The best word I could use to describe this season would be: inconsistent. Some parts of it are genuinely great, while other parts held it back by a lot. Some parts I loved, while other parts I vehemently despised.
I really enjoyed the start of the season. In fact, I loved the start of the season! I'm a huge Greek Mythology nerd, so being able to fight Greek gods was a lot of fun for me! (Side note: why the hell didn't they bring back Kratos during this? Huge missed opportunity). I also really enjoyed all the more silly additions and weapons. Stuff like the wings of Icarus added a lot to the game's sandbox. And the little missions you could do around the map weren't that investing, but they were a nice little distraction. I also really loved the enhancement to the medallion system, which changed the medallions from being straight up player enhancers to functioning more like individual abilities that didn't guarantee a player's victory if they got a hold of one. They felt way more balanced and way more fun to use.
However, despite making so many great strides in the first part of the season, everything was thrown into turmoil partway through with the Avatar: The Last Airbender event. The bending weapons that were added into this game were all just horrendous and poorly thought out, to the point that they nearly ruined the entire game.
Firebending was just laughably awful. It almost never hit where I was aiming, and its lack of distance made it feel as useful as my starting melee weapon. I never used this thing more than twice.
Airbending is great if you like being annoying. Anyone who ever got airbending would just use it to run around the map in circles at the end of the match as they waited for everyone else to get killed. It was basically just a vehicle you could put in your pocket that had no limit or gas. If you're one of those jackasses who spends most of the match just running away and jumping instead of actually fighting anyone, then this was for you!
And then there's waterbending... my nemesis. I HATE waterbending. It was so bafflingly overpowered. It had insane reach, a ridiculous level of damage output no matter where you hit, and no recoil. And on top of that, it healed the player FOR FREE if they went into water. It easily outclassed every other form of bending, and in all honestly, outclassed most normal weapons as well. I was devastated when they moved past the Avatar: The Last Airbender stuff, but chose to keep this atrocity in. It made it so that you basically had to pick up waterbending if you came across it. What else were you going to do? Just let someone else get it and easily kill you with it? I hate this weapon beyond belief, but I pretty much had to use it in every freaking match I was in.
The only bending I have any positive feelings for at all is earthbending, which is the only bending weapon that felt like someone put some thought into it. It dealt a large amount of damage, but it was also very easy to avoid if you saw the attack coming (unlike waterbending). It also had a defensive option, which added a second layer of strategy to it (unlike waterbending). It was actually fun to use and fight against (unlike god damn waterbending).
And then finally, after that event, there was the Star Wars event which was... something. I don't know, this event felt really phoned in. All they did was put a few random stormtrooper bases around the map, and slapped a Darth Vader boss in the corner. It really just felt like an excuse to put a crapload of Star Wars items in the shop and that's it. They couldn't even be bothered to replace waterbending with something cool.
Overall, this season was just weird and confusing. This is my second season of Fortnite that I've played, and while I have a lot of issues with it, I still prefer it to the previous one (that season's only strength was the inclusions of Peter Griffin and nothing else). I'm hoping the next season will be cool, but looking at the battle pass and seeing it filled mostly with sexy post-apocalyptic Fortnite women and a few Fallout power armor guys doesn't exactly fill me with hope...
I really enjoyed the start of the season. In fact, I loved the start of the season! I'm a huge Greek Mythology nerd, so being able to fight Greek gods was a lot of fun for me! (Side note: why the hell didn't they bring back Kratos during this? Huge missed opportunity). I also really enjoyed all the more silly additions and weapons. Stuff like the wings of Icarus added a lot to the game's sandbox. And the little missions you could do around the map weren't that investing, but they were a nice little distraction. I also really loved the enhancement to the medallion system, which changed the medallions from being straight up player enhancers to functioning more like individual abilities that didn't guarantee a player's victory if they got a hold of one. They felt way more balanced and way more fun to use.
However, despite making so many great strides in the first part of the season, everything was thrown into turmoil partway through with the Avatar: The Last Airbender event. The bending weapons that were added into this game were all just horrendous and poorly thought out, to the point that they nearly ruined the entire game.
Firebending was just laughably awful. It almost never hit where I was aiming, and its lack of distance made it feel as useful as my starting melee weapon. I never used this thing more than twice.
Airbending is great if you like being annoying. Anyone who ever got airbending would just use it to run around the map in circles at the end of the match as they waited for everyone else to get killed. It was basically just a vehicle you could put in your pocket that had no limit or gas. If you're one of those jackasses who spends most of the match just running away and jumping instead of actually fighting anyone, then this was for you!
And then there's waterbending... my nemesis. I HATE waterbending. It was so bafflingly overpowered. It had insane reach, a ridiculous level of damage output no matter where you hit, and no recoil. And on top of that, it healed the player FOR FREE if they went into water. It easily outclassed every other form of bending, and in all honestly, outclassed most normal weapons as well. I was devastated when they moved past the Avatar: The Last Airbender stuff, but chose to keep this atrocity in. It made it so that you basically had to pick up waterbending if you came across it. What else were you going to do? Just let someone else get it and easily kill you with it? I hate this weapon beyond belief, but I pretty much had to use it in every freaking match I was in.
The only bending I have any positive feelings for at all is earthbending, which is the only bending weapon that felt like someone put some thought into it. It dealt a large amount of damage, but it was also very easy to avoid if you saw the attack coming (unlike waterbending). It also had a defensive option, which added a second layer of strategy to it (unlike waterbending). It was actually fun to use and fight against (unlike god damn waterbending).
And then finally, after that event, there was the Star Wars event which was... something. I don't know, this event felt really phoned in. All they did was put a few random stormtrooper bases around the map, and slapped a Darth Vader boss in the corner. It really just felt like an excuse to put a crapload of Star Wars items in the shop and that's it. They couldn't even be bothered to replace waterbending with something cool.
Overall, this season was just weird and confusing. This is my second season of Fortnite that I've played, and while I have a lot of issues with it, I still prefer it to the previous one (that season's only strength was the inclusions of Peter Griffin and nothing else). I'm hoping the next season will be cool, but looking at the battle pass and seeing it filled mostly with sexy post-apocalyptic Fortnite women and a few Fallout power armor guys doesn't exactly fill me with hope...