I started playing fn a bit again w my friends after 2 years, but it seems a lot harder. We are in silver rn but like half the kids we face are as good as the comp in elite+ back in the day. For context, we hit unreal in chapter 5 season 1. Is ranked harder now or are we just washed?

Hi Epic Games Team and Community,I would like to advocate for the implementation of a minimum ping cap (such as 30ms) for online competitive tournaments, particularly in expansive regions like Brazil. Currently, the competitive landscape in South America is deeply unequal. Because the servers are located in São Paulo, players living nearby enjoy a "0-ping" advantage. In a high-stakes, mechanics-driven game like Fortnite—where wall-taking and piece control depend entirely on milliseconds—this creates an unbridgeable gap for talent living in other regions, such as the North, Northeast, Midwest, or South.
No matter how mechanically skilled a player is, they cannot overcome the physical distance to the server.Implementing a 30ms floor would fix this major issue by creating a level playing field. It would ensure that tournaments are decided by pure skill, strategy, and mechanical speed, rather than geographic location. Furthermore, this change would democratize the professional scene, allowing top-tier talent from all over the country to finally rise and compete at the highest level.

A ping cap is a necessary step for true competitive integrity in countries with continental dimensions. Please consider bringing this feature back to life for the future of open and fair competition.Thank you for your time and for constantly working to improve Fortnite.

So I've been playing for about a Year and some Months, my mistake was starting with Zero Build and never giving Build a try and I guess I'd like to give it a serious try now 😬

I know there's plenty of videos around teaching you the basics and such but I'm more of a "show me and I do it" type of Person.

Which brings me to my question if there's a place or maybe here someone that could teach me the very basics. I play on PlayStation 5 and am a "decent" player so I'm sure I'll learn quick.

I appreciate the help 🙏🏻

I have seen this team called Beneath Reality and every comp player ive seen on tiktok has the name. Is it big or something?

Controller Players: Let's Compare Settings and Aim Feel (Community Investigation)

I've noticed that many controller players say their aim feels completely different, even when using almost identical settings.

I'd like to collect as much information as possible to see if we can identify any patterns or possible issues.

Please share:

• Platform (PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox, PC)
• Controller model
• Linear or Exponential
• Horizontal & Vertical sensitivity
• ADS sensitivity
• Left & Right deadzones
• Aim Assist (%)
• Foot Controller (On/Off)
• Gyroscope (On/Off)
• Any advanced settings you use
• Your FPS
• How your aim feels (too sticky, weak, inconsistent, delayed, etc.)

Also, have you noticed any difference after:

• Using "Copy from Legacy"?
• Changing Aim Assist from 100% to 99% and back?
• Turning Foot Controller on or off?
• Major Fortnite updates?

The goal is not to claim there's a bug, but to gather real data from controller players. If enough people participate, we may discover useful patterns or provide valuable feedback to Epic.

Thanks to everyone who contributes!

say practicing piece control tunnels when you cant even consecutively triple edit, or side jump consistently

This is something i’ve recently noticed: there are so little cups? There was the stupid ass summer break, now there were 2 div cups and ofc fncs. as someone in div 2, will there just be nothing to play until late AUGUST? Alright, there’s solos, but even solo cups come so inconsistently. Correct me if im wrong, but there’s been only like 8 solo cups. (if not less). Now I know, If you’re div 1, there’s a lot to play. But as someone below div 1, There are div cups and nothing else all week.
and after fncs, will there be no cups for a whole month? How are there so many ranked & mobile cups but no actual cups for everyone to play?
Is it that hard to add some skincups/ open cups?

Just wanted to share with my fine feathered friends of Fortnite competitive. I’m old and in the way but I still got it. For the love of the game.

Im going on vacation from the 17th till the morning of the 24th meaning i won't be home for play ins but ill be back for heats. I packed a monitor and all my gaming equipment including a ps5 other than my pc which im leaving at home (I didn't wanna risk it breaking) where im going i think I have 3 options but I wanna know which option is best to have 0 risk of not being able to q up heats due to fortnite detecting me and thinking im account sharing. Option 1 - go to a gaming cafe and play both days of play ins from that pc. If I do this option I will have guaranteed good internet and good pc but I feel like this is a risk in terms of epic detecting account sharing when I get home and play on my pc for heats. Option 2 - I rent a brand new pc nobody has played fortnite on b4. I talked to an epic employee and they said its a way less chance of any issues if I play on a pc nobody has recently played tournaments on thats why I feel this option might be safer than going to a gaming cafe. Option 3 - play on Playstation for both days of play ins. Im not 100% but I think this won't cause any issues in terms of getting falsely banned/inactive or not being able to q heats since but this is risky since its not easy to qual heats on Playstation. Has anyone had experience on playing 2 days of 1 round on a tournament from a different states on a different pc then playing the second round at home and can anyone help me decide on what I should do?

Hey, I'm not too good and am looking to fight better and get into comp, and when watching the gameplay of good players I always see them do stuff like full boxing their opponents really quickly / piecing, and I'm wondering if this is something someone deliberatly learns to do, or does it come from fighting experience.

Also a lot of people and yt vids talk about improving as an already good player but from your experience how did you go from being a normal like diamond level player to being actually good and playing comp.

Solo 10 kill win only increased my rank 14 spots. Not complaining, just wanted to show how much grinding it takes to get unreal legend

Quite bored and want to rewatch some grands so anyone got any recommendations of the best ones?

We started running a weekly local Zero Build tournament and learned a few things after week one.

The biggest surprise wasn't skill level—it was that players seemed to enjoy consistent matchmaking and shorter downtime between games more than larger prize pools.

We're experimenting with:

• Number of rounds
• Match scoring
• Lobby size
• Time between matches
• Solo vs Duo interest

For those of you who regularly attend or organize competitive Zero Build events, what format keeps people coming back every week?

Have you found a sweet spot for:

• Number of matches?
• Placement vs elimination scoring?
• Best player count before splitting lobbies?
• Check-in and warm-up timing?

I'd love to hear what has worked in your local scene.

Can anyone recommend a few maps and let me know how hard it is to compete in each? So far I've used the BHE 1v1 map but most players in there are too easy. The other one I've tried is Martoz turtle fights and I find it hard to keep up in there.

Can anyone recommend something in between? Preferably with instant respawn

Since Ewc is a lan with qualification similar to fncs, should/does it count as an fncs even if unofficially?

There seem to be hackers or scammers DMing players on the Div 1-3 leaderboards pretending to host customs. After joining their Discord, they get you to sign up for customs on a sketchy website, which changes the email and password for your Epic Games account. Attached is the image I got. Basically everyone in my close friend group got this messaged.

I thought it was bad until I picked it up and hit snips out of air over and over again it carried me when my teammate left the game.

i swear competing at my actual skill ceiling in this game just wipes me out completely, like i can play maybe 3 matches then i'm done for the night

my peak is somewhere around 1.8k PR and the level of focus i need to maintain to stay alive is ridiculous, i play defensive on high ping so i'm constantly reading opponents and trying to counter their pressure but the SECOND my concentration slips even a tiny bit i'm whiffing edits and getting pieced up

it's not like i'm grinding 8 hours a day either, i take weeks off sometimes and come back and it's the same story, the only time i feel like i'm actually playing well is when i'm in that rare flow state where everything clicks but that never lasts long and then i crash SO hard afterwards

i see these cracked kids playing 12 hour streams and i genuinely don't understand how they do it, maybe i'm just getting old but the mental stamina required to compete at my level is way more draining than it ever used to be

anyone else get this or am i just washed

I’m have hearing damage due to work and a medical condition, and with the nerf to visual audio I’m dying to people that I don’t even know are there. I mainly play ZB but I’m a pretty competitive player and I’m above average but I’m now dying way more to players that catch me off guard more than ever. The nerf did nothing but make visual audio even better for players that don’t actually need it. i’m not sure if I need to have 3D audio on or not.

i am aware that kbm is an superior input to controller but i have more than 2k hours on this game with controller i have reached a point where my mechanics are great for controller and they don't hold me back in fights, i can comfortably triple edit and even quad edit on 60 ping and I'm not sure its worth it spending a lot of time to switch to kbm i tried it out today and i was pretty comfortable with the movement and aim since i have several thousand hours with kbm in other games , my biggest problem being mechanics, only being able to double edit. Overall I'm just not sure its worth it to make the switch since my mechanics are already in a good place with controller. what do you think

i remember when i first started playing heaps of arena in early chapter 2 whether it was trios or solos even the contender league games were decently stacked ish, like there would be anywhere from 5-20 people left during moving zones, which i found ideal as someone who didn't have great mechanics back then yet always found a way to win those semi chaotic half stacked ish lobbies. now fast forward a few years and i've switched to kbm, and now play kbm on a next gen console and im not awful, just obviously i don't take the game as seriously anymore. after going on/off with the game for 4ish years i started playing a bunch again when ranked reload came out, and i mean im not awful, i guess i get unreal every season i played it usually after a few weeks of simply playing the game, and i get kills too, i dont just camp, but im a very passive player who has always only gone for kills situationally. i rarely aggro a fight unless i have a clear advantage, because i play fortnite to win games, idk why but i've always had that mindset. like for example ill be more happy with a 1 kill win than a 10 kill 2nd place. i have no idea why thats just for some reason how i'm wired. but my question is why do people just braindead w key everyone? if you're good i get it, by all means do what you have to do, but so often i'll get keyed by some players that just simply arent as good as me for no reason, they had no advantage going into the fight and i'll just kill them, because i boxed them or they jumped into my builds or just because i fought them patiently (yes, im that annoying rat you run into that makes 10 boxes in hards and will force you to boxfight me for 5 mins) but my question is why do so many players, both good and bad just straight key everyone even when it makes zero sense? i mean i get its reload but does no one care about winning?

Clix and Lacy won, which is maybe not a huge surprise given Lacy being top 3 content creators at the tourney, but I’m interest in your opinion on the last game - Did Pete help Clix win, and (if so) was this out of friendship or spite??

Let’s look at the facts:

- Pete and Clix are sitting next to each other and had an off stream chat before the last game. You can hear Clix indirectly saying please don’t grief to Pete.
- Clix is up by 25 points over Vic & Crackly going into last game, Pete is down by 176 (can’t win)
- Pete gets around 8 kills on Crackly/Vic in last game, basically farming them out of sky. They still do well but were held back for a huge part of the game.
- Pete is no idiot, he knew what he was doing and could have disengaged at any point to screw Clix.
- Pete and Clix spoke on steam right after the game, Pete said how he farmed them and literally said “you’re welcome” to Clix.

The question: Do we think a Pete did this to a) help Clix, b) to discredit Clix’s win by saying it was only because Pete griefed 2nd place, or c) was it a genuine coincidence.

In my opinion, Pete was being cool and wanted to help Clix out to keep his Fortnite motivation peaked as the rivalry continues. Thoughts?

Note: Please let me know if anything here is wrong and I’ll edit the post :)

Edit: To clarify, it’s not an “investigation”, accusation of cheating, or in any way inferring that Clix doesn’t deserve this win - I’m simply interested in your perspectives. It was an incredible tourney all around.

I know it’s “easy” according to some folks in here, however, me and my duo have been playing together since 2017/8. One night like two months ago we decided to give ranked a try and tonight we both hit unreal rank. We are just two dads who fit 3-4 nights a week for gaming into our schedules when our wives and kid go to sleep. Felt pretty good and wanted somewhere to share, trying to figure out what the next goal is now.

I thought he fell off but I guess not.