Battle Royale is, indisputably, one of the crucial loved genres on the subject of multiplayer video games. And I am positive we’ve got all wished to provide it a attempt, however with the time to totally decide to just one recreation and so many choices to select from, the selection will be exhausting. However on the subject of FPS, PUBG and Fortnite sit as the 2 giants on the middle of battle royale debates.
Each video games have made headlines on the entrance web page of the web many instances and have set a excessive bar for the style. One leans towards realism with its tactical gameplay and slower pacing, whereas the opposite is a fast-paced, cartoony shooter that options constructing mechanics and flashy results.
I really like how PUBG engages you with its lifelike gunplay and suspenseful matches. However on the similar time, the fixed replace cycle, mixed with addictive, vibrant colours and sound, stops me from switching to something however Fortnite. As somebody who has spent years enjoying each video games, here is my tackle which one’s the last word winner.
We’ll be having a look at a number of classes to guage each video games on, declaring a winner for every, then tallying up the factors to see who comes out on prime.
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Ability Ceiling
Fortnite
Ability Ceiling in most shooters boils all the way down to studying higher aiming and positioning, however Fortnite is an entire completely different ball recreation. Each new season, by the point you attain larger lobbies like Champion or Elite, there may be at all times some new method it’s essential be taught simply to maintain up. That is how insane the ability ceiling is in Fortnite.
Lengthy gone are the times when putting partitions to stop incoming fireplace was the toughest factor to grasp. Now, it’s essential to grasp the artwork of regularly modifying your builds, adapting to newer strategies, and discovering a solution to outsmart your opponent in a span of some seconds. Mix that with discovering a window to shoot, and also you get a sweaty expertise no different recreation can ship.
However, it might be naive to say PUBG is straightforward. At larger ranks, it can also overwhelm you with its taking pictures and repositioning, however that’s mainly each shooter in a nutshell. Therefore, Fortnite takes the cake for this one.
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Gunplay & Weapons
PUBG
As a lot as I really like twiddling with the seasonally rotating number of mobility weapons in Fortnite, just like the Shockwave Grenade and Rocket Ram, on the subject of weapons, I merely discover no variety in them. Even with over 100 weapons within the recreation, it’s simply the identical AR, Shotgun, and SMG meta that I’ve skilled since launch. With the absence of recoil or dealing with, it’s extra usually simply the visuals which are completely different and never how the gun feels.
PUBG, alternatively, affords deeper gunplay with far more weapons, every with completely different dealing with, recoil, and accuracy. Hardly any two matches really feel the identical to me due to the load and affect of every one in comparison with Fortnite.
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Cosmetics
Fortnite
Let’s be sincere, this one is a no brainer. Relating to cosmetics, Fortnite is king. Each single fictional character I’ve ever liked, from Batman and John Wick to Deadpool, and even Goku, is an equippable pores and skin within the recreation.
Truthfully, it’s wonderful how Fortnite has been in a position to carry all of those skins and cosmetics to the sport. And this selection isn’t restricted to only skins because it extends to fashionable emotes, well-known sneakers, and standard vehicles, making the merchandise store a real multiverse of chaos.
On the similar time, I’ve to provide props to PUBG for its eye-catching weapon skins. Nevertheless, all the things moreover the weapons within the cosmetics retailer has by no means appealed to me. The emotes really feel pressured and generally cringy, and there are not often any costumes that tempt me to look into my pockets.
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Updates & Occasions
Fortnite
Irrespective of how you set it, getting weekly updates will at all times be higher than seasonal updates due to how a lot content material is being poured into the sport.
No two weeks in Fortnite ever really feel the identical because of the weekly updates that maintain reinventing the sport. They’re noticeably game-changing, bringing new POIs, recent weapons, and cosmetics that maintain feeding you increasingly more. However what I actually love are the top of Chapter updates that function cinematic occasions on a server-wide scale, just like the Robotic vs Monster occasion or the Marshmello Occasion, one thing I’ve solely skilled in Fortnite.
After all, having skilled this type of luxurious, PUBG feels missing. By itself, the sport does superb with the seasonal updates that usher in map tweaks and new weapons, however when put up in opposition to Fortnite, it merely can’t ship the joy, chaos, and creativity.
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Visible Model & Graphics
Fortnite
From wanting like a PS3 recreation on launch, Fortnite has now advanced into a wide ranging spectacle of vibrant landscapes and views. The nice and cozy colours and cartoony visuals, mixed with cyber cities, castles draped in purple leaves, and different lovely ever-changing POIs, flip the sport into pure eye sweet. It always ups itself by bettering lighting, shadows, and the general graphics, making every chapter extra lovely than the final.
PUBG, nonetheless, feels caught prior to now, with visuals that haven’t been in a position to sustain with trendy requirements. Don’t inform me “It seems good for its time.” Each video games have been launched in the identical yr.
The sport seems boring. The gritty tone and grim colours could go hand in hand with the sport’s grounded model, however for my private style, they aren’t doing it any favors. Mix that with muddy textures and poor draw distances, and also you get an expertise that by no means fairly immerses you.
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Gameplay Tempo
PUBG
Each video games have the identical match runtime, however their expertise couldn’t be extra completely different, and that’s primarily because of the completely different map sizes. Relating to pacing, reasonably than an goal winner, it’s principally about what you might be on the lookout for in the mean time.
Personally, I’m a fan of the comparatively slow-paced, strategy-favoring matches that PUBG affords, however Fortnite is an equally viable choice for somebody on the lookout for extra intense gameplay.
In PUBG, the map is sufficiently big so that you can land someplace solo, loot round, and never fear about coping with an enemy, no less than for a minute or two, which supplies you time to strategize and work out your positioning for the whole recreation. In distinction, Fortnite is all about attending to motion as quickly as doable.
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Maps & Surroundings
Fortnite
Relating to Maps and Surroundings, each video games ship an evening and day expertise. Fortnite focuses on one map that evolves, whereas PUBG affords extra maps, every delivering a novel biome to discover.
I’ll have to select Fortnite over PUBG on this one, plainly as a result of enjoying the identical outdated map, following the identical outdated loot routes, and seeing the identical outdated constructing in PUBG will be exhausting. There isn’t a recent expertise, and though there are a number of Maps to play, after over 6 years with out adjustments, all of them really feel the identical. That stated, credit the place they’re due, the brand new destructible environments are wonderful, and so they open room for gamers to make new performs.
However that’s not sufficient to overshadow Fortnite’s endlessly reworking map and dynamic environments that function lovely seashores, medieval castles, and tropical biomes, a rotating canvas that retains the participant’s expertise alive reasonably than static.
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Accessibility
TIE
Even when somebody’s new to this style, each video games make it surprisingly simple to leap in, which is why I can’t give this level to 1 over the opposite.
Not like me, who began the sport again in 2017 and needed to wrestle by means of binge-watching Fortnite construct guides prefer it was the preferred factor on the web, solely to be taught essentially the most fundamental constructing strategies. New gamers now have issues just like the Zero Builds Mode, which removes the novel constructing half and simply depends on taking pictures and maneuvering. As soon as snug, you possibly can slowly be taught modifying and fundamental constructing strategies in Inventive mode to take pleasure in different recreation modes as nicely.
However, PUBG affords a minimalistic Battle Royale expertise that doesn’t require godlike aiming or taking pictures to take pleasure in. The sport even places bots within the first couple of matches that will help you perceive the basics and ease into the style.
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Cross-Platform Play
Fortnite
It’s bizarre how unnecessarily restricted PUBG’s crossplay is. To begin with, the Cell model of PUBG is legendary on a world stage, however has no crossplay between any platforms, primarily as a result of it’s operated by a completely completely different shopper.
I might’ve loved enjoying with a few of my associates on completely different platforms, however that’s not doable for the reason that solely working crossplay is between Xbox and PlayStation, leaving PC and Cell stranded.
Fortnite, nonetheless, is aware of the best way to carry followers collectively. It is totally cross-platform, which means whether or not you play on Cell, PC, Xbox, and even Swap, your folks on different platforms can be a part of and revel in enjoying with you. That’s the fantastic thing about it. Jump over to any platform with out worrying about knowledge loss.
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Winner
Fortnite
Each video games have made a reputation for themselves. With out these two titles, the Battle Royale craze would possibly’ve by no means taken off, and even proper now, they’ve lots of of hundreds, if not tens of millions, of gamers flooding their servers. However if you make them face one another, it turns into clear that Fortnite is the de facto winner of this debate.
From in-game adjustments like visuals and updates to exterior efforts like crossplay, the sport has confirmed to be on the pinnacle of Battle Royale. There is no doubt that PUBG got here in as a robust contender within the style, however sadly, it misplaced its appeal through the years. The graphics and static model have been suited extra for the 2018 to 2020 model of Battle Royale, however as time handed, extra revolutionary titles began taking the limelight. On this transition, from the 2, solely Fortnite might sustain.
Fortnite
- Launched
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September 26, 2017
- ESRB
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T for Teen – Violence
- Engine
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Unreal Engine 5
