I don’t build for the first five or so minutes of Fortnite matches anymore. After the recent Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 update, you’ll catch me crouching in a vent doing my best Agent 47 impression, holding incapacitated thugs up to retinal scanners at the bottom level of a massive subterranean base, or dressing up like one of those very thugs, trying to catch another player off-guard with a surprise shotgun blast to the face.
I’m not even thinking about the encroaching storm or how terrible I still am at constructing elaborate staircases into the sky. This isn’t exactly Fortnite, it’s an urgent stealth game about intel and deception inside of Fortnite.
The update adds some elaborate new locations with spy bases, intricate and dense new areas littered with secret passages, sprawling ventilation shafts, locked doors, and AI-controlled henchmen patrolling it all. Cameras and turrets are everywhere too, forcing you into stealthy play from the get-go.
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