Seriously what happened to everything? Hot spots, capture points, dirtbikes, ATKs, seasonal level up sounds, loot island, ISLAND THEMES, the list goes on. It seems like Epic is removing stuff purely because they can. These are really contributing to the game feeling stale and soulless at times.
Dude the unique level up sounds and themed lobby tracks for every chapter were so awesome it’s so sad they stopped doing both after Chapter 5
Exactly i miss them so much, i still hear the wrecked sound in my head when i level up 😔
i still hear chapter 4 season 1’s level up sound 3 years later
Chapter 2 SFX anyone? Man, I miss when they put effort into the game, it's gone downhill for a long while now. Interest is spiraling, but at least it's better than CoD's sorry ass excuse of a franchise.
The more corporate these things become, the less love they put into the game.
The one thing I've always loved about this game is the very fact that it's extremely resistant to getting stale
I really do miss the unique chapter lobby music. I wish they’d bring that back.
funny thing is there was(is) a full ch7 island theme, parts of it played when starting the game but then epic removed it from the game start up replacing it with the ch5 theme again so epic spent the time and money making a ch7 theme just to not release it
I think the Ch7 theme can still be heard on PS5 specifically, on the Home Screen before you click on the game.
Yeap, can confirm. It has the iconic jingle of Fortnite.
It was really nice to have a new theme.. the old one overstayed its welcome and was never even that good to begin with
Where are the damn cars????
They removed them from ranked entirely. You have no idea how many ranked games I tried to do the car quests lol
What sucks even more is that they made car skins which are expensive as shit and we can't even use it in BR
Dude I know right?! How bullshit is that?!
I mean... me nitpicking... but you can, just not in ranked.
Even in normal BR. Cars are very rare to find this season. I never found one
They are rarer that other seasons for sure, but they are there, plus now we have also the extra back to the future ones and the reboot vans.
https://preview.redd.it/o3zfx3ds55ag1.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=73f8f2a5e6cfdfd3dbbe5d7128a515df9bbb7dd2
I mean, they spawn all over the place and I've driven them tons of times. Are you just not looking for any?
This is the maximum amount of cars that could be in a match, but chances are less than this spawns each match, I don’t know the exact data of the percentage of each car spawn but I have landed workee land a few times to zero whiplashes so it has to be very high to not see a car spawn
I'm using my Delorean in Zero
I am so pissed off about this, and there should be a recourse because you cannot let people spend a bucked load of money on skins and then remove the item to use them on.
Pretty sure you can use these in standard Build and ZB.
In addition to using them in Rocket Racing/Rocket League.
Ranked just has the competitive loot pool now (which makes sense)
and cars haven’t been in competitive since like ch3
It uses the comp lootpool. Which makes sense since ranked should have always been a competitive gamemode.
Good. The cars have been getting abused in ranked for years
Im pretty sure they do this during the beginning of every season. Reduce mobility so people explore the map more. Then they add more cars, mobility items about a month or so in ~
I mean tbh... this one had extra mobility stuff already, it might have been an attempt to compensate that. Plus... there is also the reboot vans that can be moved, which is one of the cars you can use that people don't think about, yeah not the same but...
wait what you can drive the reboot van?? never knew this at all
Yeah, well no idea on ranked I don't play that, but it's a new thing this season, but not all vans, some have wheel clamps & bernacle.
I dont buy the mobility argument, I am paying for car skins to use them, not to have them sitting my locker because I can fly on a balloon into the storm
honestly I like the lack of cars, personally I think an excess of mobility was hurting the game, and cars were a major part in this since they provided actually decent protection
My most winning tactic in Lawless was to just drive toward someone, rip the E-brake such that the driver door was facing away from them once close enough, exit the vehicle, and spray with the Collateral Damage. It probably helped that my MMR was still kinda low at that time, but nonetheless, super effective.
I also miss the seasonal level up sounds.
I can't stand the current one and how it has been like that since last year
I miss when they were unique :(
I love when games build a solid foundation, and then continue to add onto it over time.
The problems begin when stuff starts getting changed/removed for no reason at all.
They keep removing stuff to make room for the next gimmick, which sucks. Really miss the Ch4 augument days.
Augments were the best! Nice little randomizer to spice up each match
Ch 4 was peak in my personal opinion
S1 especially because of how augments weren't really perks and more of an actual character build. I remember doing specific runs focused on certain perks like pistol focused build with increased reload speed, damage and guaranteed mythic pistol as a headstart. S2 changed the perks to be way more minor than previously and they started to feel more and more insignificant with each future season. I miss Ch4S1 so much as the game felt more like a roguelike with each run being something different. Oh, AND GOLD FELT ACTUALLY USEFUL
I wouldn't say so about later seasons, there were still focused builds you could go for. I remember in S3 I loved trying to go for the Mammoth pistol build, more bullets, heavy headshots and pistol recycle.
I really miss augments. Chapter 4 was peak
100% agreed. It was the best season I’ve ever played (bar c5s3)
My fav Chapter for sure
Man augments were so fun I completely forgot about them until now
Shit like this is a cardinal sin of game dev.
Foundation...?
Say that again?
It’s the wildlife for me. Bring back chickens, wolves and sharks!
I miss being able to ride Wolves/Boars
The sharks were hilarious to me lol
YEA chickens too!!
Everything is becoming so soulless, the ui, the locker, the shops, it's actually awful to see. This game was so appealing because of how different it was with the colour and art style, and all of that is basically gone now...
To be fair the new gameplay UI, I.e. the hotbar, is a bit more soulful and animated than the past few chapters, at least
Yeah, which is good, but we're nowhere close to how good we had it lol. It's a good start though.
If I’m not mistaken their planning/currently developing a massive ui overhaul for the game, they said this a while ago
Who knows atp tho
Oh shit, is that not the new one we have now?
I think their sposed to be fully reworking how creative is structured as well as make some adjustments to the locker
Oh we definitely won then omg
In some cases, part of such overhauls are a refresh of the game's logotype at some point, and seeing Epic's direction I'm anticipating it might look like this some day:
https://preview.redd.it/7yqkprkon8ag1.jpeg?width=555&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fa0631a1459f678bab0b6f200f17ba96b27afcd3
Because once all parts of the old OG font are gone, the only part left is the logotype, isn't it, lol
The soul left many years ago, don't know why everyone is acting like this is new. The game died the day they removed STW. I know it's back now, but it's removal signaled the end of what Fortnite had done to build the player base it built.
Now it's all kids with moms CC. On the extreme rare occasion I get roped into playing with my friends I just wipe the floor against non-skilled 10 year olds with a Peter Griffin skin. I'll go back to CoD where at least the person wearing a Peter Griffin skin has some level of skill lol.
Idk about you guys but I miss the chapter themes. Its literally ONCE a year and they stopped doing it. Chapter 7 literally had one but they didnt use it at all
I definitely do, we been stuck with this boring chapter 5 song for 2 years now
Chapters??? Back in MY day fortnight had a new theme every season!
is this chapter not california themed? like what are you talking about. every poi is something california/nevada related. area 51, los angeles, las vegas, disneyland, san francisco, redwood forest, movie sets. this criticism doesn’t make any sense
Themes as in theme songs.
they mean musical themes, like for the lobby
ah my apologies to the man then
I want dirtbikes back, I miss doing tricks on them...
Dirtbikes were great. Pure mobility. I can't believe they just disappeared one day and never came back.
Same, they were perfect
I have memories of playing duos with a friend of mine and us leaving any car we were driving the second we found a dirt bike, it was so fun to have my friend shooting while I did flips and wheelies.
I want the altimeter back. I don't care if most people didn't know what it was for, I did, and I used it and now its gone. But hey, at least when I lose a match I get the battle pass shoved in my face.
Is that the little thing next to the minimap after jumping from the battle bus? I noticed that was gone too and yea I liked it too
HOLY SHIT THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I KEEP COMPLAINING TO MY FRIENDS ABOUT THIS AND JUST SOUND CRAZY IS INSANEEEE😭😭😭
I was so bummed when they removed it
Things come and go in Fortnite. That's how it's always been. Perhaps you began playing at a time when these things were present, and your brain solidified it as "This is a main feature of Fortnite"?
Thats probably true, i started in chapter 4 with capture points, bikes, and loot island so i guess it makes sense. The other non-gameplay stuff is what im mostly bummed about though, its kinda lame.
Yeah. I guess I have it easy. I've been playing since ch1 so all I need to do is load up OG to feel like it's "Fortnitey" again.
I've been playing since chapter 1, and atleast in my opinion the game has been on a strong downwards spiral since chapter 5 season 3. The period between chapter 4 season 4 - OG - chapter 5 season 2 has been peak Fortnite. The only consistent thing in Fortnite is that it is inconsistent, but the changes we've seen over the last year or so are just not hitting the mark, with this new chapter as a new low point for the game. Thank god for OG.
I'm having fun /shrug
Nice hearing an OG recognize how great the first 3 seasons of chapter 5 were. That map was the best. I personally enjoy projectiles way more and there were still fun and whacky items. Give me water bending, chains of hades and zeus' thunderbolts. What do we have this season? Another sword, squirrel suit that dimes you out and the arc lightning gun (which you can't even get in ranked last i played). There hasn't been anything that can seriously combat and neutralize builds since chapter 5 season 4.
The problem is that we’ve had features introduced to us for YEARS. Chapter 1 and 2 are still the most impactful Chapters because of the features they’ve introduced being so prevalent today. While every chapter moving forward (starting mostly with Chapter 4) has provided so little content in the long term that it ultimately makes the exclusive content within every season meaningless since it’s not being removed because it doesn’t stick, but because it’s just to appease the “constantly fresh gameplay” crowd, and if player counts mean anything then this mentality is not working for the game right now.
I just want to say I hated Loot Island and hope it doesn't come back. It makes the game more formulaic in the midgame.
The same way i hated bosses in ch2, they made whole game to have 5 locations because how op drop was
Its the way Loot island has been implemented that you hate now.
Since they added minibosses to Loot island with medallions it feels awful whereas when it was just a capture point you fought other players.
the island was also smaller.
Nah man, I hated loot island ever since it was introduced back in C4S2. If anything chapter 5 had it best, where it was a place to regain and access to a mod bench, but it didn't lock some OP weapon behind capturing it (outside of Doom's island).
I'll agree, please never have Loot Island return. It was so annoying to have in the game, especially in ZB. Having indestructible high ground in a mode like that was a nightmare and made it so much less fun.
I kinda like the formulaic change in the midgame, right now everyone just runs aimlessly until they hear shooting then all hell breaks loose.
nah dude Loot Island sucked
you forgot LTMs, i remember in chapter 1, every week there would be a different LTM
What are you talking about? I love all the new:
Holo key chests
Capture points
Augments
Weapon attachments
Loot islands
Boats and other wacky vehicles that didn’t have paid skins attached to them
Exotic weapons
Boons
Sprites
That are nowhere to be found lol
in their defense, why would they bring back stuff like sprites those were a chapter 6 theme exclusive
weapon attachments....... I wish they'd bring them back, but that'd mean bringing back projectile based rifles/smgs and as much as I'd genuinely love that, people would HATE it.
I miss zero build w/ projectile ARs 😭
People who cry about needing to "lead" their target are so insufferable. "Oh no! I cant just point and click and theres actual skill to the shots now???!?!? What!??"
baffling how some folk will hate the idea of having to use just a teeny tiny bit more brainpower in their br games
Projectile weapons are and always will be the way this game should be IMO.
Everytime I post this I get downvoted, but : this season is the worst, something’s off, and yes it does feel soulless
I liked the chapter 6 map especially at the beginning.
It had a very dreamlike and whimsy feeling that was a breath of fresh air compared to gritty and realistic vibes chapter 5 had.
I'm not really a fan of the theme of this season. I hope this chapter can improve over time because I'm spending less and less time on it.
Chapter 6 season 1 was such a good map. They slowly ruined it with each season. Hoping this chapter's seasons make the map better but it's hard to have confidence in them now.
“see this really cool forest we made? yeah, we are gonna suddenly grow like 4 mountains out of nowhere and make the area look like a cat pissed on it!”
nightshift(?) forest was so cool, and then they did literally nothing else with the map lol
starting the game doing that sprite mini quest to open the vault was just mmmm. felt awesome. the area 51 vault is just boring
I absolutely adored night shift forest, I will never forgive them for taking it away so quickly.
I really liked C6S1 and C6S2, I stopped playing as much with the rest
Hey i had that same feeling in early chapter 6, such a nice contrast from chapter 5. Im enjoying this seasons theme though, maybe its just the season 1 effect where everything is kinda basic at first
Soulless and directionless. Everything fees like they were slapped in together rather than thought about. Compare it to C6S1-3, everything felt cohesive. Samurai themed weapons and mythics S1, heist robbing and crazy exotics S2, everything was superhero themed S3. Now we have generic guns, nothing’s on theme, we’re supposed to be Hollywood but there’s an Arc gun and wingsuits as our mythics. The Bill Kill and BTTF collabs might as well be nonexistent. They’re just reskinned ways to get loot we’ve already seen. Nothing new and it’s kind of sad.
Fortnite has felt soulless for years now. I was seeing hints from C2S5 and it started kicking in throughout C3 and fully took me out by C4.
Im enjoying the season, its fun with friends but i just miss the objectives and hate the random removals
gameplay feels arguably the best it's felt in years. games actually last to final circles, bots aren't almost half the lobby, and the guns feel goooood.
but holy shit literally everything else has gotten worse lol. battle pass is trash and weirdly incomprehensible, there's AI slop as rewards, and anti-consumerism seems to be the chapter theme (/half-joke)
I miss the llamas
Yeah it’s pretty boring
They are cutting corners on BR for a reason. People don't want to hear this but the only reason they still continue to put any effort at all into BR is because it's a major income source. The moment (however long it takes) they no longer rely on BR for income they'll pull the plug like they did for STW.
They want to be a launcher/platform like Roblox now. They put so much money into BR development, it makes sense that they would be happy to get rid of it if they could
I think you might be right but if they go down this road, the game will tank.
The BR component of the game is drying up, as seen by the player counts dwindling on it. As soon as they have the means to be more like Roblox, BR will continue to take hits.
I’m not strictly opposed to them wanting to expand beyond BR (like many, many others, I’ve put too much money into this silly game). but they have the resources and the means to ensure each area of the game gets the TLC it deserves.
Exactly. But they don't. And for a reason. All the modes they released (3 lego modes, a racing mode, a music mode, an FPS mode, etc) weren't to drive up player counts but to simply get people used to the idea of a BR not being the main focus.
They don't have to kill BR, they just have to convince everyone else to so they can say "Oh well, guess no one wants this!"
That's why content has been dry
It’s all about whatever drives in money for them. The classic example is STW. It wasn’t bringing in the big bucks, so they dried it out, and left it barely running.
I agree the BR has been so dry. I used to play daily and for hours (I’ve played since the end of 2019 and heavily played from 2020-2022). The staleness was one of the major components that drove me away (besides life changes). Now I play a couple times a year, randomly.
For most of these things, the answer is that removing and cycling in new features keeps the game fresh. Boredom starts when the meta stays the same, so they shake it up with each patch. This island does have a theme, by the way. It’s California.
This season is so boring
I miss ltms
didn't they add back ATKs this Chapter?
i miss augments and ch3 trees :(
WHERES MY GOD DAMN PARKOUR?
I was thinking this yesterday…how I miss upgrade benches (not the weird add things to your weapon in Chapter 5 but taking a blue weapon to purple) and augments—augments were so much fun.
Yes, and I miss the bunkers. It’s hard to find good weapons anymore, IMO. My husband and I have been playing this game for years now. It’s like the only game we play together. We always have fun and make the best of all the changes that come with every season (like the car-focused season. Wound up having a blast), but this is the first time where we’re both just, meh. It seems like a lot of the things we really enjoyed are gone, nothing new to replace those things, and getting a win has become exponentially more difficult for us casual players 😆 and I don’t know why! Maybe it’s just us lol
I miss the boats from I think chapter 4
I like the differences between seasons, some seasons there almost too much going on but I hear ya.
Hot spots and capture points aren't removed, they're vaulted. Just like radio towers, vaults, etc. They all come back eventually.
I feel like we go through this cycle every new chapter and people miss the point. Every chapter the game is pretty much wiped back to zero, and new gimmicks are added, then as the seasons go on they add more and more gimmicks to that chapter. Then once it ends most of that is thrown away.
I think this is what keeps fornite fresh and balanced. If they just kept adding it would become a huge mess of gimmicks and also it would get stale. This way each chapter feels like something new.
Fortnite has got to have the world record for most features added to a video game ever
Part of it comes from the game being like 8 years old, meaning that there is too much content in it as they shuffle lootpools every season/chapter, and with the game changing so much, a lot of things can become boring
But honestly i do wish they bring back a lot of things, so much can return
Chapter 3 was the last time this game was good imo
I just want to get level up sounds lol
Don’t forget the animals the island is barren
Yea those too actually. Its small but it definitely adds to it
Yes fellow redditor. I miss it too, but Fortnite’s fourth and last prime was Chapter 4 season 1 and 2, and we will lot be getting peak again…
Fishing, item car mods, character descriptions, MUSIC PACKS (fuck jam tracks)
Fortnite is doing a “how bad can we make our game before people stop playing” challenge, also a fellow jjba partaker heh 😼
What are you taking about ? This chapter is very good, the only "problem " is that we are in winterfest, so the game seems to be a little stale, but next month it will start to be live again.
Fortnite have been always like this. A lot of mechanics appears and disappears. Is not souless, change is the soul of fortnite. One a few new mechanics becomes part of the core gameplay. Parkour, NPCs and fishing are the only thing have been in the game for years.
Played since the early days, this is normal by now, and I’ve come to accept that some things will never stay across chapters.
But I still miss Weapon Mods, the Train, Medallions…
Fuck I miss Chapter 5 a lot.
I miss weapon canting
I think the general theme of Chapter 7 has been done so many times in other games that it’s easy to feel a bit bored of it. There’s probably hundreds of games set on the American west coast. Theres nothing too specifically “Fortnite” about it either. Chapter 3 had so many interesting POIs and mechanics I’m hoping this chapter goes the same way eventually.
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I still surf in every other game. Was it supposed to be gone?
I'm okay with loot island being gone, tired of people having a god's eye view with a hitscan rifle
I quit playing until they change the SBMM back to what it was. All games are wayyyy to sweaty now. I’m just playing risk of rain 2 now
The worst removal to me has got to be shaking down. It added value to keeping an enemy alive, kind of using them as a lure for enemies.
Now id you get an enemy off guard, why keep them alive. Im glad being knocked has had movement added, but i still wish there was more to being knocked down outside of just being a sitting duck
frozen lake has 2 jeeps
I was thinking of getting the delorean until I remembered there’s like 3 car spawns on the map
It definitely feels like they've been slowly "forgetting" to add soulful features like what you said, either in sheer laziness or an attempt to corporatize the feel of the game, and if you took one look at creative and how much they try to push it, you'd be right to believe the latter reason. They want creative to be the next Roblox and be their shiny new cash-cow, all while forgetting that the biggest reason roblox is so successful because you can bend and shape the engine to create virtually anything you want without feeling like you're using cookie cutter tools, unlike UEFN
Having all of these Chapter Mechanics all at once for a match would be hell, let's do it
I wish we could have rarities back 🙁
Keeping everything the same would accomplish the same effect.
Just looked this stacked shop an hour ago and questioned…what is that?
Too many items, all collabs, not even interested to buy them…
I don’t like changes, like to live in the past, so yes, missing a lot, riding animals, simple weapons, grinding quests…
Remember back when the default skins would get new outfits each chapter? They haven't done that in ages.
Also the longer the game goes on, the more stuff in total that will just be abandoned.
I still miss reality augments and Aimee (I don't remember how to spell it).
Welcome to Fortnite, where they've been doing this several times a season, every season, for years now. Don't play Fortnite if you aren't willing to deal with massive changes in mechanics and loot pools every season.
Fuck fortnite and everyone who gave them all their money and made them so rich
Loot island was cancer.
The lack of vehicles/ healing/ mobility turned me off and onto Blitz, but they weren't happy with just fucking up the core game mode. When they realised that players were having fun in Blitz they made sure to completely ruin that shit by making sbmm a fucking nightmare giving me a good reason to quit and wait it all out.
Couldn't even be fucking bothered to attempt doing the pass on my alt account because the games in such a shit state. If not fixed in the next 2 weeks, I'll like be leaving the ecosystem indefinitely.
Too many games and not enough time. If they can't respect me wanting to actually have fun when I play then they can go fuck themselves.
This is the worst season and update by far. Epic almost destroyed the game with those unnecessary trash changes
The more people pay for the same, the less things change
They do this in my experience. They remove and the introduce stuff constantly.
Didn't seasonal level up sounds come back? I swear I heard a jingle this season.
Nope we had the same one since chapter 6 season 1. Maybe you heard a new location discovered sound, those i really like
It’s called getting old.
I loved drones ☹️
It seems like whenever there is a new chapter they take time to roll out a lot of key features in order to build up excitement and anticipation. I remember the Japanese chapter felt very bland and boring at first compared to the marvel.
I only joined fortnite a few months ago and I can see i missed alot
It's not removed it just in rotation. Actually love this about Fortnite
Yes
I miss "upgrade ur goddamn gun here" talks with my buddy :( and ragebaiting him for any augment he took :)
What are these things actually called btw, I have no clue. My friends and I have always referred to them as woo's.
Pokemon fans:
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Hardly use them just ignored them and random times shoot them
Yeah I love quad crashers and this season it’s hard finding a vehicle.
Bc it became about money. They’re “fixing” things no one wants them to fix and making all the wrong changes
BAWWWWCHICKABAWCHICKABOWWWBOWWWOWWWWW does not need to be played while I'm trying to clutch a 1v3. That was the worst part about the ui since "AWE, YOUVE GOT A FRIEND REQUEST" 💀
Also, they spread themselves thin as a company so I prefer them omitting things over letting bugs slide
They have little to no competition ATM, so they can do whatever they want.
"Island themes caps lock" this is literally a US West Coast-themed island and it's not subtle in the slightest, it's a stronger island identity than any of the islands before Ch5 had, we're just making shit up to be angry about at this point.
Plus you've got to be fairly new around here if you're complaining about random features coming and going, seeing how that's how it's always been. It's a live-service game, not a one-and-done thing. Deal with it.
I mean the chapter music, like chapter 3, 4, and 5 all had island music
I feel like we will get spaceships back at some point. there's one being worked on at the bottom of the bunker and an alien walking around.
Obviously it will only be back for all of 1 week.
not adding collab items to br anymore is just criminal
I haven’t gotten a solo win since chapter 5 season 2
Sweats: I HATE THIS FEATURE REMOVE IT
Fortnite: well it’s not in ranked so yall should be fine
Sweats: NOBODY CAN HAVE FUN!
Fortnite: okay okay quad crashers in og won’t quad crash through buildings anymore which was their entire purpose originally. You people are allergic to fun.
This game hasn’t had a soul in a long time. 😣
I don’t ever worry about this because the game reinvents itself (and the UI these days) every season. We just had a themed season, and we’ve had other little random elements. If you don’t have something now, chances are it’ll be soon.
It's not soulless, there's still plenty of items you bought in the Battle Pass that still require you to go on a wild goose chase!
The whole chapter was designed using Ai why are you suprised it sucks?
Ye
Epic has been phoning it in lately. This map is lame.
Yes but it bothers me that mythics are added to blitz only. The bleach mythics should be added to battleground first and later to blitz I don’t want all the future mythics to be in that game mode
There's no fucking ammo or reasonable perm battle movement, it's hard to find swords and shockwaves are limited af. Hate this season
i wish i could delete things out of my inventory, or have a "trash this item" instead of "claim all" option. I have so much stuff i can't find the good stuff that i like anymore!
They added an archive option a while ago. Just archive anything you don't like and it'll hide it from your main locker.
I archive a lot. Very handy.
This season just feels so boring. I can’t stand the LTMs (because they take away our ability to play regular Fortnite), but this season just feels so soulless. I loved basically every season prior, this one just feels sucky.
Just my conspiracy theory is that they're removing everything now and when the backlash is too much they "suddenly" listened to the players and slowly put some back and all is forgotten and forgiven.
speaking of getting rid of things, where are all the cars? why did I buy the bmw if I can't even get a car to change it to it?
First time?
For real tho, it's just what they do. They bring in a new gimmick for a season or two then remove it and chuck it into Creative. Gotta keep that FOMO flowing.