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Fortnite |OT| Earliest Access VS Husks

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BattleMonkey

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Helznicht said:
Looks fun and I want to jump in, but $40 seems step this is going to be FTP before the end of the year. I mean I could get EA access for that money and play tons of games and then jump on this when it releases for the same cash. Do they give you your $40 back credit to buy items in game when this goes FTP?
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BTA said:
I'm vaguely interested in this but the pricing structure sure is daunting. $40 as a buy in for what will eventually be F2P is already a lot to deal with as is, since it's not super clear what you're getting over an eventual F2P player, but to have 3 more options beyond that with hard to parse amounts of Stuff is kinda ridiculous.
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This is early access, besides the bonuses you get for whatever you buy, you get access to early access rewards or stuff you can earn. Game is not officially done and released till early next year.
 
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Mobius and pet octopus

Member
Conkerkid11 said:
The whole thing just feels straight out of the gate like a free to play title. Two different types of RNG boxes (actual boxes and pinatas). UI in menus isn't even remotely intuitive (lmao at the resolution settings being 480p, 720p, 1080p, and epic, what fucking year is it?).
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I gotta correct this fake info. Resolution is much more nuanced than that. You're talking about different rendering options for performance. Display resolution is above that. This is all explained in the menu. Epic means the rendering resolution is the same as your display resolution.

And what "actual" boxes are you referring to? They only have pinatas.
 
MarineMountie

MarineMountie

Member
Ok, we are both at Before and After Science. The 4th quest. If we join it outs us in with randoms. So we backed out and tried to party up but we both get an error when trying to create a party.

Is anyone able to party up yet?
 
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Xater

Member
Thabian said:
If I had to guess I would say that they will continue to sell the game for money as long as the sales are good. That means it could be towards the end of 2018 before it goes f2p. Then when sales are dried up they will release it for f2p to give it a second life. This is just a theory, but if true it could be 1.5 years before it goes f2p.
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It goes F2P early 2018. That's when the founder's packs will disappear.
 
Thabian

Thabian

Member
Xater said:
It goes F2P early 2018. That's when the founder's packs will disappear.
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Just out of curiosity where did you hear that it will definitely go f2p in early 2018?

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/faq

According to the official FAQ:

Q: How long will Founder’s Packs be available?

A: A date hasn’t been announced for when the current versions of Founder’s Packs will be retired. If anything is to be changed, we promise to give a heads up.

Q: When will Fortnite be free-to-play?

A: Fortnite will be free-to-play at some point in 2018.
 
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Ibuki

Banned
Not sure if this is acceptable, but if someone has one of the extra friend copies on PC, I would totally buy you a Steam game for it.
 
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lordkosc

Member
Ibuki said:
Not sure if this is acceptable, but if someone has one of the extra friend copies on PC, I would totally buy you a Steam game for it.
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I have 1 spare, but am waiting for a friend to get back to me, I'll keep you in mind. Else I was just going to post it at discounted price in the B/S/T thread.

On topic...

I can't decide what character I want to start out as, Ninja or Outlander. :|
 
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killroy87

Member
I haven't had a chance to log in yet, but for anyone who preordered one of the high-tier PS4 copies, can you let me know how they dispense that extra key for you? I promised it to a friend, and don't want to be hunting for it.
 
GraveRobberX

GraveRobberX

Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Ibuki said:
Not sure if this is acceptable, but if someone has one of the extra friend copies on PC, I would totally buy you a Steam game for it.
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I'm in the same boat for PS4/PC code, had a 3 PSVR Game bundle for trade, guessing no ones interested

Oh wells, I'll wait til 2018!
 
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MrCaliaztec

Member
killroy87 said:
I haven't had a chance to log in yet, but for anyone who preordered one of the high-tier PS4 copies, can you let me know how they dispense that extra key for you? I promised it to a friend, and don't want to be hunting for it.
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If it's anything like Paragon was back in early access you'll have a little box somewhere in the main menu to send a invite message to a friend on PSN.

I will doubly confirm in like 3 hours when I'm home but since no email or anything is given like Paragon I'm assuming it is the same.
 
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killroy87

Member
MrCaliaztec said:
If it's anything like Paragon was back in early access you'll have a little box somewhere in the main menu to send a invite message to a friend on PSN.

I will doubly confirm in like 3 hours when I'm home but since no email or anything is given like Paragon I'm assuming it is the same.
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Thanks for the info/for checking!
 
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kcurlsjr

Neo Member
killroy87 said:
I haven't had a chance to log in yet, but for anyone who preordered one of the high-tier PS4 copies, can you let me know how they dispense that extra key for you? I promised it to a friend, and don't want to be hunting for it.
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It's in-game loot. You have to play through the first few tutorial levels, then you get all the preorder and tier-related rewards. From within game, you can select one of your PSN friends to send the game to. They get sent a message with the game.
 
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HelloNewman

Member
These menus are terrible I can't figure out how to craft anything or how to replay levels to get ammo this game needs a digital manual bad all I can find on it is YouTubers screaming and asking me to like subscribe and don't forget to donate and follow them on twitch.
 
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Gowans

Member
Played from 7pm to 12:30am with three mates all with lives and family's.

Been a while since we've pulled an xbox session like that!!!

Feel like we are still in the tutorial scratching the surface but man what a time.
 
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Palmer_v1

Member
Stuck with it loading for a very long time after launching it the first time. is this normal?

Actually it's loading the tutorial mission forever, I guess.
 
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Sparrowhawk

Member
HelloNewman said:
These menus are terrible I can't figure out how to craft anything or how to replay levels to get ammo this game needs a digital manual bad all I can find on it is YouTubers screaming and asking me to like subscribe and don't forget to donate and follow them on twitch.
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I agree, but you'll get used to it. Not excusing the labyrinth of menus, but eventually it'll just become muscle memory.
 
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FiraB

Banned
HelloNewman said:
These menus are terrible I can't figure out how to craft anything or how to replay levels to get ammo this game needs a digital manual bad all I can find on it is YouTubers screaming and asking me to like subscribe and don't forget to donate and follow them on twitch.
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Hold R to craft ammo. If you have the materials. Hit i to open inventory and goto the tab with the ammo icon to see the differennt ammo types.
 
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Mobius and pet octopus

Member
HelloNewman said:
These menus are terrible I can't figure out how to craft anything or how to replay levels to get ammo this game needs a digital manual bad all I can find on it is YouTubers screaming and asking me to like subscribe and don't forget to donate and follow them on twitch.
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Making ammo is as easy as equipping the weapon and holding R (reload). You can manually craft ammo too the same way you built a weapon in the tutorial, but you go to the ammo tab instead of the ranged weapon tab.
 
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ChackanKun

Member
I'm pretty sure I started a mission with only 2 party members and a 4th one just hot entered the game.

I thoiught this wasn't possible?
 
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Mobius and pet octopus

Member
ChackanKun said:
I'm pretty sure I started a mission with only 2 party members and a 4th one just hot entered the game.

I thoiught this wasn't possible?
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Depends on party settings. If you have it open to public you will likely get a full group for the mission, unless you set the settings to party/friends only, then you won't get randoms.

Dead Prince said:
the upgrade llama random? i got the rare llama from the founder pack. held LMB and it transformed into a silver llama.
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It'll randomly upgrade to silver. And then sometimes it'll randomly upgrade to gold. I am not sure if it can upgrade better than that. I think you get a guaranteed legend when it hits gold though.
 
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