The most recent season of Fortnite sees you and your squad warding 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 steered it was a case of imitation being a type of flattery.
“Hmmm… it is giving ‘we’ve Helldivers at dwelling,'” group 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 assume our drip is cool sufficient to… encourage them… then that is tremendous cool. However our video games could not be extra completely 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 area dubbed the ‘Nice Democratization.’
In actuality, Fortnite has riffed on quite a few different video games, motion pictures and general genres previously, with little left that it has not both supplied 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 entails you preventing alongside a humanoid panda, the Energy Rangers and Spartan troopers from Halo.
To this point, at the least, the brand new gameplay seems to be happening effectively. In keeping 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 recommend, which can embody a turtle driving a skateboard.
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