Oh the airplane mode? I did that yesterday with my nephew, was indeed good fun.

I still don't understand the game, but then I barely play it. We had a hamburger tomato game yesterday? And a lot of ugly lava in that level.

Nina wrote:

Oh the airplane mode? I did that yesterday with my nephew, was indeed good fun. I still don't understand the game, but then I barely play it. We had a hamburger tomato game yesterday? And a lot of ugly lava in that level.

Aye, Food Fight: Deep Fried is another of the Limited Time Modes, and this lava variant is probably the worst one they've ever done.  The dogfighting one's cool though.

Birdorf wrote:

After roughly 550 days of logging in to play Save The World, I finally kicked the habit a couple of weeks ago. I feel quite liberated.

Wish I could!  But the changes to Homebase and how heroes work, the Canny story-line, the reworking of Plankerton's biome, the event story-lines (srsly, the dialogue in StW is often laugh out loud funny), and quirky new heroes all combine to keep me coming back.  Plus there's the upcoming defend the Homebase type mission!  I put far more time into this than BR right now, and probably have done for the last year or so tbh.

Just checked, I'm at 440 days logged in.  Didn't get StW 'til the first Christmas sale, but I'd been on BR since launch week.  I upgraded to the one before the Ultimate pack and went for the Outlander version with the Kill Bill inspired Recon Scout Jess (Jess rules).  I'm done with all that now though, there's no way I'm splashing out another £80 for the last upgrade.

Season 9 starts today!  After last weeks volcanic eruption and the resulting destruction of Tilted Towers and half of Retail Row, the game jumps into the future and we get a completely remodelled Neo Tilted and a Mega Mall alongside other reworked areas and new mobility items, a typically brilliant Battle Pass, and of shit-load of challenges. 

I'll never go back to the main BR mode without a better balance between building and shooting, and unfortunately I know that'll never happen, but as long as they keep the LTM's running I'll keep playing them to do all this stuff.  Gotta give a shout-out to Creative Mode as well, the ever expanding options for this and an engaged community have resulted in some genuinely amazing experiences. 

I’ve decided I’m gonna finally take the plunge and have a go at this. Hopefully I’ll last longer than last time, I installed it, had one match in which I lasted about 3 minutes then uninstalled it

But I don’t have friends

I'd say try the Limited Time Modes first to get a feel for things in a (slightly) less sweaty environment. Maybe go into Playground and explore the map a bit or practice some basic building.

I actually do prefer the team based modes of the game where you get to respawn with all your weapons. Seems a great way to learn the building side of it. Also owning a pro game pad where you can remap the buttons to paddles underneath the controller make playing so much easier for me as my fingers never leave the sticks.

Hodge360 wrote:

What you on Wooks?

Switch

I thought it was crossplay?

Aye, you can cross-play on any platform if you join Epic friends.  The Switch / mobile specific queues are just for random matchmaking afaik - when you're a solo looking to "fill" in a squad or duo team. 

Hodge360 wrote:

Jeez, there's a lot of challenges this season!

With the Fortbyte things (haven't even looked at those yet) and all the skin specific style challenges on top of the regular weekly and daily challenges there's so damn much to do!  

Regarding the map changes, I'm diggin' 'em.  Neo Tilted and the Mega Mall are very well done and the Slipstream transport system is bloody great.  It's not on the same kinda scale as last season's tropical / volcanic biome, but they're big changes to popular areas and should keep people entertained for a good while.  Really like that new shotgun as well.

Anyhoo, decided to play Solo's and attempt to get that new winners umbrella.  Actually had a couple of decent games, but finishing 2nd both times is kinda rough.  I keep replaying those last moments over and over in my head to try and think of what I could have done differently, and oh man I could have done so many things differently.

My third proper game since the update and my first win of the season, got it by playing solo in Squads.  The last couple of minutes were so damn tense that my hands are still shaking as I'm typing this.  

And oh my, that victory umbrella is a thing of beauty.

They will at some point this season, I think.  The planes are brilliant, so well designed and fun to use, and while they may not really fit within BR there's a lot of people who love 'em (devs included) and wanna see them back in LTM's.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Will give that a watch. Literally can't build consistently to save my life!
Been racking up top tens in squads for the fortbytes. Got a few 2nd places even though my team were long dead. I'm playing for position so generally hide but I reckon if I upped my building game and found some teammates I'd manage the odd win. Not exactly two simple tasks though.

I dunno. The top tens are doable and there seems to have been an increase in tasks that need to be done with friends that I don't wanna be heading into late season needing them. There's already one fortbyte that will require the good will of strangers and that doesn't always end well.

Hodge360 wrote:

There's already one fortbyte that will require the good will of strangers and that doesn't always end well.

Just did that one in solos, took a couple of attempts but in the end I got a bus on a northern route and 3 other players happy to help each other along.  We all jumped off the cliff together afterwards.

It's well worth trying to do it in solos ASAP, once most people have got that particular Fortbyte it'll be almost impossible without a full squad.