Random Gaming Talk

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It's wild to see this finally going F2P; if BR wasn't making as much money as it does, this would have been sunsetted 2 years into its life. Instead, it's turned into a portal, but the original experience can't be abandoned. 

From what I understand they, at least to this point and maybe the F2P release will change this, never finished out the campaign episodes or whatever it is. It's only 75% or something of what they originally promised on a roadmap.
I almost want them to "finish" it by kitbashing stuff made for the BR together like those multiplayer maps in games where somebody sews together a bunch of random models, sounds and map pieces from like Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, etc. Grab like five random guys in the office and have them do this.

The game has a big battle with the same horned king that now appears as a final boss in the Lego mode finale, and it's a fight and a half, but then it drops the player into "there's more to come" and stays with a minimal menu that looks like a debug mode leftover. 

The UI for Save the World mode has changed a few times in the last 5 years, but nothing like the main UI for the game has. It looks like a PC game's UI, not something for consoles, let alone handhelds. 

Adding content for the mode means a resubmission, TRCs/LotChecks etc. It's something the cash firehose of BR makes compelling, but StW likely has to rationalize things under a more limited ROI. 

I've only played Battle Royale- is the STW interface unchanged from when the game came out?

On the subject of Fortnite, getting tired of playing BR solo matches where it gets down to the final few people and then 2-3 folks are clearly teaming up and taking everyone else out.  What is the point in doing this when you can do team matches?

Yeah, I've seen that occasionally. The game used to auto kick and even BAN Solo players who spent too much time near each other without damaging each other. That feature seems to be deprecated or disabled currently. 

Last season was long, nearly 3.5 months. It also had one of the least enjoyable meta strategies I've ever seen: Literally the endgame was "stockpile health items, then hide in the storm to see who dies last." The OP health items and Stick of Truth from the South Park collab brought this model for several weeks. "Battle royale" was more like "snack and wait" - indescribably annoying to people who showed up to, you know, fight. 

Lastly, the Battle Pass included participation in other game modes, each with specific conditions to unlock the next tier, instead of having a set of actions to meet in any order. These unlocked costume variants on the battle pass, so unless you wanted to own everything EXCEPT those variants, players had to play those modes and meet those conditions. 

I've been playing Fortnite for about five years now (holy shit) and I'm taking a fucking break for the first time in ages.