The main issue with this one is that the victor in a combat situation can be almost mathematically determined. If one person has more health/shield than the other, that person will almost ALWAYS win the engagement. if that's equal then If one person has a superior gun at the range of engagement (rifle for long shotgun for short, etc) then that person will almost ALWAYS win the engagement. If that's equal, then the person who saw the other first will almost ALWAYS win the engagement. If all that's equal then sure, use of cover, game sense, and aiming skill will be factors but most of your time in rounds will focus sharply on optimizing the first few things I mentioned anyways. This can be empowering since a lot of the time, you'll still make it reasonably far in a round due to tons of people taking high risk gambles early on and dying out. It's certainly gratifying to know that "oh wow I did better than 80% of the players!" but what I'm trying to say is that there is absolutely no reason that me, someone who is to this day pure ass at aiming and movement in other shooters, can consistently make top 20. So few of the choices I make that bring me there rely on skill or strategy, and therefore are essentially meaningless. Furthermore there's absolutely minimal room to express the skills that do play a factor, since it really boils down to aiming skill and mastery of a movement system comparable in depth to moving a cube around in a void in blender. Many other shooters make even that more interesting by having not only alternate movement options, but making the higher damaging weapons projectile based instead of hitscan based, and just about everything in fortnite is hitscan, surprise surprise, lowering both the skill floor and ceiling in one fell swoop. Not only this but the exploration and resource gathering that will give you the edge isn't hugely interesting either, being just mildly entertaining at best, boiling down to finding a location and systematically walking into every room and destroying floors and walls. Sometimes you find something, sometimes you don't but the point is that there isn't really much to it. All in all Fortnite is a bunch of shallow boring ideas executed in a shallow boring manner, wrapped up in a package that I can't really call high quality.