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Ported... into... Fortnite? I don't understand what that means. Like portint Sonic into Mario it just, what
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Fortnite is a massive platform now, not one game with a few modes. They have car racing, the actual fortnite game, Lego survival crafting, all kinds of stuff. It's why the download is 100+GB and every patch is like 50gb.
What the actual fuck? Glad I quit playing it years ago, cause I like new features but I hate when games stray too far from the original vision (yes I'm aware that BR is a spinoff but you get my point). Why still call it Fortnite, if building forts is no longer a core aspect of the game?
Might as well call it Niteblox.
Might as well additionally call it a new child predator's paradise.
Everything wants to be a platform now, so they can get a cut for minimal work.
They have Rock Band too. Yes really, it's even worked on by Harmonix, the original creators.
What even is the actual fortnite called now then? Battle royale?
The Battle Royale portion is called Fortnite Battle Royale. The true original Fortnite was a sandbox defense game that is now known as Fortnite: Save the World. They are both accessible from the Fortnite lobby.
Very confusing.
They're trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games. Very interesting concept, there's a lot of videos about the concept. Though I detest the idea of centralized apps and accounts therefore more central tracking of you.
They're trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games.
Like Roblox, actually. They are trying to stanch the users' leaking out of their cash cow, but shoving everything in will just piss off the kids when fourth 50+ GB patch hits. As for Rocket League, they already mismanaged it to shit, the levels have lost all flair years ago, new ones are inexplicably ugly.
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Prolly a new Fortnite game mode and cutting off the original games?
Do they even own the publishing rights to the originals to even cut them off? It sounds to me like they’re just making game modes that mimic the gameplay.
Edit: googled it and omg they do.
Porting a game into another game isn't a thing. There's not even a term for what this sounds like other than "dumb fuck bullshit"
I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It's far more comparable to Roblox than anything else
Game engine in a game engine.
More like an SDK for a game engine.
It's just UE5 with more limitations.
And since the two games they are "porting" into FN are already also built in Unreal, this isn't so much porting as it would be simply copying and pasting in code and assets.
A game engine built on Unreal engine.. ? hmm...
More like remaking them inside Fortnite.
I don't understand, this happened years ago. Both Rocket League and Fall Guys originally came out on Steam, but disappeared from the Steam Store and became Epic Games exclusives. If you still own a Steam copy though, you can still play it.
Is this saying that the game will be unplayable without an Epic Games authentication or something? It's not like the Steam versions are getting updates anymore, so they should still be playable with other Steam members. Unless the publishers are pushing an update to the Steam version as well.
EDIT: Upon rereading, I see these games are being ported into another game. Does this affect Steam users at all, since Fortnite is an Epic Games exclusive?
I won't touch Epic Games, so this doesn't seem to have any effect on me.
RL on steam is getting updates but only for the windows client. The Linux & mac client is an old version that only works offline. I found this out the other day when I installed rocket league on steam to try out since I haven't played it in a long time
You can play online with Proton though (as of the last time I played at least)
Yeah I ended up installing the windows version with proton, had some weird hiccuping and regular intervals but that might just be me, otherwise it worked fine. I didn't actually try playing an online match though, only local multiplayer
I play RL through Steam, it's still getting all of the updates.
I just did a little sick inside my mouth.
you could play those on linux?
The Fortnite game size on my Xbox is already like 180Gb or some other stupidly high number.
Time to start spoofing VMs in WinBoat.
Most of the Rocket League code is already in Fortnite in the form of the Rocket League racing mode...
How can leakers confirm anything? Some fourth-party leaks confirmed that third-party leaks were legit? If I was going to believe "leaks" without material proof, I'd have started with the original, third-party.
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