After a brief delay, Fortnite’s 3.3 patch is in with a bang, literally, thanks to new explosives and supply llamas added to battle royale mode. Epic says it’s improved server performance too. Save the Worlders will find a new St Patrick’s Day themed questline and gear to keep them occupied.
In other Fortnite news,
- The game helped set a new Twitch record last night for concurrent watchers on a single string when rapper Drake hopped on stream with Tyler “Ninja” Blevins for some Fortnite talk. This is real life.
- VG247 has a piece arguing that Fortnite is a “true next-gen game” for the first generation of kids raised on free games, crossplatforminess, and hand-me-down hardware.
- And Gamasutra posted a Q&A with Epic Games on the development of BR mode. “Because our timeline was so short, and we wanted to create a playable version immediately, it wasn’t ‘hey we could do all these crazy things,’ it was ‘what can we do, and how can we get it done as quickly as possible,'” Epic’s Eric Williamson says. “It wasn’t pie-in-the-sky land. Naturally, that meant that lots of ideas we had didn’t really get fully explored.” Now, of course, there’s time.
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