Epic surprised Fortnite players with its most up-to-date game update by implementing a serious interface redesign. The corporate usually leaves these big design changes for brand spanking new season launches, but that wasn’t the case this point around. Among other things, the new interface makes it much easier to seek out the games you would like, especially ones that aren’t battle royale.
If you’ve fired up the game at any point over the past few days, you’ve little question encountered the redesigned interface that appears when selecting game modes. The new UI features four tabs that enable users to quickly jump between discovering games to play, accessing the content in your library, creating your island, or entering an island code without first getting into Creative mode.
Among other things, the new interface now categorizes games supported by the genre they’re in — players can, for instance, scroll through a banner filled with nothing but Deathrun games, adding whichever they wish to their library by clicking the ‘heart’ icon. Other banners show different games and experiences by category, including the stock game modes from Epic (Team Rumble, Squads, and similar).
Games and experiences featured within the Discovery menu include tags that present relevant details about each entry and its offers. Players can use the game tags to look at things like what features it’s going to include and an outline of the map. Beyond that, players also can pick from a curated Featured section where popular, and new games are presented.
Meanwhile, the competitive games are now found in their Competitive category, which should help players who want to specialize in Fortnite’s esports experiences. When entering Creative, players will not see the ‘Play’ option, instead matchmaking straight into public lobbies. Players who aren’t curious about public lobbies can set Creative to non-public mode.
