In the past couple of weeks a game I’ve been playing, Fortnite, has made a few additions to their Battle Royale game mode. A few weeks ago I made a post on the game. I’ll be writing about three things which are the Guided Missile, vending machines, and Port-A-Fort. So far I have gotten a chance to play with the Guided Missile and the vending machines, but since the Port-A-Fort just got added I haven’t gotten a chance to check it out. Even though I haven’t used the Port-A-Fort yet I’ll still write about what I think from what I’ve seen.
The Guided Missile was added two weeks ago and used the same ammo as the rest of the explosive weapons which are rockets and were a bit harder to find than normal rocket launchers. The way they worked was that you could shoot a rocket and then pilot it for a certain period of time until you decide to just let it continue in the direction it was last facing, you ran out of time, or you hit something. While piloting the missile you are vulnerable though. Since you were able to pilot the missile around walls and through windows, if you aren’t paying attention then you could easily get killed if someone used it against you. At first, it seems a bit overpowered but you can still build right before it’s about to hit you or just shoot at it to destroy it. Another thing people started doing with it is rocket riding yourself. Previously if you had some friends you could stand on the edge of a ramp or door and some shot a rocket underneath you or you jumped onto the rocket you would be able to ride the rocket until it explodes. With the Guided Missile you can now easily shoot the rocket and pilot it so that it goes right under you and now you’re riding the rocket and piloting it at the same time. This isn’t too useful in most situations but some people have made it work.
The vending machines were added around a week ago and they could be found at certain locations sometimes. They would have a certain rarity just like weapons like grey, green, blue, and etc. Depending on the rarity you could exchange building materials for things like weapons, shields, and traps. Sometimes you’ll find a good deal and sometimes it’ll seem like a complete scam. You don’t have to use them, but if you find one with a nice item like a legendary SCAR for 500 wood you might want to find some trees or decide that it’s not worth the time. For me, I’ve used them to get mini shields and assault rifles if I don’t have one, but other than that I don’t use them too often. There are always three items for each vending machine and for the three different materials in the game wood, brick, and metal. At least for me, I don’t get anything that is for metal unless the item is really good since most of the time metal is pretty hard to get compared to wood.
The latest addition to the game was this week and it’s the Port-A-Fort which is basically a grenade you throw on the ground and it builds a fort. From what I’ve seen it is always made of metal and is always the same shape with it pretty much being a one by one with tires at the bottom and a funnel at the top so you can go up easily using the bouncy tires. I think they should’ve made different rarities of Port-A-Forts so there’d be a wood one, brick one, and a metal one. The reason for this is that even though metal has the most hit points it is the slowest to build which means that if someone shoots at it while building it’ll actually be destroyed faster than wood. I guess you’d have to strategically place the Port-A-Fort when nobody’s around, but generally, I don’t feel like it’ll be really useful to me.
Overall those are my thoughts on the recent Fortnite additions, I think that the Port-A-Fort could use a little bit of changes, but I think the rest of the features are nice additions to the game.