Fortnite - Epic Games - Team Survival/Strategy/Crafting/Combat

You guys are super, super concerned about what someone else does with their own money.

Adebisi said:

So the game's balanced around microtransactions?

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I honestly do not know. Could be like BDO where inventory is very limited and you get some via quest and such, then you buy more as you will most likely need it. Or could give you enough for normal and you just buy more if you want them.

But inventory space is a big pet peeve for me and I usually buy some in any game I play if it ends up I need it(I am a big pack rat in games).

From a small amount of time watching steamers it looks fun. Haven't researched much about the pay model yet. Gonna have to look into that cause we all have our personal level of what we think is outrageous.

You can unlock everything through the skill and research trees. Its p2progressfaster which is essentially paying 2 win. I don't know if there is a cap for things like backpack/vault space. So essentially if you buy into the founder's you may have a higher cap than people who don't.

Even after putting a good amount of time into the Alpha I couldn't tell you if there is truly an end game. A lot of the game is several types of mission where you explore, gather materials, build, defend, and repeat. There is just different goals, map layouts, and mob types.

Regardless of that, there is so much content that getting to end game would likely take a long time, though that content is repetitive. You just get new heroes, skills, guns/traps, and mobs, but the of explore, gather, build, defend is always there.

If there was PVP or some kind of ladder/competitiveness I could see major P2W problems, but without it, it's just pay to skip ahead and does nothing except effect the person paying, where instead of playing they just pay to finish faster. Would be like me paying for a super character in fallout 4 just to beat the game faster.

Though I guess it could effect you if you are pugging randoms to help you finish missions or some friend, and they have spent hundreds or such to get upgraded heroes or weapons. Though it's hard to tell, I mean you could get lucky and buy a pinata with in-game earned currency and get a mythic hero from it, the joys of RNG.

From what I'm reading once this "officially launches" comes out of Early Access it will be a FTP title so I guess if people wait long enough you won't have to pay a dime for it.

Skanda said:

From what I'm reading once this "officially launches" comes out of Early Access it will be a FTP title so I guess if people wait long enough you won't have to pay a dime for it.

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Sometime in 2018.

It is a fun little beer and pretzels game. Kinda like Orc's Must Die.

game is awesome - will give more details soon. played with a group from 10 am yesterday until about 1 am today. i can tell you it gets more challenging and evolving your hero to the 2nd tier opens up more abilities which massively enhances the experience.

Games come out of early access?

Srathor said:

It is a fun little beer and pretzels game. Kinda like Orc's Must Die.

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This seems like a response from someone who hasn't played the game - or put more than a handful of hours into it. I would disagree with this entirely.

The grind is real. Its been stated many times. To get to the varying mobs and harder difficulty it will be a grind of semi-easy gameplay. Until the hard combat comes into play there is plenty of system mechanics to learn. It could take people months of casual play to get to the real hard stuff where you have to defend 2, 3, or even 4 different objectives at one time, where mobs come from multiple directions, with several types of mobs.

Like I said several times, I'm using it as my casual grindy game.

Edit: Though I should say this, it does get harder when you enter the next zone. Stonewood is pretty easy overall. So if you're looking for a challenge it does pick up. It just takes a bit to get there because of everything you have to learn and the grindiness of the game.

I just watched some videos of this and looked around. This seems like a decent concept for a small $20 game turned into EVE-like research bullshit, mobile game P2W transactions and outrageous pricing on top of a Korean MMO grind. What am I missing?