Fortnite: First UE4 game from Epic, PC Exclusive announced.

[Utnac]

Linky below.

http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012...-be-the-developers-first-unreal-engine-4-game

"The creators of Gears of War and the Unreal Engine came to Comic-Con today to finally talk about their next game, Fortnite, a "a co-op sandbox survival game," according to producer Tanya Jessen. During the panel, the company also revealed the game would be PC exclusive and the first title from Epic to use its next-gen Unreal Engine 4 technology.

Jessen says the new property is about exploration, scavenging gear, building fortified structures and fighting waves of encroaching monsters hellbent on killing you and your friends."

So basically it's TF2 crossed with Minecraft?

 

[Semiskimmed]

sounds superb on paper, hope it lives up to how it sounds!

 

[BloodyL]

The site is timing out, so I'll just go on the wild assumption that it is "Left for Gears of Crackdown Craft".

 

[orderoftheflame]

Saw the teaser trailer for this ages back. Looks like it could be a great laugh with mates.

 

[Shamikebab]

Great concept.

 

[HeX]

Sounds like a seriously pimped out UT Invasion mode mixed with L4D and TF2

 

[Hank_Marvin]

Sounds quite fun and the building of defences sounds cracking.

 

[AWPC]

Bound to be F2P with massive amounts of DLC for the real gameplay. Not sure Epic should bother with PC anymore apart from ensuring UT4 is excellent as their anti-PC stance since 2006 means no matter what games they make it would not get a good reception so why bother

 

[Swi1ch]

It's Epic.

If it's truly PC exclusive, it will be free2play, and probably pay2win and lots of content behind a paywall.

If it's not free2play, they will encounter 'difficulties' and it will be a console release with a delayed, crappy port for the PC.

 

[Deific]

All shooters on PC are going F2P model now with micro-transaction, including the new crytek fps Warhead. This will almost certainly follow suit.

 

[Bumhug]

From Cliff Bleszinsk on twitter

to be clear - Fortnite is PC primary and first, but we wouldn't rule out the possibility of other platforms later.

Would imagine this will stay PC exclusive until the next generation of consoles comes out

 

[Gimpymoo]

From Cliff Bleszinsk

Since when did we start giving a **** about anything that idiot says?

Remember when he said:

The PC is kind of the secondary part of what we're doing. It's important for us, but right now making AAA games on consoles is where we're at.

PC games will always have a market, but it will increasingly become a niche market

Why the sudden switch to a "niche" market Cliffy? Is it because you are an idiot?

That was 4 years ago though, over the last year he has been telling everyone how great the PC is, which we now know was to sweeten you all up for this.

Looks like he put his money on the wrong colour and now he is trying to win some back.

 

[Alex74]

What happened to the days when every new unreal engine required a new game in the unreal series?

Need an unreal 3 already!

 

[Deific]

^

O_o There's already an Unreal 3

 

[Daichin]

No, no they're isn't. Unreal 3 never happened.

I do hope they try to make an Unreal 4 though. Not that they will.

 

[HeX]

^

O_o There's already an Unreal 3

No.

There is an Unreal Tournament 3, there is no Unreal 3.

 

[Frenzy]

I saw this yesterday on Engadget quite looking forward to it, building a fort in the day then defending at night sounds addictive.

 

[Scythian]

Interested in this. Very interested in this, guess keep an eye on what new information gets released.

 

[HazardO]

Why the sudden switch to a "niche" market Cliffy? Is it because you are an idiot?

Probably because they are using it as a tech demo for the new engine, and consoles wouldn't be able to show the engine off very well.

Anyway, game certainly looks interesting for a minecraft/l4d/tf2 mashup.

 

[Dave****]

Necro'd!

Been playing the alpha of this last night and today. It's really really fun. I think that's all I can say at the moment though because of the NDA.