Fortnite Epic's first UE4 game
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Fortnite has been announced for the PC and is suppose to be released in 2013. I'd assume this game is going to be dx11 only due to the new engine, and so far is looking great. It's definitely not a game that would of worked well in UE3.
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So Minecraft?
I did not play minecraft, but yes
It would be cool to dig aswell.
Dat art direction!
This looks like it could be fun, I love the style, I love the mode of play, it reminds me of Orcs Must Die meets minecraft and TF2. I hope you can actually build traps and defenses instead of just upgrading your fort and seeing if it will hold up?
It would be cool if this was an upgrade to the engineer in TF2, but if that is all it does then it might not hold my attention for very long. TF2 held me for so long because there was so much to do and so many classes to master, and I was messing around with the editor for years... I really do love building... BUT If everyone is an engineer and there isn't much to do other than hope it holds... it might be pretty short lived.
As always I need to see more and more importantly play it before I know if I'll like it. I COULD really like it but I haven't seen enough to convince me... yet...
I want to see what the combat looks like.
still looks fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=acR4n6lJEdQ#t=301s
REally? You think so?
Not saying it looks bad, but I wouldn't say it looks like a DW movie.
Although that's cool, it sounds like it could easily get quite repetitive... I guess a lot of fun will come from co-op.
People still playing the L4D's as far as I know... that's about as repetitive as you can get!
Could be better if NPC's built the buildings "like Doozers in Fraggle Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6M_DgVdhtQ
The trailer if shot all in-engine (I think it was) was damn impressive, the game play footage is not quite as polished and looks like it could be done in much older versions without a problem.
Samaritan was a great showcase of how good you can make the art look in UE3.5 and so was the Molten Lord Demo for UE4. What I think fortnite demonstrates rather well is how technically impressive UE4 is at managing dynamic changes compared to UE 3.
If epic just made a newer gears of War that handled dynamic lighting better and more destructive environments, no one really notice what's new or better about the engine. Also I'm sure they want the game to run well on average pc hardware and not just 680s like the latest ue4 tech demo.
It's funny also how people tend to complain a lot about gritty realistic stuff being overdone, and then when Epic does something very different (which I think is fantastic), people aren't happy either.
If you've looked a bit closer into their last game and notice how pretty damn polished and thought through Gears 3 actually is, there is no way you can't have high hopes for this game
it makes me want to play the game and thats a rare thing for me these days
Because while I think Fortnight looks great, it sure doesn't look like a game that would take the entire team of Gears 3 to make. Seems like something being worked on by a smaller team. Could be wrong though.
This being a smaller project makes it easier to have it ready at launch of the new systems where whatever the main chunk of the studio is working on most likely wont be ready for launch and will need a bit of extra time so that Epic can make it as great and polished as they do will all there projects.
A different internal team shouldn't mean that standards will have slipped. UT3 is years behind us already after all.
This is how you take the good parts of a game and make something new and different with it. Evolution! Genre making! *cough*fortresscraft*cough*
Amen.
There's no evidence of global illumination in any of the material they've released thus far. I suspect they've elected not to use it given how stupidly expensive their technique is to render and that adequate hardware is around 2% of the market share according to the Steam hardware survey.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/04/08/may-cover-revealed-fortnite-482410.aspx?utm_content=buffer3756a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Excite!