GOING ALL OUT IN FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE

ONWARDS TO FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE SETTING UP FORTNITE

and fortifications around objectives that are made to help them fight the storm and also to protect survivors.

While also protecting themselves, players can also create weapons and traps to counter the attacks by these zombies whose main goal is to destroy the objectives. Winning these missions give the players rewards. These rewards can be used to improve their characters and support teams. They can also use the rewards to upgrade their collection of weapons and traps which would help them on later missions. More upgrades can be purchased via micro transactions to purchase in-game currency which in turn can be used to buy these upgrades.

While Fortnite: Save The World is the above game, the game also has a standalone mode as well. Known as Fortnite Battle Royale, the game is based on the battle royale game genre. As opposed to Fortnite: Save The World which is priced at USD 39.99, Fortnite Battle Royale is completely free. As such, I decided to give it a shot (pun intended).

Akin to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG, Fortnite Battle Royale also features 100 players. These 100 players can either play alone, form a tag team, or play in groups of 4. The goal here is to be the last player alive, while taking out the competition. Much like PUBG, the playing area and safe zone in Fortnite Battle Royale keeps shrinking over time. This means that there is very little time that players can actually hide in game without coming face to face with another player.

Both Fortnite: Save The World and Fortnite Battle Royale can be installed via the Epic Game Launcher. This makes it easier to manage game updates and to add/remove friends who also play Fortnite Battle Royale. Once installed, the game takes around 21GB in size which can change as and when new content is added.

Very similar to PUBG, players in Fortnite Battle Royale are ejected

You start off the game in a sort of spawning area, much like PUBG until 100 players are assembled to begin the game. Once the players are gathered, the game beings. You are transported on to a somewhat comical bus that flies over an island that you would be battling on. Again much like PUBG, location is everything. Jumping too early out of the bus might result in you landing in the water.

This in turn would mean that you spend a considerable amount of time swimming to shore, wasting your energy. On the other hand, jumping too late might also lead you into a place you don’t want to be in. If you’re playing as part of a squad, it’s recommended that you generally stick together and land together to make sure that you survive.