In Fortnite, the lively survival co-op shooter from Epic Games, there will soon be an even tougher hardcore survival mode. In this mode, it is not enough to fend off just a few waves of zombies. Instead, you have to withstand the undead for hours and build a particularly large fortress.
Fortnite is still in early access – even though it costs a lot of money and is even available in stores as a box version. Therefore, a lot can change, and many contents in the game are not final yet. This includes the fiddly and cumbersome menu system.
In a developer video, Epic Games employees Zak and Darren announced a new game mode aside from such adjustments and bug fixes. In this mode, the goal is to survive for as long as possible.
Fortnite – Survive in the game for days
In this new “hardcore survival mode”, you must last particularly long against the waves of the undead. Until now, you only had to fend off the constantly charging zombies for a few minutes in Fortnite’s missions. In the new survival mode, this carnage should last much longer and span between 3 to 14 in-game days. This would correspond to a maximum of 3.5 hours in real time.
To last that long, you need to pull out all the stops of your building skills and construct a truly large fortress filled with traps and support structures. However, a specific release date for this new game mode is not yet known. But the update is expected for late summer 2017.
The announcement for the hardcore survival mode in Fortnite comes from Epic Games from a recently released Twitter video. We have embedded the Twitter post here for you. Enjoy watching!
Zak and Darren sit down and discuss Fortnite in the near future. Join us for the second developer update! pic.twitter.com/h7cA7OU6bn
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) August 11, 2017
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