked so I can unlock the skin you get for reaching Gold and not only are the tracks fun, but the matchmaking is solid too. Once I was out of Bronze, I felt like I was being matched against people that took decent effort to beat, and your rank gains are fair given the challenge. I played maybe 16 games of mostly 1st place wins got me to Silver II, so you rank up fairly fast all things considered. People can get REALLY sweaty in this game mode, and that makes it kind of unfun, but that's to be expected in a game type that encourages being the best in your lobby to outrace everyone. I'm sure Bronze players felt the same way about me going fast enough to pass the guy in last place, so if you enjoy the competition and don't get annoyed easily by not being good, this one's fun.
After having played the BR this season, I have to say, aside from the humor found in there being a Peter Griffin boss fight, it's not great. I'm not sure if it's just me being burnt out on these kinds of BR shooters now, but I probably won't be playing BR again until they bring back the Ch. 1 map as a perm game mode. In the meantime, these extra experiences are a great way of quickly levelling up in a low-stress way.
Lego Fortnite is cool, it's basically Minecraft but all your skins turn into Lego versions (some skins don't work, which kinda sucks; either because they're "too violent" and not for kids, or because they haven't had enough time to make every Fortnite skin compatible with the mode yet. Some skins have "low-detail" generic appearances).
Fortnite Festival is really cool, a lot of the songs are charted well. The bass solo on Kendrick Lamar - i is really fun to pull off on Hard mode. The Weeknd's songs are well-charted as well. Default controls aren't great, so rebind to ASDF from DFJK if possible. Expert increases the amount of lanes to the traditional five-lane charts found in Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
Rocket Racing is also surprisingly well-designed. I'm slowly climbing in ranked so I can unlock the skin you get for reaching Gold and not only are the tracks fun, but the matchmaking is solid too. Once I was out of Bronze, I felt like I was being matched against people that took decent effort to beat, and your rank gains are fair given the challenge. I played maybe 16 games of mostly 1st place wins got me to Silver II, so you rank up fairly fast all things considered. People can get REALLY sweaty in this game mode, and that makes it kind of unfun, but that's to be expected in a game type that encourages being the best in your lobby to outrace everyone. I'm sure Bronze players felt the same way about me going fast enough to pass the guy in last place, so if you enjoy the competition and don't get annoyed easily by not being good, this one's fun.
After having played the BR this season, I have to say, aside from the humor found in there being a Peter Griffin boss fight, it's not great. I'm not sure if it's just me being burnt out on these kinds of BR shooters now, but I probably won't be playing BR again until they bring back the Ch. 1 map as a perm game mode. In the meantime, these extra experiences are a great way of quickly levelling up in a low-stress way.