i feel the exact same way about this one as i did. chapter 4 season 2. at the beginning of the season i did not care for it at all, i found it to be hella boring but then once the season was about halfway done i realized i was only at level 30something and decided i was gonna grind to get the bp done because i was NOT gonna miss out on optimus prime.

i got from like level 35 to 150 in 2 weeks.

anyways chapter 4 is proving to be hella mid so far, haven’t got to play any of season 4 yet but apparently it’s super fun so hyped to play it

Now that we are reaching the end of the season,i thought i could write down my feelings about it in a review like document.And i have to say that,sadly,Chapter 4 Season 3 is exactly what i expected.But let’s not get ahed of ourselves.

GAMEPLAY AND MAP CHANGES

To start with,i think the start of this season was actually pretty solid.The newly added weapons like the Flapjack Rifle and the Thermal DMR are really fun to use,even though the Flapjack is kinda forgettable,since it doesn’t do much to distinguish itself from other assault rifles.I have way better feelings towards the Thermal DMR,which i feel much more comfortable with compared to the other two DMRs (i don’t really know why,it just feels easier to hit your shots with it).The Cybetron Cannon too feels pretty balanced overall.Sadly,i’m not the biggest fan of the Kinetic Boomerang,it just feels like a pretty big downgrade coming from the other two kinetic weapons.Same thing applies to the Wasps,that are mostly pretty useless items.Without going into too much detail about all the items added throughout the season,i think this season had a pretty solid lootpool overall,even though some items like the Grapple Gloves were not necessary (since i think that the slower paced gameplay of this season was actually a pretty nice change coming from the extremely mobile meta of the last season) and the recently added Hollow Purple is just way too overpowered.I have give props to the dev team for the new augments especially,which are way more useful than the ones from last season and are also way more fun to combine with one another.Sadly,the gameplay also has one major problem,and it’s that most of the weapons if this seasons are very similar to already existing weapons (for example,the Mk-Alpha is just a slightly different version of the Mk-7,the Cloak Gauntlets are a straight-up reskin of Predator’s cloaking device,the Explosive Repeater rifle feels way to similar to the Lever Action Rifle ecc.). Passing onto another topic,i actually really like the map changes this season.The jungle biome transformed a pretty empty and boring central part of the map into a gorgeous place filled with deep vegetation,that makes it a perfect biome for Zero Builds,and most importantly,littered with really fun mechanics like the mud and the jungle vines.Both of these are really fun to use,especially the mud,that if used correctly can make you reach insane speeds.There’s also the Bomb,Stink and Slurp flowers but honestly,i think only the Slurp Flower is useful,while the two other ones are way too situational for them to be a reliable weapon.

BATTLE PASS

This is probably going to be the shortest section of my review.Too keep it short,this is sadly another battle pass where 7 out of the 9 skins feel like they’ve been picked casually out of a survey without much of a care whenever they fit with the theme of the season. Only Lorenzo and Relik feel like they’re connected to the theme of the season,while all the other ones feel really out of place.The skins aren’t bad per se,but they’re placement in this battle pass feels really random.

MISCELLANEOUS THINGS
In this section i’ll talk about other things regarding the season that i couldn’t really fit somewhere else.To start with,this season’s summer event is easily the worst one yet.Only having two unvaulted items and spraying some rocks in the jungle is genuinely the bare minimum Epic could do.It didn’t even feel like a summer event,just some random content that could’ve been added in an hotfix.Talking about updates,sadly this season has the same problem that is plaguing Chapter 4 since it’s very beginning,that being the minimal content that the updates bring to the table.I do think that it’s not as pronounced as the last season,as it had a decent amount of weapons and items added after launch (even though,as i said before,most of them are way too similar/reskinned versions of older objects already in the game),but the updates are still very lacking in comparison to the ones we used to get in the other chapters.Talking about the Jujutsu Kaisen mini-battle pass,i think that it’s pretty fine overall,but since it’s introduction in C3S3,it feels like they’re relying way too much on those.

CONCLUSION
In conclusion,C4S3 is sadly,exactly what i expected:a season that does nothing to advance or improve the state of the game in any way.While the gameplay is fun,most of the features are recycled from previous seasons,and the entire season overall reeks of “already seen”.Combine that with a battle pass without an identity and all the problems that have been plaguing Chapter 4 since it’s beginning,and you have a season that is bound to be forgotten by the majority of the playerbase in a matter of months.

Pass is hot garbage, I really do not care for Epic continuing the stupid mini-pass crap with their collabs, and I just don't like the jungle area. It's far too big and same-y looking, and every single match ends up in there rather than having a balance across the different biomes and locations from the last two seasons. There's also just too much frustration with the balance of weapons this time around and a focus on verticality in a game whose gunplay is far too reliant on reactions and location awareness to make it feel rewarding and fair. Praying that the next season wipes a big chunk out of the jungle area because they turned what was once a well thought out balanced map into a boring slog.

it's fortnite so it still gets a positive score but this season was pretty mid... basically nothing good in the battle pass and the huge jungle area is very monotonous and doesn't really differentiate itself all that much from POI to POI. kind of weird to overwrite anvil square for it but whatever i guess. started out very weak, with the not very good vaulting of basically every piece of movement gear, but they eventually unvaulted the grapple glove so its not a huge deal i guess. still had to grind a dozen levels at the end of the season (which I haven't had to do in a couple seasons) since previous seasons added a lot more interesting stuff throughout, and there just wasnt a ton bringing me back to this one. also adding a furry you have to buy into fortnite crew for several months for is very funny, isnt it like 100 dollars or some shit to be able to get the actual skin? lmao they saw fursuits costing thousands of bucks and got dollar signs in their eyes

granted this season also gave us futurama fry dancing to brazillian funk though so its not all bad

With the Tilted Towers gone, we cannot return life to our planet. And fate has yielded its reward: a new map to call home. We live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in secret, waiting, protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for cranking 90s, and though we are worlds apart, like us, there's more to them than meets the eye. I am Optimus Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Autobots taking refuge among the Fortnite Island. We are here. We are waiting.

Let me tell you a story.

This was the first season I got the battle pass for with v-bucks I just got by playing for free. I finished it and got all the skins and whatever (the one that looks kinda like Bjork being the only one I really like) and the extra v-bucks for whatever cool things came up.

But then my brother keeps pestering me to gift him an emote. I tell him to fuck off at first but he annoys me enough and says he'll buy me the next battle pass if I get it. Fuck it, it's a profit. I'll do it.

Then the Jujutsu Kaisen collab happens, and I'm several v-bucks short of the temp battle pass with Yuji, which I could have bought no problem if I just maintained my position of 'get fucked bro' and because of FOMO and Epics temporary skin bullshit I caved and spent 7 euro on this game.

Moral of the story is don't be nice to your siblings.