{"id":73637,"date":"2025-01-28T21:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/fortnite-ninja-and-nickmercs-offer-their-opinions-on-why-the-game-has-gotten-a-lot-harder-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T21:22:15","slug":"fortnite-ninja-and-nickmercs-offer-their-opinions-on-why-the-game-has-gotten-a-lot-harder-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/fortnite-ninja-and-nickmercs-offer-their-opinions-on-why-the-game-has-gotten-a-lot-harder-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite: Ninja and NICKMERCS offer their opinions on why the game has gotten a lot harder &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite: Ninja and NICKMERCS offer their opinions on why the game has gotten a lot harder Fortnite includes tons of goofy and colorful items that cover-up the game\u2019s deep competitive nature, and popular Twitch streamers think they know why the game\u2019s been more difficult to play. Fortnite Battle Royale came out in September of 2017 and has since been the host to many highlight reels, increasing user base and large prize pool tournaments, leading to notable names recognizing the game\u2019s community improvement over since launch. Popular streamers Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins and 100 Thieves Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff commented on the state of the game, in particular to its difficulty, and had similar messages detailing the community\u2019s overall competitive development. For NICKMERCS, the competitiveness has dwindled the possibilities of situations where someone can earn 20 or more kills in a game because of how far the average user has come in Fortnite. \u201cThe average Fortnite player is way better than they used to be. There was a time when 99% of Fortnite players didn\u2019t even build.\u201d NICKMERCSsaid. \u201c\u2026 I used to be able to get 20 kill wins every stream. But now, getting a 20 kill win is YouTube worthy, that\u2019s big.\u201d Read more: Fortnite: Epic Games reveal EVERY change coming to the X-4 Stormwing plane in v7.10 update &#8211; Ninja\u2019s view on the matter is similar. Twitch\u2019s biggest streamer says that players have found their own way to excel in any given match on Fortnite that has contributed to the sweeping improvement in the player base. \u201cThere\u2019s always going to be that incredible builder or shooter,\u201d Ninja said. \u201cYou can not be as talented as somebody at shooting or building, but if you make the right decisions and rotate, you can be one of the best players in the game\u201d Read more: Fortnite: Fresh Prince of Bel-Air actor Alfonso Ribeiro suing Epic Games for using Carlton Dance as emote &#8211; The game isn\u2019t lacking in users and as long as it remains popular Fortnite will actively enjoy an increasingly competitive fan-base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite: Ninja and NICKMERCS offer their opinions on why the game has gotten a lot harder Fortnite includes tons of goofy and colorful items that cover-up the game\u2019s deep competitive nature, and popular Twitch streamers think they know why the game\u2019s been more difficult to play. Fortnite Battle Royale came out in September of 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}