'Fortnite: Battle Royale' Does One Thing So Much Better Than 'PUBG'

Forbes have been having a bit of back and forth here at Forbes on one of the biggest rivalries in gaming right now: Fortnite: Battle Royale and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds, two games that feel strangely different despite being identical in so many important ways.

[showtimefolks]

I played it for few hours I land all the way to end just stay on edge of storm and survive into top 15 (solo)

Am I missing something about these battery royal games? These are addictive for some reason I don't know where to point the finger

[OB1Biker]

I think it makes death meaningful instead of just respawn.
Fortnite also had me interested in F2P again and changed my bias about them.

[showtimefolks]

Yeah I agree it's not forcing me to spend a dime. BTW what does spending real money gets you ? I don't mind rewarding the developers by spending 10 bucks to show support

[spartan112g]

You can buy skins, gliders, and different pick axes. All cosmetic.

[moomoo319]

I felt the same way but then you get better and realize you cant play like that and win a game. Its hard to hide your way to the end and survive let alone have enough loot to kill the last guys. Play aggressive and smart and play to win

[showtimefolks]

I go into it thinking I am gonna be in top 10(solo) meaning I wait for others to fight it out

I gain a lot of experience I am not sure what's it's good for cause as of now I don't have much unlocked and I am level 7

[FITgamer]

I felt the same way. Now I'm really into Fortnite. Once you get quick construction down, it makes gun battles fun as hell.

[showtimefolks]

True that's a mechanic I need to get the hold of and understand better

[Guyfamily999]

Answering your question down below, the only thing you can buy in the game is cosmetics. The best bang for your buck is the battle pass. It let's you (over the course of a couple months) complete challenges and level up in order to unlock cosmetic items like skins, emotes, etc.

[3-4-5]

I refuse to play it because when I downloaded it and installed it on my Xbox, it made me be a women character. I'm a man, I don't want to play as a women character in a game like this.

It's one thing if the games main character is a women...I get that...I can play those games.

This is different. They created male and female characters...but purposely refuse to let us choose.

They are essentially forcing gender on somebody when they didn't have to.

It would be one thing if all the characters were female....then o well it is what it is....you just play.

But they purposely did this..........No excuse I can't support the game.

[WOLFofWALLSTREET]

After playing PUBG and going back to Fortnite, Fortnite didn't feel nearly as intense. PUBG is better in my opinion.

[Cyborgg]

I like the building mechanic in Fortnite.

[nowitzki2004]

I like the shooting mechanic in PUBG

[Cyborgg]

I like the building and shooting mechanic in Fortnite. I like the graphics in PUBG.

[Goldby]

i like turtle

[blacktiger]

that feels a joke to me

[ptownjbo]

I like lamp

[spicelicka]

I finally tried PUBG and have to agree. Fortnite is too cartoony for me (although fun), but PUBG is a lot more visceral and intense.

All these articles and comparisons lead to believe they were the same but that's not the case at all.

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Fortnite is cartoonish quirky frantic fun , PUBG is realistic intense i-may-have-an-anxiety-attack fun. Both are good battle royal games but I prefer PUBG even the unoptimized mess it is and I'm playing on X1X.

[OB1Biker]

I don't know pubg yet but Fortnite can feel very intense too in addition to being really fun. Specially in the last quarter. Unless it's me being very emotional haha

[Yohshida]

PUBG's Problem is the missing map selection. Miramar is probably the worst map ever created in a big MP shooter. The recent 10% drop in the playerbase indicates that aswell. I dont want to play this shtty map.

[alb1899]

Battlegrounds have a map that is like a lots of maps in one. You can have so much different situations depending the place where you go that every game feels different. And is coming the second one.

[Yohshida]

no, Miramar is a garbage bag. Every Situation stinks

[ravinash]

I usually have my best games on the Miramar map.
What are the issues you have with it?

[GUTZnPAPERCUTZ]

Maybe the New Snow Map will be better :/

[WilliamSheridan]

The maps are 10x the size of Fortnite. I think the map is awesome and adds relevance to starting point. Fortnite is all the same no matter where you are.

[Hungryalpaca]

I like miramar. It appears to be a minority that don’t like it. Only place I ever see complaints about it is forum like this and it’s always a small percentage of people.

[Yohshida]

Its the people who started the game when it came out. We went through all that stuff just to end up in the worst map ever. gg PUBG will be dead by the time a true AAA Battle Royale comes out anyway. The lack of updates, content and not listening to the community even shows with the recent 10% playerdrop.

[neocores8055]

IDC both games are amazing. But i really hate when people say FORTNITE IS NOT INTENSE. Either ur playing it wrong or u never made it to top 10 or even in squads shit gets crazy when ur whole teams dwn and you clutch up a squad game....

[chrisoadamson]

Flying backpacks coming to fortnight. They obviously didn't see call of duty

[dillydadally]

Honestly, I would switch to fortnite if not for the dumb instant building of walls and airborne walkways aspect and more importantly, the bunny jumping gun play. Just my personal preference, but I vastly prefer PUBG's gunplay model.

[OB1Biker]

Well you don't necessarily have to jump around like a bunny I find that silly and I don't haha.
The best thing about Fortnite is it's great value and actually is killing many other publishers for that reason. I would like to see a non building mode too though.

[ASBO-5]

And that one thing would be:

*spoiler*

EVERYTHING

[Belinker300]

Umm..better framrates and controller response?

[OB1Biker]

Hi

[OB1Biker]

Sorry I have no idea how this comment came up. Weird things happening with my phone. Haha

[TheDriz]

Meh I don’t like the graphics for PUBG. Looks a lot like all the other early access games.

[greywolf39]

Only aspect where Fortnite is better, is price. Fortnite biggest problem is... Their community Which us 85% under 17