Was This Fortnite’s Biggest Mistake?

Honestly, my main problem is how Epic Games feels the need to introduce a new villain every season. I'm so sick of it. I get that they want to add cool looking evil skins to the battle pass. But everytime they do it, it means less y'know? Like, back then, lets say, astreiod that hit Dusty Depot. That was awesome, confusing and scary. Like, "what does this mean for the island?". We never saw something like that before. It was so unique to have a world that felt alive in a battle royale. You just don't get that with Fortnite anymore.

the only horrendous thing about reload is dying mid-late game and respawning. you immediately get shot out of the sky because you're forced to pull out your glider/umbrella and cant land immediately to find loot again so you're basically canned for the rest of the game unless you're lucky

Fortnite needs to stop bringing weapons back with redesigns it's incredibly annoying

I think the simplicity of OG Fortnite is what really makes it work, regardless of the nostalgia factor. Sometimes it feels like you have to complete a checklist during the mid-game to attain a victory in modern Fortnite. Every new mechanic creates a learning curve for better or worse.

the combination of wrecked being one of the most divisive seasons to date (I loved it until the nerf) and the fact that the mode is really new and imo better than og (it isn't slow, 100% chest spawn rate and you don't waste half of the match just searching for shields or fighting bots) I think it makes sense for reload to be the most played mode. I'm curious to see the number after two months the mode being out and the new marvel season on top of that. I personally think Reload saved fortnite for the long run, I've stopped playing BR for a couple of days now but thanks to reload now I switch between the two modes, it even made BR feels refreshing. If you get bored of one mode you just jump into the other, two completely different experiences.

Fortnite's biggest mistake was not just add new things to the game, but adding new things that simply became the center of the whole game, with unbalanced items. Innovation is indispensable for the game to continue at the apex after so many years, but distorting what made it loved by all is a tremendous mistake..

The fact that reload was presented as OG fortnite may cause a problem This map will eventually get stale and they have 4 chapters to pull pois from but if people think it is og fortnite they wouldnt like the map changes

I have one doubt, why they don't stop that silly HIDDEN skin thing and launched Magneto at beginning of the season, his item is useful against cars and fists.

a better way of looking at this is that epic can now make even crazier br seasons because when players want simpler more skill based gameplay that's consistent, they go to reload and when they want more chaotic gameplay where anyone can win with constant changes, they go to br

If epic just drop festival and rocket racing and lego then fortnite can go back to being how it should like the hell with this metaverse bs

WE JUST NEED CHAPTER 6 TO BE LIKE CH1/2, that's it.

I don't think it's a case of battle royale being dead, the games just lost its identity id say, I had fun with wrecked but reload feels so much more like Fortnite as it did way back when

I mean I thought seeing the player counts in the millions from OG was more than enough to show epic what people want reload is great and it saved chapter 5

The simplicity of the loot pool in reload really makes a difference, you don’t have to worry about weapon mods or bullet drop, you just use the guns as they are. It’s undeniable that hitscan just feels better to play with, which is really my biggest complaint about chapter five

The gloves ruined the season.

I still enjoy the chaos the season has brought but.. the theme is me for me and the aesthetics is not hitting the mark for me personally. Also, give the skins their butts, men and women. It looks weird with their butts erased.

The one complaint I have for now is that 50 v 50 isn’t a permanent mode. It’s a good game mode for casuals and would be especially good with the new cars this season. That and the item shop needs to stop being limited to cosmetics with LEGO versions

Battle Royals isn’t getting old, it’s just the themes and style that made Fortnite popular is what they’re moving further and further away from each chapter

i can completely understand how someone can come to the conclusion that battle royale in the sense of constantly "adapting" can get extremely old or feel too adverted from what people recognize fortnite br for i honestly do think it wouldntve mattered either way due to these reasons Reason 1. had fortnite released wrecked at a different time it wouldntve made any difference, considering right before chapter 5 we had fortnite OG and before that people were already getting burnt out from playing chapter 4 season 3 it was too much change for people to handle (ironic considering it was also too little change in that season) and to make matters worse it felt almost as if epic took a huge break during that season and just to add the salt to the wound Reason 2. chapter 4 season 4 damn. this season started off with potential and alot of people said this was fortnite's make or break season with majority of the event staff gone and the rest of the dev team doing who tf knows in the middle of nowhere this season was truly the season where the community split and its sad to see i saw the potential in it had it been updated with a better lootpool had they finally deleted that trash idiana jones poi it really couldve been the season that transitioned well into chapter 5 but we all know how it went (LACK OF UPDATES too little changed in the map and too much changed in the loot pool infact the best part of this season was taken out within like 2weeks of the season) Reason 3. the transition from OG to chapter 5 is hands down one of THE worst transitions ive ever seen SINCE CHAPTER 2 SEASON 1 the player base was split into 6 Factions (OG players) (New Gen players) (Variety enjoyers) (Consistency enjoyers) (comp enjoyers) (casual enjoyers) yes im far aware that this was always a thing but it only really started to show recently and now ive come to realize just how bad its truly getting fortnite split the playerbase so much that now we've run into a new problem Reason 4. trying to please everyone instead of catering to each playstyle and validating them indiviually OG reload further proves the notion of factions and sub factions within the community think about it what's gonna happen when you have og reload and fortnite og happening simultaneously Reload caters to Variety enjoyers, (reload offers the ability to play with several different items and playstyles) OG players, (nostalgia) Comp players,(they get to finally sweat and show for it not just that they get to use guns they practiced with everyday like the old days) Casual players,(even though its sweaty its also really fun with multiple revives you can continue to respawn with your friends and essentially get a free chance at life over and over again) and maybe new gen players that wanna experience what og fortnite was like + knowing what if feels like to play an older game without taking away from their skills they developed with newer guns Fortnite OG caters to specifically OG players Consistency enjoyers and Comp/Casual players fortnite OG is purely nostalgic and i really dont see all the other players enjoying this just specifically fortnite's older playerbase that left fortnite because they felt the game became "Too much" or too serious compared to what they grew up playing alot of newer gen players hated fortnite og because it took away from them what they enjoyed what they wanted out of fortnite and its why i think both fortnite OG and Reload should remain perm My final reason it kinda hits home Reason 5. Fortnite has changed so much over the years ive seen soooo many playstyles so many weapons so many seasons so many items so much goofy stuff soo much hype stuff its just sad to see that fortnite has truly lost its backbone back in my day everything was broken but insanely enjoyable chapter 5 wrecked honestly couldve been handled so much better instead of nerfs counter play shouldve been enabled when counter play comes to the table it rewards smart players and punishes those who choose to be oblivious theres a reason why the cars were so fun on release they were broken yes however i think had they took the time to listen to feedback instead of acting so rash they wouldve realized how easy the fix couldve been instead of splitting the playerbase they shouldve added npcs around the map that sell anvils set up vending machines that give guarenteed boogie bombs make suppply drops grant a higher chance for dropping boom bows theres so many other ways you can add counter play and keep the cars as busted as they were they shouldve never of nerfed the movement on the gloves instead of nerfing the movement nerf the gloves dmg numbers but keep the range big nerf the attack speed and make it more telegraphed theres so many ideas they couldve used and this leads me to my ending evalution Fortnite will always remain fortnite however when no one feels validated why should they keep playing i feel bad for all the devs that spend years of devolpment making these seasons i feel bad for the artist i feel bad for the entire team they make really good ideas all for it to be thrown and casted aside nerfing cars and the gloves made playing against them still annoying by desing choice and playing with them just as equally annoying its a loop of burnout you drop out of the battlebus you kill the mythic you get the car and now you camp with gloves combat and car you ram into 3 maybe 7 people you get 5 kills and then you die to someone else doing the same thing you make it feel as humanly annoying as possible for people using the newer items and people going up against it and eventually you start a big movement of players choosing to advert from newer seasons which in turn makes the devs not like making seasons they get burnt out the staff gets burntout the community manager gets tired and burnt out from trying to cater to the criticism and eventually theres less effort being made into the newer seasons and chapters and more effort being put into you guessed it find it in fortnite Fortnite OG and Fortnite Reload this is truly fortnite's last chance to learn from their mistakes or comepletely give up on innovating and moddifyng fortnite's experience

I don’t even think it’s the game mode reload I think people just want the OG Map & Weapons .