Fortnite: Everything you need to know!

It's go-time on iOS and Nintendo Switch for Fortnite

The battle royale hit Fortnite for iOS is now ready to download to everyone who has an iOS device. Whether you've been lucky enough to have the game since the invited event started, or you're just downloading it right now, you may be wondering what it's all about.

Here's everything you need to know about Fortnite Battle Royale.

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What's new with Fortnite?

June 19th, 2018

Epic Games constantly puts new content into Fortnite, and the latest patch is no exception. Here's the newest stuff to hit Fortnite!

How Limited Time Mode: Final Fight: Teams of 20 works

A new mode called LIMITED TIME MODE: FINAL FIGHT: TEAMS OF 20, will have you and 19 of your friend's showdown against other teams.

• Final Fight plays similar to standard Battle Royale, but instead of the Storm circles closing all the way, the Storm stops after the 3rd circle.
• When the circles have finished closing in, the final countdown timer will begin.
• The remaining teams will battle it out until the timer expires.
• The team with the most players remaining at the end of the timer wins!
• In the event of a tie, the two (or more) teams tied for the lead win the match.

New Weapon: Stink Bomb

The newest weapon in Fortnite isn't a new gun, but rather a new type of grenade that will leave your opponents feeling gross. The Stink Bomb is a hand-thrown projectile that can cause quite the ruckus.

Stink Bomb Stats - Creates a stinky cloud that deals 5 damage every half-second within the cloud. - 9-second duration. - Epic rarity. - Can be found from floor loot, chests, and Vending Machines. - Loot in stacks of 3 with a maximum stack of 5.

Rocket Launcher changes

The Rocket Launcher in Fortnite can be a powerful tool, but it did receive some minor tweaking in the latest patch. The reload times of the rocket launcher have now been slightly increased based on rarity.

• Rare: 2.3 seconds to 2.8.
• Epic: 2.185 seconds to 2.66.
• Legendary: 2.07 to 2.52.

June 12, 2018: Fornite launches on the Nintendo Switch today!

With E3 in full swing, Nintendo's video conference wasting no time announcing Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch, but perhaps the most surprising news is you'll be able to download Fortnite today!

Starting at 1 PM ET (or 10 AM PT), if you head to the Nintendo eShop on your Switch, you can download Fornite for free!

How do I play?

The goal of Fortnite Battle Royale is to be the last person alive in the match, which could have as many as 99 other players.

When you start the game, you fall from the sky with a wing suit and a parachute and land somewhere on the giant island tasked with finding items, guns, and ammo to defend yourself and take out other players. Of course, every couple of minutes, the map gets smaller, forcing all the remaining players to converge on a specific part of the map. This forces players out of hiding and ensures that the game will actually end, because eventually, the map gets so small that there's not really anywhere to hide.

You can only carry so many guns and items at once, and once you die you're out of the game, meaning you'll have to manage your loadout and equipment fairly often to give yourself the best chance of survival.

I mentioned before that there's a crafting element to the game, and that's true. Every player has a pickaxe that can be used to tear down or break pretty much anything in the game into raw resources. These resources can then be used to make structures, such as walls, stairs, doors, and a ton of other things. To be clear, you don't have to use these features, but quickly putting up a wall or other structure to avoid enemy fire is definitely one strategy people ue.

When can I play it?

The short answer is I don't know; however, it's a little more complicated than that. The beta version of Fortnite: Battle Royale launched to select people on March 12th 2018, but Epic Games (the developers), have said they will be rolling out new invites to the beta as time goes on.

In plain terms, you can go to the Fortnite Battle Royale website, enter your email, and sign up to receive an invite to the game when more become available. When exactly you will get an invite to try the game is anybody's guess, but I know if you want a chance to play it as soon as you can, you need to sign up!

On top that, players who receive invites to the beta from Epic Games will also get friend invite codes to share with others. How many codes is unspecified, but it sounds like the people lucky enough to get in on the beta will have the chance to get a few other people into the action sooner!

NOTE: The Fortnite website has been going down a lot due to increased traffic and some scheduled maintenance. If you receive a 404 message while trying to load the site, you'll need to wait until the site is back up and running.

How much will it cost?

The game will be free to download — even the console and PC version of the game are free to download — but there will likely be some in-app purchases.

I don't know all the details (since the game hasn't launched yet) but in the console and PC versions, Epic Games has character skins and other cosmetic add-ons for purchase.

Epic Games has said the game will be the same as the console version that people know and love, so I can't imagine them changing anything for the mobile release.

Is it cross-platform?

Epic Games has said that Fortnite Battle Royale on mobile will support cross-platform play between the PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, iOS, and eventually the Android versions. As of right now, the Xbox One is the out man out. Epic Games has said they are working on getting Xbox One into the fold; however, no date on when that will be completed has been announced.

What else do you want to know?

Let me know in the comments down below, and I'll try to give you an answer!