Fortnite’s new season is here and is giving off a ridi▨culous amount of Mad Max vibes. Peely has entered the Thunderdome in a Battle Bus outfitted with cow tippers and machine turrets as he prepares to clutch that victory royale. Wrecked introduces car combat and completely transforms what it me💖ans to play Fortnite, and most of these changes are for the best.
Regular games of Fortnite are relatively predictable affairs. Unless you decide to drop into a spicy spot and duke it out with several players right away, chances are you’ll be working your way across the map collecting loot, completing quests, and defending yourself from enemies while slowly inching your way to the final circle. Once there, it becomes a tense game of cat and mouse where victory normally falls to whoever either has the high ground or confidence to interrupt firefights or get the drop on 💦their opponents. With car combat, that all changes.
Fortnite Is Now A Twisted Metal With Controls That Aren’t Terrible
Cars have been in Fortnite for a while, but aside from getting your friends to open fire from the passenger side or running down other players, how you could use them offensively was pretty limited. But as this new season takes inspiration from Mad Max and Fallout, Epic has used it as an opportunity to overhaul the role vehicles play. Garages spread across the map have been refitted with new veh♍icle upgrades and lanes th♒at can be used to repair damaged wheels, basically acting as pit stops for you to upgrade your car as you throttle into the action.
Car combat in Fortnite is also a way to put more eyes on Rocket Racing, a mode that hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire like Festival ♋or Zero Build managed to.
Upgrades like grenade launchers, machine gun turrets, cow tippers, or off🐼-road and bulletproof tyres are earned simply by driving your vehicle into the boxes that 💯contain them, a-la Mario Kart, turning your boring car into a certified killing machine in seconds. It takes the frustration away from customising things in the midst of a game where every second counts, and stopping to look at a menu for even a minute is the difference between life and death. It’s instant and is complimented by vehicle controls most of us are already keen familiar with.
I Hope Fortnite’s Car Combat Is Here To Stay
You can pick up speed✱ and click the right thumbstick to switch to your mounted turret right as you see an opposing vehicle or lone player wandering the wastes, and, with true enough aim, obliterate them within seconds. Car combat in F🍨ortnite makes you feel powerful, but you never become complacent, because someone with great aim can still kill you in the blink of an eye, while failing to keep your health in check will more than likely see your car go up in smoke.
There were several matches where I had to vroom away from danger to find a nearby repair box or abandon my car in the midst of a firefight, only to jump into somebody else’s while they were driving it. Explosive crossbows are also a common weapon drop now, which are perfect ไfor destroying pesky cars at a distance or causing chaos with seꦕveral players in a scrap.
My advice is to make use of your enemyﷺ’s turret after hijacking them or poking out of the window while in the passenger seat because you ❀can open fire and either force them to get out of the car or kill them before they have a chance.
Ramps and circular boost platforms are everywhere on the map now, encouraging you to find a car anꦐd stick with it, often until the end of a match where the remaining few players engage in a destruction derby where taking risks and being aggressive is actively rewarded. It doesn𒁏’t always pay to hide away until the last circle now, which was a tactic of my own, but having to embrace the mechanics and adjust my playstyle only makes Fortnite more fun.
It takes some getting used to🅠, but I hope, if Epic Games sticks with car combat and doesn’t plan on ditching it with the next season, that it will continue to iterate on it with brand-new vehicle types and weapon attachments. The potential here is limitless. Or there is always the option of turning a car combat battle royale into its own playlist like Zero Build, making it a permanent, but optional, part of the game.
It’s so fast, unpredictable, and different in terms of pacing, turning Fortnite on its head in a way that new seasons always should. It isn’t merely a new battle pass filled with skins and a new co𒐪at 🌌of paint, it’s a bold expansion of everything we know, and it’s up to us to get used to it.
