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and Epic Games stance on Linux gaming is known
you could play those on linux?
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The idea of porting existing games into Fortnite is probably the worst thing I've heard of since I learned about CGNAT
Strongly doubt that these games will be entirely unplayable outside of Fortnite. Will eat hat if wrong.
Reminds me of the 00s when every tabletop game got ported to the d20 system (so, ported to be d&d compatible, kinda). It's a sign of the times when a monopoly starts absorbing everything else. Magic The Gathering just had a massively successful Final Fantasy set this past summer despite there being a full separate Final Fantasy trading card game.
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Ported... into... Fortnite? I don't understand what that means. Like portint Sonic into Mario it just, what
Fortnite is a massive platform now, not one game with a few modes. They have car racing, the actual fortnite game, Lego survival crafting, all kinds of stuff. It's why the download is 100+GB and every patch is like 50gb.
What the actual fuck? Glad I quit playing it years ago, cause I like new features but I hate when games stray too far from the original vision (yes I'm aware that BR is a spinoff but you get my point). Why still call it Fortnite, if building forts is no longer a core aspect of the game?
Everything wants to be a platform now, so they can get a cut for minimal work.
They have Rock Band too. Yes really, it's even worked on by Harmonix, the original creators.
What even is the actual fortnite called now then? Battle royale?
The Battle Royale portion is called Fortnite Battle Royale. The true original Fortnite was a sandbox defense game that is now known as Fortnite: Save the World. They are both accessible from the Fortnite lobby.
Very confusing.
They're trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games. Very interesting concept, there's a lot of videos about the concept. Though I detest the idea of centralized apps and accounts therefore more central tracking of you.
They're trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games.
Like Roblox, actually. They are trying to stanch the users' leaking out of their cash cow, but shoving everything in will just piss off the kids when fourth 50+ GB patch hits. As for Rocket League, they already mismanaged it to shit, the levels have lost all flair years ago, new ones are inexplicably ugly.
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I've got a couple thousand hours in Rocket League over the years but Epic has successfully made it so insufferable that I haven't played it in about a year. Such a shame.
Stop killing games? What about stop fucking up games?
We seriously need to have a long conversation about what constitutes a refund on a game. I got several thousand hours of good times out of this game but the game that I paid for is no longer available.
The thing is, you never paid for a "game" in the first place. You paid for a license with a whole boatload of conditions.
The thing that needs to be fixed is not refunds, but what "buying" something digital means in the first place.
I didn't say I purchased a game, I said I paid for a game. Whether that's a "purchase" or a "license" is irrelevant to the fact that I can't even play the game I "licensed" either.
They have altered the license. Pray they do not alter it further.
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When I remember I played native Linux version of Rocket League... 😿
on that note, but at a bit of a tanget: apparently SuperTuxKart has football mode now
I haven't checked it out yet, but it apparently came out in the fairly recent 1.5 patch - and it looks pretty similar, might scratch the same itch. Dunno how active the playerbase is.
It's still fun... but it also really makes you realize how much Rocket League relies on fancy graphics/etc.
Imagine supertuxcart overtaking rocket league. Ah well. One can dream.
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Tim Sweeney is a bitch.
Am I out of the loop? What does this mean to port games to another game?
Is fortnite like a platform now rather than just the battle royale game?
Yeah basically new game modes. Rocket Racing is an arcade racer, Fortnite Festival is a rock band like rhythm game, both are entirely independent from battle royale but still integrated into fortnite eco system with skins and characters going between them. This is the metaverse vision that Sweeney never stops talking about coming to fruition.
So we’re heading into the shitty Ready Player One dystopian timeline but it’s gonna be in Fortnite?
KMN
It wasn't even originally a battle royale game. Before that was a co-op base defense/survival game with resource collection and building elements. Kind of a limited, kid friendly 7 days to die.
Fortnite is like roblox now, it has tons of user generated games inside of it (created using the fornite edition of unreal editor) and multiple epic created games
Epic/Tim Sweeney can only do one thing really well: crying to the public.
Fuck Epic. Don't care if they merge all of their games into one shitty game. Fall Guys was cool before Epic bought it, same thing with Rocket League. Now I don't care about either game.
They want to be on iOS so bad with their game and store so they can farm credit cards of children's parents, yet they don't care about Linux at best, or are hostile against it at worst.
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Some people will still argue that hating Epic for how it handles its games is unfair.
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Porting a game into another game isn't a thing. There's not even a term for what this sounds like other than "dumb fuck bullshit"
I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It's far more comparable to Roblox than anything else
A game engine built on Unreal engine.. ? hmm...
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RIP in peace Rocket League.
As the guy that founded the Rocket League Discord server ive always been incredibly saddened by what happened after Epic bought Psyonix.
As someone who loved Nosgoth, Rocket League was the sads for me.
I just did a little sick inside my mouth.
I don't understand, this happened years ago. Both Rocket League and Fall Guys originally came out on Steam, but disappeared from the Steam Store and became Epic Games exclusives. If you still own a Steam copy though, you can still play it.
Is this saying that the game will be unplayable without an Epic Games authentication or something? It's not like the Steam versions are getting updates anymore, so they should still be playable with other Steam members. Unless the publishers are pushing an update to the Steam version as well.
EDIT: Upon rereading, I see these games are being ported into another game. Does this affect Steam users at all, since Fortnite is an Epic Games exclusive?
I won't touch Epic Games, so this doesn't seem to have any effect on me.
RL on steam is getting updates but only for the windows client. The Linux & mac client is an old version that only works offline. I found this out the other day when I installed rocket league on steam to try out since I haven't played it in a long time
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Well that's one way to make sure I never play either of those games again.
The Fortnite game size on my Xbox is already like 180Gb or some other stupidly high number.
Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior; open source games?
’Open source‘ as in software freedom: licenses for code and media that allow modifications and redistribution.
This is on par with paying a subscription for heated seats in your car. These ideas are so unthinkable for normal people that I don't even know what to say.
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...what? I think I understand what this headline means, but am really struggling to understand how these other games/devs think this is a good idea. What the fuck...
Devs most likely disagree, but ultimately its not up to them. The company will do anything to further exploit the massive user base of fortnite because its one of the few behemoths they have that rake in money. They hope a lot of new people will see and play it and maybe spend some money. In the end its just the final avenue to go to milk these games of whatever left they will offer. They may get a big boost in players for the first month, then im sure it dies back down again.
All I wanna know is if these launchers will be the only way into the games or if the existing games will still work. I have played fall guys since its release, so if it's taken away in this way, I'll be a bit pissed off. I'll never use fortnite.
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