Good resolutions and New Year’s greetings: that’s what awaits us in a few hours. The key is to get 2022 off to a good start, and we would love to see our favorite battle royale as well: Fortnite. The cult game signed Epic Games continues to make us travel through the seasons, through partnerships that we thought impossible and new mechanics.
And as crazy as it may be, there are still a lot of things the Fortnite community dreams of seeing happen on their favorite game in 2022. Here is our top 3 of what we would like to see tumble off the battle bus for the new Year.
Give us Worlds !!
Two years now that the competitive community of Fortnite is on a roll. Professional players who are retiring, influencers who change their flagship game, esport almost invisible in video game culture … There is a real unease. Even if the FNCS circuit has been refined and now offers regular competitions, strongly cashprized, we feel that something is missing for the Fortnite competitors to find color.
The problem is simple, identified a long time ago by this same community of pro players: the absence of Worlds from Fortnite.
In fact, only one Fortnite World Cup took place. It was in 2019, and the game was still surfing its golden age. The event had concluded with the coronation of Bugha in solo, and had made the headlines for weeks.
Since then, nothing. Not even an ersatz Worlds, in format online. Of course, the health crisis has strongly impacted the practicability of Fortnite competitions (bringing together 100 players + staff in one place, it’s not easy these days). But nothing prevents Epic Games from working on a format – whatever it is – that looks like a World Cup. By revealing its competitive roadmap for 2022, Epic Games still does not mention a World Cup … We hope that it is to save the suspense until next year. Otherwise Fortnite esport may not recover from a new white year.
Fewer bots, or better disguised
So that everyone can achieve the satisfaction of the sacrosanct top 1, Epic Games decided at the end of 2019 to integrate bots in the unclassified parts of Battle Royale. On paper, this allows more casual players to take kills and win. In fact, this mitigates the exhilarating side of the Victoire Royale. Some players even explain that “beginner” matchmaking games are almost entirely made up of bots, the sole purpose of which is to offer top 1s on a silver platter.
What if in 2022, Epic Games was looking at a real fair matchmaking system, without bots, or with less readable and stupid bots. Here again, the stakes are high: making decent matchmaking work on games that suits 100 players is very complex. But it would restore the joy of victory to casual gamers, as was the case before September 2019, where winning one game fully meant on paper to be better than the other 99.
Rhythm!
Over the past two years, Fortnite has slipped into a false rhythm. A patch every two weeks, sometimes with little or no gameplay change. Just brand new cosmetics that make the headlines. Gone are the days when Fortnite changed its face every week, with a full patch, crazy new items and gradual changes to the scenery..
This beginning of chapter 3 looks promising for the moment, but we will have to deal with the “after Spider-Man”! In order to reinstate the enthusiasm of the early days of the game, Epic Games could for example restrict itself to the rhythm of a new weapon (or a new vehicle) per week, without necessarily integrating it into competitive playlists. Quads, golf carts, shopping carts, Spider-Man’s web launcher … it’s those kinds of wacky items that helped make Fortnite popular.
The advent calendar inside Fortnite is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you will come across … Unless you consult this little guide, which allows you to know what is hiding behind each cozy Chalet gift wrap!