A superhero headquarters, a villainous base, and inexperienced display rooms ultimate for making foolish movies are among the many surprises gamers have found in Fortnite Battle Royale after yesterday’s huge version 4.0 update. Other than the entire ‘a comet strike wiped out a whole area and scattered anti-grav crystals’, in fact. Though Fortbaro began as simple cartoony Plunkbut with constructing, it has developed its personal identification by getting sillier throughout seven months of updates. Even as somebody who doesn’t dig Fortnite, from the sidelines I’m having fun with how Epic run it as a dwell sport with surprises and teases leaning into the bits gamers speak about.
Swing by Lonely Lodge and within the basement of the mansion you’ll discover a superhero HQ, full with an enormous fancy emblem, some form of holotable or communicator, area for a jet to fly out the cliff around the again, and a fancy dress workshop with a masks being labored on.
A villainous subterranean base with a honking nice missile poking out its silo is over by Pleasant Park too. Epic’s advertising and marketing marketing campaign for Season Four evoked superheroes and its Battle Pass does embody some superhero-lookin’ bodysuits however I wouldn’t be stunned if heroes and villains play bigger roles throughout future updates. The comet began out as solely a small dot within the sky, in any case.
Speaking of, Epic lately added a dinosaur costume and now a home out by Snobby Shores has been crushed, leaving a large three-toed footprint. It may very well be an in-joke but when so, ah, I take pleasure in that Epic are keen to be so playful with this.
Quite a lot of Epic’s additions appear to be in response to, and for, issues gamers are speaking about. One new emote added in 4.zero is Orange Justice, primarily based on a child’s energetic dance which got here solely 23rd in a contest to have your moves added to the game however received many followers. It’s a pleasant little nod. Epic have added different emotes and issues primarily based on participant strategies too. Sure, Plunkbat lately added player-made graffiti from a contest however it’s not as enjoyable.
On the topic of larking about, gamers found a number of rooms within the map arrange with inexperienced screens, which in fact are getting used for chroma keying tomfoolery:
Epic’s dealing with of Fortnite Battle Royale feels extra like a dialogue with gamers, reacting to what folks speak about and dropping hints for them to debate – which can or might not result in huge future payoffs. It’s good. I dig it. Reminds me of the glory days of Team Fortress 2, when updates had been huge thrilling occasions.
That stated, the Fortnite improvement I’m most having fun with as we speak is Loose Women’s Stacey Solomon getting sucked in:
Those are the Fortnite celebrities I care about. Keep your “Drake” and your “Ninja”; I need to see Nadia Sawalha advocating spicy drops, Linda Robson defending tenting, and Janet Street-Porter scoffing that Fortnite is for infants and Plunkbat is the place it’s at.
