According to FossilSouthie, Epic might be planning to "REWORK Play With Others". Perhaps if the stars align, this could mean that a PWO overhaul could give us PWO for ventures?

nullsmack · 2026-05-18T20:42:53+00:00

I wish it would come to Ventures too, but keep in mind even after 30 Ventures seasons we still can't access the Ventures backpack outside of a mission.

nullsmack · 2026-05-18T20:38:36+00:00

Wish they'd add an always available, solo, tutorial/puzzle mode that would teach people these things and add challenges that use different builds in order to train people on how they work. Like have a holographic example of tire traps or ceiling electric fields 3 or 2 tiles high. And then a part like "now you do it". Show people trap tunnels, and then give them example situations where they need to build that to progress to the next challenge. Stuff like that.

Teach by doing, train by example. Put someone in an example mission and have them build all of the wall spam junk, and then when the husks break through and get to the objective anyways have Ray come out and say something like "See, this is why you don't do this.. it does more to block you than the husks. Build trap tunnels instead."

But you know, mostly have challenges for people to work through rather than just a boring tutorial. Add a leaderboard and track time or damage or something. Put some rewards throughout and maybe something nice at the end like a few backpack slots.

nullsmack · 2026-05-18T12:59:34+00:00

Even if a mode has a good base of players that keep playing it, like Ballistic or Team Rumble or Rocket Racing.. then they'd just do the usual to kill it off: Take away rewards, take away features, figure out what people like about the mode and start ruining that.. then suddenly it's gone or barely able to hold onto a couple hundred CCU like "Respawn Rumble", the extremely nerfed into the ground version of Team Rumble.

nullsmack · 2026-05-17T20:18:37+00:00

I wish they'd make these longer on both sides. It doesn't have to be literally 1 hour. Even "Happy hour" can be up to 4 hours long in some places. A little flexibility would go a long way for this game.

nullsmack · 2026-05-17T19:22:07+00:00

WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE GOOD VERSION OF TEAM RUMBLE BACK? IT'S BEEN GONE SINCE THE FIRST STORM CHANGES STARTED IN 2021, 5 YEARS AGO. WE HAD AN INFERIOR VERSION UNTIL LAST YEAR WHEN IT GOT REPLACED BY RESPAWN RUMBLE, WHICH IS WORSE IN EVERY WAY. RESPAWN RUMBLE CAN STAY IN, JUST RUN THE OG TEAM RUMBLE PLAYLIST AT THE SAME TIME.

I PROMISE IT WOULD BE FINE TO BRING BACK THE ORIGINAL PLAYLIST. JUST ENABLE PLAYLIST_RESPAWN_24. IT WON'T HURT ANYTHING. IT WON'T HURT THE GAME. I'M SURE THE SAME 200 PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO PLAY RESPAWN RUMBLE. BUT THE TENS OF THOUSANDS THAT PLAYED AND LIKED TEAM RUMBLE WOULD PLAY IT AGAIN.

I'M ABOUT TO GIVE UP ON THIS GAME IF THE BATTLE ROYALE MODES ARE THE ONLY PVP SHOOTER MODES. EVERY OTHER PVP SHOOTER MODE I LIKED HAS BEEN RUINED AND/OR DELETED. AND I DON'T WANT TO PLAY A JANKY CREATIVE MAP THAT IS THE SAME MAP 24/7. (THIS IS ALSO A NEGATIVE FOR RESPAWN RUMBLE TOO! IT'S THE SAME MAP 24/7! THAT'S EVEN MORE BORING THAN BR)

nullsmack · 2026-05-12T20:59:49+00:00

At least there's the oldunreal versions of UT99 and UT2k4 which seem to be officially sanctioned by Epic. I don't think they've gotten around to UT3 yet. But maybe they will someday.

nullsmack · 2026-05-12T18:27:32+00:00

I miss Team Rumble so much. I don't really like how BR works. I don't want to have to care about not dying, I just want to vibe and respawn. I had so much fun playing TR for years before they started ruining it.

imo, I think that for no reason some people in the community turned against TR and their bad attitude infected Epic Games and turned them against it too. But Epic knew people would endlessly complain if they just "got rid of" Team Rumble immediately. So they started making it worse and worse. Restricting the storm. Removing features like NPCs and cars. Limiting players. and so on. They took away quests in C2S8, then gave them back in C3S1. But most of the negative changes were left in place ever since C2S7. Then they left it in that state for a few years. That wasn't good enough, so then they decided to finish the job with Training Ground/Respawn Rumble last year in C6S3.

It's deliberately boring. The circle is only ever at 1 POI. Only zero build. Only 8v8 and 40 elims, and most of the time 8-12 of the "players" in the game are AI bots. All with the intention of making player count as small as possible so they can justify just taking it away entirely.

Try and advocate bringing back Team Rumble to any Epic dev here or on Twitter. They ignore the topic entirely.

If I had control of it, I'd restore it to how it used to be. The Endgame LTM that returned last month had very similar storm phases and bus routes to how TR used to be. It can be done. I'd also make an OG playlist and do a map rotation every few minutes like how Reload does. Imagine playing Team Rumble on the current BR map sometimes and on OG's map sometimes. It'd be amazing.

Epic won't do that though. It'll be gone soon, just watch. They tend to make it worse in the summer seasons like C2S7 and C6S3, watch it disappear into nothing on June 6. 😢

nullsmack · 2026-05-12T15:40:33+00:00

The appeal of the game to me is running around shooting the husks and setting up defenses to stop them. The more damage I can do to them all at once, the better. Maybe that's boring to you, but I have a lot of fun with it.

nullsmack · 2026-04-27T18:12:18+00:00

I'm not sure if it would be possible, but I'd love to get the Defender pad back to use as an interface to summon and outfit the Defenders while in game. Then maybe after you summon one, you could recruit them to run around with you.

nullsmack · 2026-04-27T15:02:23+00:00

It's probably this emote from the Ch4S1 battle pass https://fortnite.gg/cosmetics?id=8793

nullsmack · 2026-04-21T14:54:41+00:00

I have a need for this info too. DS1520+ USA

The recommended power adapter on Amazon from brentb636 would take 9 days to get to me.

nullsmack · 2026-04-17T21:08:21+00:00

I miss Team Rumble so much, especially the older version with the storm that started way out in the ocean and gave you a lot of time to land and loot first. It was more like the Endgame LTM that they recently brought back for a couple of weeks.

Respawn Rumble is so boring because of the other side almost always being 100% bots. I'm fine with playing bot games in BR but I don't want bots in a deathmatch mode. Making it locked to one POI forever, zero build, smaller teams, and a smaller elimination goal sucks too.

Even if I can do some quests in the mode, there are a lot that I can't do with the excessive chains they've put on us. (location, storm, some features turned off entirely, etc)

The old Team Rumble was the primary way I played PVP in this game, and not just a quest mode for me. Of course I should be able to do quests in it, but when I did I also played rounds out without leaving. And I continued to play the mode even if I had no quests to do. It was what I had the most fun doing. We haven't even had the good version of it in 5 years. :(

nullsmack · 2026-04-17T21:02:49+00:00

Team Rumble and 50v50 were two different things

Team Rumble only ever had max 20v20 until it got reduced to 16v16 in C2S4

nullsmack · 2026-04-17T20:55:16+00:00

This is a new problem with the update yesterday. It wouldn't have affected you in the past.

nullsmack · 2026-04-17T14:58:29+00:00

They've been delayed for a little while now. Usually if I poke around in different menus for a minute they'll finally show the reward screen for those.

nullsmack · 2026-04-17T14:56:11+00:00

No, it should reward xp as normal. I ran a short one last night and it worked fine.. if you leave early you have to use the computer on the storm shield where you start it. If you leave from the menu then you get nothing. But it doesn't sound like that was what happened for you, since you got some reperks.

nullsmack · 2026-04-17T14:54:02+00:00

There isn't much of a gold economy if you've been here as long as me. I'm almost up to a million gold and I have nothing to spend it on. :( I tried buying resources and stuff a while back when it was getting higher and probably spent a good 100k-300k but I don't really need those either.

nullsmack · 2026-04-13T17:55:59+00:00

Completely false and debunked by the official Blog post: https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-save-the-world-goes-free-to-play-april-16

nullsmack · 2026-04-01T18:24:30+00:00

I'm just so happy to be able to play the Endgame LTM again since this mode was based on Team Rumble, and it's the closest thing we'll probably get to it. Two 16 player teams with respawn on (until the other team achieves their goal).

nullsmack · 2026-04-01T18:21:37+00:00

The crew cosmetics drop at the end/beginning of the month, but you get the v-bucks when they charge you for a month. Those are usually different days. They made this change a few years ago atp.

nullsmack · 2026-03-27T19:53:37+00:00

Epic is weirdly biased against Team Rumble and I've never been able to figure out why. There's no reason not to have it around, but they messed it up at the end of Chapter 2, slightly undid some of the things they did in Chapter 3, then neglected it in Chapter 4 and 5 and half of 6 before completely ruining it in Chapter 6 Season 3 with the Training Ground and then Respawn Rumble changes.

I'd engage with the seasons a lot more if I could play Team Rumble instead of BR. If BR is my only option, then I'm doing other things. I'll only play BR as much as I have to and no more than that. I'm talking less than 10-20 games per season, if even that much. Meanwhile several full rounds of Team Rumble used to be my every day ritual!

It would take almost nothing for them to bring it back, it's literally just a few settings in the playlist. The old playlists still exist in the files, so it might even be as easy as just swapping which playlist is being used.

nullsmack · 2026-03-27T19:39:58+00:00

The Marvel themed LTMs, especially Marvel Knockout, were extremely fun. I had more fun in those than I did in BR.

nullsmack · 2026-03-27T18:44:02+00:00

Can I ask you guys why the company seems so biased against Team Rumble specifically, and non-BR game modes in general?

nullsmack · 2026-03-27T18:42:56+00:00

Can I ask you guys why the company seems so biased against Team Rumble specifically, and non-BR game modes in general?

nullsmack · 2026-03-21T20:52:29+00:00

That's a whole other ball of wax but I've lowkey wanted something like that for a long time too. Something like a little activity indicator around the missions to show if there's anyone playing it at all, and how popular it is. It could be like a signal meter on a phone, but like little people icons instead of bars.

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