This week, specifically yesterday, Season 6 of Fortnite Battle Royale ended and Epic Games introduced Season 7. After they buffed shotguns again around a week or so ago I might actually start playing the game more.
There were a lot of things added in this update, but I’d like to start with the new battle pass of the season first. Just like every other season, there’s a new battle pass, and this time it seems pretty good. There are new additions though with the wraps which change the way your weapons and vehicles look. Other than those, the battle pass is pretty much what you’d expect with new skins and emotes.
For the gameplay aspects, a few items were changed and a new vehicle was added. The clingers, chillers, port-a-forts, double barrel shotgun, shockwave grenades, and shadow stones have all been removed. I think most of these items’ removal can be justified besides the shockwave grenades which I feel like they could’ve left in the game. The balloons were changed so that you can have up to three balloons on your back allowing you to use items and weapons. I think this makes the application of balloons a lot more useful. The stack size was also reduced down to ten. The new vehicle addition is the X-4 Stormwing Plane although I can already predict people will just call it a plane since the name is way too long. The X-4 Stormwing Plane can seat up to five players and has a mounted machine gun that can overheat. Many different movement controls on the plane make it quite mobile. They spawn pretty much all across the map in certain locations though it looks like if you go to Frosty Flights there’s a better chance you’ll find a few.
Speaking of Frosty Flights, there was quite the map overhaul which introduced the new snow biome. It takes up almost a quarter of the map replacing Greasy Grove and Flush Factory. There are ice patches that players can slide around on and zip lines in certain locations where players can also use their weapons and items on them.
That’s all for the Season 7 changes, but there was also another gamemode that was added in called “Creative”. Creative is pretty much an improved version of the playground mode where you can create multiple islands, spawn in any items, have infinite materials, create prefabs, and even fly. To be honest it’s pretty much Minecraft mixed in with Fortnite, and there are lots of different things you can do with it since your islands will also save. I think it will be very interesting to see what other people can do with it and what my friends and I will do with it.
Overall, the past updates from Epic Games seem pleasing and I think the game is slowly going back into the right direction. I’m looking forward to getting back on and trying things out.