This often forces confrontation to a more stringent and stressful battlefield discouraging evasive gameplay and pushing players into dangerous encounters more frequently. The game's safe zone gradually makes itself smaller within a randomly selected location’s radius on the map players outside the safe zone take constant damage and could die if they don't get there in time. It is important to note that as of 2018, the game’s matchmaking is skill-based, meaning that who you are paired with depends on your in game statistics, such as Kill/Death ratio and total number of wins.

The minute their feet touch the ground, the squad will frantically look for guns, armor, and other useful items randomly distributed around and in buildings in crates. The game differs from other Battle Royales by allowing players to construct defensive structures and buildings as well as to destroy virtually every object in the environment. We will be focusing on the PvP aspects of the game only in this guide, meaning the Battle RoyaleĪ match normally consists of a solo drop with 100 players or can alternatively be played with 2-3 other friends for a max squad size of four. The game finances itself through cosmetic microtransactions, which enable players to purchase character and weapon skins with both real money and in-game currencies as well as through the purchasing of a Battle Pass model which rewards the player with exclusive goodies by accomplishing certain milestones. It was released in February 2017 on almost all platforms and has become a veritable cultural phenomenon. Epic Games really pushed for the battle royal genre to become mainstream and kept on innovating with a co-operative PvE mode (Save the World) and a sandbox mode (Fortnite Creative).

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