Here\u2019s What Epic Games Has Planned for Competitive Fortnite in the Coming Months Epic Games have outlined their plans for competitive Fortnite Battle Royale ahead of 2019\u2019s \u201cofficial Fortnite World Cup\u201d. As part of their August 2018 \u201cState of Development\u201d post, the developers said that the Fortnite Summer Skirmish events have been \u201cproven invaluable as a testing ground\u201d for competitive play in a high-stakes environment. They went on to say that they have been \u201cattempting to find the best balance between simplicity, entertainment, server performance and competitive integrity\u201d before promising that more competitions are on the horizon: \u201cExpect for us to continue operating and supporting competitive events after the conclusion of Summer Skirmish as we lead into next year\u2019s official Fortnite World Cup.\u201d The post also discusses the ongoing development of a live spectating feature with \u201cfunctionality similar to what was featured in the E3 Pro-Am\u201d for live gameplay servers. The improvements will apparently \u201cprovide more high-quality coverage of the action along with map overheads, scoreboards, and drone cameras\u201d and continue to be developed in the coming weeks and months. Finally, the developers say that they are \u201caware of a strong desire from competitive players for more opportunities to compete against one another within the same match\u201d and that development to provide these opportunities is currently underway: \u201cDevelopment recently began for a robust competition system which will allow for all players to compete with one another and be recognized for their accomplishments. The first version of this feature is expected later this Fall.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s What Epic Games Has Planned for Competitive Fortnite in the Coming Months Epic Games have outlined their plans for competitive Fortnite Battle Royale ahead of 2019\u2019s \u201cofficial Fortnite World Cup\u201d. As part of their August 2018 \u201cState of Development\u201d post, the developers said that the Fortnite Summer Skirmish events have been \u201cproven invaluable as […]<\/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-75121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75121","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=75121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}