Vidjama Gmaes Work

With a full month to spare.

I decided that next season I’m going to start tracking how much time I play Fortnite so I can answer how long it took me to finish the battle pass. But I did in fact beat Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 1 with nearly a full month to spare (it is January 27 as I am starting to write this), making this likely the fastest I have ever fully completed a season. And by fully completed I mean hitting level 200 to get all the cosmetics.

Chapter 6: Season 1 of Fortnite started on a bad note; with Epic attempting to sabotage everyone’s experience gains and getting trashed all over the net for it. The experience drain was so bad that they buffed the rates several times in the span of a week. I guess it’s important to state that up to Chapter 6, Fortnite had a daily cap on experience. With the new season, Epic changed it to a weekly cap and steeply lowered how much players could gain.

I guess we should talk about the storyline for Fortnite and where it is at. I only say that because I need a recap myself if we’re being completely honest. OG Chapter 2 remix took place in an alternate reality similar (but not exactly like) to Chapter 2 season 2 of Fortnite, but in this reality the island is run by rappers; Snoop, Ice Spice, Eminem, Juice WRLD. At the end of the season they all had a big concert and threw the loopers into Reality 783, where Chapter 6 takes place.

In other words, we are no longer even on the same plane of reality as the Fortnite island. Oninoshima is a Japan-themed world being invaded by demons. Over the course of the season so far the players have assisted in defending the island and uncovering the secrets of the island’s magic. In the last story set I played before this piece comes out, we help free the Night Rose from enslavement and the ultimate goal is to rescue this woman Jade from the demons.

I don’t know.

Chapter 6 Season 1 had me all over the board between “what the hell” and “yeah that makes sense.” The Skibidi Toilet back bling is genuinely scarier than anything I could have imagined would appear in the game. Everyone saw the Mariah Carey ice block joke coming, but it was still hilarious. The Godzilla event was so sparse that you might have completely missed it happening in your sessions and probably never got the chance of playing as Godzilla.

Let’s talk about some of the non-battle royale game modes. Starting with OG Chapter 1! I am both a fan and also not a fan. I liked OG Chapter 1 because it got rid of a lot of the ridiculous weapons and most importantly the cars that overload the standard battle royale. On the other hand the player base is nauseatingly sweaty and Epic’s answer has been to gradually thin out modes with more and more bots in each match.

Ballistic is probably exactly what you’d expect out of Fortnite. I played a handful of matches on launch day and haven’t gone back since. Epic’s absolute shoddy work schedule of quarter-ass releasing new modes well before they’re ready and calling it early access is bad enough. The player base being mostly toddlers just kinda meant that nobody knew what they were doing. A quarter of my team was AFK, the guy who picked up the bomb didn’t realize the goal was to plant it, and the other team always had that one hacker/sweat to ruin the game.

Lego Fortnite Life is utterly stupid and serves no purpose ever anywhere. And finally the Hatsune Miku season for Fortnite Festival got me paying out probably $20 for some new songs on the Festival playlist. I have to hand it to Epic, they have me wrapped up in the ecosystem. The Fortnite Crew keeps me topped up with V-bucks so I’m not spending extra money, and I definitely wouldn’t have spent $5 per song on Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But they got me spending that on Fortnite.

I’ll probably end up playing the last story missions for Season 1, but I don’t plan on seriously going back and playing again until Season 2 launches. I’m looking forward to nearly a full month off of Fortnite.