Durr burger discovered in the desert, loot llamas popping up all over Europe.

Epic really are on point with marketing.

Had a week or so off BR, been grinding Save the World for Vbucks and finally got to Canny Valley.

One thing that really feels off with PvE is the lack of proper biomes. You start in Stonewood, Homebase and surroundings all green and lush, great. Then you open up Plankerton and the Homebase is all autumnal colours and black rocks. Looks lovely but once you leave the Homebase to do a mission in the surrounding area it's back to Stonewood assets. The Canny Valley Homebase looks fantastic as well, desert with ramshackle mining works and old-West and Spanish colonial buildings, but the surrounding area is the same Green Hill Zone as everywhere else.

I'm thinking it was all intended to be placeholder early access stuff, and a recent desert themed event with lovely new assets hints at a possible future, but with BR being Epic's focus I just dunno if they'll ever commit the resources.

The events and their storylines are a nice touch though, the recent Blockbuster was good fun with writing that often got a chuckle and some quality rewards.

Anyhoo, I'll stick with StW. Despite samey missions and no real new enemies since the early game (beyond elemental variants) there's plenty of fun to be had designing and building crazy bases and diabolical trap layouts. Also, I'm quite attached to my heroes and to the various characters. Ray and Dennis in particular.

That is very cool.  Haven't had a chance to look at the Battle Pass beyond this lil vid, but the patch notes look promising and the reworked map looks very nice.  Anarchy and Moisty were the worst parts of the map. 

I always preferred Fatal to Anarchy, but having played the new map I'm not sure the country club (Lazy Links?) is an improvement. Same kinda big open feel, just looks different. Really appreciate the constant tinkering and additions though, Epic are doing a grand job with this.

And yeah Builder Pro's great. I'm better at building with that on PS4 than I am with keyboard on my PC. I think I might have left it too long to be able to successfully adapt to keyboard controls. I'm too old for this shit.

It should transfer, yeah.  Really like the Battle Pass stuff again, fully upgraded Drift is one of my favourite skins to date and 1500 Vbucks for completing it is very generous.  

Played nothin' but 50's since the season started, 'tis stupidly good fun.

Nice shots, final kills in 50's feel good.  Had a good few games where it's come right down to the wire, one big scrap turning into a 1v1 or 1v2.  A win like that is every bit as rewarding as a squads win.  The server lag can be an issue but hey, there's a lot of people fighting.

afgavinstan wrote:

Will hopefully be around for a few 50s before the WC final coverage starts. My Fortnite name btw is "afgav1234", will be on Switch/Handheld/Pro Cont.

Saw you on Gav but couldn't join , I was on the Bone - dunno if I have to change anything for cross play though.

Nearly done all the challenges but can't seem to kill anyone with the grenades, thought I had but it didn't register though.


It's a fun game even on your own.

Has anyone got the grenades challenge completed ? Can't get any kills to register despite killing people with them .

Oh, and for anyone new to Fortnite there's a bonus hidden star that rewards a whole tier once you've finished that weeks challenges.  There's a clue in the unlockable loading screens, the week 1 star is;

Aye but I won't be close to coming on until about 11pm tonight if at all. Backshift!

Nah just today. Wed/Thu off so I'll have plenty of time then!

Tbf I'm not really paying attention to challenges so far. Probably will when the want for more gear/xp arrives. Cheers man.

Nah, you got it. But if the cosmetics in this pass don't really do it for you there's always the Vbucks to think about, 1500 for max, or enough to buy next season's pass by tier 58.

So there's a trick to getting serious height from a launch pad (with the help of a bounce pad) without building a sky ramp, just in case y'all're worried about getting shot down. I thought it was common knowledge by now but it seems not, so here it is. The key is the edited arch as it pushes you down onto the launch pad while retaining low gravity, meaning super height!

You can only re-use your glider via the launch pad (the trampoline looking thing I put down first in that vid), just jump on it and you'll get boosted into the air and into the same sky diving animation as when you exit the Battle Bus.

You don't go all that high though, hence the ramps and technique above.

The big blue bounce pads (the thing I place on the wall) just give you an improved jump with no fall damage, no glider available with those.