Fortnite Update Tweaks Squad Playlist | Game Rant
Fortnite just had a new patch drop this week to fix a few bugs, but it also made a small change to something else. Fortnite's Squads Playlists have been altered just a little with the newest update.
Fortnite is stronger than ever before, breaking new player count records and hosting massive events like in-game concerts and movie crossovers. The surge in players is partly because of worldwide coronavirus stay-at-home orders. The newest patch, 12.50.2, was to help prepare the servers for the massive amount of people that are suddenly popping up online again, making sure that several bugs would no longer be an issue, and of course the playlist update.
The 12.50.2 patch's changes to playlists focus on balance. While most of the patch seems to be centered around making Fortnite ready for their upcoming Party Royale in-game concert event, the balance tweaks were designed to better help match players against similarly skilled teams while playing in Squad matches.
The balance is a difficult thing to get perfect, so Epic appears to be ready to continue to "tweak the game so it feels right tor players across all experience levels." Epic also encourages players to continue to provide feedback for any matching issues during Squad play in the future. This is good news for those Fortnite fans who have been displeased with the skill-based matchmaking in the past.
While Epic wasn't specific about the exact changes to the Squad playlists, players should start seeing small differences in matching immediately. Fortnite looks poised to continue expanding, especially with the upcoming events and the release of Fortnite on the Google Play store. Hopefully, this will help all those new players and out-of-practice returning players to get matched with people of equal skill in Squad playlists, making the game more fun and accessible.
Luckily for fans of Fortnite, the game seems to be growing again, and this patch is just another hint of the growth that the Battle Royale game is experiencing, even with its live events cancelled and tournaments being changed to online-only for the future. All the changes brought about by patch 12.50.2 make the game more accessible and friendlier to newbies, showing that Epic is attempting to stay one step ahead of potential growing pains.
But even with all this good news, Fortnite and Epic haven't been without their controversy. While the changes may seem to be a move in the direction of making Fortnite as player-friendly as possible, Epic also has some not-so-friendly bad news, like glitches, issuing the unbelievable 1,500-day ban of a 9-year-old Fortnite fan, and the recent trend of the #RIPFortnite hashtag. Epic might be looking forward to serve all its new fans, but it still has a lot of work to do to keep the existing player base happy too.
Fortnite is available for mobile, PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One.
Source: GameSpot
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