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and Epic Games stance on Linux gaming is known

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[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Ported... into... Fortnite? I don't understand what that means. Like portint Sonic into Mario it just, what

[-] domdanial@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They have Rock Band too. Yes really, it's even worked on by Harmonix, the original creators.

[-] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What even is the actual fortnite called now then? Battle royale?

[-] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Might as well call it Niteblox.

[-] Demdaru@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Prolly a new Fortnite game mode and cutting off the original games?

[-] Sirdubdee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

The idea of porting existing games into Fortnite is probably the worst thing I've heard of since I learned about CGNAT

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I just did a little sick inside my mouth.

[-] Mark12870@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

When I remember I played native Linux version of Rocket League... 😿

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Imagine supertuxcart overtaking rocket league. Ah well. One can dream.

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[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I've got a couple thousand hours in Rocket League over the years but Epic has successfully made it so insufferable that I haven't played it in about a year. Such a shame.

Stop killing games? What about stop fucking up games?

We seriously need to have a long conversation about what constitutes a refund on a game. I got several thousand hours of good times out of this game but the game that I paid for is no longer available.

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The game itself hasn’t changed at all since Epic acquisition. The only significant changes they have made are making it free and removing trading which don’t affect gameplay.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

How about them making the variants like Snow Day unavailable unless it's in season, or at least that's how it looked to me when I logged back on after a year or two of not playing. I also remember when you could play Snow Day and it wasn't competitive.

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Snow Day and Dropshot are seasonal for ranked play. That’s because they were not popular enough on their own so it was taking too long to find matches at high ranks, making it hard to get the season title. Has nothing to do with the Epic acquisition though, just a need to reduce fragmentation on the player pool.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

I would venture a guess that they are not popular enough because of the changes they made. I do recall a ton of people being pissed when they switched them to not having a casual option and went to ranked only. I wasn't sure about the epic acquisition having an effect though. Thanks.

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They were made ranked on 2018, and Rocket League had its peak in player base around 2020-2021 after it became free. Unfortunately that was followed by a huge drop in player base in 2022, which led to the extra modes changes in 2023.

[-] artyom@piefed.social -1 points 1 month ago

The changes they've made are adding 348953754 pop-ups every time you open a game or finish a match, and completely useless servers.

[-] tekato@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The changes they've made are adding 348953754 pop-ups every time you open a game or finish a match

it has been like this since 2017. Now there’s maybe 1 or 2 extra pop-ups for the game pass garbage. Not that it’s a good thing, but it’s hardly a difference if it’s about 2 pop-ups or 4 pop-ups.

completely useless servers

Do you seriously think Epic servers are worse than what they had before? Psyonix servers were famously horrible to the point that the CEO had to issue a statement in 2017: https://www.rocketleague.com/en/news/server-performance-a-letter-from-our-ceo/

Followed by another Psyonix statement a year later: https://www.rocketleague.com/en/news/rocket-league-server-performance-update

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[-] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 month ago

The thing is, you never paid for a "game" in the first place. You paid for a license with a whole boatload of conditions.

The thing that needs to be fixed is not refunds, but what "buying" something digital means in the first place.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 0 points 1 month ago

RIP in peace Rocket League.

[-] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

It was crippled years ago. Guess they want to end it's misery.

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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?

[-] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] voodooattack@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

So we’re heading into the shitty Ready Player One dystopian timeline but it’s gonna be in Fortnite?

KMN

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Some people will still argue that hating Epic for how it handles its games is unfair.

[-] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

People think I'm crazy to not claim free games from Epic. I don't, and won't even have an account on that cursed platform.

[-] Pure_Psykosis@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

As the guy that founded the Rocket League Discord server ive always been incredibly saddened by what happened after Epic bought Psyonix.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] radiouser@crazypeople.online -1 points 1 month ago

Tim Sweeney is a bitch.

[-] eltoukan@jlai.lu -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm confused, what does that mean ? Will a rocket league -like "mini game" be available in Fortnite, like some sort of crossover ? Will Fortnite have multiple main games like LoL has TFT and Clash Royale has Merge Tactics ? Or will Fortnite just become a game launcher ??

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[-] IEatDaFeesh@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

This is on par with paying a subscription for heated seats in your car. These ideas are so unthinkable for normal people that I don't even know what to say.

[-] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I mean normal people would just download a fortnite launcher and not think the world is ending, it's really only us opinionated nerds who care about these things.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

I wonder if I can get a refund because my game no longer works due to changes on their end.

[-] malwieder@feddit.org -1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

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"

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 month ago

I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It's far more comparable to Roblox than anything else

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Game engine in a game engine.

[-] xvertigox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

More like an SDK for a game engine.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

More like remaking them inside Fortnite.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 month ago

...what? I think I understand what this headline means, but am really struggling to understand how these other games/devs think this is a good idea. What the fuck...

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[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Well that's one way to make sure I never play either of those games again.

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