Fortnite hasn’t done the best job in telling it’s story, and I feel like there is a fun way that they can tell it. I’ve been wanting “Story Mode” for this game for a while now and with the return of Midas, it made me put all my thoughts into this video.
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Most of the footage in this video is either from trailers on the Fortnite KZhead channel or gameplay that I recorded. However, there are several clips that I took from other places, such as
Butter Barn Music Video - • Butter Barn Hoedown! (...
Chapter 4 Battle Pass - • ENTIRE Chapter 4 - Sea...
Money Falling Green Screen - • Falling Money - Green ...
High Level Build Mode Gameplay - • I Trained My Mechanics...
Mario World Gameplay - • Super Mario World - #5...
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Vordt, of the Borealis Valley - Dark Souls 3
During The Exams - Persona 3 Reload
Class Trial (Dawn Edition) - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Vital - Fortnite
Color Your Night - Persona 3 Reload
Beautiful Dead - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Out of Tartarus - Hades
Click Clock Wood - Banjo & Kazooie
It's Going Down Now - Persona 3 Reload
Sneakman - Jet Set Radio
Hip Shop Cover - InstrumentManiac
Heartbeat, Heartbreak - Persona 4
Whistle Theme - Deadly Premonition
Thunder Roll - Fortnite
When the Moon Reaches the Stars - Persona 3 Reload
Days When My Mother Was There - Persona 5
Great Cats Village R - Melty Blood
Thank you for actually reading the description! Most people don't look at these. :P
Fortnite wants to tell a story so bad but is held back by the fact that battle royals aren't really the best game to be story driven.
also, I think I solved the battlepass situation. make the skins exclusive, until the end of the season, and then release all of the characters in their own different bundles that would be worth like 1500 each, that way there's more of an incentive to purchase the battle pass because of the value and money you would be saving.
@@ratdistributor8549Would not work.a lot of people would be piss that skins that they already own are in the item shop taking space for better items
@@ratdistributor8549 that’s like the worst hot take I have ever heard
They could simply just make the battle roayle part not cannon to story or at least the fighting part of it since tenichally the loop should’ve ended in chapter 2 season 8 when the island flipped or definitely when the chapter 3 and 2 island exploded in the fracture event
@@user-hq1gr1sj2c kind off but really who gives a fuck about their exclusivety (except the collabs) like oh no Fishthick is in the item shop oh no my account is worth 0 dollars as it should be.
The worst part is, they’ve already tried something like this. Back in chapter 2 season 6 there was a replayable intro that every player that booted up the game for the first time that season experienced. It was completely story driven and explained the story and background for that season and it’s purpose. But since then, a single player story driven experience has NEVER even been thought about again.
Now that you mention it, they never consider making more animations like that. They should try to focus on that at some point.
Remember AMIE? The Scientist’s ai who was oddly obsessed with him and was our main narrator throughout most of chapter 3. We even help make her a body so she could go looking for the scientist. I’m still waiting for that plot line to be continued because I AMIE and the Scientist are my favorite characters.
we need amie back 😞
i think amie is forgotten
AMIE literally carried.
Thats the thing, the guy who writes the story got fired or left or something, for whatever reason, back around chapter 4, which sucks because they had a good thing going, and then we got a time traveling vampire and we had to heist him…really?
AMIE haven't brought back the seven yet
As A Save The World player myself they killed our story we never got updates never got a full story because BR took over. I'm afraid they would do the same thing to a BR story mode with Creative or Lego. All the focus would go into other modes and BR Story mode would end up like STW dead and the occasional season dlcs.
Players will force epic to continue BR because players will complain and leave
they really did us dirty wiht the stw story
Stw had so much potential and still does if they revamp some things and the story aspect tied it all together but epic just said nah I won’t continue this anymore
He's right. He's said everything I would say, and he said it well. as fun as wiki dives can be at times, having a dedicated story mode rather than needing to go out of our way to find old cutscenes from past seasons that you missed, or even needing to read the comics, having the option in-game would not only help those who want to know more about these characters, but it'd also introduce majority of players to the fact that the game has a story
0:54 correction: Fortnite HAD a storyline, and it DID good at telling it.
Well it got semi reset in a way in chap 5 lil
@@namedlessmore like a soft reeboot
I see what he means. They can't keep the story together
@wdotwreckvideos no he means that the story / event team was massively reduced and the Ceo who wanted to drive the story didn't get too and the more time went on, the less story he got to release, the best he could do was release comics, there was a lot of story planned out and he wanted more events to be there.
@@Cosmic_MJC Imma be honest I don't get what you mean.
Imagine actually being able to play through zero war
What do you mean? Chapter 3 season 2?
He means the comics
I hope they have a whole chapter rapping up loose ends from old chapters. Like what happened to the seven, the oathbound, the groups fighting in mega city including triarch nox the herald who just up and vanished. and many more.
The seven was already confirmed in Season 4 Chapter 3, they got kidnapped and made evil by the Chrome
@@JJ-the-Fortnite-guy I played that season, They got killed off in a single cut scene and then there was a whole quest to build AMIE a body, and then we never got anything else related to the characters that were built up for the last 3 chapters. Very cool fortnite
@@TheRageBaiter fair enough most of the story line now is fortnite giving something at the start of the season then the storyline KZheadrs connect the loose ends and make it sound understandable
AMIE
I honestly think it would be a cool gamemode where for every season, there’s a new campaign. If you completed the older campaigns, you can replay them. This would help so many players feel connected to the story. It doesn’t help that “back in my day” Fortnite would usually have an end of season event every other season. Now it’s reserved for end of chapter. Imagine you, Jonsey, and Hope team up to destroy the Society and get Peely. Then, in a cutscene after the event, Zeus and Ares come to the island, destroying the Society. That would create SO MUCH HYPE while your waiting for the new season.
I agree, a story game mode is what we need. It tends to be on us to help tell the story through films because Epic can't seem to do it themselves. Also Thanks for the little Butter Barn cameo😉😉
🕺Come on down to the Butter Barn!💃
I joined the Fortnite meta, mid December 2023 and I've felt the same way. A Fortnite lore story mode would be an amazing way to revisit or experience the old chapters for the first time. Imagine if players got to play the story as characters from the battle passes, they missed out on. Great video!
I was about to hate watch this because I hate people complaining about Fortnite because it’s “Fortnite” but DAMB you were absolutely COOKING with these ideas! Keep up the good work!
If they do decide to go in the direction of a story mode they should still do hyped up live events.
I feel like live events would be more hype, because then more people will understand what's happening.
What would truly be a good feature to this “Story Mode” is a terminal type thing where you can look up terms or characters and get everything currently known about them and it’ll update every time you find out more. Most will not know who “X” is, or what they are. The terminal would only update when a certain character talks more about them. Like for example, maybe Evie says something about “X” directing them to an objective to Thunder. It could possibly be canon a character is updating this terminal if this was a thing.
Season X
Guys we NEED more people to see this, especially Fortnite themselves! An idea like what he has in mind is perfect for players wanting a special experience. Also just to add on to what he was saying imagine in certain levels they make you play as a certain skin so you can play as multiple different characters in whatever story they tell and maybe.. they could put collab characters in the story mode but that’s a reach.
I think we should get a Fortnite show or interactive game (kind of like a Telltale game) and each episode would be about a unique character that we have yet to have any significant lore on (like Nezumi or Ava) and it would explain who this character actually is. Their reality of origin, what our character does and their abilities, and their story that shapes them into the skin we know in fortnite. The end of each episode will show how each character entered Reality 0 (the battle royale island), via sideways rifts, or through willingly or forcefully going there in some way. I want something different from the battle royale story that should have ended like a year ago... ...also the fact that one of your friends is named Helsie Simp is kinda crazy💀
Hear me out, every old chapter has a small open world, maybe one open world with combined chapter elements. Each season has 10 mission related to the story that unlock that page in the battlepass with special styles for people who owned those skins and in those missions there are challenges and a base reward, the base reward could be 30k exp, but if you buy the story pass for that season you can do challenges that unlock cosmetics from that tier and after completing challenges you get the skin,
Dude, I absolutely LOVE how you edit your videos. The in-betweens and references are great. You really do go in depth about how a hypothetical story mode could work and I honestly think that they really should try to do that.
The thing about the story, is that they no longer have the time to develop the characters and make them feel like actual threats. The villains of the stories often end up having their story go "oh look, a new villain with new powers and the fate of the island is at risk. Nevermind they died 2 months later in a quest line." It got stale after they removed the IO and last reality from the story. The Herold, died in 2 months. Triarch Nox, where did he go? Kado Thorne, Died in 2 months. The society, hunted down by the gods after 3 months. The villains cant be threatening if they die so fast
I honestly think fortnite abandoned the overarching story of battle royale to focus on becoming a metaverse kind of thing. Chapter 2 seasons 5 and 6 are where the story peaked and I don’t think we’ll ever get anything even close to it again. After the chapter 5 “reboot” it wouldn’t surprise me if we don’t hear of the seven or the zero point ever again. But one can dream
Chapter 2 season 5-chapter 3 season 2 was peak storyline, the seasons before were amazing aswell
Chapter 5 didn’t actually reboot the story. What happened was they brought the big bang to chapter 4, destroying and creating everything anew
@@Mirstre U guys just copied and pasted
@@Eonkid-qk4ir ???
you mean ch3 s2 is when it peaked
11:04 YES PLEASE! THIS IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA I get that they want to sell the battle passes as an exclusive thing, so that way they can still make money and whatnot, but there are genuinely some skins (like meow skulls) that I missed out on getting and want now that I look back on it. And it’s not like this is entirely impossible, they have done this kind of thing before by making sparkle specialist a reward for a tournament. I would pay any amount of v bucks, money or whatever to be able to go back and get rewards from battle passes/seasons I previously participated in. If epic games ever sees this, they at least need to hear you out on this concept because it is a great idea and they can still make money off of it. To hell with you folks talking about “mY fOrTnItE aCcOuNt’S vAlUe” IT HAS NO VALUE YOU CANT TRADE OR SELL THE THINGS YOU OWN LIKE IN ROCKET LEAGUE, THE ONLY VALUE YOU GET IS CLOUT VALUE, AND THAT VALUE IS NONEXISTENT, SHUT UP. But yeah rant aside, I agree with you about this idea man, they should definitely implement it into the game sometime, so spit your facts my man. (P.S. epic games please let me have the funny emo cat girl please bro 😭)
This makes lots of sense, plus we could learn the storylore about meow skulls
I would love a game mode where we can play prevous end of season events.
I’ve been playing since chapter 1 season 7 and I have no idea what the story even is. I hate how they lock parts of the story in comics
5:23 i honestly loved the chapter 3 island. It was one of my favorites and vibin was my favorite season lol. Season 3 was literally the season X of chapter 3.
This is actually a really good and original idea, as a player who’s first season is also vibin, I have no idea what any of the prior live events and such were about
Meow skulls is midas Meow skulls is slone Meow skulls is jonesy Meow skulls is the seven Meow skulls is the chrome Meow skulls is the society Meow skulls is geno Meow skulls is fortnite lore
Jesus Christ, man chill. It's just pixels.
Meow skulls is @@tonyxultra2279
@@tonyxultra2279what a buzzkill
Agreed
Meow skulls is@@kriioflame2249
You are right and they do really need to explain what is happening to the story because even I dont know what is going on with the story in which I have been very intrested into
I was just thinking about this, Im a really new fortnite player but I was surprised at how cool I thought the story was,(from watching the incorrect lore videos an having to do my own research) an being a new player I'm never gonna be able to experience the old story parts which stinks I'd love to have a way to replay them!!
Finally tysm ive been sayin tht epic should allow players to revisit old battle pass quests for a few years now appreciate how u have said tht hopefully everyone who sees ur video will get the word out
This is a really good idea and I WILL SPREAD THE WORD WE NEED THIS Also I know they stated that old cosmetics don’t return, but maybe have some skins/cosmetics as rewards for completing story aspects (like the Season X quest grants you Scientist or something like that), that way we can both develop connections to characters and play as them instead of having Peely, practically the the mascot of the game, locked behind the CHAPTER 1 SEASON 8 BATTLE PASS Edit: I wrote this halfway through the video and saw that part…great minds think alike
I agree with everything you said. I was thinking they should add a tab where you can see previous audio logs, live events, etc but your idea is also good.
This deserves far more views I heavily agree with your ideas I was really annoyed when they got rid of snapshot quests for most of ch 5 s 1 because that was the only way they told a story I think ch 5 s 2 is in the right direction storyline wise I heard they're working on an open world mode so that means that they are working on new modes and aren't content with the 4 we have (5 if you count save the world)
6 modes Festival Lego RR BR STW Creative
@@techy804 9 because zero build, party royale, and team rumble
@@romanempirelolfn Zero Build and Team Rumble are sub-modes of BR, TBH I forgot that Party Royale exist.
You could also take this one step further with giving individuals or different groups story missions like the fox clan for example, I would love to see how that group came to be, it would also be cool to know why each member joined and their backstories before they joined and what "thing" is hunting them.
banger video. I REALLY hope they resell old battle passes because I was locked out of my account for around 4 years and missed out on getting some battlepasses.
They should only do it if the account existed in the time of that season, eg if it was made last day of s5 (me) you could buy the s5 battlepass years later
They could’ve kept going with the Kado plotline, but nah. They killed him off…”off screen”. I was invested and they just left it like it never happened 😭 They also had a good thing going with Hope and Valeria. I genuinely don’t know who’s good or bad this season. It feel like all the gods are just “there”
Why do all these underrated creators have the best opinions
Because *big brother* doesn't want you to know the truth!!!
Real
It's not about the account value it's about their own terms of service
I think you mean their EULA but I could be wrong. Also if you actually read the TOS there's a section that basically says that epic can change their EULA and TOS and you can't complain.
I think the idea is really good, I would love to have a game mode that lets you learn the story of fortnite for newer players, but also for players like me who just want to relive the story
what we need is seasonal live events back and story events not the glorified ad we got for chapter 5 and chapter 3's end event was... well youve heard the stories we need stuff like collision and actual story instead of convoluted texts in descriptions of npc's
Well i mean, Fortnite has a Story in Save The World........ Edit: you mentioned in the video Play itttttt is really awesome STW AAAAAAAA
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@@cuzl2 Yeah, i noticed xD
The persona music makes me happy
they could do ltms like mini events for example you go under fencing and there's a huge base and you save Peely with Jones and you could have boss fights with the bosses from br ending their story.
Don't think this will ever happen but if it did it would be one of the best game modes good video❤
i can agree because i didnt know much of the story in 2018 then i quit then i came back last year and i dont know what is going on in the story lol
Instead of reselling old battlepass stuff, they could easily make a new skin of the same character and make a ton of money. Stuff like the recent Midas skin. Fortnite C2 S2 gave us the most “characters” in its battlepass and there is a reason why it’s battlepass has the most skins with a reskins.
Fortnite story mode would be amazing
This is a very goated idea and i fully agree with this. It sounds so cool to save peely and amie&the scientist. I feel bad that you aren't getting much attention
RPG story mode, I been preaching this for YEARS Edit: OH MY GOD THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL VAMPIRE CLUB ABSOLUTELY CONFRONTED KADO, THEY JUST BROUGHT *NO ATTENTION TO IT*
9:32 funny enough there was quests relating to defeating kado for the hunters and when you defeat him you just got a little thing in the corner when the quest was completed that basically said "we did it, thanks for the help", it sucks too because i do usually like to run Joni because they're cool but you wouldn't know who they are or why you should care because they're not going to be relevant anymore
I remember a time, long ago, when public matches were called casual and you could do missions and get the story because people was more busy in having fun than trying to compete and kill other people as if they will won the FNCS cup at the end of the match... Good old times in chapter 2.
When you said the hodge-podge map I ACTUALLY AGREE because the story did make sense until c4s4 (aka last season of chapter four because first medieval to futuristic then to wild then stealing was weird anyway) true but I do actually with you because we need the story mode and to visit older maps and season to actually understand the story (also I began in chapter 2 season 7 bruh) we definitely need a story mode... i want to visit the old seasons and maps but the rest of the video makes sense but the boss fight part of the video is true
Lore channels didn't get it from the wikis they mostly got most the story from playing a long time (the pictures you get back then usually just tell the story for us) rewatching live events datamines comics and npc dialogue (they have special ones for a specific skins)
I think a good way to do that is have all the old Live Events and new cutscenes in Live Events all in like a theater mode type thing where you're also able to play through them
Great video just got lost in the banjo kazooie spring song
YUP hit the nail on the head amazing ideas and this would be great and a nice break from BR would love this (Also I'd love to get a BUSHRANGER STORY MISSION)
I would love to see a story mode with a separate item shop that would unlock skins as u completely the story. Old reactive skins like golden agent peely would still be rare because the purchased skin would have no way of becoming gold, but the option would still be there
I feel exactly the same. I’ve been wanting this game to have a campaign for years.
I feel like stw is actually tangentially related to the br story with the storm actually being the last reality and Jones being from the stw universe I'm assuming from his dialogue in the marvel comics, also the stw characters talking about "making it over" to the island and stw abilities being in br as different zero point abilities
If there was a story mode were you could get old BP skins, they would probably do like you complete the season and you can unlock the skins for high prices, like 2,000 vbucks, the most expensive skins are that price. So, they wouldn’t be free and would keep their high value, but new players have a chance to get them. Idk just an idea
I would like too the open world option to explore the maps as they are incredible and full of details that usually you cannot check in the BR, I loved Battle Lab for this but we missed any option of it with the new chapter.
Skins from prev seasons would be amazing. Maybe mini battle passes like the ones we get for collabs right now but for old skins?
For how they sell them it could be 950 vbucks per season, allowing for players to essentially buy the battlepasses after their time to mak giving away the skins fairer. Also, if you already have that battlepass purchased then it would be free to you. Because season 1 had no battlepass it could be free to let players have some free missions as well as to set up later story sections that came out of nowhere
Man, you COOKED with this video. I really hate how KZhead ruined making comments
This video has shown up in my recommended a couple times, I finally decided to watch it…and I agree. Since Chapter 3 Season 2 I’ve always felt that the game needs some sort of story mode, and I’ve even come up with a few mock-ups of what there could be. What annoys me is that the ideas are really cool, but no real story uses up those ideas. I also think it’d be good for Fortnite since it could bring in more merchandise and players, but really. The story can’t shine without it’s own treatment.
11:24 this genuinely made me luagh, thank you, great vid, and keep it up!
That got my mood like📈
To be honest this is a really good idea theres so much potential for story telling. I just hope epic ends up giving us something like this.
Damn, this shit doin numbers
What we need is do missions where we can go to any chapter map and find a bunch of random “citizens” and can use it as xp and also learn the backstory to those characters
A different story mode for each season which gives xp new part of story mode each week leading up to the last week of the season which ends with a story mode live event which concludes with a loading screen until the next season
Fr just go back in time and replay all of the old fortnite seasons. (easy method)
It would be cool to have levels that had you played as different characters with there own gameplay.
im glad someone remembers chapter 2 s 8
Crazy I started in the vibin season too. I had to learn about the whole story through KZhead.
i started in chapter 2 season 6 and the only story i knew was "purple orb does random stuff" and for c3s2 i was like "omg we are on a ship and shoot meteors then go into big robot then shoot at bubbles" and for c3s4 i didnt attend the live event, then fortnite stopped doing live events for a while and i learned the lore
This is an amazing idea honestly they should have done this with the beginning plus and it can be an offline mode too so that way people have something to do during downtime and stuff like that.( also have you seen the short Fortnite posted which is just 56 seconds of butter barn playing?)
I was thinking about doing something like this in creative but i just didn't have the knowledge nor abilities to do it
Then it could have the fracture event but in someone on the islands pov fighting the herald in an epic uncharted like set piece.
I think that Fortnite should add an “offline” mode of sorts. A mode where you can choose chapter and season and either play against bots or play solo where you can do all of the quests. You would be able to toggle things like computer players, the storm, build/zero build, and anything else you can think of. This way, they can have the BR story be the BR story by having people be able to do it in BR, but also have a version of BR where you can do all the quests and story missions without the threat of getting 90s cranked on you and then double pumped. They could also start reselling skins and battle passes, but in order to make the OG fans happy we charge some 5 dollars more for these old battle passes.
That Mondo Owada reference was amazing considering i was an ex-danganronpa fan which switched to fortnite
I'm glad someone got it! You're the first person to mention it.
love the skin you use! i use happy kit
The quests, comics, and events
Love the persona music
It’s probably why I personally only play as collab chrachters as they are chrachters that I’m already familiar with and can relate to. The problem with me is that Fortnite created all these cool original characters but nothing gives me motivation to real care or remember them
0:36 same! I mean kinda… I started chapter 3 season 1 stopped, and played season 3
12:00 they have super styles for a reason they could easily do what they did for skins like the skull trooper and only allow people who bought the original battle pass (for the respective skin) to have the super styles
I also started in vibin
1:21 once Geno left to start the imagined order, he left a snapshot of himself to rule the other order he was running at the time, the oathbound.
I just wish at the very least we had thoes storyline missions they did in Chapter 3 Season 2 where they atleast had voice lines to go with the challenges so you got to know the characters and story for the season. Also fortnite could really benefit from a tv show and not just for storyline but just for them to showcase more animations we don't really see anything anymore unless it's the end of a chapter It's sad that we don't see anything big like that unless its a seasons story trailer or yearly event. I also miss when loading screens showed a story or had character depth unlike now where they just have a picture oh Hades on a loading screen. I miss having something like the Drift saga in the original season 5 where drift and brite bomber eventually ended up dating, they even showed it in The End event loading screen they they just never showed up again.
Im here to tell you guys that the story has been officialy came back with the mini live event that coming this week!
Chapter 4 had these same mini events, and yes they're cool and connect the seasons, they don't do too much for story telling.
@@cuzl2 chapter 4 didnt had any events or mini events
I started in chapter 1 season 5, and it is hard to explain the lore behind all of fortnite because they either started in chapter 2/3 or they don't understand anything I'm saying. I totally agree that they should add a story mode.
Plus another thing I could see happen is when you revisit the old maps through story mode and you have crew, you could get the old skins and emotes from that battlepass.
I’m going to solve a majority of these issues, I’m not going to be able to give you guys cosmetics but if you give me a year episode one will be complete. If you wish to support, tell me how you would like to support.
Persona music goes cray cray
I understand your frustration but I know all the answers to these questions already. I may not look it but I’m a Fortnite lore nerd. I will agree with the fact it would be nice to have a story mode because sometimes I don’t feel like sweating in a lobby full of try hards and u jus wanna play as my fav characters. I for one actually would love an open world map, where we can run around interact with NPCs and do missions according to the current story.
honestly tho, this a good way for people to get the battle pass skins without going back in time to get them, probably not in the base BR game but a skin you can play as only in the story mode
One underrated part of fortnite is it's description on cosmetics, giving us lore, personalities and other things. It is one of my most beloved parts of the game, even in this battle pass they are great. Making me love the skins and characters more, just see aphrodites' set
0:27 dude has pissed of every fortnite story fan with that word
Bro I always wanted to play a campaign mode in Fortnite since I began playing it. Used to create geeky RP with my ex to explain how I saw the story. I think your idea could work now especially since Disney own stoke so they could have the Marvel levels. However, I think having it be open world could work. They give us the first 4 Islands back and they have them set to a Callender. Every 1 to 2 months the switch the seasons bring back a new battle pass to play through. In my mind it would also be a living locker of sorts as having skins from different seasons add in different bosses or NPC with more lore.
I 100% agree with a lot of the points made here. ‘Cause it’s something I’ve been wanting for a long time, and by long time I mean ever since C3S2.
The meow skulls skin is so fire 🔥
idea for the old battle pass skins in a story mode that isn't save the world: what if they made it so those who already had the skin they "unlock" from doing the story mode was instead a special style that you had to own the skin before unlocking it in story game mode idea. then the people who don't want their accounts to lose their value don't and those who just want some cool neat skins they weren't able to get can get them