/v/ - Video Games

Another flash in the pan non-genre.

Hey, remember when everyone was making survival crafting open world zombie games?

>>15458226

It's kinda exciting wondering what the next genre is gonna be

>>15458217

Battle Royale is not new, it used to be called King of the Hill. Plenty of games had that before minecraft even.

>>15458230

With any luck it'll be Russian roulette.

>>15458256

Thought this was another thread.

what happened to the ability to delete your posts?

>>15458247

Hopefully the normalfag swarms clung onto something good next

culling just launched f2p, hopefully it catches on to a decent playerbase. it was the best BR game until they fucked it up with braindead patches

also BR genre isnt dead, people love it. it takes what everyone already likes (FPS), adds rng loot finding (people like that as well), and teamwork with your friends if you have any

the reason its so popular is its a combination of 3 things people enjoy

>>15458272

Going F2P does not fix the game, the only way to fix the game at that point is to just roll back the combat and loot system to april 2016. The game will die again pretty soon if they do nothing but make it FTP.

>>15458217

Your history is off, the popular version of BR came from Arma 2/3, which is what PUBG and H1Z1 are based on. Arma has given us the cancer of DayZ and BattleRoyale, when do we kill it?

>>15458234

Except what delineates the gamemodes is the looting aspect of BR that KoTH never had. I suppose if you want to be real anal about it you could claim arena shooters with weapons collecting is "looting"

so you lose all your progress every time you die after like 5 minutes and playable area shrinks until everyone kills each other and then it ends

WHATS THE POINT

>>15458375

YES IT IS, QUAKE WAS THE ORIGINAL BATTLE ROYALE

>>15458907

>>>/cuckchan/

I want all brazilians out of my games.

>BR was never meant to be

Amen. Praise the emprah.

>>15458217

>Dead

>more and more games adding the mechanic into the game

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Like everyone else who doesn't actually play these games or know anything about them, you blow sniping way out of proportion. Even the BEST BR players hit a snipe maybe once each game, and often only on stupid players, and usually when they're already engaged, and unless it's a headshot it's not fatal anyway. It's easily avoidable if you keep alert, use your sightlines, jump all the time (which is stupid, but hey it works), and don't "peek" out of cover unless you know you're safe. Aside from that, no sniper body-shots are one-hit-kill on someone with full health, and you should always be at full health unless you're in an active battle. Getting randomly picked off all the time by snipers simply DOES NOT HAPPEN to good players. If it happens to you, you're just a bad player. Almost all kills are made at medium or close range in BR games.

"No cover" is also a non-issue. Fortnite allows you to build cover anywhere. PubG and (from what I've seen of) Black Ops have a lot of natural cover from plants and rocks and buildings and shit. Again, if you just run openly across a field and are surprised when you get shot at, you're an idiot.

>>15458226

Zombies were a meme, but there's no such think as a "survival crafting open world" game. Those are elements IN a game, not a genre.

>>15462837

oww my ears

>>15458217

The Culling's devs were involved in some shit. Does someone have the news about it?

As for Battle Royale, it is a meme genre made by retards that can't create a challenge. It will die as all fads in the industry that tried to dominate the hobby and died as a result.

>>15458230

It will be shit.

>>15458272

Not people. Mindless NPCs.

>>15458959

When the quality is dead, the genre is dead.

>>15458234

It also used to be called "free-for-all deathmatch". Except the different is there is a circle on a huge map with 100 players instead of 30.

WHERE'S THE REVOLUTION?

>>15462837

>One person got sniped when at half-health because he didn't cover his side

OH SHIT GUYS EVERYONE EVERYWHERE GETS SNIPED ALL THE TIME GUYS!!!

>>15462837

Reminds me of Diddy Kong screaming

Battle Rotale was never meant to be the main dish as it has become, it was supposed to be another mode of Deathmatch but we live in an era where the instant anything shows a slight potential of becoming big gets exploited to hell and back by every dev.

>>15467971

battle royale games don't resemble something that was actually good, anon.

He's talkin about the retarded over scaled jogin simulators.

Not good old custom gamemodes on source games.

>>15467926

Almost all games are bad. But clearing up misconceptions spouted by retards isn't "defending". I don't give a fuck about Fortnite or any other game like that; I don't even play them. Knowing something doesn't require you to LIKE it. True information doesn't take sides. And building a tower straight up is an excellent way to get shot down and die from fall damage.

As for the rest, just because YOU don't have fun doesn't mean nobody does. Or do you think it's impossible for someone to like something you do not? Come on; you're not really that stupid. Some people like fast-paced gameplay, while you clearly want something slower. Sucks for you — the entire world is fast-paced now because nobody has time because everybody is poor. The most popular games are ones you can pick up and drop for five-fifteen minutes at a time because of this.

>>15467969

>Multiplayer first-person shooter games were never meant to be multiplayer first-person shooter games

U wot m8?

This is no different from playing with three other people in your living room in Goldeneye or several others over LAN in Doom. Technology has merely progressed so "multiplayer" includes everyone in the world with an internet connection and can allow groups of up to 100.

>>15468102

What a shame, they run out of reading comprehension on the store.

>I don't like pubg and fortnite so BR is dead!

Sounds like you're just bad, faggot. BR has never been more alive and will only get bigger. Blackout will be massive.

If they made a game like the SAO battle royale one I'd play it. From what I've seen of PUBG, it's the same every time, the circle always gets smaller, no different game modes. How about utlizing these large map and many player areas with other modes too.

If you had made this thread 3 months ago everyone would have shit on you for caring about this cancerous fotm "genre" and you probably would have been banned or had your thread deleted within a day.

>>15468232

BR is filled with underage like you that are shit at games so its not hard to win in these games.

>>15458272

fuck off JFJ

>>15458261

I really hope they don't. That will just end in a bunch of shitty games being made for the lowest common denominator. I'm sure there's many interesting things you could do with the batte royale genre, but as soon as the fad ends, developers won't even bother making these games a reality because everyone's bored of the concept.

>>15462837

This game looks awful.

>>15470280

Fortnite is mediocre, which is probably why it's so popular. If you're amazing at it then that probably bumps it up up a bit, and if you're horrible at it then you're probably a gambling addict.

>>15462837

Jesus Christ, I can fucking smell the soy that has reduced his brain to that of a child. Disgusting.

>>15470211

I've got a game for /v/ to play

The most dangerous game

>>15458256

Vesperia (when the remaster comes out), Abyss, Xillia, Xillia 2, Berseria, Graces

Christ how do you faggots get worked up over something as vanilla as giant deathmatch server. BR is a thousand times better than Overwatch hero shooters. If that was supposed to be the next trend in shooters then BR saving us from that low-skill gimmick shit should be reason enough to appreciate it. Blackout is the first time multiplayer COD has been good since MW2. Battlefield is a ruined franchise whether or not DICE adds in a BR mode or not. PUBG, I've tolerated buggier games, and approaching a town with friends and clearing houses is more tactical than I would ever expect mainstream audiences to get into.

Fortnight is lame, beyond that the only reasons to hate BR is because you can't enjoy something mainstream and you can't stand being bad at a game normalfags like. >>15462837 "Muh snipers" I can tell you're a loser because you identify with the dude getting sniped and not the sniper.

>>15462801

>If it happens to you, you're just a bad player. Almost all kills are made at medium or close range in BR games.

Join a game night here and see for yourself. People here really are that bad.

>>15470448

>he can't handle dairy

Found the non-white

>>15470454

It's the amount of estrogen and fat in dairy that makes it bad for you. You'd have to chug 10 times the amount of soy to get the same amount of estrogen.

>>15468279

Kill yourself. You can't even speak proper English.

>>15458234

>>15458531

>>15467854

Do you people really have this hard a time grasping the major differences permadeath has on a game compared to respawning?

>>15470527

Can't let facts get in the way of cuckchan tier memes.

Should we tell him beef and eggs are also infested with estrogen? Or are those foods considered too "manly"?

>>15470448

>Taking any food meme literally

Neither dairy nor soy do jack shit. The only thing that's been proven to sack testosterone levels is BPA and phthalates in plastic. And that's not something you can avoid just by never drinking from plastic water bottles, because it gets in EVERYTHING that's remotely processed and in municipal water supplies and in everything that consumes down the food chain, where rivers drain into. Maybe if you grow your own food and hunt in Alaska or Siberia (and no fish), you can avoid it. Otherwise, it's a global concern affecting everyone.

>>15472582

Soy is poison, regardless of whether you want to acknowledge it or not.

>>15472582

>falling for the plastic meme

>>15472669

>Soy is poison

Wrong. Soy and vegetables are the best things to eat as a man, everything else will make you weak.

>>15467971

Zombie survival is different than BR and much better even with how simple it is.

>>15458230

If we go by the trends, it's probably going to be another sandbox game, given that's what most AAA developers are making these days, games with sandbox elements. But it'll have to have online components too, so probably something that everyone and their mothers already knows how to play but somehow slightly easier.

I'm guessing that it's going to be some new builder-type game, sort of like Lego Worlds but with less charm and screaming skeletons.

>>15458234

>king of the hill

>game mode about n teams fighting for a single cap point on map

>has something to do with last man standing on greater scale

What is the dark souls of battleroyalelikes

>>15472582

>(and no fish)

>he took the fish is bad for you maymay

>>15458234

Anything wrong with King of the Hill?

>>15470457

>buy milk that isn't laced with growth hormones

>???

>profit

Snipers in FPS games are an unnecessary cancer that slow gameplay down by rewarding risk averse faggotry, prove me wrong you cant

>>15473676

Dark Souls would make a fun BR game.

>100 players dropped onto map

>You can travel anywhere from the top of Sens to the bottom of New Londo Ruins, Ash Lake and Lost Izalith, to the edges of Darkroot Basin

>Everyone starts in firelink, gets to warp to any bonfire with a 1-3 minute grace period of no PvP damage

>Rarest shit on outer edges of the map

>Abyss wall starts closing in from all sides

>Have to stop to level up at bonfire, giving a risk of getting ganked

Pretty much writes itself.

>>15458217

Good riddance.

>>15477125

The only way to guarantee getting sniped is to stand still in one place with your head sticking out of cover, which is also the only way to be sniping. So it balances itself out.

Rant incoming:

The real problem, I feel, with battle royale is that your limited weapon loadout means everyone tends to use the same damn weapons. Fortnite is always: the best AR you can find, the best shotgun you can find, the best SMG you can find, a long-range weapon (either an RPG or a sniper) and then some healing items which by player choice would always be mini shields. There's other shit in the game (pistols, explosives, support items) but nobody uses them except out of desperation when they have nothing else, probably because they just landed. And maybe if its a new item and they want to play around with it. Sometimes a player may switch to a different weapon if the situation demands it (like picking up a sniper rifle if there is another player sniping at them) but this is rare because it's not like weapons are lying around everywhere. Dropping one of your best weapons to pick up something else that you don't plan to use until the end of the game is tantamount to suicide.

A game with such a wide variety of weapons should support a wide variety of playstyles, but it does not. Given the choice, nearly every single player would have the following loadout right now: gold scar, gold heavy shotgun, gold compact (aka p90), stack of ten minis, and gold heavy sniper. There really IS NO WEAPON VARIETY, just the best possible weapons, and then garbage you keep because you haven't yet found the best.

The only way this trend is bucked is in duos or squads, but only a little, and only if they're very good at playing cooperatively instead of merely playing side-by-side. Maybe you have one guy carrying minis and the other guy carries bandages. Maybe you have one guy with a sniper and the other guy has an RPG. You know what would be better? Real squad tactics (would require bigger squads than four, though). A couple people with dual shotguns and an SMG, with grappling hooks to get to close-range quickly and minis to heal up between shots; they're the only ones who actually need to be any good at building. A couple people who hang back with sniper rifles and scars to support the front-line, carrying both a heavy and a bolt-action sniper so they can take down a wall, quick-switch, and shoot whoever is behind it. A medic who stays out of trouble in mid-range, carrying medkits and big shield pots, and maybe some grenades so he can huck them over right as the shotgun guys are about to get there (give him some boogie bombs, because his primary directive is to survive to the end of each skirmish, meaning toss it to disable any enemies who rush him, and then run away like a girl). And a commander who coordinates all this, has a "balanced" loadout, and maybe a bunch of porta-rifts so he can quickly launch over to any area to provide support to whichever section of his troops needs it most.

Thing is, there really isn't any reason this couldn't happen if they made the game more focused on cooperative multiplayer rather than every-man-for-himself, and expanded squad sizes. The "100 people" limit is arbitrary and one will expect it to increase in coming years as computer technology improves. Expand the lobby to a few hundred, expand squads to six, make weapons variety and complex tactics mandatory instead of a punishment, and this could be the future of the genre.

There could be a lot of interesting emergent gameplay with the variety, but it's just not as efficient especially for a single player. Any buffs or nerfs of weapons just change the "perfect" loadout to a different one (shotgun plus smg used to be the OP double-pump combo), instead of encouraging a variety of weapons. And their rarity means a player who gets good weapons will never drop them, even if a particular situation might be better resolved with something other than what they have. They wouldn't be forced to, either, because ammo for the guns is so common that by the time they get past the beginning phases of the game they've got more bullets than they will ever need (and ammo only comes in four types anyway). Really, low ammo variety could be that hingepin problem for Fortnite. That loadout I mentioned? Takes advantage of each ammo type, one for each. There will never be a time when you have to drop a scar and pick up a burst, because they use the same ammo type.

>hurrfffufrffh its dead cuz i said so and fortnite isnt popular at all

delusional

>>15477125

nah, you're just a faggot. i know your type too. being a "sniper"fag myself i get shit from you slowtards all the time. you sperg out over getting killed by a bolt action. i'll be using a bolt action and playing aggressively and picking off enemy defense then a monkey like yourself will start bitching about a nonexistent sniper

>>15485708

>The "100 people" limit is arbitrary and one will expect it to increase in coming years as computer technology improves

Reminder the original ARMA supported >100 players back in 2007, and MMOFPSs like WWIIO & Planetside back in 2001 & 2003 that supported 128 onscreen players (+ more invisible in the same instance).

Nothing is going to change until we send consoletards to the killing fields

>>15477125

>Snipers in multiplayer FPS

My biggest problem with sniper and lmg fags is they never cover , they take the gun designed to do one fucking thing and never use it for it's purpose

I am waiting for a situation where I approach the objective an enemy runs from behind cover to kill me and a sniper covering me kills him ,so far I only saw that shit in movies ,People come to team oriented games with no intention to actually work as a team

>>15458217

git gud u whining loser

>>15458358

>Going F2P does not fix the game, the only way to fix the game at that point is to just roll back the combat and loot system to april 2016.

I've heard that they did roll back far in time, maybe to that period. It's an apology for Culling 2.

Pretty sure I remember playing in old CS having something of the sort of Last Man Standing maps. Simple and it required more skill, where you have to constantly move and be on high awareness.

The building meme in Fortnite seems like such a stupid shit. To a point I can imagine requiring some extra skill, but it is so not what a shooter should be.

I played Fortnite and PUBG Mobile today. Hated the first one, actually sort of enjoyed the second one. Even if in PUBG there is a lot of time spend just running it is actually a lot more engaging. That said I guess the playerbase is not the best or is there a ranking system in place? In only one game I wasn't in top 10. In my last game had some problem with the virtual machine where for a few minutes I couldn't go back to camera rotation, but mouse usage. That was a downer. Also no matter which emulator I tried I am still getting some hiccups even though my machine is obviously being barely used.

>>15470448

>people who ingest copious amounts of soy have low-t

>trannies recommend increasing soy intake to help with transition

>asians have some of the lowest ethnic-specific t-levels because of their high-soy intake

No thanks, reddit. I think I'll believe my lying eyes instead.

>dead

>its still fucking everywhere

>literal tutors for fortnite

It's gonna be here for probably another 6 months, sadly.

>>15458230

Here's a spoiler they're going to try and make esports shooters a thing again with major updates to all of them including TF2 finally going ham and locking all update content for the Heavy update behind the new 9v9 highlander matchmaking, and after that inevitably fails the next trend will be something I will refer to as "Ball Goal" but can more accurately be described as 1 Flag AntiCTF where players on both teams will try to carry the flag into a capture point in the enemies base, with mechanics for passing the ball being a major factor

>>15498442

>people who ingest copious amounts of soy have low-t

[citation needed]

>trannies recommend increasing soy intake to help with transition

People doing meme things with their bodies fall for meme nutrition, what a SHOCK!

>asians have some of the lowest ethnic-specific t-levels because of their high-soy intake

[citation needed]

Agreed

Sucked back in arma 2 and 3 mods as well

Went back to siege

>>15470603

Yeah? Oldschool Quake Rocket Arena was the first then.

>>15503673

>Oh FUCK I don't have an argument, uh… um… ANIME SMUGPOST!!!!!!!!!111111oneonetwofive Haha, that'll show him! I am such a genius!

>>15458226

Minecraft is still selling though.

>>15514818

>He doesn't know about the fucked hormone levels in fish

>>15498579

so basically payload maps?

>>15462801

getting randomly picked off happens to both good and bad players, watch some streams sometime you dumb nigger.

Excuse me, anon. Do you have a moment to

>check these dubs?

>>15528486

i take this moment to thank all you anons on /v/ for telling me to avoid this game like the plague. If this is what ill have to deal with id rather not play.

Am I a bad person for enjoying PUBG? I haven't played an online game for a long time now.

>>15470392

Marriage?

>>15458230

whatever it is, it'll be absolute cancer and probably take down a previously enjoyable game mode with it

>>15462837

>>15528486

this guy reminds me of the shithead in the apartment directly above mine

several times a day I hear him screaming and banging things, overheard him talking about fortnite to his roommate once

living here is fucking intolerable sometimes

polite sage for double post

>>15458217

>I personally think that the april 2016 version of The Culling was and is the best battle royale game to this date.

My fucking nigger. First and last game of its kind I played. It was actually skill based and you had to outwit your opponents constantly. I hadn't played something so fun since Tribes 1. It's a shame the devs didn't know what they had (and still don't; they went back to the "Day 1" build which was already after they ruined the very fast and mindgamey beta gameplay).

Its just getting started. Rumor is battlefield got delayed because they wanted to perfect the BRgenre

Any of you guys had a crack at Scum?

Reminds me heavily of the early DayZ days.

>>15458256

The one you put in the pic is the only one I played but the cringey "Lol religion is a lie/evil!" and "Make your own meaning!" memes managed to turn me off to the rest of the serires. Does anyone know if the other games are equally as middle-school-atheist tier BS, or do they have good plots?

>>15530171

I forgot to mention that the characters were shit and the love interest was a bitch that I wanted to slap to shit and back. Also the protagonist is FFX's Tidus tier bad. Like REALLY bad. Literally the only character I liked was Van because he did what he thought needed to be done. Hence why I remember his name bit no one else's.

Calling it dead would be like calling the fps genre dead after the goldeneye sequels.

>The sniper bullshit in modern BR makes it unplayable, especially when there's usually around 100 people in the map that can, and most of the time will just snipe you dead instantly without there even being a chance to see where they were, or fight back.

ACK ACK ACK ACK

>listening to the opinions of someone who is bad at the game

>>15485850

h1z1 supported up to 180 players back in the day, too bad those dev have literal autism and turned the game to shit. Nobody plays that shit anymore

>>15528486

>People who played the game since 2017 are extremely skilled … Now, new players get stomped too quickly to even know what's happening, and most don't have the time to learn enough to avoid getting stomped

This is the same with literally every single open multiplayer game, though.

I get the impression that the removal of bouncepads in the last update was targeted exclusively at professional-level players, though. It was supposed to be a silly little gimmick item, but it quickly became the most versatile movement item in a skilled player's bag of tricks. The fact that they did this shortly after adding the grapple gun makes it seem as if they were trying to level the playing field a bit, at least when it comes to advanced movement techniques. The thing they did with allowing for custom keybinds on controllers is probably also a factor, since "getting used to the control scheme" is part of the difficulty of mastering a game.

But I still can't see that skill gap closing, ever. New players are always going to be running on a moving treadmill trying and failing to catch up.

>>15472705

>best things to eat as a man

exactly why you shouldn't eat soy you fucking jewish nigger shill

>>15534751

What the fuck are you even on about you buzzword shouting newfag.

I don't take a lot of issue with the genre because at the end of the day it's just more shitty AAA games that I don't really play. But I think there is a lot of wasted potential in both PUBG and Fortnite. They have all this space on their maps and the best way they can think of to use it is to reduce it. There ought to be a mode wherein the players can work together against a common threat, and the map doesn't shrink artificially but rather the available space is reduced by something that you can fight back against. Fortnite in particular could make good use of this if they wanted to, thanks to the building mechanics. The threat could be anything. Aliens, zombies, bad guys with guns, it doesn't matter. Make it something other than a stupid death cloud. That's no fun.

>>15516419

>He lives in a polluted shithole country

wew

>>15535881

>There ought to be a mode wherein the players can work together against a common threat

>the available space is reduced by something that you can fight back against

>The threat could be anything

>zombies

I can't tell if you're joking, but this is exactly what Fortnite originally was. They repurposed it as a PUBG clone late in development to leech off that game's success.

>>15468477

kak? is that you buddy?

battle royale isnt AAA, its bargain bin shovelware that costs nothing to make

>>15528486

Fortnite would be tolerable if the game didn't have shotguns or RPGs in it.

>>15536234

/v/ dream genre. Genre that allows to outcompete AAA developers purse size with gameplay.

>>15536106

I didn't know that. Sounds like a better game.

>>15536517

Wasn't popular at all. You can still buy it for 60 dollars. And from what I have seen it shit too. But a lot of the older fans are mad at the BR taking over.

>>15536672

Huh. I'll look into it. Probably not worth my time given what it became, but still.

>>15535988

>He lives in a country where even the rivers are walled off so the fish can never get into the ocean where the pollutants are

Damn! I didn't know North Koreans had internet access. And you speak such good English, too!

>>15528486

You don't know what you are talking about. Look at LoL, still being played to this very day.

>>15528606

I'm pretty sure he's referring to the short story, but that applies too

I hope that Battle Royal genre either gets a good and polished game with no micro-transactions (So no EA) or it should die off, because lately the genre is flooded with fortnite and PUB G clones that are somehow worse than the original games they ripped off from making the genre stiff and boring.

>>15536913

Same here. I even got invited to an event early in development to be among the first people to play it and i got to talk to the devs and they didnt seem like bad people and they seemed to care so im really pissed at this shit on a personal level. Its really fucking confusing too since they seem to have managed to completely memory hole the existence of the original PvE mode.

>>15535881

case in point.

>>15539770

The reason why LoL still works is because there's enough variety in skills (map awareness, last hitting, etc) in LoL to make it easy for new players to get into the game since there's a wide range of skills to improve at. That means a new player can still get into the game and expect to get a better skill level in a decent timeframe if they select a few things to get good at (whatever their role requires).

Fortnite doesn't have that. Fortnite pretty much comes down to building. It's not like you can say "I'll get good at pushing/being unpredictable" and expect to win more consistently or improve overall- building's always going to be the main factor. With only one real core concept to get good at, you'll see much more drastic differences in skill between players. Someone who's been playing since last year can build a 5 star hotel in seconds now. A new player will take a minute to build anything, which is far too long. They will always get killed by a veteran because a veteran knows how to avoid taking damage by building. There's no counter to that, except building. Meaning it's going to be a nightmare for someone new to get good at building because of how fast they get killed. That will make them more likely to quit the game because it's not fun for most to lose constantly.

That's also why I mentioned Quake specifically. Duels come down to like, 3 concepts, and if you look at the ranking boards on Quake Champions (lol) you'll see the downsides of this. The majority of wins are held by the old pros/Quake vets, and new players lose rank constantly (due to matching with these guys). Eventually they quit. New players have to get good at the main things- things that vets have nearly perfected by now. And they've got to contest those exact people, much like Fortnite (where it's very common to see someone with "twitch.tv" in their name getting all the kills).

Imagine a battle royal game set in space, where there is like 20 players, all of whom have to scavenge ship parts or find ships out in asteroid fields in order to win, if a player shoots down a enemy craft you can scavenge that craft and either incorporate it in your own design or take individual parts from it, so imagine space engineers with PUBG elements.

>>15458217

Maybe the next big genre will be finished games with legitimate content

>>15458230

High school band breeding simulators

>>15540359

Good players win over 75% of their matches and win almost every time they make it past the initial few minutes. Either they have so much luck they could clean out a casino in five minutes, or

you

just

suck.

>>15539856

this same thing is killing rocket league, the game i play the most.

> hurr durr normalfag ball in net car go fast

early masters of the game's core mechanics are so far beyond the average new player that they get discouraged and just stop playing altogether. i constantly see the same 50-100 people in the upper ranks.

>>15543564

I probably do suck. It's a horrible game so I don't bother to play it. But I can say I've managed to "win" multiple times by pretending I'm playing dayz and using tactics that don't involve autism towers. In the end I don't really care, it's a shitty game but you wouldn't know since you are likely underaged. Do what you want, have fun.

>>15543762

Well, I'll say this: you're way ahead of 99% of the people who complain about the game, who have never played it and maybe have seen ten seconds of clips (probably of some kid screaming over a defeat). Also, I admire your honesty over your lack of playing skill, even if you're still convinced that your bad experiences are somehow a failing with the game, itself.

But whether or not the game sucks is subjective. Considering the popularity, by ANY objective measure it's a great game. The old "it's popular so it sucks", and every iteration thereof, it just tired hipster nonsense.

>>15546090

Squads are a mixed bag. Sometimes you get tryhards, but often you get people who are making up for their lack of solo skill by teaming up, and thus suck. This tactic often fails because almost every engagement turns into a 1v1 anyway unless it lasts for a while; sticking to your squadmates like glue to avoid this only results in everyone getting bad loot.

Several times I've seen skilled players in squads wreck entire lobbies while just fucking around and having fun. Once watched a squad go to the building in Loot Lake (before it started to fly but after the water got bouncy) and spend the first half of every match trying to demolish the whole thing and then build stacked port-a-fortresses on the empty island. Every time an enemy squad showed up, they would wreck their shit, and then go back to what they were doing. By the time the circle forced them out, they were around top 20, and spent the rest of the match trying to get trick shots on the remaining players and fuck with them, and eventually win. It's hilarious watching these guys, because the skill gap really IS immense at that level. Often it's like watching a short guy trying to punch a big guy, and the big guy is just holding his hand on the little guy's head keeping him out of punching distance. Half the time they fly into an engagement, and kill the other player without taking any damage, in a second or less (pump to the face followed by a burst from the compact is OP).

I watch Fortnite for the exact same reason people like watching Tom Brady play football. Because they're just THAT FUCKING GOOD, that they make everyone else look like idiots. Why do you think the most popular Fortnite streamers tend to be the best ones? Nobody likes to back a losing team, and the day when a "personality" like Pewdiepie is enough to bring people to streams even in the face of complete and utter lack of game skill is over. That's why it deserves the "e-sports" title, because just like other sports people watch it to see the highest level of skill, not lolrandom retards making funny faces at the camera.

>>15547086

>Using anime smugface off of /a/

You have to go back.

>>15551559

BR will die once the big streamers get tired of it and start doing something else. I give Fortnite until mid-2019 at best (my first estimation has not changed). S5 was a failure, and S6 which just dropped was lackluster (not helped by the big new feature being bugged for DAYS afterward). Unless S7 is amazing, it may peter out before the end of the year outside of the online tournaments that will stick around for a while longer, because the idiot sponsors haven't yet realized it's happened.

>COD normalfags wanting guns in every PvP game

Assuming this assumption is true, why do you think it would be the case?

I think that the nature of "point and shoot" makes mainstream players feel more comfortable playing the game since most engagements will be at a good distance away that won't stress you out as much, and you can easily dismiss getting outskilled as "the dude saw me first" or "they had a better gun than I did" or "the damage calculation is weird"

>>15555136

>most popular on twitch

>dead

Nigga fortnite is more present than minecraft and that's just one game. How can you call it dead? It's alive and well. Whether you'd like it to die or not is a different matter, but this one game is bigger than assfaggots ever were all combined together

>>15555148

>Twitch

What does people not playing games have to do with anything?

Genre is dead, it came stillborn, it never had a chance

Popular properties are still there, like Fortnite but thats fleeting, completely dependent on their staying power and impact

Its not evolving anywhere either, it start with ripping off survival games and taking one trick pony mechanic and copy pasting it into large empty map, theres literally NOWHERE TO GO

Even first person shooters still have a future, they could go hundred different directions,

but Battle Royales cant, its stuck in tiny box of specific design limitations that spawned it

Survival/looters games akin to Escape from Tarkov will eventually take over this space because they will keep up with the times and the trends and get away with change

>>15458217

One of the few things that are killing battle royale and to a degree multiplayer is companies that uses Easy Anti-Cheat (I know there's a few anti-cheat softwares that are worst). That thing spies on you and if you're not careful, you'll end up ban from your game because of false positives.

>>15458256

Wish I can help you, but Tales of the Abyss is the ONLY one that I'm mostly finish with (I enjoy it so far, too bad I don't understand some of the mechanics, since I'm used to SE's of doing things). But I'll tell you this, be careful of Namco Bandai games that are coming out recently, they're adding Denuvo and Easy Anti-Cheat (a spyware/anti-cheat), I would've saved up money for Tales of Berseria by now and instantly buy it in a Steam sale, if Denuvo wasn't in there.

>gets sniped on a BR game

>makes a thread about it on /v/

What a faggot.

You didn't hear those kids in BR bitching like little faggots at the fact someone got an uzi and others didn't.

The point is that it's random chance what weapon you get and you need to make do with what you have.

You're such an absolute faggot that you wrote a 3 para post on why it's SOOOO UNFAAAAIR that some people manage to find a snipe rifle.

What a faggot.

What a faggot.

>>15555136

>can we all just agree on [opinion i hold]

No you fucking weeb trash BR has never been more poplar and before all these new BR trash games existed there wasn't a single BR game that was dedicated to it.

You people with your "everything is dead because it doesn't fit into my head definition of something" sound like the most insufferable people that exist next to kikes.

>>15547086

I started playing Fortnite a few months ago and it's surprising complex. I imagine /v/irgins hate it because it's popular.

>>15540359

>Fort-Nite is trash and it has nothing to do with skill. 99% of the game is RNG and luck.

Learn to build fast. Have good aim. Problem solved, now you're good.