Fortnite Battle Royale's 2.0 map update makes everything better

When Fortnite Battle Royale first came out, I really didn't like how it was almost impossible to land somewhere without a bunch of other players right on elevation of you. For newcomers, it's intimidating and difficult to learn to loot properly when everyone heads to the same spots and ultimately you become killed very early, very oft.

The map isn't as big as the maps you'll detect in other battle royale games like PUBG or H1Z1, which is both good and bad for various reasons. Just Epic Games has pushed out a serious update to the Fortnite map without making it whatsoever bigger.

And it fixes basically everything I didn't like.

More places to boodle

The map isn't any bigger, simply it has a number of new built-up areas to loot in. Bossy Shores, Shifty Shafts, Tilted Towers, Junk Junction and Haunted Hills are all new locations on the left side of the map to explore, loot, build and dominate.

Tilted Towers seems to be the new favorite hotspot for a couple of reasons. The offset is it's new and folks ever striking the new stuff first. Only it'south also a high-rise city with many large buildings — and large buildings hateful lots of loot.

The new locations are all very different to each other, also. Snobby Shores is your upmarket rich people housing, while Junk Junction is a flake yard perfect for harvesting metal. And whatever the flight path of the battle omnibus you tin can usually hitting any of these new locations if you're prepared to long drop with your glider.

My personal favorite is Haunted Hills. In that location's usually some decent loot around without being overwhelmed with a ton of players all trying to get it.

More than obstacles between circles

While much of the landscape of the right side of the map is essentially the same equally the original map, the left side is now much more than built up and provides more of an obstacle when running between circles.

I previously criticised how easy it was to go between the circles in Fortnite BR fifty-fifty without the utilise of vehicles, and part of that was because there was very little to stop yous running in a straight line. The new locations put a new challenge in betwixt that since you're no longer simply running through the open wilderness.

Y'all tin can nonetheless (and should) utilize building to your reward, getting upwards to those high, hard-to-reach places, but you've more than decisions to make now. Do you lot try and go around Tilted Towers, skirting the edges but taking a longer route, or do you take the run a risk and go through the hotspot, hoping no-one has camped waiting to accept you out?

Engagements and the temptation to loot as you lot now pass through these places also affects how long you take before the storm descends. On the former map, I could always run between the circles even when they were really far away. On the new map, I'g running for all my worth with 1hp with the storm correct behind me. All because I went through town.

Still free to play

Even with this huge update, Fortnite BR is however very much free to play with no restrictions. Epic Games has implemented monetization in the form of cosmetic upgrades and the Boxing Pass, but at no point does monetization interfere with gameplay.

The Battle Pass will become you sectional cosmetic items, in-game currency rewards, emotes and bonus XP over the free tier. But leveling upward doesn't affect how well you can play the game. Information technology only ever affects how much absurd stuff you have to play with. Someone who doesn't buy the Battle Laissez passer or spend a single cent on in-game currency plays on the aforementioned level as someone who spends all the moneys.

The only barrier to your success is your own skill, exactly equally it should be.

The bottom line

Yes, I am wearing a bush.

Fortnite Battle Royale wasn't exactly stale, just the new additions to the map have definitely injected some new life into the game. While the headlines are always virtually PUBG, Fortnite is there aslope boasting huge thespian counts and in many ways, is a better game to play.

It's shine, mostly lag- and crash-complimentary, and has a better and more consequent frame rate correct now than PUBG (you can uncap the frame rate on Xbox Ane X). Of course, the latter has only been in Game Preview for just over a month, merely Fortnite BR is better off for the longer development time on the console. Whether y'all similar the way information technology looks or non (I think it looks awesome), yous can't deny that the core gameplay is solid and it'south an heady title to play.

It at present feels like Fortnite Boxing Royale is at a point of solid foundation for growth. Player numbers are massive, but the current state of the game provides a good platform to continue to build on. Battle Royale is going to keep on taking the world by tempest, and having more than than one smashing game to play is no bad thing.

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