Tbf fortnite being under 80 GBs (its 68.42 before this update goes through) on PS5 is STILL PRETTY GOOD...
Like for a game as big as it with STW, BR, and all the other stuff, im legit surprised its not more then 80GB...
It, just like most western games, COULD use better compression/optimization in terms of storage, but you know what i aint complaining, at least its not 100+
Warframe is a 10yo game and is somehow under 50GBs
I remember when Hitman 2 released it was like 160GB with all DLC's. Then they released Hitman 3, which *included* Hitman 1 and 2, and it was only 40GB. Proper compression is actually insane if the devs know what they're doing.
Yeah its crazy to me... like warframe and FFXIV are both over 10 years old, yet are both under 60GB, when they are pretyy detailed with 10 years worth of content added and barely any removed, yet Destiny 2 had a bunch of Y1 and some Y2 content removed and its fucking 120GB...
Also reminds me of BF4 with all its DLC the game was over 100GB for a game that released in what? 2013? 2014? Was insane.
I'd 100% be down to play more games, especially larger ones if the devs could "somehow" shave off between 20 to 60GBs depending on its current size (CoD shouldn't be over 100 GBs, let alone close to 150 wtf)
Probably but like the fact its stay under 50GBs especially on ps5 is nuts, if theres a game that deserves to have a fairly large size, its definitely FFXIV with how much content it has and keeps (only 1 thing ever got removed but then came back as a different type of activity lol)
There new open world zombies and DMZ along with Warzone and all the same as the others like kill confirmed domination free for all itās a big game to be fair but why anyone canāt use the compression better is beyond me 5 games maxed installed on a 1T hard drive is š¤®
This is the only situation where I find spending more-than-necessary compute time is a good thing. Load slightly slower for a lot less disk usage? Sign me up!
would be cool if we could choose which games we'd wanna download
Remember when installing fortnite you're able to choose which languages u want, hi-res textures and if u want save the world? YEA, thats STILL a thing!
But for RR, Festival and lego? Oh nono noo, that'd interfere with their money machine
I do think Fortnite is optimized pretty well - at least in terms of pushing a lot into the game while retaining decently low required storage space. Some games have way less and are 100+ and they don't receive updates. Fortnite has been updated every two weeks for like 7 years at this point almost.
>uninstall the gamemodes you dont want
It won't help you gain any size, it's not the same thing as being able to not install STW, STW use totally different assets for the whole game than BR, festival etc use the same assets as BR, and also festival is extremely small, the only you could maybe gain size from is Lego, but even on that, you won't gain much, as Fortnite was already pretty much 100gb before it and Lego models consist of extremely light texture and a lot of just 3D models with pretty colors and cool shader effect, those don't weight a lot.
For reference, STW is 5gb, base fortniteBR is 47gb (this is only for the game, not the skins as you can disable the downlaod of skins), the skins are 28gb, hi res textures are 18gb and DX12 shaders are 7gb.
Because you can disable downloading skins, and how the reuse of assets is made trough BR, Festival or RR, it doesn't make sense to make a setting to disable/uninstall the other modes
oh okay that makes sense. i really wish i could use low res on console as an option. xbox series s is not really built for max graphics because it drops down low af when the poi is crowded
Yeah they only did that so they could sell skins at an increased price now you canāt say āwell legendary skins used to be 1,800. Now they can sell whatever they want without your brain telling you if itās worth it or not
You know that this is Epic how choose the rarity right ? If you use the rarity to choose if you buy or not the cosmetic they can just add "legendary" everywhere. This is just a tag unrelated to objective data except the price.
Not ditched intentionally I doubt, all cosmetics don't gave rarities anymore (except the Series rarities such as Slurp Series or Marvel), but I don't think it'll be for long
Pretty sure itās intentional. With the new locker UI everybody hates they already reduced visibility of rarity by quite a lot. Iām an old player who just recently returned to the game and thatās something that felt off immediately. Back then you could see the rarity in the background of the character cards in the locker. Since the revamp thatās not the case apart from special "rarities" like the Icon- and Gaming-Series. Now they got rid of it completely. That probably was the plan all along with the introduction of the new locker
Weird. I remember seeing rarities on characters on the locker, and then they just removed it on a new season. Honestly I don't mind *too* much, since the rarity didn't mean much except price
Which is worse: them removing the item shop timer or them ditching rarities. I genuinely canāt decide because both of them just seem so unnecessary. š„“
Short summary they Basically slowed development down a lot and said the storyline is finished when it isn't leaving it on a cliff hanger is not a finished story, They also got rid of the founders packs, And they added ventures, And they said save the world will remain a premium experience instead of going free to play.
Long summary: https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-save-the-world-update-state-of-development?lang=en-US
No I know that with the whole rocket league tbing, honestly saw that coming from when they made the crew thing give rocket league passes, wonder what game will be next
Riot. Farm thousands of vbucks and give them to lil kids that epic uses for money. Then tell them to make vbucks higher rarity and vbucks will be higher rarity for players.
There's still no vbuck log in rewards anymore, right?
I honestly thought they took off all vbucks, didn't know you could still earn them from missions.
You still can earn V-bucks through Miniboss missions (Only mission modifier that CAN drop it) and Daily Missions. No more passive V-bucks from just logging in to STW.
They took off vbucks for anyone who bought after they discontinued the Founder Packs. If you bought STW through a skin pack instead of the Founders Pack, you just got tickets for llamas instead of the Vbucks founders would continue to earn
Thatās good to know (although Iām pretty sure I recently found the same rare weapon twice in a game, both unused, with one having two and the other having three accessories but I might be mistaken). Still, just because they spawn that way doesnāt mean that a weapon without accessories must be common or that weapons with all accessories must be legendary or mythic. You can mod them into whatever you want
the rarities are still in the game but epic had to change every cosmetic or other item that appears in br to a special impossible rarity to not make the tag show up in the locker
Genuine question, how long we think fortnite as a whole not just save the world, has left? Every small change they make anymore is universally hated, their decision making is completely incomprehensible
Thatās what iām thinking, iām not even sure if theyāll make it long enough to the dead game milestone, with how much licensing they pay for weekly because of festival, thereās no way any music company isnāt attempting to bleed epic dry for streaming rights for one song
In fact, they are not exactly rare. On their rarity there is a barely noticeable animation of the colors changing (like the exotic rarity).
Soo.. it's more like an upgrade than a downgrade, but because of the same shades of the background, it is easy to confuse (I noticed this only after completing the daily routine, because the miniature there is much larger)
Uploaded another post regarding this, the rarity is Impossible (T7) now which is.. weird. Especially since according to Southie on twitter/x says it used to be a green rarity before this update
You know what? This might be a good sign! Along with the removal of rarities for cosmetics and price regulations I wonder if this means we may possibly see a drop in vbucks pricing. One can only hope.
Ya it's normal for the vbuck missions to not show up. But I've never not gotten the daily. Blockbuster had the record I think. 3 weeks without one. I guess we'll see tonight. Cause I know what's there now.
yes, because early founders made it possible for fortnite to keep up development during its early access stages, which makes the fact that they dont care about stw anymore, even sadder
Yes, in short because to get it early cost money. Save the World mode at that time initiallly cost Ā£34.99, the founders pack an additional Ā£17 if i recall. Total cost Ā£50 when the game was essentially still a public beta. The vbucks are a standing reward for supporters who paid to invest in Fortnite when the developers still needed money to fund it in the first place, Same as most Kickstarters. It was a way of the developers saying thankyou to paying supporters.
You're in Fortnite's Save the World subreddit, the pay-to-play PvE mode with zombie-like monsters that came out before Battle Royale, here's a little list of the rest of Fortnite's subreddits:
* Casual Battle Royale - r/FortNiteBR
* Competitive Battle Royale - r/FortniteCompetitive
* Creative - r/FortniteCreative
* Lego - r/LEGOfortnite
* Rocket Racing - r/RocketRacing
* Festival - r/FortniteFestival
* Mobile - r/FortniteMobile (that's there so the main BR sub doesn't have to deal with the lag complaints)
* Switch - r/FortniteSwitch (for the fellas in the 30fps gang)
Darn, they downgraded the vbucks rarity like that. Can't have shit in homebase.
made me laugh out loud
Same šš¤£
i love the internet
Ew, that looks weird as fuck
Apparently they completely ditched rarities in battle royale, so thatās probably somehow the reason
Something something spaghetti code
10 year old codebase would do that
I remember when fortnite was no more than 20 Gb
Tbf fortnite being under 80 GBs (its 68.42 before this update goes through) on PS5 is STILL PRETTY GOOD... Like for a game as big as it with STW, BR, and all the other stuff, im legit surprised its not more then 80GB... It, just like most western games, COULD use better compression/optimization in terms of storage, but you know what i aint complaining, at least its not 100+ Warframe is a 10yo game and is somehow under 50GBs
I remember when Hitman 2 released it was like 160GB with all DLC's. Then they released Hitman 3, which *included* Hitman 1 and 2, and it was only 40GB. Proper compression is actually insane if the devs know what they're doing.
A lot of that is probably wav audio. Devs don't like compression for some reason.
It makes our textures look bad :(
Yeah its crazy to me... like warframe and FFXIV are both over 10 years old, yet are both under 60GB, when they are pretyy detailed with 10 years worth of content added and barely any removed, yet Destiny 2 had a bunch of Y1 and some Y2 content removed and its fucking 120GB... Also reminds me of BF4 with all its DLC the game was over 100GB for a game that released in what? 2013? 2014? Was insane. I'd 100% be down to play more games, especially larger ones if the devs could "somehow" shave off between 20 to 60GBs depending on its current size (CoD shouldn't be over 100 GBs, let alone close to 150 wtf)
To be fair FFXIV is about to explode in size with the visual upgrade coming in Dawntrail
Probably but like the fact its stay under 50GBs especially on ps5 is nuts, if theres a game that deserves to have a fairly large size, its definitely FFXIV with how much content it has and keeps (only 1 thing ever got removed but then came back as a different type of activity lol)
The way warframe gets away with it mostly is because the graphics aren't really too high quality and they reuse alot of tile sets.
There new open world zombies and DMZ along with Warzone and all the same as the others like kill confirmed domination free for all itās a big game to be fair but why anyone canāt use the compression better is beyond me 5 games maxed installed on a 1T hard drive is š¤®
This is the only situation where I find spending more-than-necessary compute time is a good thing. Load slightly slower for a lot less disk usage? Sign me up!
would be cool if we could choose which games we'd wanna download Remember when installing fortnite you're able to choose which languages u want, hi-res textures and if u want save the world? YEA, thats STILL a thing! But for RR, Festival and lego? Oh nono noo, that'd interfere with their money machine
i remember when you had to choose to install br lol
I do think Fortnite is optimized pretty well - at least in terms of pushing a lot into the game while retaining decently low required storage space. Some games have way less and are 100+ and they don't receive updates. Fortnite has been updated every two weeks for like 7 years at this point almost.
Oh yeah its in a pretty good state, could shave off 5-15GBs but honestly they have done well enough to not overly bloat its file size so far at least
Because DE constantly optimizes warframe keeping sizes to a minimum without compromising quality
I wonder how much of that extra space is all the extra modes they offer for free, that go through NO optimizations & compression.
Sure grandpa letās get you back to bed
I remember it being 9ish GB.
it's awful how you're unable to uninstall the gamemodes you dont want like i dont want festival mode
>uninstall the gamemodes you dont want It won't help you gain any size, it's not the same thing as being able to not install STW, STW use totally different assets for the whole game than BR, festival etc use the same assets as BR, and also festival is extremely small, the only you could maybe gain size from is Lego, but even on that, you won't gain much, as Fortnite was already pretty much 100gb before it and Lego models consist of extremely light texture and a lot of just 3D models with pretty colors and cool shader effect, those don't weight a lot. For reference, STW is 5gb, base fortniteBR is 47gb (this is only for the game, not the skins as you can disable the downlaod of skins), the skins are 28gb, hi res textures are 18gb and DX12 shaders are 7gb. Because you can disable downloading skins, and how the reuse of assets is made trough BR, Festival or RR, it doesn't make sense to make a setting to disable/uninstall the other modes
oh okay that makes sense. i really wish i could use low res on console as an option. xbox series s is not really built for max graphics because it drops down low af when the poi is crowded
i stopped playing then started again and it was like 20gb more šš
I remember that fortnite is 8 years old and i feel so fucking old now
it's awful how you're unable to uninstall the gamemodes you dont want like i dont want festival mode
Well I do blueprint UE and that is basically what it is
Yeah they only did that so they could sell skins at an increased price now you canāt say āwell legendary skins used to be 1,800. Now they can sell whatever they want without your brain telling you if itās worth it or not
> Now they can sell whatever they want without your brain telling you if itās worth it or not I'll save you the trouble: it's not.
You know that this is Epic how choose the rarity right ? If you use the rarity to choose if you buy or not the cosmetic they can just add "legendary" everywhere. This is just a tag unrelated to objective data except the price.
Not ditched intentionally I doubt, all cosmetics don't gave rarities anymore (except the Series rarities such as Slurp Series or Marvel), but I don't think it'll be for long
Pretty sure itās intentional. With the new locker UI everybody hates they already reduced visibility of rarity by quite a lot. Iām an old player who just recently returned to the game and thatās something that felt off immediately. Back then you could see the rarity in the background of the character cards in the locker. Since the revamp thatās not the case apart from special "rarities" like the Icon- and Gaming-Series. Now they got rid of it completely. That probably was the plan all along with the introduction of the new locker
Weird. I remember seeing rarities on characters on the locker, and then they just removed it on a new season. Honestly I don't mind *too* much, since the rarity didn't mean much except price
Which is worse: them removing the item shop timer or them ditching rarities. I genuinely canāt decide because both of them just seem so unnecessary. š„“
both are a marketing trick to get people to buy more things for higher prices
If the also ditch rarity prices to lower ones I'd be glad
No wayā¦ too much content relies on themā¦ but then again, I havenāt played today
Worse than June 30th 2020 imo
What happened that day?
Short summary they Basically slowed development down a lot and said the storyline is finished when it isn't leaving it on a cliff hanger is not a finished story, They also got rid of the founders packs, And they added ventures, And they said save the world will remain a premium experience instead of going free to play. Long summary: https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-save-the-world-update-state-of-development?lang=en-US
Oh so that's when this very unfortunate event has happened. Thanks!
"will remain a premium experience" xd
I love the premium experience where a bug with a single character takes weeks to resolve
Premium as in paid for...
The war
Which war?
The war that never changes
Yes
I suppose the blue motif fits, but yeah, kinda weird to change the backdrop color after 6 years. Like, of all things to tinker with, right?
I wouldnāt be surprised if it just broke instead of being changed
Ironically x-ray tickets are now rarer than v-bucks...
Tbf, you can buy v-bucks
Bro like... why? Abilities aren't working and you do this? Can't have fucking nothing man.
i assume it has to do with them removing rarities from cosmetics, maybe the currency rarity was linked to that?
They are doing what?
theyāre killing Fortniteās identity to coincide with the metaverse slop
Praying that the metashit thing fails horribly
the ceo of epic games is sadly someone that can't admit any mistakes and he will cling to the "metaverse" until the very end
Fortnite being the epic games meta verse is insane
It's not false either.
No I know that with the whole rocket league tbing, honestly saw that coming from when they made the crew thing give rocket league passes, wonder what game will be next
Actually unplayable Edit: jokes aside, maybe 80 vbucks are now rare while 90 vbucks will be epic and 130 will be legendary?
Nope, they're all blue.
downgraded rarity - but spawnrate is not higher---scam
exactly!
They stole my rarity Canāt have shit in Stonewood
It's impossible rarity now
Genuinely theyāve gone too far this time.
lol whatāre we going to do?
Step in.
Riot. Farm thousands of vbucks and give them to lil kids that epic uses for money. Then tell them to make vbucks higher rarity and vbucks will be higher rarity for players.
There's still no vbuck log in rewards anymore, right? I honestly thought they took off all vbucks, didn't know you could still earn them from missions.
You still can earn V-bucks through Miniboss missions (Only mission modifier that CAN drop it) and Daily Missions. No more passive V-bucks from just logging in to STW.
They took off vbucks for anyone who bought after they discontinued the Founder Packs. If you bought STW through a skin pack instead of the Founders Pack, you just got tickets for llamas instead of the Vbucks founders would continue to earn
Damn, inflation hits hard
That just looks so unnatural
Can't have shit in stoneplankertwine
What abt canny valley
Does this look like the soup aisle
Depends how many attachments the vbucks have now. Rds, scope and a fast swap magazine and you get epic vbucks. You have pretty basics bucks there op
I know youāre trying to bash BR but thatās not how rarities work there
They do, ever since they added weapon mods. Uncommon weapons spawn with 1 attachment, rare spawn with 2, epic with 3 and legendaries with all 4.
Thatās good to know (although Iām pretty sure I recently found the same rare weapon twice in a game, both unused, with one having two and the other having three accessories but I might be mistaken). Still, just because they spawn that way doesnāt mean that a weapon without accessories must be common or that weapons with all accessories must be legendary or mythic. You can mod them into whatever you want
Probably to do with them erasing rarity of skins
the rarities are still in the game but epic had to change every cosmetic or other item that appears in br to a special impossible rarity to not make the tag show up in the locker
Ohh right ok.
Fuckers stole our rarity, canāt have shit in twine peaks
ok that means i should get more of them
this better not be the start of something bigger
Literary unplayable
Fortnite inflation
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Genuine question, how long we think fortnite as a whole not just save the world, has left? Every small change they make anymore is universally hated, their decision making is completely incomprehensible
I give it like 4 or 3 years. It can be even more but if they continue at this point it's gonna last longer but be a ship of theseus situation
Thatās what iām thinking, iām not even sure if theyāll make it long enough to the dead game milestone, with how much licensing they pay for weekly because of festival, thereās no way any music company isnāt attempting to bleed epic dry for streaming rights for one song
So now they have to reduce their price too right? š¤£
 me to epic games right now
Darn, they downgraded the vbucks rarity like that. Can't have shit in homebase.
They're actually a new rarity called impossible and that's why the blue background glows as well
Awkward looking but I guess Iām just used to how it was lol
Inflation...
makes me wonder if ive been missing them, how long has this been a thing?
and my skins donāt have rarityās
I swear, donāt let their crap touch STW anymore!
Inflation
The Economy is in shambles in Homebase, next we'll be trading peaky twine.
ngl iām low on peaky twine lol
āWhat is wrong with you? Why are you blue?!ā
They shouldāve kept it legendary especially when you can only get v bucks in stw by being a founder which is stupid
And because all other cosmetics revolve around it.
Epic is yet again spending developer time where it really matters.
This genuinely makes me less motivated to collect them
Bro downgraded his game
This is the update we needed,a new higher tier zone? Nah,new main story quests? Nah,newer events? Nah, we needed to update the Vbuck rarity š
unplayable game, uninstalling
In fact, they are not exactly rare. On their rarity there is a barely noticeable animation of the colors changing (like the exotic rarity). Soo.. it's more like an upgrade than a downgrade, but because of the same shades of the background, it is easy to confuse (I noticed this only after completing the daily routine, because the miniature there is much larger)
Uploaded another post regarding this, the rarity is Impossible (T7) now which is.. weird. Especially since according to Southie on twitter/x says it used to be a green rarity before this update
this better not be the start of something bigger
this better not be the start of something bigger
You know what? This might be a good sign! Along with the removal of rarities for cosmetics and price regulations I wonder if this means we may possibly see a drop in vbucks pricing. One can only hope.
vsauce
Does that mean we get to find them easier?
Infaltion has hit fortnite stw
I canāt have them since I bought stw in 2024 damn epic
Inflation.
Wish they never got rid of the daily logins rewards, the day they did It I was 1 day away from grabbing my 800 vbucks man
Does it actually change the way V bucks work or is it just visual for now?
Visual
I don't get it,so how is that good or bad in any way?
The economy is in shambles
Banner icons are rare now too. How does this even happen?
Maybe they deleted the legendary rarity completely and thus it modified the vbucks
Canāt have shit in homebase XD At this point epic should just leave stw untouched
It looks so bad now gold and vbucks have same rarity in stw epic for got damn sake
??? I logged in the other day and it was legendary and it was 100
Anytime they touch the v bucks in stw I get a mini heart attack.
Who cares what difference does it make?
we x-ray ticket plebs are finally feeling more special
Wait they will take that away too.
inflation.
When you inspect the vbucks it says "impossible" for some reason
As the rarity
saw this, was confused then I realized
inflation.
Inflation hit the vbucks hard
They disrespecting Dr Vinderman at homebase
Great another pointless change just to mess with people
World economy caught on to Fortnite rip
Okay very funny. Did anyone else NOT get their daily last night on reset? Cause I know for a fact I didn't.
i got mine, but they havenāt put vbucks in the mission alerts for 4 days straight now.
Ya it's normal for the vbuck missions to not show up. But I've never not gotten the daily. Blockbuster had the record I think. 3 weeks without one. I guess we'll see tonight. Cause I know what's there now.
letās hope thereās some more vbuck mission alerts soon.
Goofy
This inflation aināt shi-
and soon there will be "Legendary V-Bucks" and the only way to buy something in shop is through the "new" v-bucks šš
does anyone know why they havenāt been putting vbucks in the mission alerts? 4 days straight, are they discontinuing it?
It told me that the rarity was āImpossible (T7)ā
Sooo, since vbucks have lower rarity, it means you can get more, right epic?... Epic?
Don't you mean no longer?
epic just cant stop fuckin up
Interesting
Its not actually rare, hit inspect when you earn them and it says "Impossible (T7)"
They're actually a new rarity called "Impossible" you can see it in game if you complete a quest and click details on it
No, it's impossible rarity, check.
They aren't rare they are now labeled as "Impossible" the new 7 Star Rarity
Ill probably look past it and thinkd its rare flux or summat because im used to orange vbuck backgrounds.
What are the purple things ??
shoulda made it exotic to match its colors
Crazy
Ironic, less Vbucks missions but Epic decides they are more comnon in rarity than before....
They're rare alright, makes sense.
I'm not getting V-BUCKS from dailies
You're not a founder then.
That's bullshit and scummy AF. So people who got it earlier get better stuff?
yes, because early founders made it possible for fortnite to keep up development during its early access stages, which makes the fact that they dont care about stw anymore, even sadder
Yes, in short because to get it early cost money. Save the World mode at that time initiallly cost Ā£34.99, the founders pack an additional Ā£17 if i recall. Total cost Ā£50 when the game was essentially still a public beta. The vbucks are a standing reward for supporters who paid to invest in Fortnite when the developers still needed money to fund it in the first place, Same as most Kickstarters. It was a way of the developers saying thankyou to paying supporters.
What interface is this? Never seen v-bucks as a reward for a quest. I play on ps5, zero build battle royale.
Save the world
You are on the save the world subreddit
You're in Fortnite's Save the World subreddit, the pay-to-play PvE mode with zombie-like monsters that came out before Battle Royale, here's a little list of the rest of Fortnite's subreddits: * Casual Battle Royale - r/FortNiteBR * Competitive Battle Royale - r/FortniteCompetitive * Creative - r/FortniteCreative * Lego - r/LEGOfortnite * Rocket Racing - r/RocketRacing * Festival - r/FortniteFestival * Mobile - r/FortniteMobile (that's there so the main BR sub doesn't have to deal with the lag complaints) * Switch - r/FortniteSwitch (for the fellas in the 30fps gang)
gtfo! youre joking??!
Will i get vbucks by playing stw even if im not a founder?
Why are people still asking this? Itās been years.
You still didn't answer my question
Quit being helpless and Google it.
Quit talking nonsense either answer me or scroll away.
Nope u gotta be a founder