Fortnite Battle Royale Reaches 40 Million Players Ahead of Map Update
Fortnite Battle Royale has just wrapped up its first 100 days and has reached a big milestone ahead of its next big update.
There are almost daily reminders of just how big the Battle Royale craze has gotten in video games. The latest one comes from Shacknews Best Early Access Game of 2017 Fortnite and Epic Games. On Monday, Epic announced that Fortnite Battle Royale has reached yet another milestone, prior to its next update that's set to deploy later this week.
According to PCGamesN, Fortnite Battle Royale has reached 40 million players, with 2 million concurrents. This number comes at the 100 day mark since Fortnite Battle Royale first debuted.
Epic Games isn't about to slow down anytime soon. A new update is set to hit Fortnite Battle Royale later in the week. It involves making what's old new again, revamping the Battle Royale map. New areas and points-of-interest are being added. The map will also receive a visual upgrade, which will help distinguish between the island's various environments.
For more on the Fortnite Battle Royale map update, check out the video below.
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From the jaws of defeat! This dev needs to be paying BlueHole for coming up with game mode that saved Fortnite from utter financial ruin.
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Ya, they didn’t need to add the pubg mode, fortnite was doing fine without it.
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There were 10's of people playing it!!
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You guys realize that simply by being a console game it probably had more concurrent users than most top PC games right?
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Oh I don't know a damn thing, I just wanted to make that joke. Carry on.
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Ah. K.
I mean it is a little depressing for PC players. We get super excited about games reaching a level that would be "mildly popular" on the console install base.-
I hear you. As someone who walks between both worlds (and occasionally double dips) it is indeed very contrasting.
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It affects me a bit as someone with somewhat offbeat tastes. I have trouble finding populated servers in things like Battlefield 1 gamemodes that are not Conquest because the PC playerbase is small enough that simply scaling the popularity of those modes means we will have like 2 servers that play it on the planet.
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One million sales before Battle Royale. Fairly respectable for a game still in development.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite#Reception
But yes, ever since the mode released, sales jumped to 10 millions.
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But all those games would be nothing without TDM!
Lol.
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That is like saying WW2 games all owed Medal of Honor or zombie games all owed ... Left 4 Dead? Or all those MMOs owed WoW...or maybe Ultima Online, ha.
Whatever the key games in those fads were.
Copycats are everywhere gaming. When someone grabs onto a hot trend, it is hardly worth even noting. It is a trend, not a patented innovation.
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I play this every single day, I love it.
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I like the concept, but I thought it lacked tension once the first few gunfights played out. It just turned into a zergfest after that.
I think if they built a (somewhat smaller) map designed specifically for 50v50 it could be really fun.
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My son and all of his high school friends are into this game in a way I have never seen them get into something before. He said it is super popular in high school circles.
I hate watching him play it as it is such a blatant PUBG ripoff that it really bugs me. Even worse, my son refuses to try actual PUBG even though I have it installed on his PC. I have failed as a parent.-
-visually more appealing than PUBG
-less janky than PUBG
-runs better than PUBG on similar systems
-has building mechanics unlike PUBG
if i was a kid, i'd play it over PUBG as well ;P
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The compressed skill banding ala CoD helps too. Getting wrecked by a better shooter suuuuuuucks in the mid/late game.
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I just tried this out on PC. I've said before that I'm not a huge proponent of MP games but this seems fun and at least it's free. I somehow managed to place second in my first game though that was blind luck I'm sure. Just dashed from bush to bush until the end when the last remaining guy one-shotted me. Took out 2 other guys on my way there.
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If I'm a poor who is interested in pubg but won't be able to afford it for a while, would this scratch the itch for me?
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