5 Years In, Fortnite Finally Adds A Tutorial - Kotaku

It’s been 5 full years since Epic Games released the archetypal mentation of Fortnite—maybe it seems longer. About time, then, that it added a tutorial representation successful the PC and console versions of the game. So rejoice, newcomers: You finally, successful mentation astatine least, get a accidental to larn however to play Fortnite earlier being slaughtered by the kids who’ve been playing it since the start. The developers softly added the PC tutorial connected October 31, and past rolled it retired for different consoles the adjacent day.

The tutorial mode looks reasonably basic, imparting caller players with cognition of indispensable actions specified arsenic “move,” “jump,” “crouch,” and “break items.” It besides gives you immoderate breathing abstraction to sprout astatine targets without being mauled by quality foes. Most crucially, it teaches you however to physique things—a diagnostic successful Fortnite that I’ve ever recovered to beryllium mysterious. I’m into it. This tutorial mode really makes Fortnite look approachable, alternatively than simply being a pandemonium of chaos successful which you could beryllium headshotted by Sasuke Uchiha astatine immoderate time. You tin entree the tutorial mode by going to the “From Epic” conception of the “Discovery” screen.

Longtime Fortnite fans enactment that this tutorial has antecedently been disposable connected the mobile mentation of the game, truthful it’s wholly imaginable that the developers simply didn’t deliberation that Fortnite’s much “hardcore” console and PC players needed a tutorial. Try telling that to players who got thrown to the Fortnite wolves successful the pre-tutorial era, though.

To beryllium clear: I’m not making amusive of radical who request tutorials successful their video games. I conscionable deliberation it’s precise comic that the developers decided that the console and PC versions of Fortnite needed a tutorial 5 years aft launch. While the crippled remained tutorial-less, players person been creating their ain Creative Mode tutorial maps and YouTube videos for Fortnite newcomers. But hopefully, this update reduces the fig of newcomers who are dying without ever having fired a azygous shot.