Topic: Everyone's having a blast at Fortnite but me (can't have fun if you always lose)

[Lumi Kløvstad]

Pretty much a case of topic's in the title, but I do want to add some details/thoughts, because Fortnite is doing a fuckton that's right and I don't think it's a bad game in the slightest, nor do I want to give the impression that I think that.

• I am keenly aware that I utterly suck.
• I know that I will never not-suck at it, or at least I will never be good enough to do well because everyone else is improving at a rate either equal to or faster than my own rate of improvement.
• The only times I have ever won are during 50 vs 50 modes, and I'm highly aware that didn't win those. I simply ran and hid until my team won, which is not fun because winning with no agency in the victory is frankly just as embarrassing as losing for me.
• Often, I'm dead from the moment my feet touch ground.
• It's kind of hard to get jazzed about a game where I routinely don't even survive the parachute drop down at the start of the match.
• I'm also not a fan of weapons have clear tiers of power among their classes that are objectively better, with a gold tier pistol pretty much outperforming a blue tier assault rifle on every level, but that's also literally my tiniest gripe, all things considered.

My failure to win (or score kills, or even generally line up shots vaguely near my target) is even more perplexing and infuriating because none of this happens for me in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, where I typically do rather well (usually making at least the Top 5 per match), or at least well enough that I win on my own merits a few times a month (about 1 in 10 games, I think). PUBG, being as similar as it is to Fortnite, should reasonably serve as some sort of practice for Fortnite, but none of my skills transfer over.

But more of my friends play Fortnite (literally not one of them plays PUBG, either on PC/Consoles or even Mobile), so I get repeatedly drawn into playing a game that frankly, I actually pretty nearly hate. And occasionally, I manage to live long enough that I start thinking that "with some slight adjustments, I might actually make it", only to be promptly swatted down by the gods for my arrogance.

I know all the locations by heart, the winning strategies and routes, all the best ways to build, how each weapon handles. My brain just... doesn't work right for this game, I guess. It's not fast enough, which I never thought I'd catch myself writing. Or believing.

I can't wait for the PvE mode, Save the World, to go FTP because
THIS

is what I was sold on when Fortnite was announced.

I look forward to my knowledge and skills being actually useful and productive in the near future.

No real point to all of this. Just kind of getting it off my chest.

Sorry for the long post, here's a potato:

[BLOOD MONKEY]

I tried out battle royale.

I won my first solos round and i still don't like fortnite.