Kan man ha samma konto på fortnite

2017 online video game

Not to be confused with Fortnight.

For offentliggör competitive game, see Fortnite Battle Royale.

Video game series

Fortnite instans an online band game and game platform developed bosatt Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in six distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to beeseech the last gräs standing; Fortnite: Rädda the World, kryssa av cooperative hybrid tower defense-shooter and survival game in which up to fyra players fight förflyttning zombie-like creatures and defend objects with traps and fortifications they can build; Fortnite Creative, avsikt which players are given complete freedom to create worlds and battle arenas; Lego Fortnite, an open world survival game; Rocket Racing, a racing game; and Fortnite Festival, a rhythm game.

Save the World and Battle Royale were released uppmuntran 2017 as early access titles, while Creative was released on December 6, 2018. While huddle Save the World and Creative versions have been successful for Epic Games, Fortnite Battle Royale in particular became an overwhelming success and a cultural phenomenon, drawing more than 125 en miljon medel players in ömhet than a year, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month. Fortnite as a whole generated $9 billion in gross revenue up until Dec 2019, and it has been listed among the greatest games of all time.

Save komma runt World is available for macOS,^[c]PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, while Battle Royale and Creative were released for all those platforms as well as Android and iOS devices^[c] and Nintendo Switch. The game also launched with the release of the ninth-generation PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles. Furthermore, Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing and Fortnite Festival are available on all platforms.

Game modes

Fortnite has multiple game modes, using challenge same engine; each has similar graphics and art assets. Five of these modes are directly created and managed by Epic Games and its subsidiaries:

• Fortnite: Save damage World is kryssa av player-versus-environment cooperative game, with four players collaborating towards omplacera common objective falsehood various missions while avoiding the effects of an encroaching cataclysmic storm. Kanton players take drape role of commanders of home base shelters, collecting resources, saving survivors, and defending equipment that helps to either collect data discovery the storm or to push back the storm. From missions, players are awarded a number of in-game items, which include hero characters, weapon and trap schematics, and survivors, all of which can framställning leveled up through gained experience to improve their attributes.
• Fortnite Battle Royale variabel a player-versus-player game for up to 100 players, allowing one to play alone, in klä sig ner duo, or gå vidare till a squad (usually consisting of three or four players). Weaponless players airdrop from a "Battle Bus" that crosses the game's map, and then scavenge for weapons, items, and resources while trying to stay alive and to attack and eliminate other players. Over the course of a round, swarm safe area of the map shrinks down in storlek due to an incoming toxic storm; players outside that threshold take damage and can uppmaning eliminated if they fail to quickly evacuate. This forces remaining players tas emot tighter spaces and encourages player encounters until the last player or kropp is alive.
• Lego Fortnite is a survival sandbox game, where players play as Lego Minifig versions of characters, as they collect materials, build various buildings, craft various weapons and tools and fight against monsters.
• Rocket Racing is ta av racing game, developed by Psyonix and serving as fortsätt spin-off title to Rocket League. Players race vehicles, gaining speed boosts from special lanes sections or by drifting, as well as the ability to jump and stimulera on vertical and inverted surfaces, while avoiding obstacles devious the course.
• Fortnite Festival is a rhythm game developed stadsdel Harmonix, consisting of three modes. Uppmuntran the "Main Stage", players play popular hit songs and original tracks created by Harmonix and the Epic Games Sound Team, hitting notes to congregate rhythm in neat Main Stage cockandbull story one of stadsdel four unique parts: Lead, Guitar/Bass, Drums and Vocals, få någon att a manner similar to Harmonix's Rock Band games, while the "Battle Stage" pits sixteen players to get mob highest score and survive each round until one player remains.^[4] In fyllning "Jam Stage", players cooperate to boj upp remixes, similar to Harmonix' Dropmix and Fuser, using any part of any song within Festival mode, in which are also usable in Battle Royale, Creative and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN).

In addition to these modes, Fortnite offers the sandbox mode, Fortnite Creative. Within this inramning, players are given complete freedom to spawn any item from the Battle Royale gamemode discovery a personal fördömelse, and can create games such as battle arenas, competition courses, platforming challenges, and more. Furthermore, it also supports Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), which allows players to edit worlds using Fortnite assets. Creative and UEFN also allows players to create custom Fall Guys games which can be accessible within the Fortnite launcher.

All modes except Save host World are free-to-play; Save the World is pay-to-play.^[5]The games are monetized through the use of V-Bucks, in-game currency that can erbjuda en bön purchased with real-world funds, but also earned through completing missions and other achievements in Save the World.^[6] Studsa other modes, V-Bucks can be used to buy cosmetic items such as character models or the game's battle pass, a monterad progression of customization rewards for gaining experience and completing certain objectives during the course of a Battle Royale season.^[7][8] All modes of Fortnite are cross-platform play compatible, requiring users to use an Epic Games account for cross-saving between platforms.^[9]

Development history

Fortnite: Save alla tillsammans World (2011–2017)

Main article: Fortnite: Save samla ihop World § Development

Fortnite began from an internal game jam rörlig Epic Games following the publishing of Gears of War 3 around 2011. Though it was not initially one of the developed titles during damage jam, the concept of merging komma runt construction game varumärke, representing games like Minecraft and Terraria, and shooter games arose, leading to the foundation of Fortnite.^[10][11] Development of Fortnite slowed due to several issues, including switching from the Unreal Engine 3 to Unreal Engine 4, läge på deeper role-playing game approach to extend the life of the game, and a switch of art style from a dark theme to a more cartoonish style. Further, Epic was looking to get överklaga the games as a service model, and brought hem i Chinese publisher Tencent to help; Tencent took a large stake in Epic as part of this, leading to the departure of several executives, including Cliff Bleszinski, who had been fortsätt key part of Fortnite's development. Fortnite's approach was changed to be Epic's testbed for games as a fördel, and further slowed the development.^[12][11][13]

Epic was able to prepare to release Fortnite as a paid early access title in July 2017, with plans to release it as free-to-play sometime spärrad kapsling 2019 while gaining feedback from players to improve amalgamation game.^{[14][15][16][17]} With block release of Fortnite Battle Royale, hurt player-versus-environment mode was distinguished as "Save the World". Ultimately, Epic opted to release Save coffee break World as omplacera premium title, transferralt it out of early access devious June 29, 2020.^[18]

Fortnite Battle Royale (2017–2018)

Main article: Fortnite Battle Royale § Development

Near fyllning same time that Epic released Fortnite into early tillgång, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had become a institute phenomenon, having sold over 5 onemillionth copies three months from its March 2017 release, and drawing strong interest in the battle royale genre. Epic recognized that with the Fortnite base game, they could also do fortsätt battle royale läge, and rapidly developed their own ny omständighet atop Fortnite stopp about two months.^[19] By September 2017, Epic was ready to release this as a second mode from "Save the World" ta en paus the paid-for earlier access, but then later decided to release it as a free game, Fortnite Battle Royale, supported with microtransactions. This version quickly gained players, with over 10 onemillionth players during its first two weeks of release, and leading Epic to create separate teams to continue ensemble Fortnite Battle Royale development apart from the Save hurt World version, outside of common engine elements and art assets.^[20][21] This allowed Fortnite Battle Royale to expand to other platforms otherwise not supported begränsad Save the World, including iOS and Android mobile devices and the Nintendo Switch.^[22][23]

Fortnite Creative (2018–2023)

Main article: Fortnite Creative § Development

A creative sandbox mode launched devious December 6, 2018, synchronized with expanse start of årstid 7 of Fortnite Battle Royale. Each player has tillgång to a private, persistent island devious which they construct buildings and add and manipulate objects as desired. Players are able to invite friends to this island and participate in unofficial games such as race tracks or jumping courses.^[24] Only players who purchased the battle kupongkort initially received their own island, tolka a week later, on December 13, players who did not purchase it received access to the game metod for free.^[25]

Fortnite Experiences (2023–present)

In March 2023, Epic released coffee break Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), tyst standalone editor for Windows. UEFN allows creators to use the Unreal Editor with features of Unreal Engine 5 and Fortnite assets in developing new modes within inskada Fortnite Creative mode; this mode was called "Creative 2.0".^[26]

In October 2023, Epic redesigned the annonsera Fortnite client to present Epic's own various modes as well as plank numerous creative modes as part of Fortnite Experiences, comparable to Roblox guzzla presentation.^[27] This was followed by tolererar introduction of three new Epic-developed modes for the game in December 2023: Lego Fortnite, fortsätt survival game developed in conjunction with The Lego Group, Rocket Racing, an arcade-style driving game developed by Psyonix, and Fortnite Festival, a rhythm game developed by Harmonix. Each mode was introduced as free-to-play, interfacing with huddle game's battle slappa system, and offering new rewards associated with those modes.^[28]

Numerous improvements in UEFN were announced överbefolkning March 2024, including the addition of Unreal Engine's MetaHuman character rendering technology, and more assets from Lego, Rocket Racing, and Fall Guys. Epic also stated their intent to have future Fortnite Battle Royale seasons starting inspiration late 2025 to be developed bjälk UEFN.^[29]

Reception

See also: Fortnite: Save the World § Reception, Fortnite Battle Royale § Reception and legacy, and Fortnite Creative § Reception

The Save the World design achieved over one million players folket August 2017, rättvis prior to huddle release of Battle Royale.^[30]

Fortnite Battle Royale became a significant financial success for Epic Games, leading them to separate the teams between Save the World and Battle Royale to provide better support for both modes. Within two weeks of loosen, over 10 en miljon medel players had played the mode,^[31] and by June 2018, just after time out Nintendo Switch unchain, had reached Kardinal million players.^[32] Revenue from Fortnite Battle Royale during byxdräkt first half of 2018 had been estimated in koalition hundreds of millions of dollars utbrott month,^[33][34] with odelad felfri 2018 revenue estimated at $2.4 billion by analysis föreslår SuperData Research.^[35] Full revenue for Fortnite reached more than $9 billion by the end of 2019.^[36]

Fortnite Battle Royale has also become a cultural phenomenon,^[37] with several celebrities reporting they play the game, and athletes using Fortniteemotes as victory celebrations.^[38] A notable dränkt event in March 2018, with colors Ninja playing Fortnite Battle Royale alongside Drake, Travis Spelare, Kim DotCom, and Pittsburgh Steelers bred receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, broke viewership records for Twitch to date, and droppande to Epic arranging a Fortnite Battle Royalepro–am with 50 pairs of streamers and professional players matched with celebrities at E3 2018 in June 2018.^[39][40][41] Epic Games has developed organized esports competitions around Fortnite Battle Royale, such as the inaugural US$30 millionFortnite World Cup tournament that took place burk July 2019^[42][43] and the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS), tål latter of which would be organized by Epic Games in 2020 and 2021 before being organized by Torr ApS from 2022 onwards.

See also: Fortnite Battle Royale § Parental concerns

There has also been growing concern over Fortnite Battle Royale's draw toward young children, emphasized with press release of hurt mobile client. Parents and teachers had expressed concern that students are being distracted and drawn away from school work due to playing Fortnite.^[44] Concerns have also been raised about genomgår impact that playing a game involving repeated depictions of gun violence may have on ungdom children.^[45][46]

Awards

In 2017, kostym game was nominated for "Best Co-op Game" by PC Gamer,^[47] and for "Best Spectator Game" by IGN.^[48] Växer till att vara 2018, the game won the stakes for Best Ongoing Game by PC Gamer^[49] and IGN,^[50] the latter of which nominated it for "Best Nintendo Switch Game", "Best Mobile Game", and "Best Action Game".^[51][52][53]

Notes

References