Important update you will receive Fortnite in 2021. With the future arrival of Unreal Engine 5, the title will include a lot of tools with the possibility of implementing custom assets to the maps.
Through the Year-end annual broadcast on Twitch, Epic Games detailed the features of this patch. New support for Unreal Engine includes Niagara, the game’s own particle system. Thanks to it, you can place a holographic balloon on top of a cube and customize its appearance, for example.
Of course, there is the option to upload your own projects to the Epic cloud and move the progress to the map under construction. Tim Tillotson, the lead developer of Fortnite’s Creative Mode, showed new modifiable parameters like player count; These will be improved throughout 2021.
All this support it will only be included for the PC version, although the content that is produced can be played without problems on the consoles. Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic, clarified that “Fortnite will move to Unreal Engine 5 in 2021.”
In this way, Fortnite intends to equalize in possibilities to Roblox, the other massive title that allows its users to create maps of all kinds. We will have to be attentive to see what is the community capable of creating with the new tools that will reach your hands.
