This week’s Fortnite Battle Royale is an actual double blammy, re-adding the exiled guided missile launcher and launching a brand new occasion mode full of explosives and jetpacks – all the time a wise mixture. 100 gamers leaping and rocketing round whereas launching rockets, piloting missiles, and phlunging grenades makes for some foolish enjoyable, from the rounds I’ve performed. And I’m not simply saying that as a result of long-dormant Quake abilities have re-emerged to rocketmurder many extra individuals than I normally bag in a spherical. But that does assist.
Epic Games removed the guided missile launcher again in April cos it was just too highly effective, letting gamers conceal away whereas safely demolishing buildings and murdering gamers. Now it’s rebalanced and again, perhaps for keepsies? The missile now strikes slower, has a shorter fuse, reloads extra slowly, offers a couple of quarter much less injury to gamers and two-thirds much less to buildings… it’s nowhere close to as robust. Epic discuss wanting it for use for scouting extra, somewhat than all homicide on a regular basis.
If you wish to strive the brand new guided missile, you’ll discover one sharpish within the new Fly Explosives ‘limited time mode’. It takes ye olde High Explosives mode, which replaces all weapon pick-ups with explosive weapons, and sprinkles jetpacks throughout as loot. Epic have supercharged the jetpack for this too, making its gas last more and regen sooner, so gamers are whooshing throughout.
The Fly Explosives LTM appears enjoyable! Silly, however enjoyable. I’ve loved doing explosions on individuals. The opening seconds of battle royale rounds generally is a little bland, determined by whoever will get the most important gun, however when odds are good you’ll have a rocket launcher subsequent to you if you land… pew pow.
See the v5.10 patch notes for extra on right now’s replace.
Fortnite Battle Royale is free-to-play through Epic’s own client.
