14 DAY TRIAL // After getting a re-reveal at the beginning of the week, Fortnite, the next big title from Epic Games, has just received some more details about its actual gameplay and how players will be dropped into the game's procedurally-generated world and left to fend off for themselves.
Fortnite was revealed to the world a few years ago as a third-person shooter with an emphasis on cooperation and on crafting.
Since then, Epic Games has kept the project under a shroud of mystery, declining to offer more details about the state of the game.
Now, thanks to a cover story in Game Informer, fans can finally learn some more things about the next big project from Epic Games.
According to a new list of details from CVG, the game emphasizes a combination of exploration, action, customization, building, and shooting.
The main story won't be heavily emphasized, as players are just thrown in a procedurally-generated world alongside a plank with a nail stuck in it. Using this crude tool, they can start dismantling all sorts of things, from trees, to cars, or chests, each yielding different resources that can then be spent on creating a fort.
The main goal is to work during the day in order to craft better gear and fortifications, and then in the night to go up against vicious supernatural storms that spawn all sorts of monsters in that area. Players will have to use a device called an Atlas in order to close the portal-like gates through which the storms and the monsters appear.
There will be different campaigns and there are at least three variations that require anywhere from 10 to 20 or even 50 hours to complete. Each will bring different procedurally-generated worlds made up of hexagonal tiles. As you stop storms and close portals, more tiles get unlocked and you can explore more of the world.
Environments include the suburbs that we've already seen but also industrial areas, forest ones, and might even get even themed ones for Halloween or Christmas, for example.
Weapon crafting is also quite complex and requires plenty of different materials, such as batteries, machine parts, or other such things. The good news, however, is that players can gift each other different things to speed up the process.
Creating things, like forts, will be a smooth experience, unlike Minecraft, for example, in order to keep things fun and simple.
Fortnite is set to debut towards the end of the year and, so far, it's been confirmed as a free-to-play experience for PC.