5 Additions We Hope Fortnite's Comet Brings If it Demolishes Tilted Towers
Chris Jecks
Published on April 3, 2018 Chris Jecks
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A New Named Location
Right now, the Fortnite community is going a little bit crazy. Not because of the new guided rocket launcher, but because of the comet in the sky that seems to be making its way for Tilted Towers. While we've already covered what this could mean for the location here, we got a little too excited at the prospect of another major change to Fortnite Battle Royale. As such, here are five things we've love to see come on the back of the comet if it is to crash into Tilted Towers.
Whether you love the frantic chaos of Tilted Towers or not, it can't really be disputed that its removal from the map would leave a pretty big, empty patch of nothingness. And while we have the likes of Pleasant Park, Shifty Shafts, and Snobby Shores relatively nearby, it'd help make Tilted Towers' demise that little easier to swallow for those that do enjoy it, if there's something new and exciting to take its place.
Of course, whatever form this new location comes to us in, it needs to have a name just as catchy as all the others. One that's been going around the rumor mill is Crispy Crater which seems pretty apt to us. Will it take Tilted Towers back to the prehistoric times (as that dinosaur banner icon suggests), or turn it into some sort of bizarre space station?
Whatever replaces Tilted Towers needs to feel more in-line with the other locations on the map, though. Tilted Towers made a name for itself as the bustling metropolis with tons of loot, a problem further compounded by its central location. It might not be as rewarding weapon-wise to drop into whatever replaces Tilted Towers, but at least the flow of the game should balance itself back out.
A Space-Themed Weapon
In the past few months alone, Epic Games has spoiled players with an abundance of new weapons to help you get that Victory Royale. Hand cannons, hunting rifles, impulse grenades, remote explosives, and the most recent Guided Rocket Launcher shows Epic has a ton of ideas that it wants to try during this beta phase before finding the perfect balance. Some of these may not stay forever or be used all that often, but its the way players combine weapons together to pull off insane kills that contribute towards Fortnite's success. Check this out if you need an example.
If Tilted Towers is about to be wiped off the face of the Fortnite earth and replaced with something else, let it bring some really wild, experimental, space-themed weapon. Some kind of energy weapon for tearing through buildings, an implosion grenade, or maybe just a super-powered melee weapon. If it fails, it can be removed and we can all carry on with our pump shotguns and snipers and pretend it never happened. If it's a success, we'll forever know that Tilted Towers' removal wasn't in vain.
Redistribution of Tilted Towers' Many Chests
Tilted Towers is huge, not just in the number of buildings, but their verticality, too. Some buildings can have five or six floors, with several chests lurking inside. It's part of what makes it such an alluring place to go, but also one of the main reasons that its fallen out of favor with fans (and apparently the developers). As much as we'd love to see a new named location replace Tilted Towers in Fortnite Battle Royale, all we'd ask is it doesn't hold the same volume of chests as its predecessor currently does.
After all, it's not good replacing Tilted Towers with an equally interesting area that contains the same number of chests. People will still go there for the exact same reasons. There has to be enough to make it a viable landing spot, without making it a chest haven in comparison to all others.
As for any chests that do get moved out of the area, we'd like to see them dropped out in the open a little more to help make those giant slogs into the circle when it's on the other side of the map to you a little more interesting. Alternatively, it'd be neat to see a slight buff to existing landing locations that have recently seen significant reductions in the number of chest spawns, such as the bunker at Snobby Shores, or the industrial estate to the northeast of Flush Factory.
The Long-Awaited Jetpacks
We were so close to getting jetpacks in Fortnite Battle Royale at the end of February. So close, yet so far. A matter of days before they were supposed to be added into the game, Epic Games shared that "a last minute design issue with the jetpack" had been found and would delay its launch. The specifics weren't disclosed, but all we were told is that we'd eventually see them as part of an update further down the line.
Now, in a cartoony world where all manner of weapons and items can be found in chests, it only seems right that an item as heavily inspired by sci-fi as the jetpack would make its way to the game in some grandiose fashion. Say, for example, like a comet eradicating the giant metropolis that is Tilted Towers.
It wouldn't be a bad trade-off either, come to think of it. Having the aerial mobility that jetpacks would bring to Fortnite would certainly shake things up, similar to how Tilted's arrival (and suspected removal) from the map shook things up from the pre-Tiled Towers era. Without a large portion of players dropping in one place, there'd be more reason for an item to help you get around or traverse the world that little bit faster. It'd also make those locations at the extremities of the map that little more viable as a landing option, too, knowing a jetpack could have you at the circle on the other side of the map (if it happened to fall there) in no time at all.
Even More Space-Themed Cosmetics
Fortnite Battle Royale's Season 3 Battle Pass definitely had a space theme. We got a casual astronaut skin, a fancy white astronaut suit one, and even this ominous-looking Dark Voyager outfit. There was also the trails, a number of space-themed icons and banners… you get the picture. Yet, despite its space theme, the Battle Pass could have gotten a whole lot wilder with its cosmetics.
How about a rip-off skin of Alien, much like The Reaper skin has a striking resemblance to John Wick. Or, rather than coming in on any ol' glider, what about a UFO one that spins and whirs as you descend. Heck, we'd even take a new pickaxe with a chunk of comet at the end, or maybe a comet fragment could be some new back bling for the start of the new season. If the comet is to change Fortnite as we know it, it'd be nice if we at least saw some space-themed cosmetics to celebrate/ commiserate the occasion. Either way, Fortnite's comet has the potential to end the season with a bang… and bring even more awesome space-themed cosmetics!
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