Fortnite is moving ahead with its latest crossover and it isn't slowing down for anything. The Marvel opportunities and new weapons/powers are still flowing, and both official reveals are keeping the hype high. Fortnite's challenges for this week are already out and players are completing them quickly.
All of this is nothing new to those who frequent Fortnite's Battle Royale mode, which is of course how the game rose to fame. New modes, challenges, items, and secrets are added to the mode with astonishing regularity. However, that is not the case for the entire game. Although many people don't remember it, Fortnite did not start as a Battle Royale game, and that mode is not the entirety of what the game has to offer.
Perhaps the next most popular mode of Fortnite is its Creative mode, which has been around for some time. Much like the workshop modes in almost any popular game, it has a devoted community who create some truly astonishing things in it. Popular mods are numerous for those who know where to look, with even some Fall Guys style stages being added to Fortnite for anyone to play. However, the players in Fortnite's Creative mode don't have as many tools as they would like since Creative mode gets updated far less than Battle Royale. Many Creative players are annoyed at Epic that the mode has gotten no new vehicles since 2019, and has had no updates at all in the past three months.
This is somewhat expected, since Battle Royale is the moneymaker mode for Fortnite, but some of the community creations are spectacular. Players clearly enjoy making things in Fortnite Creative. The neglect to updates on the part of Epic Games means there is only so much players can actually make without bringing in potentially bug-causing assets. By contrast, in games like Overwatch, the creative mode is kept relatively up to date. This is what allowed one player to turn Overwatch into a fighting game starring Doomfist and other anti-Overwatch characters.
At the moment, Epic Games is both suffering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic like other corporations and engaging in two lawsuits with two separate giant tech companies. This has likely limited its manpower somewhat, so fewer updates to Creative will probably stay the norm for the moment. Players who want to make race courses using the recently leaked Iron Man car will most likely have to wait a little longer.
That said, the frustration is understandable. For many players, the creation of something using a given set of tools is the most fun they can have with a game. That's what led games like Mario Maker to be huge successes, and for some Fortnite players, it's the only draw. This must be especially frustrating now as literal superheroes reach the Battle Royale segment but the Creative players can't enjoy them. With Silver Surfer just around the corner and sure to have powers of his own, the Creative players can only wait and hope as most of Fortnite moves on without them.
Fortnite is available for PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Android, with PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in development.
Source: Gamespot