As an ominous purple megacube continues its journey throughout the island of Fortnite Battle Royale, burning runes into the bottom as ominous teasers for occasions of the following season, this week’s content material replace focuses on one thing easier (although not smaller): a useful gadget you may throw to immediately erect a fortress tower. The Port-a-Fortress is sort of a Port-a-Fort, proper, however greater. As somebody who doesn’t care to “just build”, I welcome this useful doodad. But the ‘Playground’ sandbox mode has acquired one thing even fancier: a self-erecting stadium lined with spike traps and bounce pads. It seems to be superb for inventing murderous futuresports, for these genre-defying daredevils into issues like playing volleyhamsterball in Overwatch.
My Fortnite time is essentially restricted to the occasional cheeky spherical of Soaring 50s however I do take pleasure in seeing what gamers create in it, so I’m eager for some nice futuresport to come back from the deployable Spiky Stadium in Playground mode.
Rollerball with gamers driving buying trolleys? Pinboing® with impulse grenades? We can however hope. I need to see these murdersports-within-a-murdersport.
As for the Port-a-Fortress, it immediately throws down a castle-y turret, as fashionable as it’s sensible. I obtained a fast 50s spherical in and noticed these going up throughout in the direction of, making the same old end-of-round sprawling shanty city much more spectacular.
Oh, talking of Soaring, as we speak’s replace additionally added Soaring Solos as a restricted time mode. As with the 50s variant, it’s Fortnite however gamers can redeploy their glider any time they’re falling just a few metres, resulting in people whooshing throughout and actually difficult assumptions about mobility and secure distances.
See the Fortnite v5.41 patch notes for extra on every little thing.
That huge ol’ purple dice remains to be rolling throughout the map, wee runes nonetheless dancing throughout its glowing face and massive runes nonetheless scorched into the bottom at key locations. The present well-liked fan idea is that the dice is headed for Loot Lake, which can turn out to be some kind of lavahell. Folks digging in knowledge recordsdata have turned up volcanic pit models, horrifying clown skins, a dragon glider, and different odds and ends presumably for use quickly. Folks have speculated about it opening to a dark mirror universe or summat too. But hey, all of that is cobbled-together theories and game design fanfic.
The finish of Fortnite Season 5 is presently trying much less dramatic than the rocket and rifts on the finish of Season 4. So far, at the very least. According to an in-game countdown, Season 5 will finish subsequent Monday, September 24th, so fingers crossed for one thing extra dramatic quickly. Even as somebody who barely performs, I do take pleasure in Epic showy method of updating the game.
Fortnite Battle Royale is free-to-play through Epic’s client.
