and Epic Games stance on Linux gaming is known
As the guy that founded the Rocket League Discord server ive always been incredibly saddened by what happened after Epic bought Psyonix.
As someone who loved Nosgoth, Rocket League was the sads for me.
Ported… into… Fortnite? I don’t understand what that means. Like portint Sonic into Mario it just, what
Fortnite is a massive platform now, not one game with a few modes. They have car racing, the actual fortnite game, Lego survival crafting, all kinds of stuff. It’s why the download is 100+GB and every patch is like 50gb.
What even is the actual fortnite called now then? Battle royale?
The Battle Royale portion is called Fortnite Battle Royale. The true original Fortnite was a sandbox defense game that is now known as Fortnite: Save the World. They are both accessible from the Fortnite lobby.
Very confusing.
They’re trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games. Very interesting concept, there’s a lot of videos about the concept. Though I detest the idea of centralized apps and accounts therefore more central tracking of you.
They’re trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games.
Like Roblox, actually. They are trying to stanch the users’ leaking out of their cash cow, but shoving everything in will just piss off the kids when fourth 50+ GB patch hits. As for Rocket League, they already mismanaged it to shit, the levels have lost all flair years ago, new ones are inexplicably ugly.
Don’t forget, too, that quite a few people now play No-Build Battle Royale. Honestly it’s just Nite at this point.
What the actual fuck? Glad I quit playing it years ago, cause I like new features but I hate when games stray too far from the original vision (yes I’m aware that BR is a spinoff but you get my point). Why still call it Fortnite, if building forts is no longer a core aspect of the game?
Might as well call it Niteblox.
Might as well additionally call it a new child predator’s paradise.
Everything wants to be a platform now, so they can get a cut for minimal work.
Prolly a new Fortnite game mode and cutting off the original games?
Do they even own the publishing rights to the originals to even cut them off? It sounds to me like they’re just making game modes that mimic the gameplay.
Edit: googled it and omg they do.
Epic/Tim Sweeney can only do one thing really well: crying to the public.
Fuck Epic. Don’t care if they merge all of their games into one shitty game. Fall Guys was cool before Epic bought it, same thing with Rocket League. Now I don’t care about either game.
They want to be on iOS so bad with their game and store so they can farm credit cards of children’s parents, yet they don’t care about Linux at best, or are hostile against it at worst.
Epic/Tim Sweeney can only do one thing really well: crying to the public.
in the Unreal 3 era, almost every game was running on the unreal engine, and no one gave a fuck about the ID tech of the day (follow up to quake 3 engine)
Aren’t both the entire COD lineage and the Source engine based around the quake 3 engine, they never used Unreal?
I think with source it’s q2/1. Idk about COD, but sure, engines developed during the quake 3 era were probably 80/20 split. I’m taking about late 00s early 10s where even street fighter was on unreal engine(which it still might be)
The id tech I’m denigrating is the doom 3 engine which was used to make doom 3, quake 4, rage, prey and basically nothing else
When I remember I played native Linux version of Rocket League… 😿
on that note, but at a bit of a tanget: apparently SuperTuxKart has football mode now
I haven’t checked it out yet, but it apparently came out in the fairly recent 1.5 patch - and it looks pretty similar, might scratch the same itch. Dunno how active the playerbase is.
Imagine supertuxcart overtaking rocket league. Ah well. One can dream.
It’s still fun… but it also really makes you realize how much Rocket League relies on fancy graphics/etc.
Is that… Pepper as a playable character?
seems like it, it’s one of the mascots shown on their website: https://supertuxkart.net/Discover
It’s the only reason I bought that pile of shit. Them dropping support and then selling out to Epic left a sour taste.
I don’t understand, this happened years ago. Both Rocket League and Fall Guys originally came out on Steam, but disappeared from the Steam Store and became Epic Games exclusives. If you still own a Steam copy though, you can still play it.
Is this saying that the game will be unplayable without an Epic Games authentication or something? It’s not like the Steam versions are getting updates anymore, so they should still be playable with other Steam members. Unless the publishers are pushing an update to the Steam version as well.
EDIT: Upon rereading, I see these games are being ported into another game. Does this affect Steam users at all, since Fortnite is an Epic Games exclusive?
I won’t touch Epic Games, so this doesn’t seem to have any effect on me.
RL on steam is getting updates but only for the windows client. The Linux & mac client is an old version that only works offline. I found this out the other day when I installed rocket league on steam to try out since I haven’t played it in a long time
You can play online with Proton though (as of the last time I played at least)
Yeah I ended up installing the windows version with proton, had some weird hiccuping and regular intervals but that might just be me, otherwise it worked fine. I didn’t actually try playing an online match though, only local multiplayer
I play RL through Steam, it’s still getting all of the updates.
The idea of porting existing games into Fortnite is probably the worst thing I’ve heard of since I learned about CGNAT
Strongly doubt that these games will be entirely unplayable outside of Fortnite. Will eat hat if wrong.
Bookmarked
Also bookmarked but I do not think we will witness the consumption of head accessories…
Porting a game into another game isn’t a thing. There’s not even a term for what this sounds like other than “dumb fuck bullshit”
I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It’s far more comparable to Roblox than anything else
Game engine in a game engine.
More like an SDK for a game engine.
It’s just UE5 with more limitations.
And since the two games they are “porting” into FN are already also built in Unreal, this isn’t so much porting as it would be simply copying and pasting in code and assets.
A game engine built on Unreal engine… ? hmm…
More like remaking them inside Fortnite.
RIP in peace Rocket League.
It was crippled years ago. Guess they want to end it’s misery.
Am I out of the loop? What does this mean to port games to another game?
Is fortnite like a platform now rather than just the battle royale game?
Yeah basically new game modes. Rocket Racing is an arcade racer, Fortnite Festival is a rock band like rhythm game, both are entirely independent from battle royale but still integrated into fortnite eco system with skins and characters going between them. This is the metaverse vision that Sweeney never stops talking about coming to fruition.
So we’re heading into the shitty Ready Player One dystopian timeline but it’s gonna be in Fortnite?
KMN
It wasn’t even originally a battle royale game. Before that was a co-op base defense/survival game with resource collection and building elements. Kind of a limited, kid friendly 7 days to die.
Fortnite is like roblox now, it has tons of user generated games inside of it (created using the fornite edition of unreal editor) and multiple epic created games
