The newest season of Fortnite sees you and your squad heading off insectoid alien enemies nicknamed Bugs whereas levelling up your battle cross — and if that sounds acquainted, effectively, you are not the primary to note.
Arrowhead Recreation Studios, developer of Helldivers 2, one other shooter the place you squad up in opposition to insectoid alien enemies nicknamed Bugs, has now commented on the similarities — and advised it was a case of imitation being a type of flattery.
“Hmmm… it is giving ‘we’ve Helldivers at house,'” neighborhood supervisor Katherine Baskin wrote on the sport’s Discord (thanks, Videogamer), earlier than including: “I am not anxious.”
“Fortnite is Fortnite, Helldivers is Helldivers,” Baskin continued. “If the kings of online game drip suppose our drip is cool sufficient to… encourage them… then that is tremendous cool. However our video games could not be extra totally different from each other. There’s room for us all on the king’s desk.”
When requested for his ideas, Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani merely replied that the brand new Fortnite season “feels very democratic,” a reference to Helldivers’ personal setting, in an period of human growth into house dubbed the ‘Nice Democratization.’
In actuality, Fortnite has riffed on quite a few different video games, films and total genres previously, with little left that it has not both provided its personal model of, or collaborated to incorporate. And, as a result of it’s Fortnite, the brand new season of its blockbuster battle royale additionally includes you preventing alongside a humanoid panda, the Energy Rangers and Spartan troopers from Halo.
To this point, not less than, the brand new gameplay seems to be happening effectively. In accordance with developer Epic Video games, gamers have now squashed greater than 250 million Bugs since their invasion into Fortnite started final week. Subsequent up for Fortnite would be the addition of pet-like Companions, leaks counsel, which is able to embrace a turtle driving a skateboard.
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