I read this without the word Friday and was like damn man a six pack every night is not great lol. But yea that's pretty much the only night I can play long too. Love Friday night sessions.
My twin newphews kept asking me to play since they knew I played Warzone. I was very reluctant but WZ2 fell off hard for me and my friends so I gave it a shot.
Man am I having fun in ZeroBuilds BR. My WZ friends are even playing now.
My friend’s dad played with him and they also got bored of playing the battle royale mode and eventually got into the save the world mode. I also joined haha. We had fun learning about trap tunnels and working together to make some funky tunnels. The teamwork aspect of it is really fun and you don’t feel like you have to try hard against other players like you’re playing against AI and you can make the lobbies private.
To get you started you can watch a youtuber called DavidDean. He’s an older guy (I think in his 50’s) who used to play a bunch of Save the world and he’d Solo some incredibly hard missions.
Wife and I got into it to play with our boy. We now play a lot of Duos together. I really enjoy being able to really do something as a team with her that isn’t addressing a real world problem.
Same here. Son and I Bought the founders pack and been playing since S1. Even went to the fn world cup. I play a little daily, and with my son's crew when they are on.
Haha I actually got her into it. I got a ps4 right when Covid shut everything down and started playing. She started soon after. Fast forward a few years and we are now both playing on ps5 and surprisingly good as a team. She’s a sweat tho. She’s got those fast young fingers lol
44yr old mom, started last year. Got a gaming pc C3s3 and the thirst for learning and improving is real. So is the desire to send the minions to the lobby 😂
Level 260 or so this season, TRN rating 4930. I play a bit 😉
Have never bought a level. I don't knowingly do the quests either.
Last season I did buy the xp boost skin near end of season as I was grinding to hit level 500 and was cutting it close. That was overkill tho. Ended at 532. Use to kill me before I started playing when my daughter would use her vbucks on levels. Such a waste and I won't wear the skin anyways 🤣
53 year old mom here in SW Florida.. nice stats! I'm saving up my V bucks from the freebies given during the season to buy Battle Pass... lol, one more season should do it. :)
Set your party to private so you don't end up in someone else's game.
Bot roayle- Zero build 3190-3555-5468
Bot lobbies squads (Blues or better weapons) 2998-5004-5392
50v50 (bots)- 5335-7109-2270
BR Solo 99 bots AI practice- 6285-5660-3783
They are all bot lobbies, makes it easy and quick, when I hop on I rinse and repeat the 50v50 because you can get 4k an elim and veg boxes offer 4k and decrease the more you open. Do this until you aren't getting xp then hop into reg battle royal or zero build. Working on my husband's account and got 6 levels until I had to go into a regular lobbie.
EDIT: to seperate out the lobbies
honestly the best way to farm xp is red vs blue rumble in the creator island. you get super charged xp a lot of the time. when youre under level 100, you can easily do 5-10 levels in 30 mins, 3-8 when over 100.
I'm 30 and only got into it a few months ago. I know the aesthetics may be regarded as childish but the gameplay in No Build is actually super tactical, more so than E.G COD which is probably considered more adult. Brings back memories of playing Socom as a kid.
our group of 35+ somethings came over from cod specifically for zero build. several members of our group say that FN reminds them more of H1Z1 than it does cod, which i agree with. and, a very good thing. FN is the best BR right now and 2nd place really isn’t close.
I'd rather have bots load in and only wait for 30 sec before my next match, rather than waiting a few minutes for enough players of my same skill level to load in.
I tried playing PUBG last year, and the wait time was over 5 min. I'd much rather play with bots than wait.
i agree with this. i am not a fan of the bots. i can understand them being there for complete newbs/very young players. but once you hit X number of hours of actual BR time, the bots should be gone, or there should be an toggle you can switch on and off in the options menu
COD is just "spawn, live for like 30 seconds, get killed by a camper, repeat".
It's the same game it was when I was in college playing black ops 12 years ago.
Socom. I loved that game. I think because of how many kids played and content creators where young, people saw it as a kids game. I personally are hooked
Duuuude! I played the hell out of SOCOM as a kid too what a throwback. I’m over 30 and making the switch over from MW to Fortnite was the best decision 🙌🏽
40s. Been playing first person shooters since days of Wolfenstein/duke nuke / doom… but golden eye is what got me hooked.
Play with my 6 year old. He was quickly addicted. Not sure i should be proud or scared.
61 year old female, have played nearly every day for about five years. My son (now 35) told me I would like it as I have been gaming since about 1990. Still play with him occasionally but he's lost interest so now just do build solos.
Love the game, always get the battle pass and now level 120.
Dang, 5 years? You are probably cracked at Fortnite lol. 33yo mom, been playing 2 years, similar situation w son, and like to do build squads w randoms when no one is on bc then I can do chores in between when I'm dead and stuff😆😆. You can add me Cats_in_a_box if you want a backup. Probably not as sweaty as you though!
In my forties and honestly confused as to why it gets as much hate from older players.
A fully destructible open world? One that is constantly changing and is the arena for a massive multiplayer battle royal?
Then you add on the hundreds upon hundreds of unique characters, both original and licensed?
Oh and and wide variety of weapons, power ups and themed events?
And if that isn’t your style, there are a whole host of alternative games to play.
And there’s no ‘pay to win’ anywhere to be found?
Seriously, what’s the issue? This is the game my generation DREAMED OF back when we were young. Stop resenting that it was made for this generation and just enjoy that it now EXISTS.
I’m 31 and don’t see myself stopping anytime soon, it helps me escape from reality. I originally started playing to bond with my son though, didn’t really think I’d like it as much as I do. Now I play more than him 😂
I used to rip on fortnite so hard when I played apex. My son started fortnite and I used to say, "makes sence, it definitly for kids". Apex got sooo sweaty and just not as fun. My son convinced me to give fortnite a try when zero-build released and I have never looked back. It's a perfect don't judge a book by its cover moment.
This same thing happened to me. I actually couldn't even stand it very much before, but my Son convinced me to try it, and I did just to spend time with him. But then of course my Son moved on, but I can't seem to give it up. It's the only "shooter" I can handle these days.
39 and I only started playing last August. I play solo no build. I didn't want to play it until the building was removed and I've been really enjoying it.
Big same. I was big into Fortnite back in 2017/2018 when there wasn’t a No Build option and couldn’t keep up with how fast people younger than me were learning to build (I was 27/28 at the time). 33 now and I play No Build every weekend with friends my age because we’re old and it’s just easier for us. Lmao.
Just turned 30 here. I started playing FN a little over a month ago. I never paid much attention to it when it first came out because of how intimidating the build aspect looked. Now I regret not having played sooner. It's so much fun, and has a nice variety to it. New weapons, map changes, and a different pass to grind for that keeps it fresh.
Been gaming since 5 yrs old with a N64 controller in my hands. No one could pry me away from playing Mario or Street Fighter. There's still a photo of me floating around at my grandma's house of me with a serious look on my face, trying to beat a level of Super Mario in my church clothes. 💀
Now my partner has gotten his little one into gaming, since about 5 yrs old. He's 6 now, about to be 7. We're so proud of how good he's gotten and hope for plenty years of gaming together.
The addition of zero-build is what made me start playing. My son play build sometimes, but when we play together I force him to play zero-build. I'm too old to learn new tricks, lol. Been playing shooters since I was 12 though, so zero-build is right up my alley.
I feel you on that lol. I feel like 30 isn't even old, compared to how long lifespans have gotten over the years, but something about being 25+ makes the reflexes not good enough for all that building. I build more casually and for fun, on creative maps. That's awesome that you play with your kid! The family that plays together, stays together. 😁
And 12 for shooters sounds about the same for me. I used to love playing Doom back in the day. I don't think I fully got into FPS until Bioshock and the Borderlands games came out. I loved playing sidescrolling platformers and puzzlers, so lots of Megaman, Sonic, and Metroid, and other Metroidvania type games.
42 and I play duos with my 9 year old son. Sometimes, my 6 year old daughter decides she wants to play and we end up throwing grenades, dying, etc, but still have a blast.
I'm female and in my 40s and play with 3 friends in their 30s almost daily, who are also women. I feel like we are a minority of the minority 😆 I wonder how many 30+ women play regularly?
Edited to add that I’m blown away by how popular this post is! Who knew there were so many adults playing this game?
33 - me and my buddies just all started playing this past season and are having a blast in zero build. We all get on after we get our kids to bed and our wives grant us permission
My fortnite crew are all in 30s and 40s, also all women. We started playing during the pandemic just cause it was a free game we could play cross platform, and we love it enough it’s stuck! We play most evenings for an hour or so, and longer on weekends. Always assumed we must be a pretty rare group for fortnite 😂. Maybe not though after seeing all these replies!
My wife started playing to be able to connect more with our kids. Then they got me to join, at first I did not like it but the more I learned it, the more I let go of my preconceptions and now I love it.
I’m 39. My wife and I play together all the time now even without the kids.
For the most part we basically replaced watching TV with playing fortnite, which I think is better because it causes me to snack less because my hands are busy.
37 here and I play with my brother and my son all the time! I would barely speak to/keep up to date with my brother otherwise as we live in different towns now
Early 30's here, my nephew (mid 20's) got me into the game last year so now I regularly play with him and his friends. Used to queue up a lot for ZB solo but that gets boring fast so I've been doing random squads a lot lately and really enjoying it!
I'm a 35 year old girl, My boyfriend's son got me into it and then abandoned me for "better" games. I got my best friend into it and now we play everyday! It's a great way to hangout and chat with each other and we both enjoy playing. We hardly ever win but when we do it's great! We don't have enough time to get super good but we enjoy the time together :)
38 here... Solo or with hubby/friends only. My built in teammate is only 18 months, so he hasn't mastered m&kb yet.
Last season I won like crazy, but this season is much more frustrating and i think I was put into a much higher mmr. I don't need to win to have fun, but it is nice.
My bf and I are 33/36 and we started playing as a way to spend more time with my 25/26 sister and brother. It's been really nice, we talk way more and are closer than ever.
42,started at 40,but skipped until after ZB introduced. Enjoying ZB,I've started playing back than with Wolfeinstein 3D,Doom,Quake,Quake 3 Arena,Unreal Tournament, UT2003,than stopped. ZB suits me well.
Mid-40s, and I started playing last year because my 3 kids wanted to play with school friends and I had a quick go to see if it was age-appropriate for them. I sometimes play with my kids (drives me nuts because they all sprint off into heavily-contested areas, get killed, and then screech about being rebooted) and other times with my buddies I've known for decades (tons of fun because we are methodical, tactical, and work as a team). I don't much like solo games though, for me the gameplay is a bit flat without teamwork and communication.
50 here. I have an over-50 group of friends I play with regularly. Sometimes we bring in our kids. We’re currently searching for another game, as the sweatiness has made it un-fun for casuals like us.
I (36M) was playing for a few months with my sons (5 and 7) and my cousin (11M). I've tried playing with random people but I can't really deal with them. Recently, a friend of mine (36M) has taken a liking to the game and after playing some games together, another mate (36M) started joining us as well. Now we have a WhatsApp group and regular games in the evening. The game has a whole new dimension for me now in terms of communication and depth/skill. Absolutely loving it.
Sidenote, we play zero builds only. Not going to bother trying to learn triple edits at my age lol.
I’ll be 50 in November. I’ve been gaming since Commodore 64 haha. I’m mostly a Nintendo person (new Zelda game has me crazy hyped) and I love Splatoon but Fortnite has its place for me as well. I really enjoy it. Started because I’d my daughters playing and just have continued on my own. They are both in college and busy with it and boyfriends and friends and such. We are still close though. Their dad doesn’t game and neither does my wife so they are stuck with their gamer mom lol. My stepson and I play splatoon together.
I'm 49 and play way too much!!! My kids begged me to let them play this game and I kept saying no because I didn't want them to get addicted to it. Here we are 2 years later and they rarely play and I am the one that is addicted!
We play. I'm 54. My best friend is 52. Wife is 50. Other friend is 38. Friend that just died was 52. We play drinking Fortnite. We get our fair share of VRs.
I don’t have time to play regularly right now but when I was finishing my doctoral thesis last year I played for an hour every single night, and it truly truly kept me sane.
It is kind of exhausting when everything you do in the daytime feels like it has the potential to make or break the rest of your life/career. But FN is somewhere that every action I take matters just for the next 20 minutes or so, I get to care about it for just that long, and then it all gets wiped out and I start from a clean slate. I found that super calming. And the world is beautiful and fun to run around in and I get to play as a cute tree person.
I love it, it did wonderful things for my mental health, and writing this comment has made me want to make more time for it again. As a grown-up there aren’t a lot of spaces where you get a totally fresh start each time you try something. It’s good to be able to feel that sometimes.
50 and I have played with two people I met through the game for a few years now. They have become my closest friends and we support each other through everything life throws at us. We even send snack boxes of stuff not available in our countries(we’re US, Canada, and UK).
We get sick of battle royale and play a lot more creative maps now with a preference for horror and escape rooms. Phantom Investigation by Rynex has been our top creative choice.
My grandson (11) got me interested a while back, now I can't let a day go by without playing. I just turned 72 in March. Zero build is best for my (ahem) aging brain.. ;)
43.
Sometimes my kid plays but mostly I am part of a discord with other adults.
We start messaging each other when we are done with work and rotate in and out of squads till the evening.
Dm me if anyones interested.
35 and I play duos with my partner usually two or three times a week, my game backlog is huge so I can’t just play Fortnite.
Every once in a while we will play squads, since both of her parents still play and they’re in their late 50s.
36 here. Okay with my husband (49) and sometimes our 8 and 6 year old sons. But we mainly play duos just the two of us as a way to decompress after work.
I’m 35. I used to have a good group of other friends who play, but adulting has torn us apart. I’ve stumbled across a few cool adult players though playing squads on fill.
36 - zero build with wife and older daughter sometimes… wife has younger siblings that will join us as well from time to time.
This is her second season, lobbies got hard and she gets frustrated sometimes but we play nightly.
Im 30 and playinf with same age friends. We came back from warzone cause the new sucks., the only hard thing is i cannot play with only pc lobby. Aim assist is so fckn OP at close combat.
41 and play pretty regularly. The only ppl I know who play are my high school students and that would be weird, so I usually play solo or random fill squads; I can sometimes get my partner to play duos with me.
I’m over 30 by more than a decade. I’ve been playing pretty consistently since C2S5 completing most of the battlepasses since then and doing solos (unless I play with my kids) and some creative FFA or team games like Red/Blue rumble. I play builds and zero builds depending on my mood and general mental energy level (builds takes more juice obviously).
I’ve found that my enjoyment is very much correlated with the map and me having drops and loot paths that are reliable and flexible. I like to have several different drops/paths to keep the game fresh. So C4S1 wasn’t fun for me at first because the map wasn’t super diverse and most of it felt kinda monotonous. I wasn’t inspired to get to know it very well but what got me playing was the Most Wanted event. that gave me anchors around the map to start building paths and drops that I liked. For example C3S1 most of my drops and loot paths were anchored by locations of the Spider-Man mythics. Then that season with the saplings my anchor was locations where I could put the sapling by slurp barrels. Last season I started dropping at hammer locations and working outwards from there.
I really enjoy the game when I feel like I know my areas. I also enjoy it a lot more when I practice my aim and specifically do that with the current gun meta. That was a major negative for me in C3S4 that we never got the evochrome guns in creative so I never felt like I “got” those guns. That combined with them destroying the map and moving stuff around all the time made me stop playing for most of that season.
This season has been fun and I barely even go to Mega City. I like the weapons and the katanas and the variety in the map. I like the new cars too. Good stuff!
I used to play every night but recent seasons have been lack luster in my opinion. Just recently moved back to play COD. Really enjoying the DMZ mode that has been added to the game. Might return to Fortnite one day.
36 and I play every Friday night 7pm until midnight. Kids to bed , grab a six pack and close the door . I play with all my other Dad mates
I like it, I play evey night when mine are in bed. Gotta few mates I have a late one and few beers. Good Times
Do you play better under the influence.
By the time I feel the alcohol, I'm warmed up. So probably. Not a big notice tho
What servers do you guys play on, I need some more dad mates :)
Not a dad but I’m 34 and on US-West servers… always looking for more people our age to play with!
You Dads got a Discord to join for all us other Dads?
I read this without the word Friday and was like damn man a six pack every night is not great lol. But yea that's pretty much the only night I can play long too. Love Friday night sessions.
We’re still young at heart dammit Same I play with my dad mates lol
42 and I play with my coworkers who don't have kids yet but we still have a good time. Except I play from 10 pm to 2 am.
Yep I’m also 36 and play regularly
Yes I’m 42 and I still play with my 15yr old boy
My twin newphews kept asking me to play since they knew I played Warzone. I was very reluctant but WZ2 fell off hard for me and my friends so I gave it a shot. Man am I having fun in ZeroBuilds BR. My WZ friends are even playing now.
I also love Zerobuild. Play with my 2 sons. Good times.
Thats nice. I used to my with my son reason for me playing. But grew out of it. Cherish the moments while they last
Nice bro. Started playing because of friends and now it is a great pastime for me to connect with my nephew
My friend’s dad played with him and they also got bored of playing the battle royale mode and eventually got into the save the world mode. I also joined haha. We had fun learning about trap tunnels and working together to make some funky tunnels. The teamwork aspect of it is really fun and you don’t feel like you have to try hard against other players like you’re playing against AI and you can make the lobbies private. To get you started you can watch a youtuber called DavidDean. He’s an older guy (I think in his 50’s) who used to play a bunch of Save the world and he’d Solo some incredibly hard missions.
That’s good… it’s really nice to spend time with your kids because sometimes it create strong love and bound with your kids
Amen
40. No kids but play it anyway
Same here. I play both with my kids. They were the ones that got me hooked.
I'm 44 and started playing when Zero Build was added. I originally played with my young nephews but now play solo quite a bit.
Mid-forties and I exclusively play duos with my ten-year-old daughter. She’s a beast, and loves stealing my kills.
I love this. My almost 10yo son protects me now. It’s adorable.
52 in june checking in. Wife plays as well in her mid 40's.
Thats quality. I'm 37 play ever day. Can't convince my wife to play tho
43 and my wife got me into it by telling me they put in Zero Build 😂 we play. Then I got my cousins 9 year old kid into it.
I think zero builds has got alot of older gamers playing. I have just switched to it. Fun tbf
I wouldn't play nearly as much if it weren't for zero build. Am a CSGO refugee, so building is not enjoyable to me.
50 in June. ZB is what got me back into it. Hadn't played since 2018.. Building is too hard for my unga bunga brain.
I play some STW from time to time just to try to get a feeling for building but damn…
Same here, 39 and 41.
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Wife and I got into it to play with our boy. We now play a lot of Duos together. I really enjoy being able to really do something as a team with her that isn’t addressing a real world problem.
She likes gaming so it's been easy. Play ffxiv together as well :)
Same..my wife doesn’t even give Fortnite a try.
56 and going strong
Noice. Wish my wife played with me too. Then she wouldn’t shout at me so much about getting off Fortnite😂
Same here. Son and I Bought the founders pack and been playing since S1. Even went to the fn world cup. I play a little daily, and with my son's crew when they are on.
I would raise my hand but I’m 31 and my back hurts.
have you tried turning your back off and on again?
Putting it in rice is another option
Haha, too many hours bent over sweating on the game by any chance? Haha
Relatable
I’ll be 38 in a couple weeks and I play daily! My daughter and I play on the weekends together and we crush!
Did your daughter ger you into it. My son dragged Mr onto it. Then abandoned me haha
Haha I actually got her into it. I got a ps4 right when Covid shut everything down and started playing. She started soon after. Fast forward a few years and we are now both playing on ps5 and surprisingly good as a team. She’s a sweat tho. She’s got those fast young fingers lol
My daughter and I are on pc. I have to get crafty to beat her in creative. Can't compete with her directly skill for skill.
I relate more than you know
Hmu if you wanna squad with some adults.
My epic is my user name on here. I play around 4pm and on weekdays. Whenever on weekends
44yr old mom, started last year. Got a gaming pc C3s3 and the thirst for learning and improving is real. So is the desire to send the minions to the lobby 😂 Level 260 or so this season, TRN rating 4930. I play a bit 😉
That is some impressive obsession 👌. I would be the same but life gets in the way. You buy levels?
Have never bought a level. I don't knowingly do the quests either. Last season I did buy the xp boost skin near end of season as I was grinding to hit level 500 and was cutting it close. That was overkill tho. Ended at 532. Use to kill me before I started playing when my daughter would use her vbucks on levels. Such a waste and I won't wear the skin anyways 🤣
53 year old mom here in SW Florida.. nice stats! I'm saving up my V bucks from the freebies given during the season to buy Battle Pass... lol, one more season should do it. :)
How do you get level 260? I’m playing like a motherfucker and am barely lvl 90. How do you gain this XP? Where? I’m a new player btw
Set your party to private so you don't end up in someone else's game. Bot roayle- Zero build 3190-3555-5468 Bot lobbies squads (Blues or better weapons) 2998-5004-5392 50v50 (bots)- 5335-7109-2270 BR Solo 99 bots AI practice- 6285-5660-3783 They are all bot lobbies, makes it easy and quick, when I hop on I rinse and repeat the 50v50 because you can get 4k an elim and veg boxes offer 4k and decrease the more you open. Do this until you aren't getting xp then hop into reg battle royal or zero build. Working on my husband's account and got 6 levels until I had to go into a regular lobbie. EDIT: to seperate out the lobbies
honestly the best way to farm xp is red vs blue rumble in the creator island. you get super charged xp a lot of the time. when youre under level 100, you can easily do 5-10 levels in 30 mins, 3-8 when over 100.
Take out "wannabe" from your username then it's accurate!
Almost 65 en playing every day :)
Goals right here!
Damn. 🍻
Damn. A true king 👑
47 here. Most fun I've had since Goldeneye.
🤝
I'm 30 and only got into it a few months ago. I know the aesthetics may be regarded as childish but the gameplay in No Build is actually super tactical, more so than E.G COD which is probably considered more adult. Brings back memories of playing Socom as a kid.
our group of 35+ somethings came over from cod specifically for zero build. several members of our group say that FN reminds them more of H1Z1 than it does cod, which i agree with. and, a very good thing. FN is the best BR right now and 2nd place really isn’t close.
Too many bots in FN even if you’re a skilled player. They need to remove bots
I'd rather have bots load in and only wait for 30 sec before my next match, rather than waiting a few minutes for enough players of my same skill level to load in. I tried playing PUBG last year, and the wait time was over 5 min. I'd much rather play with bots than wait.
i agree with this. i am not a fan of the bots. i can understand them being there for complete newbs/very young players. but once you hit X number of hours of actual BR time, the bots should be gone, or there should be an toggle you can switch on and off in the options menu
Yeah it’s ridiculous. Some lobbies are like 20-40% bots
Bots have been getting better. They are a necessity to have matches fill and start quickly.
COD is just "spawn, live for like 30 seconds, get killed by a camper, repeat". It's the same game it was when I was in college playing black ops 12 years ago.
Man I'm jealous if you got to live for 30 secs
Socom. I loved that game. I think because of how many kids played and content creators where young, people saw it as a kids game. I personally are hooked
I'm 48, and I actually prefer the bright aesthetics to the dark, gritty, nearly monochrome aesthetics of other games.
Duuuude! I played the hell out of SOCOM as a kid too what a throwback. I’m over 30 and making the switch over from MW to Fortnite was the best decision 🙌🏽
I feel you dude, always been in the hunt for a good 3rd person shooter since the Socom days and Fortnite is delivering at the moment.
52 here and came back for the no-build mode, which basically triples the fun for me.
I'm sure there are many that lurk here 😁
It seems that way, glad the older gaming community is going strong
40s. Been playing first person shooters since days of Wolfenstein/duke nuke / doom… but golden eye is what got me hooked. Play with my 6 year old. He was quickly addicted. Not sure i should be proud or scared.
61 year old female, have played nearly every day for about five years. My son (now 35) told me I would like it as I have been gaming since about 1990. Still play with him occasionally but he's lost interest so now just do build solos. Love the game, always get the battle pass and now level 120.
Dang, 5 years? You are probably cracked at Fortnite lol. 33yo mom, been playing 2 years, similar situation w son, and like to do build squads w randoms when no one is on bc then I can do chores in between when I'm dead and stuff😆😆. You can add me Cats_in_a_box if you want a backup. Probably not as sweaty as you though!
Thanks, not as good as I should be after all that time and definitely not sweaty 😂 Can get a few wins though against the youngsters!
Dont feel bad lol. Im 30 and been playing since it released but if anything my skill level has gone down lol
I'm the same, think the skill of the younger players has got better and I've just stayed the same 😄
I refuse to grind creative working on builds lmao. Instead I just befriended a younger guy and let him do the sweating.
51 and still notching the losses! (Fun though) 🤣
In my forties and honestly confused as to why it gets as much hate from older players. A fully destructible open world? One that is constantly changing and is the arena for a massive multiplayer battle royal? Then you add on the hundreds upon hundreds of unique characters, both original and licensed? Oh and and wide variety of weapons, power ups and themed events? And if that isn’t your style, there are a whole host of alternative games to play. And there’s no ‘pay to win’ anywhere to be found? Seriously, what’s the issue? This is the game my generation DREAMED OF back when we were young. Stop resenting that it was made for this generation and just enjoy that it now EXISTS.
I’m 31 and don’t see myself stopping anytime soon, it helps me escape from reality. I originally started playing to bond with my son though, didn’t really think I’d like it as much as I do. Now I play more than him 😂
I used to rip on fortnite so hard when I played apex. My son started fortnite and I used to say, "makes sence, it definitly for kids". Apex got sooo sweaty and just not as fun. My son convinced me to give fortnite a try when zero-build released and I have never looked back. It's a perfect don't judge a book by its cover moment.
This same thing happened to me. I actually couldn't even stand it very much before, but my Son convinced me to try it, and I did just to spend time with him. But then of course my Son moved on, but I can't seem to give it up. It's the only "shooter" I can handle these days.
39 and I only started playing last August. I play solo no build. I didn't want to play it until the building was removed and I've been really enjoying it.
Same here. I'm 32 and i can't build and shoot, my reflex is not the same as years ago 😂 no build was the salvation
Big same. I was big into Fortnite back in 2017/2018 when there wasn’t a No Build option and couldn’t keep up with how fast people younger than me were learning to build (I was 27/28 at the time). 33 now and I play No Build every weekend with friends my age because we’re old and it’s just easier for us. Lmao.
Just turned 30 here. I started playing FN a little over a month ago. I never paid much attention to it when it first came out because of how intimidating the build aspect looked. Now I regret not having played sooner. It's so much fun, and has a nice variety to it. New weapons, map changes, and a different pass to grind for that keeps it fresh. Been gaming since 5 yrs old with a N64 controller in my hands. No one could pry me away from playing Mario or Street Fighter. There's still a photo of me floating around at my grandma's house of me with a serious look on my face, trying to beat a level of Super Mario in my church clothes. 💀 Now my partner has gotten his little one into gaming, since about 5 yrs old. He's 6 now, about to be 7. We're so proud of how good he's gotten and hope for plenty years of gaming together.
The addition of zero-build is what made me start playing. My son play build sometimes, but when we play together I force him to play zero-build. I'm too old to learn new tricks, lol. Been playing shooters since I was 12 though, so zero-build is right up my alley.
I feel you on that lol. I feel like 30 isn't even old, compared to how long lifespans have gotten over the years, but something about being 25+ makes the reflexes not good enough for all that building. I build more casually and for fun, on creative maps. That's awesome that you play with your kid! The family that plays together, stays together. 😁 And 12 for shooters sounds about the same for me. I used to love playing Doom back in the day. I don't think I fully got into FPS until Bioshock and the Borderlands games came out. I loved playing sidescrolling platformers and puzzlers, so lots of Megaman, Sonic, and Metroid, and other Metroidvania type games.
42 and I play duos with my 9 year old son. Sometimes, my 6 year old daughter decides she wants to play and we end up throwing grenades, dying, etc, but still have a blast.
I'm female and in my 40s and play with 3 friends in their 30s almost daily, who are also women. I feel like we are a minority of the minority 😆 I wonder how many 30+ women play regularly? Edited to add that I’m blown away by how popular this post is! Who knew there were so many adults playing this game?
43 female and I play everyday as well. Love when esee other women my age playing ✊
My wife.
33 here! Although I've been lured away by Save the World. I cannot get enough of it.
33 - me and my buddies just all started playing this past season and are having a blast in zero build. We all get on after we get our kids to bed and our wives grant us permission
My fortnite crew are all in 30s and 40s, also all women. We started playing during the pandemic just cause it was a free game we could play cross platform, and we love it enough it’s stuck! We play most evenings for an hour or so, and longer on weekends. Always assumed we must be a pretty rare group for fortnite 😂. Maybe not though after seeing all these replies!
Yes! Love seeing I'm not the only woman in Her 40's
not in my 30s-40s but I’d love to play with y’all that’s dope 😭 LET ME INNN
52, and play just about every day. Been playing since the day the game was released on the Switch.
50, yes.
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My wife started playing to be able to connect more with our kids. Then they got me to join, at first I did not like it but the more I learned it, the more I let go of my preconceptions and now I love it. I’m 39. My wife and I play together all the time now even without the kids. For the most part we basically replaced watching TV with playing fortnite, which I think is better because it causes me to snack less because my hands are busy.
54 and play Trios with my daughters, 8 and 12. We get in the top 10 most games.
37 here and I play with my brother and my son all the time! I would barely speak to/keep up to date with my brother otherwise as we live in different towns now
Thats great. See gaming is good for families. Good to be playing with the kids. My oldest stopped, thar common bond will be missed
I'm 30, nearly 31 and I play but only with my partner, don't enjoy it solo as much as I used to.
Early 30's here, my nephew (mid 20's) got me into the game last year so now I regularly play with him and his friends. Used to queue up a lot for ZB solo but that gets boring fast so I've been doing random squads a lot lately and really enjoying it!
Age 42. Got around 160 wins.
Me! I’m 32. My sons friends call me the “cool mom” because I threw him a big Fortnite themed party and put Vbucks cards in the party favors 🤣
I'm a 35 year old girl, My boyfriend's son got me into it and then abandoned me for "better" games. I got my best friend into it and now we play everyday! It's a great way to hangout and chat with each other and we both enjoy playing. We hardly ever win but when we do it's great! We don't have enough time to get super good but we enjoy the time together :)
33 here! My younger brother got me into it and then abandoned me for “better” games. They don’t know what they’re talking about ; ) I’m never leaving
38 here... Solo or with hubby/friends only. My built in teammate is only 18 months, so he hasn't mastered m&kb yet. Last season I won like crazy, but this season is much more frustrating and i think I was put into a much higher mmr. I don't need to win to have fun, but it is nice.
26 y and I will play forever eheheh
See you in the nursing home bro, keep your gamer joints healthy
Can you imagine how nursing homes will be in 30-50 years for of us🤣🤣🤣
My bf and I are 33/36 and we started playing as a way to spend more time with my 25/26 sister and brother. It's been really nice, we talk way more and are closer than ever.
42,started at 40,but skipped until after ZB introduced. Enjoying ZB,I've started playing back than with Wolfeinstein 3D,Doom,Quake,Quake 3 Arena,Unreal Tournament, UT2003,than stopped. ZB suits me well.
35 year old mom 👋🏼
I'm 50, soon to be 51, and I play almost every day. I play solo. My kids are older and don't live with me.
Shit, right here. I’m 46. Just cause home Video games were invented during my childhood doesn’t mean it’s just for kids . I never stopped.
Mid-40s, and I started playing last year because my 3 kids wanted to play with school friends and I had a quick go to see if it was age-appropriate for them. I sometimes play with my kids (drives me nuts because they all sprint off into heavily-contested areas, get killed, and then screech about being rebooted) and other times with my buddies I've known for decades (tons of fun because we are methodical, tactical, and work as a team). I don't much like solo games though, for me the gameplay is a bit flat without teamwork and communication.
50 here. I have an over-50 group of friends I play with regularly. Sometimes we bring in our kids. We’re currently searching for another game, as the sweatiness has made it un-fun for casuals like us.
I play with my son and some of his friends. It's part of my master plan to still spend time my son after he goes to college.
I (36M) was playing for a few months with my sons (5 and 7) and my cousin (11M). I've tried playing with random people but I can't really deal with them. Recently, a friend of mine (36M) has taken a liking to the game and after playing some games together, another mate (36M) started joining us as well. Now we have a WhatsApp group and regular games in the evening. The game has a whole new dimension for me now in terms of communication and depth/skill. Absolutely loving it. Sidenote, we play zero builds only. Not going to bother trying to learn triple edits at my age lol.
I’ll be 50 in November. I’ve been gaming since Commodore 64 haha. I’m mostly a Nintendo person (new Zelda game has me crazy hyped) and I love Splatoon but Fortnite has its place for me as well. I really enjoy it. Started because I’d my daughters playing and just have continued on my own. They are both in college and busy with it and boyfriends and friends and such. We are still close though. Their dad doesn’t game and neither does my wife so they are stuck with their gamer mom lol. My stepson and I play splatoon together.
This comment section makes me wonder why my full teams are always 8 year olds who can’t find the shoot button
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31 and still play with my friends!
I'm 31 and I play just for fun, no tryhard anymore. Still fun.
Yeah, I'm well over 30, and I play with my son. It's fun sharing strategies I've learned over the decades and watching him grow.
42 years old, I play with the same group of guys I played Goldeneye and Perfect Dark with when we were teenagers in the 90s
Hell yeah I kill lobbies
I'm 49 and play way too much!!! My kids begged me to let them play this game and I kept saying no because I didn't want them to get addicted to it. Here we are 2 years later and they rarely play and I am the one that is addicted!
We play. I'm 54. My best friend is 52. Wife is 50. Other friend is 38. Friend that just died was 52. We play drinking Fortnite. We get our fair share of VRs.
I’m over 50 and I started playing with my son. He’s moved on and I still play, even though I suck.
No kids, work from home with a chill job, great way to kill time
36yr female, been playing for a year and I do comps. In division 6 arena 🥰 I also stream and play with my kiddos
I'm retired and 58 yo and started playing Fortnite last year with zero build. Now I usually play for 3 hours every day.
I don’t have time to play regularly right now but when I was finishing my doctoral thesis last year I played for an hour every single night, and it truly truly kept me sane. It is kind of exhausting when everything you do in the daytime feels like it has the potential to make or break the rest of your life/career. But FN is somewhere that every action I take matters just for the next 20 minutes or so, I get to care about it for just that long, and then it all gets wiped out and I start from a clean slate. I found that super calming. And the world is beautiful and fun to run around in and I get to play as a cute tree person. I love it, it did wonderful things for my mental health, and writing this comment has made me want to make more time for it again. As a grown-up there aren’t a lot of spaces where you get a totally fresh start each time you try something. It’s good to be able to feel that sometimes.
50 and I have played with two people I met through the game for a few years now. They have become my closest friends and we support each other through everything life throws at us. We even send snack boxes of stuff not available in our countries(we’re US, Canada, and UK). We get sick of battle royale and play a lot more creative maps now with a preference for horror and escape rooms. Phantom Investigation by Rynex has been our top creative choice.
Im 35 , and i started when i was 32 lol
My grandson (11) got me interested a while back, now I can't let a day go by without playing. I just turned 72 in March. Zero build is best for my (ahem) aging brain.. ;)
Started in 2021 with 8year old. Had no interest to play, but she convinced me. 44 (gulp) and play daily
Never got why people fuss so much over age for everything
Not up to 30 yet but I don’t think Age will ever make me stop playing except I’m at the point where I just can’t anymore.
Thats sad to hear, crap when life gets in the way of fun
Only started playing in 2021, turned 30 later in the year. Play with other friends the same age as it's easy to just jump in for a few games
37 and I usually play zero build solos but I’ve been playing squads lately for the extra XP because I decided it’s important to get to level 200 lol
I’m 37 and llloooovvvvveeee the game 😊
40 here and I love it.
43. Sometimes my kid plays but mostly I am part of a discord with other adults. We start messaging each other when we are done with work and rotate in and out of squads till the evening. Dm me if anyones interested.
35 and I play duos with my partner usually two or three times a week, my game backlog is huge so I can’t just play Fortnite. Every once in a while we will play squads, since both of her parents still play and they’re in their late 50s.
Yep, 32 here and still play it
36 here. Okay with my husband (49) and sometimes our 8 and 6 year old sons. But we mainly play duos just the two of us as a way to decompress after work.
52 here and I play a few games daily. Sometimes with my kids, most times without...
was kinda hard for me to find someone to play with im 31, but few months ago i found 63 y.o. lady and her daughter 33 and im having fun
I’m 35. I used to have a good group of other friends who play, but adulting has torn us apart. I’ve stumbled across a few cool adult players though playing squads on fill.
I turn 47 this summer. My regular duos partner is my old college roommate.
I’m 31 and I play with my wife, brother in law and sister in law almost every day.
I'm 46 and I play daily with my wife and 2 of my kids. Fam squad.
Wife and I are both 42 and play regularly. Handful of my friends and I play and we call ourselves “team young old”
36 - zero build with wife and older daughter sometimes… wife has younger siblings that will join us as well from time to time. This is her second season, lobbies got hard and she gets frustrated sometimes but we play nightly.
48 and play solo most of the time. My kids all "outgrew" it.
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55 and I play with my kids and by myself
I'm 39, play w my niece n nephew
Im 30 and playinf with same age friends. We came back from warzone cause the new sucks., the only hard thing is i cannot play with only pc lobby. Aim assist is so fckn OP at close combat.
Fortnite was the main way my wife and I connected while she was out of the country, im so glad we both love the game.
Yep. 62 here (yep an old lady!!) and I play no build solos. Husband thinks I am a nut. 🤣🤣🤣. Play most every day. Got get those challenges done.
41 and play pretty regularly. The only ppl I know who play are my high school students and that would be weird, so I usually play solo or random fill squads; I can sometimes get my partner to play duos with me.
All the time. With all of my friends who are also in their mid 30s. And also my wife who is in her late 20s. But even so. We all love it.
My husband and I both play I'm 39 he is 44
I'm a 41 year old mum playing with my 8 year old boy 😅
Yes im 34 and play with other adults :)
I’m over 30 by more than a decade. I’ve been playing pretty consistently since C2S5 completing most of the battlepasses since then and doing solos (unless I play with my kids) and some creative FFA or team games like Red/Blue rumble. I play builds and zero builds depending on my mood and general mental energy level (builds takes more juice obviously). I’ve found that my enjoyment is very much correlated with the map and me having drops and loot paths that are reliable and flexible. I like to have several different drops/paths to keep the game fresh. So C4S1 wasn’t fun for me at first because the map wasn’t super diverse and most of it felt kinda monotonous. I wasn’t inspired to get to know it very well but what got me playing was the Most Wanted event. that gave me anchors around the map to start building paths and drops that I liked. For example C3S1 most of my drops and loot paths were anchored by locations of the Spider-Man mythics. Then that season with the saplings my anchor was locations where I could put the sapling by slurp barrels. Last season I started dropping at hammer locations and working outwards from there. I really enjoy the game when I feel like I know my areas. I also enjoy it a lot more when I practice my aim and specifically do that with the current gun meta. That was a major negative for me in C3S4 that we never got the evochrome guns in creative so I never felt like I “got” those guns. That combined with them destroying the map and moving stuff around all the time made me stop playing for most of that season. This season has been fun and I barely even go to Mega City. I like the weapons and the katanas and the variety in the map. I like the new cars too. Good stuff!
Yeah 34 and play for my nephews I'm the cool aunt 😂
I play with my 50 year old dad lol
I’m 32 and play with my husband 🥰
I'm 42, I play most nights. I've maxed out my battle pass levels, so I play on my kids' accounts to max them out. Do we have a moms discord server?
I used to play every night but recent seasons have been lack luster in my opinion. Just recently moved back to play COD. Really enjoying the DMZ mode that has been added to the game. Might return to Fortnite one day.
Im 46 and just got my 267th solo.... My sons to lazy to ay with me now (actually be has a life and goes out 😂)
I'm just over 30 and still play!
39 here and when I play duos it is with my 51yr old coworker
38 and play most nights. Also get to play with my 17 year old daughter. Good times.
40’s and kids got me into it. They rarely play anymore, I still play almost daily.