Oh god, can I get that alpha code then sir? I really hate begging for keys and such, but there's just something about this game that really gets me excited. Plus you know, I alpha/beta test so much , it's just a way of doing things I'm used to for me.

Agent.X7 wrote on Dec 3, 2014, 16:26:

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 20:55:

LOC wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 19:09:
So if there is no NDA etc, how do you guys find the game so far? So desperate to play this, ugh!

There's an NDA.

The first rule of Fortnite: Don't talk about Fortnite.


Beamer: You still want that code?

Oh! No, thanks, I very much appreciate it, but it should go to someone ready to play. I've got a huge backlog, so I'm happy waiting. I need to finish FC4 (27% done), then go back to Wolfenstein (probably 60% done), then maybe Dragons Age Origins, and then maybe actually do Skyrim, then I'm done.
That's a solid 6 months, haha.

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 20:55:

LOC wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 19:09:
So if there is no NDA etc, how do you guys find the game so far? So desperate to play this, ugh!

There's an NDA.

The first rule of Fortnite: Don't talk about Fortnite.


Beamer: You still want that code?

Nice, sounds so good so far

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 20:55:

LOC wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 19:09:
So if there is no NDA etc, how do you guys find the game so far? So desperate to play this, ugh!

There's an NDA.

Yeah I saw that it did over on their forums. I just got an email with Fortnite in the title, and got super excited that maybe I got the alpha invite, but alas it was just a twitch stream thingy.

LOC wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 19:09:
So if there is no NDA etc, how do you guys find the game so far? So desperate to play this, ugh!

There's an NDA.

LOC wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 19:09:
So if there is no NDA etc, how do you guys find the game so far? So desperate to play this, ugh!

Here's my post from after PAX. It was supposedly a build from January, so it's fairly out of date, even though I played it in August.

Beamer wrote on Sep 10, 2014, 13:18:

TheEmissary wrote on Sep 10, 2014, 13:10:

Creston wrote on Sep 10, 2014, 13:07:

TheEmissary wrote on Sep 10, 2014, 13:05:
Sony kind of does have a Minecraft clone in development with EQ Next Landmark. I am pretty sure Next or Landmark will ever rise above niche status for most people and certainly no where near Minecraft levels.

Isn't Fortnite coming to PS4?

Its a PC exclusive as far as I know. Fortnite is more of an actual game than a free-form construction toolset. Yes you build forts but you have no where near the amount of options.

I played Fortnite for two hours at PAX.
It's not really Minecrafty. Like you said, you don't have as many options. You're literally building a fort, not intricate binary machines or rail systems that people do in Minecraft. You actually have a startling amount of options for that fort (like, windows, not sure what purpose they serve but you can build them), but it's still limited. What's nice is that you pick when the zombies attack, so you could spend hours building a huge fort. With OMD style traps (that I never learned how to use and which seemed limited in options, though the build I played was already 8 months old.)

The biggest difference is that you don't go into the ground in Fortnite. The landscape is already there. You just build on it. This doesn't mean no destruction - you are playing in towns, and I found it amazingly satisfying to reduce a mansion to rubble.

I loved Fortnite. There were a huge amount of holes, but Epic seemed aware and seemed to be filling those holes. That said, I played it in a preview style environment. Free drinks? Free swag? Devs sitting next to me breathlessly explaining features? It was hard not to love it. Maybe impossible. In the hours after I started thinking of the things I didn't like and they bugged me more, but I also mentioned most of these to the developers and they hinted that they'd already had those ideas and had already addressed them, or were working to.

It's no Minecraft, but it's a nice mix of Minecraft and purpose, for those of us that prefer games that give us purpose. I don't see people playing it for billions of hours, but I could see people playing it for months. Honestly, nearly any time I've played Minecraft I've thought "man, I wish I had guns and items." This gives you the guns and items, but removes the mining.

Lastly, whenever I see kids around 10 playing, they're in full sandbox mode. No creeps, no gravity, no resource collecting. Just god mode, no clip mode, infinite resources, and building giant things. Fortnite won't appeal to them like that. But it will capture the shooter curious about Minecraft, and maybe the Minecraft player curious about shooters.

So if there is no NDA etc, how do you guys find the game so far? So desperate to play this, ugh!

Agent.X7 wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 17:35:

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 03:09:

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Yeah I'd like to give it a go...

Sent!

Downloading now! Cheers and thanks!

~c.

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 03:09:

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Yeah I'd like to give it a go...

Sent!

Asmodai wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 06:37:

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 03:09:

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Yeah I'd like to give it a go...

/giggle Feel that raw enthusiasm folks! ; )

I've been a gamer 30+ years, and been working in the games industry half that long. The concept intrigues me, but as always, I feel like the only way you're gonna get an idea of whether or not an idea's working is to get your hands on the thing. So call it guarded optimism.

Ugh, I was really hoping I got an invite for this during the night. But I guess not

One of the few games I'm really looking forward to. Plus, I love testing beta games as it is, Fortnite woulda been a nice one to help out on

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 03:09:

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Yeah I'd like to give it a go...

/giggle Feel that raw enthusiasm folks! ; )

Devinoch wrote on Dec 2, 2014, 03:09:

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Yeah I'd like to give it a go...

Click my name - shoot me an email with your email addy so's I can get Epic to email you your code.

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Yeah I'd like to give it a go...

Still have one code to share if anybody wants it.

Kobalt wrote on Dec 1, 2014, 21:47:
I get the impression epic is almost like valve. They are more focused on something besides making games(valve steam, epic the engine itself to sell) that they are no rush to release a game. Could also be like what happened with the last UT where the dev team obviously got bored and focused on gears more. They eventually shoved out another UT but it was obvious there was 0 passion.

exactly right, as is evidenced by the lackluster passion being shown in the new "next UT game" trailers, where they show 3 guys jumping around a couple square feet of a map, with like one working weapon. and they're already out of inspiration, instead calling upon the community to tell them what should be in their game.

i remember when UT2003 came out, Epic was the on the bleeding-edge of what online FPS games would aspire to be. it's been a long fall from the top it seems.

and as for Fortnite, i played it at one of their "stormchasers" events, the game was good, but not as good as free sliders and free beer. seems like a game that's hard for a pick-up team on randoms to do excel at, you really need communication, and a shared vision. without that you have 4 people all building different things onto your structure, that end up making absolutely no sense then you can't get past the 4th mission... maybe i just had a bad group

i'm sad we didn't get alpha invites tho, i'm emailing my contact at Epic to sort that out.

I get the impression epic is almost like valve. They are more focused on something besides making games(valve steam, epic the engine itself to sell) that they are no rush to release a game. Could also be like what happened with the last UT where the dev team obviously got bored and focused on gears more. They eventually shoved out another UT but it was obvious there was 0 passion.

Sony's H1Z1 or whatever it was, sounded like it was around the corner many months back and still little. I am excited to see what larger dev teams can do with this genre.

This is only in alpha? Haven't they been working on this for like three or four years already?