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This writer must not remember the way Fortnite originally released. It has had such a weird history. The game originally was not battle royale, and released as

This writer must not remember the way Fortnite originally released. It has had such a weird history. The game originally was not battle royale, and released as a paid early-access title. To this day, you still have to pony up 15$ to get access to the game as it was released back in 2017. The battle royale expansion was added after the game completely flopped on release and the absolutely insane energy around DayZ and PubG started bubbling over to the rest of the industry. Fortnite : Battle Royale was the only way at the time to play a royale-type game on a minimally spec'd machine and thus quickly became a total hit.

mhh__ 6y ago
Wrt to the last sentence - PUBG ran like a old dog when it was in it's infancy so there was a big gap for fortnite to take.
- waiseristy 6y ago
  Oh totally, and the various Arma mods that this all spawned out of were on par or even worse
  - amerine 6y ago
    Wasn’t Battle Royale, the ArmA II mod is what kicked this entire genre off? Everyone was looking for a non DayZ/non Life/RP game mode. I think you have the history backwards.
    - waiseristy 6y ago
      Well it's only backwards if you think DayZ had nothing to do with the start of the Arma modding craze. The Battle Royale mod you're talking about was literally called "DayZ: Battle Royale", and was based largely on the DayZ mod. The random spawn point with no gear, and gearing up by scavenging random loot was directly ripped from DayZ
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chrysoprace 6y ago
Potentially unpopular opinion: I much preferred the zombie apocalypse objective game that Fortnite was in early access. Now it's just a generic battle royale.
- MattRix 6y ago
  It’s only generic if you just look at screenshots, beneath the surface it’s not generic at all! There’s really no competitive game like it, where you build your own battlefield in real-time. Each player acts like a level designer, trying to structure the level to give advantages to themselves and disadvantages to their enemies. The fact that Fortnite is popular with kids has blinded most people to the fact that it’s the most strategically interesting competitive game to arrive in ages.
  - kaoD 6y ago
    This was not my experience at all. Building in Fortnite is a race and the gameplay is too frenetic to "design" anything. It's just a matter of building higher, quicker (or farther if you're rushing). After a while you just go through the motions. There is no strategic depth to it and it really detracts from the strategic positioning and obstacle navigation that other BRs have, so IMO it's a net loss.
    - acomjean 6y ago
      I’ll agree. As a somewhat terrible ocational player, some people can build way to fast and they aren’t fun to play against. Fortunately I play squads and that can even the score against these architects.. it’s fun, a little silly and they keep iterating on the game to keep it from going stale .

mhh__ 6y ago

Wrt to the last sentence - PUBG ran like a old dog when it was in it's infancy so there was a big gap for fortnite to take.

waiseristy 6y ago
Oh totally, and the various Arma mods that this all spawned out of were on par or even worse
- amerine 6y ago
  Wasn’t Battle Royale, the ArmA II mod is what kicked this entire genre off? Everyone was looking for a non DayZ/non Life/RP game mode. I think you have the history backwards.
  - waiseristy 6y ago
    Well it's only backwards if you think DayZ had nothing to do with the start of the Arma modding craze. The Battle Royale mod you're talking about was literally called "DayZ: Battle Royale", and was based largely on the DayZ mod. The random spawn point with no gear, and gearing up by scavenging random loot was directly ripped from DayZ
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chrysoprace 6y ago

Potentially unpopular opinion: I much preferred the zombie apocalypse objective game that Fortnite was in early access. Now it's just a generic battle royale.

MattRix 6y ago
It’s only generic if you just look at screenshots, beneath the surface it’s not generic at all! There’s really no competitive game like it, where you build your own battlefield in real-time. Each player acts like a level designer, trying to structure the level to give advantages to themselves and disadvantages to their enemies. The fact that Fortnite is popular with kids has blinded most people to the fact that it’s the most strategically interesting competitive game to arrive in ages.
- kaoD 6y ago
  This was not my experience at all. Building in Fortnite is a race and the gameplay is too frenetic to "design" anything. It's just a matter of building higher, quicker (or farther if you're rushing). After a while you just go through the motions. There is no strategic depth to it and it really detracts from the strategic positioning and obstacle navigation that other BRs have, so IMO it's a net loss.
  - acomjean 6y ago
    I’ll agree. As a somewhat terrible ocational player, some people can build way to fast and they aren’t fun to play against. Fortunately I play squads and that can even the score against these architects.. it’s fun, a little silly and they keep iterating on the game to keep it from going stale .