This one stunk pretty bad. Thankfully there was a massive XP glitch that led to me completing the entire battle pass or else I think I never would've gotten far enough. Around this season is when I felt my extreme boredom with this game start to set in. This season introduced the different modes/metaverse aspects to the game like LEGO Fortnite (terrible), Rocket Racing (mediocre), and Fortnite Festival (actually decent), and I think as a result of that Battle Royale felt a lot less fun this time around. Item shops were awful (possibly due to LEGO Fortnite), the content drought at the beginning of the season was mind-numbingly boring, and the new additions really weren't enough to keep me hooked. Peter Griffin and Solid Snake were amazing collabs in the battle pass, but apart from those two the pass didn't stand out much for me. The map was surprisingly soulless, it felt more like a Call of Duty Warzone map or a default Unreal Engine 5 map than a Fortnite map, and I felt like it lacked the distinct goofiness of previous maps up until this point. The loot pool left a lot to be desired, with the addition of weapon mods it felt like there was a lot less variety than before, interesting things were only added towards the middle/end of the season with the Metal Gear Solid mythics and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collab. As for the mid-season event pass, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collab, it was alright, but as someone with not a whole lot of attachment to the franchise it was somewhat underwhelming. In retrospect this season probably isn't as bad as I imagine it was, but it did successfully help wean me off the game in a way, as I have not been playing nearly as much since. Thank you Epic Games for dropping a season so boring it single-handedly saved my bank account.

My favorite part was the Guitar Hero mode and I'm not even fucking joking rn. That and all the ninja turtle stuff.

A very slow and very long season. The theme was just boring, updates were few and far between. The meta was terrible along with a lot of lackluster weapons and items.

And FUCK the locker UI change I've never seen a shittier UI downgrade in my life. Don't even get me started on whatever the shit was going on with the item shops.

[3/11/24]

New attachments. New map. New creative director. I'll stay cautiously optimistic about the future of the story, I don't see any big, extended storylines because of that damn annual chapter release schedule.

(7/10)

Version: Xbox Series X
System: Xbox Series X

Got to Level 178

The last season I got super into for this game was Chapter 3 Season 1, which was from late 2021 to early 2022, so it's been a little bit since I've been on the Fortnite grind. The only reason I got the battle pass was to finally get Peter Griffin after years of leaks and rumors saying he would be added to the game. As for my thoughts on the season itself, well it's become obvious that Epic Games wants Fortnite to be less of a game and more of an "experience," a general product to have all of your entertainment needs in one. You could see that a lot with this season with the new modes added, as they are quite literally called experiences, and also that whole Disney collab thing. The actual season was pretty fun though. The map was interesting, I liked the bosses, and the ability to modify your weapons, which I initially thought was stupid, grew on me a lot. I also liked the battle pass, all the skins were pretty cool looking, and finally getting Peter Griffin and also Solid Snake was awesome. It's just that when you grind this game as much as I did, it begins to just get boring, especially by the end of the season. All the new modes are kinda whatever too. The physics in Rocket Racing can be absolutely abhorrent sometimes, LEGO Fortnite was honestly boring and annoying to play, and Fortnite Festival was fun, but got old really quickly. I enjoyed this season, but I definitely will not look back at it as fondly as I do for other seasons I grinded.

7 / 10.

Um novo capítulo para a história do Fortnite! Com novos modos, uma repaginada na história e com uma pegada bem diferente do seu passado, o C5S1 conseguiu ser bem sólido, mas claro, com alguns erros. A loja dessa temporada foi sofrível, alguns itens do passe de batalha foram ok (Peter Griffin e o cara que vira diamante) e a história só andou mesmo no final. Mas a ambientação, poder ter novas maneiras de jogar, e o mini passe das Tartarugas foi um acerto em cheio. Agora, o futuro que nos aguarda é gigante e mitológico, um belo início para o novo Fort!

(E MUITO OBRIGADO PELA SKIN DO SOLID SNAKE E RAIDEN, FORTNITE!!!)

This new chapter of fortnite brought on so many changes, and unfortunately, a majority of them were not that great. First and foremost, the new game modes: LEGO fortnite, fortnite festival, and rocket racing. This was all revealed during a pretty cool live event at the end of the prior season, but I guess the spectacle made them seem a lot cooler than they actually were. LEGO fortnite is just an open world survival game, I spent a bit of time in it but it's not all that fun. Rocket racing is the worst of them all, so bad, I refuse to touch it. I don't know WHY it's bad, but people say it's bad, and I trust the collective online consensus on this one. The only acceptable one is fortnite festival which is basically guitar hero. Cheap rhythm game, but it can be pretty fun. What sucks is you have to buy the songs you actually want to play, otherwise you're stuck with the daily rotation or the epic originals (most of which are ass). You can play part of a song in battle royale as well like an emote; killing someone then singing Buddy Holly is an INSANE power move.

As for the meat of the game, battle royale, it got noticeably worse. Snipers are broken. They've always been strong, which is kind of a necessary evil, but what made them so strong is the complete removal of hitscan on every kind of assault rifle and DMR. Utilizing hitscan was the best counter against snipers, but now the only way to counter a sniper is with a sniper of your own, which means by the final few circles, everyone is gonna be carrying a sniper. Sniping can be fun, and I won't get mad at it a lot of the time, but when most of your matches are instakills from sniper headshots or dying instantly to sniper headshots, it gets irritating really quickly.

Modding benches are cool but WAY too limited. This seemed to be a big selling point of the season based on the trailer, but in reality, you'll never be seeing one most games. There's only five on the map: 4 at the boss locations, requiring you to kill the boss beforehand, and one on the island which spawns in after the first few circles. Weapons have a chance to drop with a mod already on them based on rarity, but it's rarely going to be customized entirely to your liking without a bench. It's great when you do get a chance to modify your weapons, but most games, you're stuck with whatever you get.

Weapon pool and loot was subpar. Like I said, snipers were a huge problem, but there wasn't much you could really do about that. Ballistic shields were pretty annoying, as well. You technically could counter them by shooting the player's feet or in the eye hole, but that's hard to do with a gun that will inflict any meaningful damage because of bullet spread. The grapple blade was good for movement and countering ballistic shields, but because of how vital movement was for evading snipers and beating the shields, you basically lost without one on hand. Pump shotguns still either inflict zero damage or one shot, but I always get one shot while my opponents barely get grazed. Meanwhile, frenzy auto shotguns were so busted that you should never play this game again if you don't think of picking one up the moment you see it. DPS is insane and it has a large mag, only downside is the reload time (which you can decrease a hefty amount with mods). Medallions were neat, giving you regenerating shield in exchange for your spot on the map being revealed.

I don't want to say that cosmetics were bad this season, not at all, but I think anyone who survived the great item shop drought of December 2023 - February 2024 should be given a medal. There were some standout new skins, like the massive TMNT collab, Cell, Frieza, Raiden, Ernie the giant chicken, and some others that are decently cool. We even saw a return of John Wick to the shop after over 1,000 days of being gone, along with two new styles. However, aside from those, every other day, the item shop was absolute shit. Rick and Morty was in the shop three weeks in a row. Generic and boring skins returned every week as well, likely for the LEGO fortnite compatibility. Epic, please, I have money that I would LOVE to spend on you, all you have to do is put good items in your item shops. Even going into season 2, the shop is barely better. At least the battle pass was good, Peter and Snake are some of the best collab skins to date.

I don't know, this season had a lot of explosive moments, but overall, it had a LOT of problems. I still had fun with it, but man, snipers and ballistic shields made both long range and close range fights unbearable. Midrange fights were still good, but no hitscan sucks. The new game modes are mostly bad and I will never touch them again. Festival is fun, at least. This kind of felt like a filler season. I don't know why, but it kind of just... existed. I'll remember it for the cool collabs, but between the map and the weapon pool... I'd rather not remember the actual gameplay aspects of this season. Kinda fun while it lasted, I guess.

Started off pretty rough but towards the end it ended up being genuinely one of the best seasons to Fortnite ever.

The collabs were insane. Peter, MGS and TMNT were by far the highlights of this. The new modes were fun (especially Rocket Racing) apart from LEGO Fortnite which I felt was very underbaked.

Overall an amazing season and a strong start to this chapter.

Hadn't really been into Fortnite in a long while but this season was really great. Rocket Racing is a really fun arcadey racing mode (with some questionable map designs at higher ranks) and Fortnite Festival is the closest i'll ever get to a proper revival of Rock Band and I really appreciate it. Thank god somebody finally gave Harmonix another win. As far as the actual BR mode goes I thought this season played really great. Battlepass had tons of cool stuff in it. Loved the modifying weapons as a gimmick. I do think the season dragged on a lot though and didn't really have any exciting map changes throughout.

You know, even if people say it was mid or less fun than the previous seasons, I had a lot of fun this chapter. It's the one I played the most so far, I had a lot of good runs with friends and randos, I rocked the music on the Festival stage, I am in love with the Lego mode (but I'm biased I love Lego all the time), and like Ryan Gosling says in that one movie, "I drive."

The onyl game that lets you car manslaughter a bunch of people, befriend a rando that happened to jump in your car and spare you this time, and win the game as Peter Griffin against Snake with a grapple hook.

I love the new modes added. Had so much multiplayer fun with Lego, Racing, and Festival. This game and season in particular genuinely helped me connect better with my boyfriend's family which is nice. New skin crossovers like Metal Gear were fantastic. The new map felt a bit too basic though. A lot of the POIs don't stick out enough from each other. It was carried by thinks like the ever moving train and floating island but the train takes way too long to circle around so sometimes players don't even see it. I'm glad it was super easy to level up in this season though because I got to 250 which I had never done before. I barely ever got above 215 before after grinding hard but I don't even think i really grinded this time.