'Fortnite' Season 8 Adds an 'Apex Legends'-esque Ping System

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The pirate-themed new theme is here for Fortnite season 8 and the team over at Epic Games has added a ton of new things for players to enjoy: New locations, cosmetics, challenges, and so much more. What they also added was a feature that battle royale fans have been loving over on the Apex Legends side of BR: Pinging.

According to Epic Games' recent update under the UI section for Battle Royale:

Visual improvements made to squadmate names and indicators.
World Marker Improvements

World Markers are now visible in the world when placed close to you.
Double-clicking the World Marker hotkey will place a “danger” version of that marker. World Markers placed while aiming with a weapon will also place the danger version.
Added 2D UI indicators to the World Markers, making them easier to see through objects.
World Markers now have an off-screen indicator and display the distance your character is from them.
Placing a World Marker on an item will display that item’s icon and rarity.
Placing World Markers remains on the same key for PC and console (KBM: Middle Mouse Button, Controller: D-Pad Left).

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Mobile also has a button that can be added to the HUD. Place this button by using the HUD Layout Tool.

In Apex Legends, a Legend has a line that they speak in order to call out danger. Since Fortnite's characters don't have a voice, their alternative is to bring in different colored pings alongside a small icon depending on the nature of the ping. When pinging over an enemy player, a siren will alert and a player's squad will then know there is an enemy in the vicinity.

Though an incredible feature, you just know that Twitter couldn't let it go off without a joke over competition:

Fortnite: Can I borrow your homework?
Apex: Yeah, just make sure to change it a little
Fortnite: pic.twitter.com/SqURXEM94k
— TmarTn (@TmarTn) February 28, 2019

As for the game itself, season 8 is now live for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile players.

Posted: Feb 28, 2019 7:59 pm
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion

Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/02/28/fortnite-season-8-adds-apex-legends-ping-system/

Comments

ChatPosted: Thu. Feb 28, 2019

Two_Faced
Chat this is all Fortnite does, it legit stole ideas from other games and turned it's shitty PvE game into a PvP game lmfao, they cannot come up with their own ideas so they steal others.

Lol. That's a very poor outlook. Nearly every made in 3rd person shooter stole it from star fox: assault.

Hardly, it was nothing without H1Z1 and Pubg, without those games Fortnite would not be a thing, give me one unique idea they've actually come up with that's fun, they don't have one, they are a money grabbing company that kids fall for, there's nothing exciting or fun with the stuff they add, it's been seen before lol

that's my opinion on the situation and how I look at it.

Two_FacedPosted: Thu. Feb 28, 2019

Chat this is all Fortnite does, it legit stole ideas from other games and turned it's shitty PvE game into a PvP game lmfao, they cannot come up with their own ideas so they steal others.

Lol. That's a very poor outlook. Nearly every made in 3rd person shooter stole it from star fox: assault.

ChatPosted: Thu. Feb 28, 2019

this is all Fortnite does, it legit stole ideas from other games and turned it's shitty PvE game into a PvP game lmfao, they cannot come up with their own ideas so they steal others.

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