FORTNITE

Fortnite: Battle Royale is a surprisingly complex game.

New players need to reckon not solely with the difficult fighting gameplay that includes one hundred players, however AN changing landscape steeped in a very shocking quantity of history.

Epic Games has turned Fortnite into one amongst the oddest, most intriguing collective experiences in games, one that every now and then feels a lot of of a bit with the lore-riddled storytelling

of ancient MMOs than a perpetually resetting third-person shooter.

 

That lore is the product of two traits, primarily. One is the implicit nature of the game's narrative.

Fortnite hides its story in environmental cues and rare in-world events—events that, given the always-on nature of the game, you can only experience if you happen to be playing

at that moment. Second is the game's nod to television structure by dividing its temporality into "seasons": Periodically, Fortnite developer Epic Games releases a major patch that introduces a host of new

challenges and collectible things, beside aesthetic motifs, all of that contribute to the larger scene.

And with Season 7 arriving tomorrow, you'd be forgiven for having lost the thread along the way (or just wanting to know what your friends and/or relatives are talking about already).

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