After months of rumors, Fortnite has lastly gone on right down to South Park, and, nicely, it sort of sucks. To be truthful, Fortnite followers have loved some severely wonderful collaborations over the previous couple of months, from the Energy Rangers Battle Cross to the Simpsons takeover in November. Now, although, the hateable scamps from South Park have invaded the map for a collaboration that merely misses the mark.
This partnership contains many components, however there’s one we’re actually going to deal with right here: the Stick of Reality mythic merchandise. Whereas not a weapon or mobility instrument, the Stick of Reality permits the one that holds it to “management the storm.” That sounds cool, in idea. In follow, it makes Battle Royale an absolute nightmare.
When somebody triggers the Stick of Reality, it instantly units the ultimate storm circle wherever the holder is situated at that second. From then on, the storm does not cease shrinking till there’s one particular person or staff left standing. It mainly initiates the endgame, leaving most gamers elsewhere on the map in an infinite run to wherever the circle is closing in on, hoping to not get killed by the storm.As soon as the Stick of Reality comes into play, all strategic gameplay goes out the window, and chaos reigns. Maybe that is on goal, on condition that this occasion is titled “Born in Chaos.” However it makes the sport much less enjoyable for these on the lookout for a easy Battle Royale expertise. As an alternative of being about the perfect staff surviving, it turns into a few race to the Stick of Reality, rendering long-range weapons like a sniper rifle or rocket launcher pointless.
Being the particular person to activate it does not imply you are going to win. Because of the South Park occasion’s Kenny Respawn token, you’ll be able to each die and win the match. This was my expertise as my staff and I circled in on the remaining gamers for a last showdown. I used to be killed early by a whole staff of arc-lightning gun wielders, solely to be miraculously saved by the identical tentacled monster that takes care of Kenny. As I dropped again right down to the map, I landed on high of a tower within the actual center of the ultimate circle and easily crouched there hiding till I received.
It was an affordable victory and one thing that will solely occur in a scenario like this, the place 20 gamers try to dispatch of one another in a tiny area, with bullets, lightning, and explosives flying freely. Our staff took dwelling the Victory Royale as a result of I lucked out and landed in hiding spot. That is not the way you wish to win Fortnite and, in the end, the Stick of Reality makes that incidence method too doubtless. I would not be against the Stick of Reality being an merchandise in modes like Reload or Delulu, but it surely’s simply too highly effective for Battle Royale video games. Sadly for this occasion, it does not get significantly better past the Stick of Reality. The store bundle skins are all the identical sort of children-in-mech-suits as The Simpsons occasion, although right here they’re all themed to the South Park children. The additional objects, together with pickaxes, again blings, and one of many lamest IP-based emotes in a very long time actually do not make up for the shortcomings. In addition they value a fairly penny, with the bundle that does not embody the Towelie sidekick costing 4,000 V-bucks. (The Towelie sidekick, the one merchandise within the store I feel is worth it, is a separate 1,200 V-buck buy.)
The mini Battle Cross is not significantly better. There are two worthwhile objects within the pack — an Imaginationland Airship glider and a Terrance and Phillip puppet pickaxe. Aside from that, the cross is generally underwhelming emotes and stickers. The mini cross is free, although, so not less than you are not shelling out for it.
In all, this crossover appears like a bust — and all of it goes again to the occasion’s strongest merchandise. The Stick of Reality units the tone for South Park’s arrival in Fortnite and, to this point, it is not reducing it.
