and Epic Games stance on Linux gaming is known

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    The Fortnite game size on my Xbox is already like 180Gb or some other stupidly high number.

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    Most of the Rocket League code is already in Fortnite in the form of the Rocket League racing mode…

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    Porting a game into another game isn’t a thing. There’s not even a term for what this sounds like other than “dumb fuck bullshit”

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    Ported… into… Fortnite? I don’t understand what that means. Like portint Sonic into Mario it just, what

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      Fortnite is a massive platform now, not one game with a few modes. They have car racing, the actual fortnite game, Lego survival crafting, all kinds of stuff. It’s why the download is 100+GB and every patch is like 50gb.

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        They have Rock Band too. Yes really, it’s even worked on by Harmonix, the original creators.

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        What the actual fuck? Glad I quit playing it years ago, cause I like new features but I hate when games stray too far from the original vision (yes I’m aware that BR is a spinoff but you get my point). Why still call it Fortnite, if building forts is no longer a core aspect of the game?

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          The Battle Royale portion is called Fortnite Battle Royale. The true original Fortnite was a sandbox defense game that is now known as Fortnite: Save the World. They are both accessible from the Fortnite lobby.

          Very confusing.

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            They’re trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games. Very interesting concept, there’s a lot of videos about the concept. Though I detest the idea of centralized apps and accounts therefore more central tracking of you.

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              They’re trying to create a Super-app, similar to what WeChat is in China, but for games.

              Like Roblox, actually. They are trying to stanch the users’ leaking out of their cash cow, but shoving everything in will just piss off the kids when fourth 50+ GB patch hits. As for Rocket League, they already mismanaged it to shit, the levels have lost all flair years ago, new ones are inexplicably ugly.

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        Do they even own the publishing rights to the originals to even cut them off? It sounds to me like they’re just making game modes that mimic the gameplay.

        Edit: googled it and omg they do.

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    How can leakers confirm anything? Some fourth-party leaks confirmed that third-party leaks were legit? If I was going to believe “leaks” without material proof, I’d have started with the original, third-party.

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    I don’t understand, this happened years ago. Both Rocket League and Fall Guys originally came out on Steam, but disappeared from the Steam Store and became Epic Games exclusives. If you still own a Steam copy though, you can still play it.

    Is this saying that the game will be unplayable without an Epic Games authentication or something? It’s not like the Steam versions are getting updates anymore, so they should still be playable with other Steam members. Unless the publishers are pushing an update to the Steam version as well.

    EDIT: Upon rereading, I see these games are being ported into another game. Does this affect Steam users at all, since Fortnite is an Epic Games exclusive?

    I won’t touch Epic Games, so this doesn’t seem to have any effect on me.

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      RL on steam is getting updates but only for the windows client. The Linux & mac client is an old version that only works offline. I found this out the other day when I installed rocket league on steam to try out since I haven’t played it in a long time

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          Yeah I ended up installing the windows version with proton, had some weird hiccuping and regular intervals but that might just be me, otherwise it worked fine. I didn’t actually try playing an online match though, only local multiplayer

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    I’m confused, what does that mean ? Will a rocket league -like “mini game” be available in Fortnite, like some sort of crossover ? Will Fortnite have multiple main games like LoL has TFT and Clash Royale has Merge Tactics ? Or will Fortnite just become a game launcher ??

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      It means Epic wants more users to play Fortnite, whatever Fortnite is. They could rename Unreal Engine into Fortnite at some point probably.

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    As the guy that founded the Rocket League Discord server ive always been incredibly saddened by what happened after Epic bought Psyonix.

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    Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior; open source games?

    ’Open source‘ as in software freedom: licenses for code and media that allow modifications and redistribution.

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    I wonder if I can get a refund because my game no longer works due to changes on their end.