I shared the image above with some colleagues My city and asked her what game she thought it was. The most popular answer was Call of duty. And that’s completely fair. It looks like new Call of duty game, perhaps a mobile port of one. But no. The screenshot above is from Fortnite.
The screenshot above is not from a fan-made mod or some weird hack that involves a camera trick or exploit. Instead, it comes from a new post from Epic that introduces an experimental FPS module that developers can now use in UEFN to create new first-person maps and games. Danger Call of duty, Fortnite coming your way next!
As seen in a blog post from October 1stEpic Games is getting closer to adding a true first-person option Fortnite. Thanks to dataminers and rumors, we’ve known this for some time Epic has been working on a first-person mode for its popular battle royale game. However, this is the first official look at the studio’s development. Before that, there is only one way to get an FPS option in Fan-made Fortnite Cards were to be used crude workarounds or camera hacks which never felt great and were prone to errors and glitches. Epic even acknowledged these workarounds in the blog post, opening it with the words “Workarounds, here we go.”
There is no official FPS-like mode in the game stillEpic’s new experimental tool lets us see what might be possible in the future. The module is now part of the Fortnite-powered Unreal Engine editor known as UEFN. And the results look pretty good! I think most people would be fooled if they thought it was anything but Fortnite.
This new module is still being developed and tested, so Epic won’t allow people to publish maps that include the FPS module yet. And not all weapons work perfectly with it and there are also some graphical problems. But even in this rough condition it looks solid.
I bet it won’t be long before Epic offers an FPS battle royale mode Fortnite. And I’m excited to see what UEFN developers can come up with with the module once Epic improves it and allows players to publish FPS games and maps. Fortnite is already about 200 different games. Now it could be even more. It’s wild to think about.
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