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"Chapter 2" launched by online game: "Fortnite" is back - with a new world

2019-10-15T11:23:24.121Z


"Fortnite" is playable again. After nearly 40 hours of forced break, the online game has been online since Tuesday noon as usual. Fans are expecting a new game world with new possibilities.



It was an unusual, but also strikingly action-like action: "Fortnite", one of the most popular online games ever, was not playable for nearly 40 hours since Sunday evening. In many livestreams fans of the game stared meanwhile in a black hole, in which before the game world including all the pieces had disappeared.

That the whole thing was a PR move and not a hacker attack or something similar, was clear. After all, the failure was embedded in a story told around the game. When exactly - and how - "Fortnite" would come back, many streamer and hardcore fans did not know exactly. Only a few leaks indicated that the online multiplayer game should change a lot.

Since Tuesday noon, Fortnite is now available again - the free-to-use Battle Royale portion of the game, as well as the less popular, all-money mode, Save the World.

Manufacturer Epic Games speaks at "Fortnite: Battle Royale", which is now available for almost every platform from the phone to the game console, from a now launched "Chapter 2" of the game, so to speak, a kind of continuation of the original version.

An update is needed

Specifically, the fresh "Battle Royale" version, which must first be imported via a few gigabytes of update, including a new world map. The new "Fortnite" island is criss-crossed by rivers and lakes, allowing players to fish for weapons and boats. Here, several players fit on a boat. Who wants can swim. Also new: Wounded players can now take on the shoulder and carry.

At first, Epic Games deliberately leaves open what possibly even small gameplay adaptations, so that players can discover them themselves.

In essence, "Fortnite: Battle Royale" remains true in any case: continue to fight in the game 100 users on their own or in teams for survival. Players who start the new version are immediately thrown into a game. In this first round in the New World, however, you only play against bots, that is against computer-controlled opponents. But beware, if you have changed the control in the old version: In "Chapter 2" according to player reports, the default key assignment is initially set again.

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Anyone who has put money into the original game, for example for costumes, can continue to use it in "Chapter 2". Anything else would have brought Epic Games some trouble. Even existing V-Bucks - a virtual currency in the game - have not expired due to the chapter change. And of course Epic Games has just in time to comeback the game new additional purchases such as outfits for figures or gun paint on offer.

The first season of the second chapter

As in the original game, there are again so-called seasons, over which the game is played. Theoretically, the upcoming season is the eleventh in "Fortnite", but in effect stages Epic Games as the first season of "Chapter 2". It runs from now until December 12th.

For each season, Epic Games offers a Battle Pass, a type of subscription that allows players to receive special rewards. The subscription costs 950 V-Bucks, which is about ten euros.

Source: spiegel

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