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Battle royale shooter Fortnite has kicked off its latest Summer Escape event, however fans haven’t been too impressed with yet another seasonal event focused around challenges.
A currently popular thread over on the FortniteBR subreddit is entitled “I miss when summer events had stuff outside of challenges” and includes a meme comparing previous summer events to the latest one, claiming there were much more additions such as “limited time events, daily unvaults and summer map changes in almost every POI” as opposed to this year’s event which seems mostly focused on the challenges with minor cosmetic rewards.
It seems some players were hoping for some new travel methods, with users such as Tai3Eridani lamenting “All I wanted was Surfboards and to paly Storm Chasers: Surfing LTM for one last time.” Many are also decrying the use of LTMs taken from the game’s Creative mode, rather than those made by Epic. “They just stopped doing seasonal events like they used to,” says HippieDogeSmokes. “Official LTMs will always be better than Creative LTMs. Creative ones are the same shlock I could play in the discovery right now.”
Even those who’ve defended Epic in the past are having second thoughts. “It’s just so obvious that it’s not up to par anymore,” says Pancakesontheweekend. “We saw that with Halloween and Christmas last year too. They care too much about Creative and letting everyone do the work for them.” It seems the community at large even outside of the Reddit may feel similar, as a poll by popular Fortnite Twitter account Shiina shows that 25.7% of their followers dislike the new event, compared to 20% who do like it and 54.1% who haven’t played it yet at the time of writing.
It’s worth noting that the Fortnite Summer Escape Event rewards and their challenges aren’t quite the only additions in the event, with a set of Summer Showdown islands available to explore via the Discover tab, and a new location in the form of Sunswoon Lagoon, but it’s clear the community think the game’s seasonal events aren’t quite having the same sort of variety that they used to, with the bigger changes seemingly being saved for the Seasonal overhauls.
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