Fortnite: Save the World Dev Tracker

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!

We've just released an additional update that should improve performance and decrease load times.

We've just released an update for PC and Mac that contains performance improvements including a fix for long load times. There's no downtime but you may need to restart your game to catch the update.

UPDATE: Looks like people are still experiencing the long load issues. We're looking into this.

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.

All abilities (including TEDDY, Goin' Commando, and Lefty + Righty) are not considered ranged weapons, and should do normal damage to the husks during this challenge.

Jason

Hey everyone,

We want to give a sneak peek into what’s coming up for Challenge the Horde. From now until the end of Season 5 a series of Weekly Horde Challenges will run, providing a different gameplay experience each time. One of these Weekly Challenge missions will appear in the Horde area, set at a difficulty appropriate to your Storm Shield progression.

The challenges will have specific modifiers encouraging the use a variety of different play styles. Each challenge will reward you with something awesome - such as Heroes, Weapons or Seasonal Gold - the first time it’s completed, followed by a repeatable quest that grants event tickets.

The first Weekly Challenge will appear in update v5.2, and will put you up against increasing numbers of Minibosses in each wave. With the release of the v5.2 Content Update the following week, the first challenge will go away and a new one will appear. This second challenge features bulletpro...

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.

Only Canny/Twine for now. If it works out well we may look into reworking Plankerton as well.

Hi folks!

In update v5.1 we’re adding the first chapter of a new three-part narrative quest line to Canny Valley. These are all-new quests that everyone who has finished Plankerton will have access to, regardless of how far into Canny or Twine they have progressed. What I’d like to talk about today is what this means for the structure of Canny Valley and Twine Peaks.

Unlocking these two areas will now be done through a combination of your Storm Shield Defense progression and your Home Base Power Rating. When you complete a Storm Shield Defense the next Defense quest becomes available immediately, so as soon as you feel you can win the fight, you can move on to the next Defense and open up more of the mission map. Disconnecting these unlocks from the storyline allows players to unlock difficulties appropriate to their power rating, so playing events and side-missions with your friends will no longer cause the game difficulty and your power level t...

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.