Is Fortnite's Battle Royale indicative of how long it takes to create that type of mode?

[Parenegade]

I wonder what other games can implement a BR mode and how long it would take. How much development time do you need to add that to your game? I know the network part of it all is tough with 100 different players all connecting to 1 match. Anyone have any knowledge on this type of thing?

 

[Silky]

Warhawk, 100 planes, zones to fuel, big open sea to fight to the death

I take my payments in cash Sony

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The Unreal Tournament team is working on FBR which is already a small ass team to begin with, but at the same time Epic's resource availability is vastly different from someone like the dudes behind the Darwin project

 

[Deleted member 12833]

Warhawk, 100 planes, zones to fuel, big open sea to fight to the death

I take my payments in cash Sony

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Man, warhawk PS3 was so good. Really nothing like it

 

[Hailinel]

The only reason that it was put into Fortnite with relative speed was because they had an active dev team able to work on a new mode to a game that was already built in a way that could support it.

 

[GunFlame]

This is so massively varied on the game, the engine and the people working on it.

 

[Haze]

Not to mention PUBG uses Unreal Engine so Epic was likely able to easily take some of the lessons they learned helping optimize PUBG.

Fortnite is extremely shallow compared to PUBG so idk if it's indicative of how quickly something like this can be put out.

 

[BernardoOne]

Epic are the developers of one of the biggest, most sucessful game engines today. They a lot more leeway in the alterations and improvements they can do, and i'm sure they learned a lot about how to support 100 players in one huge map from assisting in PUBG. They are in a position most devs aren't.