It comes from a team (Respawn Entertainment) who have the formula for making good feeling/satisfying first person shooters down to a fine art at this point.
Seems like it took Fortnite 4 months to hit 20 million players. This is just nuts.
Also Gunplay and movement are actually 10/10 here.It has unique hero characters, which are pretty much classes. So it takes that Overwatch type aspect and applies it to an FPS BR. Just mixing different flavors.
Agreed. I want to love Fortnite but despise building.Fuck yeah. My favorite game of the year, and all you needed to do was make a good BR that feels good to play without building.
Oh definitely, deeefinitely. The hype of it kicking in when dropping, the shift after character select. Yeh it's fantastic.
I wouldn't say that's the only reason to be perfectly honest. The money backing this game is huge. The marketing push to pay top streamers to play it day of launch. The pedigree behind the game. There are a lot of factors that made it succeed.
Isn't it amazing how much money a free product can make? Apex is proving that Fortnite wasn't a fluke. I'm both excited and scared by how the industry will react.
Sadly, I think Activision wasn't planning on "updating" Black Out properly besides balance tweaks and such (no new levels/guns/etc). Most likely they were going to have the next CoD game be the new "Black Out", which imo is a bad way to go.
Hopefully this convinces Activision to actually compete somewhat.
But... I like Apex more than Black Out so all good I guess.
Imagine how hype a Halo take on Battle Royale would be?
"Warzone Royale"
May not reach the peak of fortnite numbers - 200 million? mainly because of not having a mobile version but that could change.
Seems like it took Fortnite 4 months to hit 20 million players. This is just nuts.
Another Paragon fan. I wish they would bring some form of Paragon back to fill out their store now that they have a lot of money and stuff. They could have just let the game stay alive without any updates pretty much how Blizzard treat Diablo 3.Move to the left, Epic Games.
This is what you deserve for killing Paragon.
Rise up, Apex.
I'm just gonna congratulate them in every one of these threads. Also adding in new heroes and weapons in the next month is amazing. Thats the kind of pipeline that will keep the hype rolling for them.
good questions but I'm pretty sure they are already thinking of developing one if not already with another engine , maybe pared down for mobile.Can they even port the source engine to Switch or iOS/Android? And how the hell would you get the feel of the game w/ phone touch controls? Guess that hasn't stopped the other BR games from finding success on mobile...
It means its over for blackout, which has less to do with apex and more to do with blackout isn't putting out enough content to support it long term. One map addition isn't going to cut out with the competition.
And nothing about what I said was wrong. No titans and no wall running inherently makes the game lesser. Good thing the game is fantastic as is (but would be more awesome with titans and wall running)Werent you shitting on the game though before it launched cause no titans and wallrunning? :)
Oh I absolutely agree with you. If the game were terrible it wouldn't be the success it is now. It's just that it's a culmination of all these factors. Great games get released suddenly and unexpectedly all the time, especially in the indie scene. It took the "perfect storm" for Apex to be the success it is.Those are all great but it doesn't work if the thing you're propping up is no good. Everything else is secondary. At the end of the day the actual game itself has to be good for all that other stuff to work.
If this is what it takes to slow down Fortnite and the Epic Game Store, so be it.
(I know you are joking)
I truly hate when I hear people say this. What was even more stupid was hearing people from IGN on podcasts saying that BR was a saturated market prior to 2018 E3. Like tell me more than 3 BR games console players could play prior to 2018 E3. Basura.
They're working on a mobile version iirc. Was mentioned in EA's fiscal call a few days ago.May not reach the peak of fortnite numbers - 200 million? mainly because of not having a mobile version but that could change.
Blackout is dead on PC now from what I hear now right after Apex came out (was actually pretty populated before that), not sure about console versions. Wonder if Activision will swallow their pride and release it F2P before it's too late.
Blackout has already gotten new weapons and map additions with more planned soon. So yeah they've got plans to update and support the game for a minimum of three years. That said, it's slow and unless it goes free to play it will never get traction. I've played hundreds of hours in Blackout and it still has a place as the best "traditional" BR game out there (semi-realistic and smooth) but as long as it's pay gated it won't grow beyond COD fans.
Nice. My phone probably can't run it but nice to hear. haha. Should increase their userbase even moreso.They're working on a mobile version iirc. Was mentioned in EA's fiscal call a few days ago.
Blackout is dead on PC now from what I hear, not sure about console versions. Wonder if Activision will swallow their pride and release it F2P before it's too late.
My thoughts exactly.
I've hated BR up until now. Got first win last night and it was goooooood. Respawn deserves a huge hit more than any other developer I can think of.