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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Mr Hootington posted:

None of the leaked map changes happened.


I'm guessing that happens on the April 11 update when the Easter event ends. Seems like they want to chain all of that stuff more often now to keep people on there.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Lowen SoDium posted:

Anyone have a map that marks were the hirable NPCs live at?


https://thenerdstash.com/all-12-specialist-characters-locations-in-fortnite-chapter-4-season-2/

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Solo seems to just come down to whoever gets the pulse rifle. That thing needs nerfed bad

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

The blue katana thing would be fine if it was upgradable

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

MarcusSA posted:

Zero build matches seem to take forever to get into these days.

It’s been a little better lately since they made the storm adjust to the number of people left.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Spacebump posted:

They aren't bad beyond being crowded early. You can't get close to finishing the Star Wars rewards atm.

The only one that was really a pain was opening the republic chest since doing so was basically a suicide mission.

I finished the whole lot in a few hours.


E: I just realized you probably meant the quests aren’t all available right now.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

You can finally katana swap, thank god

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Were there any significant changes besides the vaulting of star wars stuff and the addition of web slingers?

I haven't seen anything about any augment changes or what not.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I would say go bot lobby first and once that's pretty easy for him, do Team Rumble. Team Rumble at the beginning can be frustrating if he keeps dying before he gets a chance to learn anything.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Katanas have been vaulted

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

If you don’t land near an ODM or web slinger you are turbo hosed

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Shinjobi posted:

I will take a trios win on day 1 of a new update, thank you very much.


Got real lucky with storm placement

That’s been 90% of the battle so far. We had a couple wins last night, but only when the storm broke correct for us.

The rest of the time we inevitably got hosed up by people who were able to camp in zone.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Beve Stuscemi posted:

Yeah without mobility I really feel like I spend a long time with crap weapons

I've generally had an alright time getting a few decent weapons but it feels like I spend every other match doing nothing but chasing the circle.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Red-Eye vaulted, MK Alpha unvaulted

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

parasyte posted:

mk-alpha has a red dot sight, at least. unvaulted is not quite the right word because it's not been in the game before, though it is based on the mk-seven rifle that has been in the game before.


Yea that was my bad. I was thinking of the MK Seven when I read it initially.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

https://twitter.com/fortnitestatus/status/1669450274530902017?s=46&t=8273Ur5gqnx9UDbflKnZww

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Hrist posted:

I saw they upped the chests at the bridge one to 3 chests. When it only spawns 1 at most. And only sometimes even 1.

There were 2 but they were on opposite ends of the bridge.

The boat one not counting was bullshit though.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Hrist posted:

I usually only ever see one on one side of the river underneath. But I honestly forget to check on the bridge itself. So maybe that's a bonus third chest down there sometimes. :shrug:

The Kenjutsu side had one on the beach under the bridge. The Steamy side had one on a piece of land jutting out near a bush under the bridge.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Anora posted:

I've got 50K points on a dirt bike, 4 at that one mansion, and 5 cash registers. Which, like, where the gently caress do dirt bikes even spawn now?

https://fortnite.gg/ is your friend

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jestery posted:

Don't get victory Royale for most kills

But yeah, who expects a barrage of 30 grenades in a 1v1, how do you even counter indirect fire like that

Visual audio cues and a thermal DMR.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Also, 30 grenades is about what it would take to kill someone now since they got nerfed

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I’ve felt the movement sting more from being unable to close in fast than from not being able to run.

By the time we can close in to finish a squad, another squad is third partying us.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Mr Hootington posted:

I've liked this season and no movement is a fun change of pace

Overall I feel the same and the shockwaves definitely help, but I feel like squads is very boom or bust unless you want to play extremely cautious.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Lol lowering the breacher structures damage from 759 to 255 makes that gun absolutely useless

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Lock the PC down and make him play on console. That's pretty much your only option here.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Jestery posted:

Lol

Had a win the other day by attrition/luck

I had chipped the final opponent down with drum shotgun pot shots and the circle moved to where I was under a jungle cliff, and they on an Ice over hang. On next circle move they were forced to brave the storm on risk the drop and I I just got the victory Royale

This game can be such a slot machine sometimes

I had something like this the other day but I hit a flower and when I popped over the lip I threw a shockwave at his feet and knocked him into the storm to die

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

They already said the Dr. Who collab won't be until at least around the annual Christmas episode. Wouldn't be surprised if it led off the next chapter.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I haven't seen a single Fry or Leela but I've seen 2 or 3 benders in every lobby I've played this week.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I wanna kill people as Mama Fratelli

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

AcidCat posted:

The only cel shaded crossover I want to see in this game is King of the Hill.

If there’s not an alt skin of Bobby in a sailor suit, I will riot

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I want a Shotzi tank emote. Either way I’m just glad it’s not Charlotte

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Just give me a whole season of the Most Wanted event

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Also the amount of slurp’s dropped by dealers/caches has been cut in half.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

RodShaft posted:

I rage quit Saturday after not being able to effectively run away because I had balloon jump.

I almost rage quit last night when I learned that throwing a pizza down in a tree just leads to the pizza plummeting to the jungle floor.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I started playing with the start of season 4 so I have nothing else to really compare it to, but the jungle biome can absolutely kiss my rear end.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I feel like 60% of my matches end with a race to be the first person up on the ice to pick off everyone escaping the jungle.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Now I want Sophia’s purse as my pickaxe

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

I’m digging the openness of the map but with this mobility and weapon pool it absolutely sucks so far.

I agree that the heal situation had gotten a little ridiculous in previous seasons but the answer to that is not to create a giant luck fest where your chances in a game are almost entirely a dice roll on whether or not there’s enough heals at the POI you drop at.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

RodShaft posted:

I disagree. I think the weapons are fine. I'm not great at them, but there's a tactical shotgun for using as your only up close, there's the pump for swapping to an smg, and a one shot shotgun or hand cannon for aimbots. There's the SMG and light machine gun for spraying, there's the multiple ARs for mid/long range. Hell Hootington just ran an AR for everything the game we won last night. The auto sniper is basically a dmr And the hunting rifle also exists. I'm pretty sure there's another sniper I'm forgetting. There's 4 types of grenades counting mines, and a rocket launcher and grenade launcher. What exactly is missing?

Mobility is fine if you use what's around. There's rifts just floating all about the place. Multiple zip lines to every hill(and you can slide down pretty much anywhere carefully) Both shopping and golf karts everywhere (shopping kart moves quick through water) if you spare a slot there's grapplers or port-a-rifts. In 50 matches we've never been caught out in a field and because I'm more conscious of movement I'm actually rotating more purposefully this week.

I also disagree about health. I think a scarcity was good and liked it better at the beginning of the week. What is interesting or fun about always running around with full shields and 2 stacks of heath in your load out? You're dealing with the same scarcity everyone else in the game is. It adds more to it. Plinking at someone is actually meaningful when you know they aren't sitting with 30p-600 hp worth of heals in their load out.

Basically the scarcities force you to work with what you get instead of opening a dozen chests until you get your ideal load out. Which I find fun. It may just be me though because I'm poly-armor-us and am fine switching up my style to whatever guns my teammates don't prefer. Hell my favorite part of the previous seasons is when you first land and just are mowing people down with whatever you land on.

This wasn't specifically directed at you, but a LOT of people are complaining about those things and I don't feel it holds up under scrutiny. Also it's like one week. Enjoy the change of pace.


I mean, that's fair. I don't think it's bad at all. It's just a different game. My only real concern is that I feel like it disincentivizes engaging. Other than that, I can see what people enjoy about it.

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Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

Brut posted:

It still seems to be pretty easy, regular BP caps out at 50 and bonus at 70 this time.

Yea I'm playing less than normal and I'm already up to 53.

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