Fortnite: Save the World Dev Tracker

Our surveys are tied to Epic Games accounts :)

Yes. The surveys are in addition to the feedback the community team gathers from Reddit and other social channels.

Good question. The goal of the survey research is to get a representative sample of our player base for whatever question we are asking. So we don't just send it randomly. Unfortunately, if we just put a link online then that could skew the responses to one group or we may end up with people replying who are trolling and don't play the game.

As mentioned, the survey research and user experience testing are just two of our research methods. We and the community team are also paying attention to posts on social for feedback.

Hey folks!

I’m Ben, the User Experience Lead at Epic Games. My team helps to research the experience y’all are having when playing all of our games and we have been working with devs on Fortnite Save the World since it was early in development. The research takes many forms, but there are two methods I would like to talk about today specifically:

Surveys

We regularly send out surveys and we know that folks here are getting them because we see the posts here saying that they are fake and ways for people to steal your data! It is great that you are being cautious, keep that up. But, also keep an eye out for official communications from Epic, that is us and we want to hear from you. In fact, if you are an alpha player you have probably seen many of our surveys over the years! The feedback we have collected over that time been really valuable and we always want more.

Now, we know that our surveys are sometimes very long. That is becau...

Hey everyone, wanted to clear up a slight typo we had in the blog. We mention that there will be a sale next week but the game will actually be going on sale this week. Sorry about that!

It's coming this week, though it's not tracking toward the beginning of the week. Thanks for hanging in there while this is being sorted. I know it's a pain to wait.

Looks like it went missing. I skipped the cupcakes. Trying to behave!

Birthday wishes are coming in hot! We'll get this figured out. Thanks for hanging in there while we sort through this kind of stuff.

u/jjay554 24 points·2 days ago·edited 2 days ago Why is there so much bacon in toilets???

I guess I don’t understand this question. Where else would you keep your bacon?

Speaking as the Vice President of the Steel Wool fan club, that would be amazing.

u/HelenaLeonhart Are husks people? Most importantly are mist monsters people?

Husks and mist monsters are not people. We have hinted about the origins of the storm creatures, eventually you will be able to discover the answer yourself in game.

Yes.

u/codygray3d First of all, I just wanna say how great the narrative/writing team has been doing with the event dialogue. I've literally laughed out loud almost every event. It's always so funny and not cringe-y in the least. The voice cast, especially Ashley Burch, has been doing a great job of bringing the script to life. My question is: What is the general process of coming up with "event" story lines? One of my favorite things about Save The World is the frequent events. How does your team put things like Fortnitemares, Blockbuster, and Into the Storm together story wise? Do you usually have to work around a pre-existing quest structure or do you decide those kinds of thing?

Once we’ve agreed upon the basic content and theme, we split up into our smaller teams and ...

u/chrisd848 What's it like working with Ashly Burch? She's such a talented voice actress, does she ever bring an improvisation to the script?

I could spend this entire AMA talking about how talented and funny Ashly Burch is. She’s exactly as fun to work with as you’d expect. Ashly does improvise in the studio, and many of her improvised lines make it into the game.

And while I’m at it, I want to call out our entire cast for doing such great work. I feel incredibly lucky to be working with such a talented cast.

Of course you do! We plan on expanding on character lore as the story plays out.

We don't have anything planned for him right now, but I really want to bring him back into the game again.

u/Uttermostdeer5 Please tell us more about the creepy easter eggs in fortnite. I not only want more underground jail cells with trapped children skeletons and empty wheelchairs at the edge of a cliff. But the little tidbit stories to them.

The artists and designers on STW love using ambient storytelling to bring the environments and theaters to life. Sometimes we’ll write these into the story, but I think it’s nice to come across something new and unexpected.

Right now I am watching someone add a new easter egg to Canny Valley, so I promise you there are more on the way. No child skeletons though. They’re not there now, and they won’t be there in the future. We think that would be a bummer.

u/chrisd848 Will we ever getting to have Lok's amaxing voice and french Ray? :)

I think it’s safe to say that Lok’s announcer voice will return at some point. Announcer Lok was really fun to write and Tom Kane’s performance was incredibly well done.

(Pretend I wrote this in French) French Ray is very mysterious. She may return, she may not.