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Fortnite: Battle Royale goes free today across PS4, Xbox One and PC. This fresh take on the Battle Royale genre borrows a lot from the current juggernaut of the genre, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Although there are many similarities, Fortnite: Battle Royale contains some key differences which will make this feel like an all-new experience for players.
One of the major changes is Fortnite’s crafting mode making the jump over to this new standalone title. PUBG just drops players into a world where they have to loot and find other players while Fortnite: Battle Royale allows you do all of that while crafting new structures at the same time.
I don't understand why this is taking so long, I bought the game hoping to go on it the same day! Like I've been able to do with all the other sims games I ever had! If I known it was gonna be like this I would never have bought it! Preparing To Download Fortnite Patch Really Slow To Complete 0 Every time there is a new patch for Fortnite on the PS4, it goes through this process where it Many PC users are frustrated at the horrendously slow download speeds they receive when downloading Fortnite through the Epic Games launcher. Your installation is taking a long time to complete. This indicates the current download speed. (This assumes that the download speed stays the same.).
A trailer shows off some of the things you can do in this title such as creating a bridge, so it seems like you are only limited by your imagination. Of course, other players might not like seeing you build stuff so you have to be wary of that.
Fortnite: Battle Royale is likely already free in your area but you might be struggling to find the PC version anywhere. Don’t worry, it isn’t very straightforward for console gamers either. Unlike many games, including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, you won’t find Fortnite or the standalone Battle Royale on Steam but you’ll instead have to find it through the Epic Games PC launcher.
To download Fortnite: Battle Royale, just head over to this link for the Epic Games PC launcher and download it. Once you get that installed, create an Epic Games account and you’re pretty much all set. Epic Games doesn’t really have a lot of PC games so it’s curious as to why they would have their own launcher. Nonetheless, just select Fortnite from the list of the games in the launcher and select install.
From there, it’s just smooth sailing. It’s worth noting that installing Fortnite will only get you the Battle Royale mode for free. There are plans to make the entire game free in 2018 but right now you will have to pay to access the original Fortnite.
Every time there is a new patch for Fortnite on the PS4, it goes through this process where it is preparing to update. This takes around 15 minutes to complete and then the patches are usually around 200mb and download in a minute or so. Is there something wrong with my PS4 that it is really slow when preparing to download patches?
I have a PS4 Pro and a 100mb connection. The download itself is very quick, it is the part that comes before the download that takes really long. Anyone know what is causing this?
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This has been something that was introduced to save users having to download massive patches for games that get updated frequently. I'm not sure why it is as slow as it is and I'm sure in time the PS4 will get a patch to make it more efficient. For now we are stuck with the slow process of preparing for update with all PS4 games, not just Fortnite.
The PS4 does this to check and see what data from the patch you have already. For example, if you were to play Fortnite for the first time, it would need to download all 7 patches (like the PS3 did and it sucked), but it doesn't. Instead it downloads one patch that contains everything you need. So when it is preparing for the update the PS4 is actually checking to see what data you already have and preparing the data needed to tell the server what data needs to be downloaded.
This was done back when games like world of tanks came out. A developer might release a small 50mb patch, but due to how the PS4 handles patches the entire 10gb history of patches was downloaded each time. Making it slow for gamers and difficult for devs to release quick updates.
This solution does need work, but it's better than the massive downloads of the past. I'm not sure why Sony find this so difficult to implement, but maybe the will get it right some day.
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