Fortnite Competitive Development Blog Post Angers Community
By Nicholas Barth ·
Epic Games recently published a competitive development blog post for Fortnite Battle Royale, and it did not sit well with the community whatsoever.
Friday, April 26th saw Epic Games publish a new blog post for its title of Fortnite Battle Royale regarding the developer's design philosophies when it comes to competitive development for Fortnite. However, the new competitive development blog post for Fortnite was not met with positive reactions from a majority of the battle royale game's community, as many players feel that Epic Games is wrong in their reasoning for a series of unpopular choices it has made for Fortnite.
Fortnite Competitive Development Blog Post
The competitive development update for the title explained the motivations behind the choices that Epic Games made regarding the health siphon mechanic, increased material farming, stretched resolution, a field of view (FOV) slider, and game evolution.
In what will come as bad news to the vast majority of Fortnite players, the new competitive development blog post explained that Epic Games currently has no intention of reverting the siphon and material changes that it implemented for the battle royale title's public playlists in Season 8 due to the belief that it made the game too much of a frustrating experience for lower-skilled players when fighting higher-skilled players. This topic has been a major source of controversy in the community, as many players feel that Fortnite is a much better game when the public playlists have the siphon mechanic and competitive material settings.
Epic Games went on to explain in the blog post its choice of restricting the stretched resolution that many competitive players prefer to use when playing and the lack of a FOV slider. This reasoning was explained to be that "when a game introduces a feature that provides a gameplay advantage, players gravitate towards turning it on to maximize their chances of success, even if this makes the game look and/or feel worse. The stretched characters and distorted views detract from Fortnite as an entertainment experience for all."
Finally, Epic Games stated in the unpopular blog post that game evolution is a very important part of Fortnite and that it will be looking to stabilize gameplay for the World Cup Finals but will be unable to do so for all of the Online Open qualifiers of the World Cup tournament.
With the new blog post by Epic Games not containing any updates that most of the Fortnite community was looking for, there were plenty of individuals who made their frustrations with the new blog post very clear.
I’m a bot and nothing helped me more than getting the extra health after actually eliminating somebody. ESPECIALLY when another pro third parties. I don’t get where you got your 90% statistics from but I definitely didn’t get to vote in that.
— rae (@Valkyrae) April 26, 2019
Sad to see a good game go to waste
— FaZe Avery (@Avxry) April 26, 2019
— Tfue (@TTfue) April 26, 2019
If there is no communication, there is no fan base. The game's biggest influencers and professional players will leave and so will your general player base. Take initiative and fix your game before it's too late. You're running out of time.
— TSM Pulse (@Pulsve) April 26, 2019
What are your thoughts on what Epic Games had to say in the new competitive development blog post? Do you agree or disagree with the reasoning that Epic Games provided for its choices in the blog post? Let us know in the comments below!