Fortnite

Yeah I'm looking forward to trying it out later, and then showing my 8yo if all goes well

I've never played Minecraft but I imagine it's a lot like this.It's basically resource gathering and building a village. I think it'll be fine for kids as it's initially one player.

I found the building a bit confusing as you had to follow a specific build rather than slap a wall up anywhere.

That might be my elderly brain and kids might find it a lot easier.

So I linked my Lego account but never got the skin? Did they not send them yet? Have I missed a step somewhere?

I only played with the Lego mode for a few minutes, so it seemed like Minecraft without the creativity (mining, freeform building) but with a lot more structure. 

But if you can do more freeform building at a later stage, that'd address my main issue with the first impression. 

Haven't tried it, but the way they've set it up so you can easily invite up to 7 other mates to your world looks pretty good for kids. 

It's weird talking about this as Lego Minecraft when there are at least several other existing actual Lego Minecraft type games out there. 

They seem to be angling to make Fortnite more of a kid-friendly games hub. 
On the one hand I'm not sure about trying to get younger kids hooked on stuff like that, but on the other hand most of them are already playing it and I wish they'd had some of the younger age stuff and age ratings when mine were younger. 

I wish they had a 15 or 14 age rating though, for a few of those horror games. Right now if you permit Battle Royale (12+) you basically have to permit everything. 

I got mine instantly. It's quite a cool skin. 
Sorry, that doesn't help. 

Did you go through the link on this page? Not sure if you need to, but maybe. 

www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/fortnite/about

Tried the racing mode. Seems ok, but the whole pack was close together for the entire race, and even when I executed a turn perfectly I was getting overtaken by someone boosting. Possibly a touch of rubber-banding? But I doubt I’ll play enough to figure that out, it’s decent but not groundbreaking.

Someone earlier said it’s harder to get to the end of the new battle pass as it needs more XP. I think that’s true if you only play the Battle Royale mode, but it looks like there’s tonnes of opportunities to earn battle pass levels in the other modes- particularly the racing. Unsurprising really, as they’ll want people to do the other modes and spend VBux on cars, vinyls, wheels etc while they’re there.

Yeah you get like 5 levels just for doing basic Lego stuff, that's like 25 stars. Also the BP goes to March, so there is loads of time.

Matchmaking was borked for me last night as well.
But I could get in if I went back to the lobby and selected specific tracks. But then after a race I had to go back to the lobby and do it again.

Rather enjoyed the Rocket Racing today. Not sure how long lasting the appeal will be, but it has a bit more depth than initial impressions suggest.
Might just be a good pick up and play occasionally game.

Kids have been loving Lego Fortnite. Survival mode is very much like an easy-enetry minecraft-lite, and sandbox mode seems to be mainly about blowing things up with hundreds of barrels of dynamite.

The placeable dynamite barrels from Lego Sandbox should be a thing in regular fortnite.
They'd be a bit like the gas canisters, but you could set them up all over the place and then set them off as traps, etc..

… but it’s a steal when you get three jam tracks that go for 500 Vbux each, plus all the other stuff!

/s

…I actually gasped when I realised they’re selling licensed music tracks for it, but of course they are. They’re going to make so. Much. Money.

Follow-up - after coming first in ranked several times with a >10 second lead, I take this back. Just needed to get used to how much drifting and boosting it expects of you.

I haven’t tried the Jam mode yet… you can mash 2 tracks together? That must take some work to not sound awful.

Everyone poo poohs Fortnite but it really is going from strength to strength.

It's such a different beast to what it was years ago, and it's so much game for a f2p, no pay to win and is so polished.

It's even the most bumped thread here, so that alone says something 😅

Is this game known for being pretty easy?!

My just turned 8 year old was allowed to play it this weekend. He's been gaming of sorts since he was 5 but very Mario/Minecraft/Forza /FIFA orientated other than massively getting into Zelda Breath/Tears.

Out of the six rounds of Fortnite BR he played, he finished one in 99th place (looooser) but the other five, all were top twenty, two were top 10 and two were first motherfucking place.

I find that pretty nuts since he's never played a third person shooter or played competitively online. And didn't/doesn't know the mechanics or map.

Fair play to him though, his latest first place he also bagged 14kills which makes me wonder how TF everyone on there seemed so bad. My kid was making all the rookie mistakes like never reloading, looking at where rounds were firing to rather than from etc and yet was still dominating. May have to jump on myself.