a long time ago, about 3 or 4 years ago, when my buddies began to play fortednite, i said that i would only join if they introduced certain characters i liked into the game. i was put off by the amount of microtransactions in it, and videos of the building always totally overwhelmed me... but my friends played hundreds of hours of it and the nature of it just seemed fun! so i made my promise and i waited. at the time, there were rumours of characters that epic were looking at putting in. they considered simon belmont from castlevania, joker from persona, snake plissken, and snake from MGS... any of them came in, and i was game.
january 23rd 2024, solid snake was unlockable, so i kept my promise, and played it. and i had fun! i forgot to buy fucking raiden so im now a stupid idiot who only has snake, but still, its good! im terrible at this game. when i'm running round with my buds and they danger ping another squad on a hill, i'm still trying to get my bearings and suddenly a bullet enters my brain and i explode onto my friends. genuinely can't do anything in this game beside kill the AI bots and sometimes hit enemies with lock-on pistols. fortnite is hard bc its filled with children, who we all know are just objectively better at video games than adults, as well as sweaty try-hards, who i call that because i'm jealous of their skill. i SUCK at fortnite. and i sucked at overwatch! i'm not good at shooters that require you to shoot actual, real players who are good at hiding! i have been lucky with a couple of kills here or there but god damn, i suck! part of that is my skill, but another part is that the open nature of the world almost requires having a sniper. and it's true, the sniper is a quintessential weapon in fortnite. and sniping is hard, which means if you can't snipe, you can't win. it's a good thing i get carried so much!!
at time of writing there is no free building in fortnite anymore, which is honestly kind of crazy as that was such an important part of fortnite's identity. but it's gone now, and from what my buddies say, the game is just better for it. you pay more attention to the envinronments, shooting down trees, sliding behind rocks and into bushes to hide. it makes for a more natural experience. there's also weapon modding at the moment, which i dont really understand at all! it makes the weapons, to me at least, needlessly complicated. but that's also because i'm shit.
fuck microtransactions anyway. fortnite relies wholeheartedly on FOMO. it's predatory and it sucks.
final thoughts: for what is probably the biggest, most consistent actively played game right now, it's nuts how like, the game more often than not just feels like it doesn't work? from bad networking to abrupt bad loading, to the UI menus just only half working? like you can "archive" stuff in your locker so that when you shuffle your character skins it will only shuffle the ones that are there. but sometimes it just has the archived skins in too? and also to reshuffle you seem to have to go back to the lobby? like who designed this! it's just silly how frustrating this is hahaha
oh well, i will continue to shoot and be shooted at :)
january 23rd 2024, solid snake was unlockable, so i kept my promise, and played it. and i had fun! i forgot to buy fucking raiden so im now a stupid idiot who only has snake, but still, its good! im terrible at this game. when i'm running round with my buds and they danger ping another squad on a hill, i'm still trying to get my bearings and suddenly a bullet enters my brain and i explode onto my friends. genuinely can't do anything in this game beside kill the AI bots and sometimes hit enemies with lock-on pistols. fortnite is hard bc its filled with children, who we all know are just objectively better at video games than adults, as well as sweaty try-hards, who i call that because i'm jealous of their skill. i SUCK at fortnite. and i sucked at overwatch! i'm not good at shooters that require you to shoot actual, real players who are good at hiding! i have been lucky with a couple of kills here or there but god damn, i suck! part of that is my skill, but another part is that the open nature of the world almost requires having a sniper. and it's true, the sniper is a quintessential weapon in fortnite. and sniping is hard, which means if you can't snipe, you can't win. it's a good thing i get carried so much!!
at time of writing there is no free building in fortnite anymore, which is honestly kind of crazy as that was such an important part of fortnite's identity. but it's gone now, and from what my buddies say, the game is just better for it. you pay more attention to the envinronments, shooting down trees, sliding behind rocks and into bushes to hide. it makes for a more natural experience. there's also weapon modding at the moment, which i dont really understand at all! it makes the weapons, to me at least, needlessly complicated. but that's also because i'm shit.
fuck microtransactions anyway. fortnite relies wholeheartedly on FOMO. it's predatory and it sucks.
final thoughts: for what is probably the biggest, most consistent actively played game right now, it's nuts how like, the game more often than not just feels like it doesn't work? from bad networking to abrupt bad loading, to the UI menus just only half working? like you can "archive" stuff in your locker so that when you shuffle your character skins it will only shuffle the ones that are there. but sometimes it just has the archived skins in too? and also to reshuffle you seem to have to go back to the lobby? like who designed this! it's just silly how frustrating this is hahaha
oh well, i will continue to shoot and be shooted at :)