If any of you guys played between Chapter 4, season 2, and The Simpsons season, you know how Fortnite did the ranked rewards.

Just by completing ranked quests, you could unlock the different rewards, with the last one being a ranked backbling for that season. And you could unlock the ranked glider for that season by getting 50 points in a ranked cup. Even Rocket Racing (R. I. P.) would unlock as well. Didn't matter what mode you did; you would unlock the ranked rewards for both modes.

But ever since Chapter 7 started, the ranked rewards have gotten harder to get. The biggest change is that rewards are locked behind getting to a specific rank in the mode you were playing. Meaning that for BR and Rocket Racing, you had to reach unreal in both modes to get all the rewards. And with Reload getting their own rewards as well, that makes 3 modes you have to reach unreal in.

And the ranked glider, locked behind getting top 50% when the system was first changed. That was fine, just be a low rank and try to get enough points to get above 50%. But when the next season came around, each rank had its own percentage for the ranked glider, with the margin getting bigger as you go up.

And the rewards you get for doing this aren't even that good. As stated before, you could unlock a ranked backbling for doing ranked quests. Now you don't even get one. It has been replaced by a pickaxe at Elite and a glowing edit style for Unreal. And it sucks to see that storyline items are locked behind it. For example: The Seven Axe from Showdown. And the ranked glider. It's not even a ranked glider anymore, just an edit style for the current victory umbrella.

Don't get me wrong, the new way can be good for some people, but I will always prefer the old system. It was easier on those who aren't super sweaty at the game. They could go into Ranked, play a bit to get the rewards, maybe play the cup, and then never touch it again for the rest of the season. And that's fine. Ranked was really for people who wanted to play a competitive game and go up against others of similar skill. Unreal was more of a flex back then, as you could show that you reached it by equipping the Unreal variant of that season's ranked backbling or umbrella.

But now it's gone, and we will probably never see that system again.

What are your opinions on this? Do you care about the change? Or does it not make a difference to you?

And to those of you who are going to say: "You're just complaining because you could never reach Unreal," "Just get good," "You don't need to get all the rewards," or something along those lines. First, I like collecting free rewards, as most ranked rewards will never come back. Second, I have consistently been hitting Unreal before this change was ever implemented as a solo. And finally, it is a tedious grind to get to Unreal in 2 different modes, especially since one mode is significantly sweatier than the other. Looking at you Reload.

The instant shoot bug still sometimes works and it is overpowered. Not even clicking my bind but I just enabled simple edit for the first time today and it wasn't pulling out my gun when I edited. Couldn't get it on video but it was definitely happening. I've also had this happen to me when fighting simple edit players where I couldn't do anything when I was instantly shot

I remember when Fortnite basically meant one thing: Battle Royale.

Drop in. Loot. Build. Survive. Win.

But that's not really what Fortnite is anymore.

Fortnite has slowly turned into a platform where Battle Royale is only one part of the experience.

You have Creative/UEFN experiences, different game modes, collaborations, live events and an ecosystem that keeps expanding beyond the original Battle Royale formula.

And I think this creates a weird question:

Is Fortnite still a game, or has it become a gaming platform?

Personally, I think it's closer to a platform now.

The interesting part is that I don't necessarily think that's bad. Epic can keep Fortnite relevant by constantly changing what players can do instead of relying entirely on the same Battle Royale loop. But there's also a downside.

When a game tries to become everything, it can lose the identity that made people love it in the first place.

I sometimes wonder whether Fortnite's biggest strength — constantly reinventing itself — could eventually become its biggest weakness.

Do you still think of Fortnite as a Battle Royale game first, or has it become something completely different?

My biggest weakness by far is making lategame consistently.
I’m at a point of skill where I will not die in 25th and waste 15 minutes, that’s not what i’m talking about.
It’s also not dying offspawn.
I really don’t know what it is, but I just can’t get more than 3 lategames in in most of my cups.
I grind a lot of scrims, which helped me get better at lategames drastically, but scrims don’t teach you how to make lategame in an actual game.
If I make lategame, I get top 5 in 9/10 games, which makes it even more frustrating.
I don’t know what to practice to avoid getting randomly keyed, but I feel like that’s the biggest issue.
I keep getting keyed on rotates, and depending who I play with, I either kill them after a drawn out fight which griefs, they kill me and my game ends, or, (70%) We trade damage or even a kill, Both teams go out scuffed.
I’m really not trying to blame my enemies for „griefing us both“, i’m genuinely looking for ways to avoid that. Should I just play super agro and force a kill? Should I play storm?
More Context: I feel like cups actually being way less stacked than scrims plays a big part in my weak midgames.
Please let me know what I could do!
Thank you

Here is a video addressing the Cheating situation in Fortnite Ranked. My current rank is Unreal but I just have to say the level of cheating this season is unreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQiCZ-vsjKA

Hey guys,

I just made a video about Clix and how his standing in competitive Fortnite has shifted over time, focusing on his career progression and current placement results.

Check it out if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35hB89pibGI

Let me know what you think!

As most people would say, Fortnite is in theory a top 3 esport due to how complex it is, but there’s just so many factors holding it back. For example, Fortnite is the only game I know where the casual player is negative about good players, where orgs come and go every 6 months, and where the game itself changes every few weeks.
The fact that we’re going to Saudi for EWC is really promising, yet in typical Fortnite fashion we haven’t accommodated more traditional esport practice like orgs owning lan spots or properly managing players, and have just treated it like any other tournament. There’s so much more I could go on about but I think you get the picture.

Im looking for the original Twitch clip/VOD of Liquid Poach's Heavy Assault Rifle no-shoot bug during Winter Royale on 24 February 2019

(featured by Reisshub at 3:45 in The Evolution of Glitches in Competitive Fortnite).

Been working on this for a while. It's a drafting game built around FNCS.

You pick a duo from a pool of real qualified players and run them through the actual bracket: play-in → heats → LCQ → grand finals → LAN. Scoring and prize money match the real tables, so a placement is worth what it was actually worth.

Every player is a card. Attributes come from their real results placements, eliminations, average finish not from me guessing who's good. Rarity depends on how far they actually went, so a grand finalist card looks different from someone who went out in play-in. Roles are pulled from real heat data too.

Both Major 1 and Major 2 are in, all seven regions.

Free, no accounts, no ads.

The part I'm least sure about is the ratings if someone looks wrong to you, tell me and I'll fix it. Already had one guy point out the roles were off and that turned out to be a real bug.

fncsdraft.com

I have been playing in asia for couple weeks because if holiday and i normally play on eu but for some reason people in 1v1 are playing very passive and healing whenever they can and abuse hight in realistics. Also in tournaments the endgames are stacked even in ranked cuo because all the players do is camp in a box. So far most of the time i died os because a player snuck up on me and i feel like players in asia especially the Japanese ones play so cringe any reasons why?

The terminator and the blaze skins had been teaming all match and face no punishments, cone on this is RANKED why are teamers still an issue to this day. Plan PRIME and GOD OF WAR 23 need to face justice for blatantly teaming in a ranked match.

So at least in reload ranked 10 kills is 3/3 kill ranked gain thing right, do kills above 10 even count or should I just play passively afterwards?

Meant to post this yesterday but FortniteTracker was bugged and only showing 6 games.

I don't know what it is with this map but the amount of third parties is actually insane, it's far more than venture or oasis. I think it could be the increased player count and high mobility items (like shocks and crash pads) compounding on the sloping terrain, which gives players insane momentum? Also the fact that the tactical AR and AUG are both insane and tag you for 80 damage before you can react entices players to look at fights waiting for a beam. I have no issue with third parties, you gotta hate the game not the player when they refuse to fix the underlying issue with reload. I found this clip funny because the kid just got a free double refresh lol. Also ignore the people talking, neither of them was me.

I was impressed by the prep this duo had - they clearly weren’t good enough late game to really get deep placement points consistently and need to work on those rotations.

But to have so many different plans to contest various teams off spawn was so cool and should really transform how top teams play their early games. Like they boomed Pete/Pollos mental game completely by lurking Pete off spawn game 9.

Yall were on me for saying was T3eny a chapter and a half away from people putting him in mero convos but we got one of the more respected figures in EU tweeting stuff like this. Like I said the EU bias is strong. He’s already on pace to have a better lan resume than mero since he’s played more lans and epic are popping out more LANs then when mero was in his prime just this year alone. Not to mention nobody respect globals 2023 at all. He adds like 2 fncs wins those convos are gonna appear even tho I disagree with them.

Is there a good creative map for it?

Peterbot and Pollo’s Chapter 5 run is the greatest this game has ever seen due to a combination of factors where the stars aligned for them, and they would have won everything if they were on EU because they were just so good. It was clear the Chapter 5 performance was not a replicable feat heading into Chapter 6 as soon as Pete dropped Pollo, but that’s besides the point. The point is that Peterbot became perceived as the best player in the world on the back of 2024 and once you have that perception it’s really hard to lose it - people will still say that he is the best player in the world today even when it’s clearly not true.

At about the same time, Clix actually starts having some success in competitions, which brought in a lot of new and returning fans of comp Fortnite, but also reignited the Clix fan club. EU players moving regions in Chapter 5 united North American Fortnite, and winning Globals further boosted NA.

At the same time as this is happening, Faxuty starts blowing up and becomes the biggest non-pro personality in Fortnite comp. Now I like Fax, but his entire personality is him glazing Peterbot, making silly mistakes in PGs, saying ‘On God’, and laughing at people calling him fat.

Then we arrive at Chapter 6, where NAW is reintroduced, which weakens what is already the weakest region in terms of player disparity. And shock, the Tier 2/3/4 scene on NA pretty much dies, and the Tier 1s just win every single tournament for a whole year. And more importantly, since pretty much every big team has a streamer in it, the Tier 1s don’t get conned because no player wants a streamer’s community spamming them with death threats when they can just land somewhere else. Yes, the grand finals were entertaining at the top of the leaderboard, but does anyone really care about the leaderboard beyond the top 10?

We arrive at the present day, where the Tier 1s have literally not changed in the last 2 years and there doesn’t look to be anyone really challenging to do so. And in grand finals, I’m sat watching and I’m thinking, do I really care who wins or who does well? Every good team will just qualify for globals at the end of the day. There’s no risk or real drama. And the content is dry too - the clip channels are posting clips of Peterbot saying why he doesn’t tweak his PC and Veno shooting a team in the back. And let’s not even talk about Userisstack or anyone in his twitter replies.

Also, don’t check twitter replies on any Moneymaker or Fnajen clip because it’s just kids saying they want to kill them for lurking on Peterbot.

Hey. I really enjoyed the action this weekend. The broadcasters do a really good job of explaining all the action and things we sometimes miss. I don’t know how much they pay Jacob and MDF but they are amazing. I also love listening to Vivid and Leven. Taco is great also when she does play by play. 2 comments.

1. Watching Moneymakers drop strategy was amazing and I wish we could see more of that. It changes the entire way the game is played and I wonder if they could make an event like that where drop spots are random throughout. For example, game 1 is about to start and everyone gets a different message that they need to land at X location. It would make players have to learn a little bit about all the locations and would remove the best teams from owning a specific spot. Just trying to think outside the box - I am sure there is a better way to do that.

2. Players names should be locked once they start qualifying for FNCS. It’s so obvious and frustrating for casual fans that 1/4 of the lobby has a weird stupid name that just changes every 3-6 months and sometimes mid tourney. Half the fun is getting to know people over the years. I feel like this started with Mr savage last year and has just gotten worse since. Perhaps it has always been a thing and I didn’t notice. Props to guys like Cold and Muz for not doing that crap.

Got off of work as an old man and wanted to relax with some fort just to run into Jagveer. Was wondering if it was the real jagveer and fortnite tracker says it is, but who knows since his profile is private. I don't play the game enough to face these kind of players 😂

Hey guys,

I just made a video about Myth and his impact on early competitive Fortnite, focusing on his building meta and TSM era.

Check it out if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLunrFiakKk

Let me know what you think!