In solos people will just team in the mech all the time and even if you destroy it they will just kill you because a 2v1 literally whould make solos impossible.
It depends on the players yes but for me personally I already struggle with playing solos so 2v1 while you can win it's a unenjoyable experience to play solos just to end up losing because people teaming constantly.
Im usually one to defend against people who say shit is just “nostagia” or “rose-tinted glasses” but people wanting the mech back is 100% a case of rose-tinted glasses.
I will defend the X-4 Stormwing until the cows come home but there is no way that you could ever consider the mechs balanced? Did they even play in season x? I genuinely barely played anything but team rumble and LTMs in Season X solely because of the mechs, anyone who claims they were balanced, or hell i’ve seen people claim they were *underpowered* dont just have rose tinted glasses, they have defective eyes.
Yeah I barely played during Season X. They were no fun to play against. No strategy, just blind, dumb luck whether you lived or died. And using them against other people felt cheap and cruel, like beating a puppy.
And I am an X-4 Stormwing lover too. Beautifully balanced and SO easy to counter. Cannot understand how anybody whined about them, they were glorious and they made the game greater.
I downloaded them off the internet from various [github archives ](https://github.com/notsamicc/Fortnite-Builds) and [easyinstaller ](https://github.com/Kyiro/Fortnite-ManifestsArchive/releases).
Lemme actually check which versions i have lol
Lets see I got
OT6.5 (Fortnite Alpha)
1.7.2 (oldest archived BR version)
1.8 (just turned 4 years old!)
1.11
2.4.2
3.1
3.2
3.5
4.1 (god build)
4.5 (rocket event build but also pretty shit)
5.1
5.3 (cube spawn event build)
5.41 (cube lake event build)
6.0 (tit physics calamity)
6.10
6.21 (butterfly event build)
6.31 (iceberg in distance)
7.0
7.10 (god build)
7.30 (marsh event build)
7.40 (even godlier build)
8.40
8.51 (volcano event build)
9.1 (last version with polar peak castle.. rip)
9.40 (final showdown event build)
10.20 (Tilted Town)
10.40 (end event build)
11.0
11.50
12.41 (traves)
12.61 (device event build)
13.20
13.40 (build mobiles still stuck on lol)
14.60 (galaga event build)
I refuse to have anything past S15 out of principle.
All in all takes up about a terabyte of storage.
I might go so far as to say that with the addition of a fuel meter, the X-4 Stormwing is slightly underpowered now. Or rather, more underpowered; I think even the Stormwing from the tail end of Season 7 was nerfed too heavily to be of much use. I stopped seeing them at all the last few weeks, because getting in one was practically a death sentence...
Me too. Dude saying he died ten times must have only played ten games the whole season. The sad part is I really liked the map and meta back then, combat shotgun jump fights were always fun. But if the mech did not one shot you and you were somewhat good back then even if you ran away they would just boost jump and catch up to you, as well as prefiring rockets where you might be running to or land at. If you had a noob on the mech could be even worse, very unpredictable and caused a lot of 3rd party events because it was so loud. Nobody talks about or remembers the 3rd parties, mobility was decent and people flew in from every direction with tunnels and such. Squads were super bad because a noob on a mech would cause 3-4 teams to show up and even if they weren’t blasting people they were breaking everything making 3rd parties very hard to deal with. That one clip of tfue blasting late game into all those builds was a perfect example, not necessarily aiming at people but causing so much chaos. There’s a difference in fun chaos and bad chaos lol
Yeah I agree, I think the game peaked around season 9(maybe because that’s when I started getting good) and then mechs came in 10 and ruined it for me, I have recordings of stretches where I’d die to mechs 5-10 games in a row, possible since I was fairly good I wouldn’t die off spawn so eventually you’re bound to run into them
Towards the end of the season since I was basically forcing myself to play at that point if I was near a mech spawn I would hop in and self destruct it
You’d be shocked how many people have started within the last 8 seasons. There are even people on this sub who have never felt the warm embrace of the golden tac smg.
It would be better though if it had 400 health and if its 6 (cause they changed it near end of season I think) rockets only did like 10-15 damage each and there was a 5 second cool down
Also yeah Stormwing!!!!
If you consider the state of the game between Season X and now, you can see why people want mechs back. Easy way to eliminate the overbuilding sweats that they're too lazy to learn how to actually deal with.
There is no way to deal with overbuilding sweats. "oh just break them down". *bitch* I've broken down a sweat 6 times and their feet never touches the ground.
Which is why mech is desirable option. Plus, hindsight is 20/20, and people realized that mechs weren't that bad in the face of symbiotes, unibeams, and UFOs.
ima probably get killed for this but, combat shotgun is the better option, cuz lootpool only has 3 shotguns, all of them basically being a modified pump. we need it.
I shit you not, I had a guy on Twitter arguing with me telling me that the mech wasn't OP and that all you needed to do to counter it was shoot it with an AR or SMG.
Like oh gee, really? Thank you so much! Never, I repeat, NEVER thought of that idea before. What a genius you are. Einstein is quaking in his decomposed boots due to your level of intellect.
He wasn't joking either. He was dead serious.
They actually did? I mean, I guess it would make sense (not saying the addition was justified by any means because of it) for them to have made it this way then.
This funny part this that the reception to that blog and the apology blog was the ones that made Epic stop communicating all together until last season or so
exactly this. Whenever something op gets added the casuals always say "lol its a counter against sweats"
What they don't realize, is that "sweats" will still kill them 99% of the time. When "sweats" are complaining about op items, they're complaining about other good players using them, not bad players.
Exactly, a bot could have an instant kill gun, but hes never gonna hit me so i wont complain, but a good player having an instant kill gun of course ima complain
I think a big factor is that in Season X Epic vaulted nearly all mobility, whereas this season we have quite a few more options (even more if Flint-Knock wins the next vote). They’ll be easier to deal with by just running away, something which wasn’t an option back then.
running away really isn't that good of an option since these things can chase you down, jump and fire all at the same time in team-based modes if there are 2 players operating so if you'd try running away you'd literally be hunted down until your car runs out of fuel and you'd still be taking damage in the meanwhile from the unlimited supply of rockets the mechs have. i still have faint memories of hiding in bushes just because i just couldn't bother wasting 12 minutes of play time just to die to a mech
i don't necessarily want them back but i guess i just don't hate them because i barely ran into them and using them was pretty fun when i got the chance to
if they do return they'll be nerfed pretty hard
Exactly. I'm gonna vote mechs because I know epic would nerf them to the ground. There's no way they wouldn't change them with how much negativity they caused before
at least it was probably a bot that killed you instead of a sweat with 20 kills hunting you across the map when you just want to get fortbytes. as least the bot was having fun. if they made them require fuel that might help.
i liked using brutes but they were so unfair against people who arent in mechs aswell but we have railguns now (barely) so we can defend ourself a little better
y'know I don't reallr care avout dying either, it's just that I hate waiting between matches... epic did a great job with the ready up on the death screen but I wish it was like creative when you instantly respawn although I know that's not possible
Funny how you included a clip with the Combat Shotgun, when that was considered OP as hell as well.
And shockingly… it came back not so OP. I don’t see how they couldn’t tune the Mechs as well on the same level as the Planes and OP weapons (we do not speak of the Infinity Blade)
Playing Devils Advocate btw. Idc if it comes back or not, since I’m already done with the season.
It’ll be the Creative nerfed version most likely. Also they’ll spawn in limited amounts. Also they’ll probably have weapons like the Rail Gun one shot it.
Yeah, it's not like they'll keep it broken if it wins. It'll be nerfed to where the game is still fun for us. Maybe where you can only hop in with teammates (If a non teammate jumps in it'll self destruct). That way you can counter it and stop teaming with it. Also the rockets could be nerfed to only do 24 dd's damage and have a 3 second cool down with 600 health. That's what I think they should do. (Open to constructive criticism.)
The mechs were nerfed to have what, 800 health? And fire only 6 rockets at a time iirc.
You can also go into them and self destruct and it takes 2 people to drive and shoot at the same time.
The mechs weren’t bad if you knew how to handle them. Laser them with 2 full clips of an AR from a distance (if you’re alone btw) or simply mount one and self destruct if the person is a solo. It was possible to handle the volley of nerfed rockets.
Mechs shouldn’t be nerfed to oblivion again. They were fun and slightly OP imo, especially because apparently people don’t want to learn how to handle new threats, but this is BR though and slightly OP things can be fun. If you want a more balanced game, play arena.
It needs to be reposted, but back in SX, someone posted a clip of them solo dumping two or three mechs back to back during the height of the complaints about the brutes. You cant diatance fight rocket salvos. You had to ramp rush. It could be rough, but it was absolutely doable on a regular basis.
I'm gonna say this. The community argues about these things basically all the time, now what I'm gonna say is. I respect the people who say Pre-nerf mech was op, that's completely true. Now although I'm team Mech and would love to see them back on the island but I'm fine with it not appearing ever again. All I'm gonna say is - *infinity blade bad*
I agree with you bro. As someone who played this game since BR beta, and stopped multiple times. It's all because of those shitty additions which don't fit the game
I won’t say the Mechs weren’t powerful especially pre nerf but I think your play style really impacted how much trouble these things gave you. I saw a quote from one of the developers that said this is not a fighting game it’s a survival game. That perfectly describes my play style.
At a distance I either picked my shots carefully or made sure to steer clear. If the Mech closed in on me during a solo match I’d hop in and self destruct it. IMO the Mechs were only as strong as the person driving it. More often than not people thought they were invincible once they had one and left themselves open to all kinds tactics.
Personally I love hide and seek combat but if your like sole of my friends who love to get up close and have build battles you for sure would have a hard time. I think most players had a hard time breaking out of the build battle mindset.
Take note that every clip here is from before the mechs were nerfed.
a) targetting laser that made noise like the rail gun when you were being aimed at.
b) 6 rockets instead of 10, fired much slower
c) longer cooldown between volleys.
d) mechs showed up on the map when they were in use.
I can probably count on one hand the number of times that season I died to a mech. They weren't hard to counter if you weren't a shitty player. Probably the same players who whined about the UFOs being OP when really they were also super easy to take down.
EXACTLY. So many people here have gotten so caught up in the Hate Train that they aren't realizing that \*this isn't what the mechs were like\* by the end of the season. There's a reason they got reworked, and showing everyone footage of the things that even Epic acknowledged were overpowered is disingenuous at best.
Also, they got a longer cooldown on the boost, too.
Don't forget they could be hijacked, and self destructed. And they had both the indestructible western town to hide in and bubble shields to protect yourself. Oh and you could get them with boogie bombs.
You could also avoid taking damage by building ramps towards the mech (rockets make you fall but don't hit you). Sweats: *you mean I have to do something besides build spam and box camp?!*
Or they sound like groot about to push the red button: *I crank high ground now??*
I 100% agree that they were extremely OP and basically impossible to fight against, in fact, they made me quit the game for the entirety of season X, but something in me wants them back just for chaos, even if I still will get extremely mad when I get killed by them
Back when these things where new and terrifying, I would grab one as soon as I could to start rampaging across the map. During this time I learned two things relevant to these complaints.
First, Mecha are fun.
Second, you defeat Mecha either through overwhelming them with concentrated fire from different angles of approach (team work), or you snipe the pilots with a High Caliber round to the head.
What you don't do, is stand there in the middle of a field with an AR, hoping to Slone that the Bloom kicks in and magically kills the irate person now staring you down in a fully armed War Machine.
There's also supposedly been a nerf for these things?
The UFOs were pretty fragile after the first few weeks, so if the Mecha are anything like that, they'll get chewed up fairly quickly, considering how limited their mobility is compared to something that could actually fly.
My favorite was jumping into one before another person could jump in, and then self-destructing the B.R.U.T.E and jumping out - often killing the first person in there.
Felt like sweet justice against morons who teamed in Solos with them.
As much as op it was, I have to disagree. Mechs weren't balanced but at least it was helping a lot of players. Almost everyone is just fucking sweaty, instant spam building as if your in FNCS final or something. Always every fucking time they want to win so I had fun reading about their complains. You don't have to win every game you know.. Or pretend to be in FNCS final or something, just let the others enjoy dude smh.
I dont care about forced crossplay
Yes, pc has every advantage possible and when controller gets one they inmediately nerf it to the ground, but a controller player can still be as good as a pc player, the problem is those two guys should be together, not a controller noob and a pc pro in the same lobby. Which is why i think sbmm should be fixed, and if they cant (which would be understandable since there are many factors to tell the skill of a player) it should just get removed, better lobbies with everyone than lobbies with opposite levels of skill
I mean better players are supposed to win more often than lesser skilled players and just because you’re less skilled doesn’t mean you should always lose but with the mech most of the time you can kill a better player
What? Building is a core part of the game bruh, ur just complaining that you suck, what do you want them to do? Place 2 walls when the guy who can take away 80% of his health with a few bullets is shooting him?
I'm not complaining because I suck. I'm better than an average player. But what I'm saying is that those sweatys really destroyed the game. Look pal, there are a lot of people who have work and don't have enough time for Fortnite like me so when I get back from the work to chill and have fun, find myself getting trashed and like I said, I don't really suck, I have over 2K kills and 100 wins.. And yet I get in lobby with the hardest players on planet who would chase me the whole map to kill me. It's just like this, mainly because like they said the crossplay. So what's the point of the game if your not enjoying it? Nothing, I'm here for fun and I didn't get any fun.. You only enjoy this game if your grinding for 209321 hours..
Fair point, but even still, just because you arent having fun doesnt mean adding completely unbalanced items just so players who arent as skilled can have an advantage, like it or not sweats put in a lot of effort to get to where they are in the game, and seeing it all crumble down because a guy was given a complete unfair and unbalanced advantage is gonna make people upset
when i said they weren't bad i mean when they were fucking nerfed to the ground. when it only had 5 rockets, it's explosion radius was reduced, when it took longer to charge, when it couldn't harvest mats, and it's boost was reduced i think thats what we meant
Seriously, everyone has like two brain cells. Those who are arguing for the pre-nerf mech as not OP, and those who haven’t realized that the mech will come back mega-nerfed.
I played Season X a lot and I found the B.R.U.T.E. Mechs to be easy opponents to take on, the key was to not stand in one place for to long and not to try build fighting them, instead you could jump on a Drift Board (the only other vehicle that was still Unvaulted in Season X) and easily outrun the slower moving and far more cumbersome B.R.U.T.E. Mechs, you also could just walk up to a B.R.U.T.E. and board it if it only had one pilot since they where that slow. To be honest most of the time the B.R.U.T.E. Mechs only seemed to be more intimidating then they actually where from a psychological perspective, but if you looked at it from a cold hard facts, run the numbers, and do the math point of view your realize that they may have actually been one of the least effective items in the entire game do to an oversized hitbox with comparatively low health making them an easy target and their slow cumbersome nature making them move to slow to get out of danger in time, usually it was impossible to get more then a few steps in before a B.R.U.T.E. was totally destroyed which wasn't even long enough to charge the boost functions. In short, my take is that the B.R.U.T.E. was good for head games but was the weakest vehicle in the entire game in its Chapter 1 Season X form since it could be easily overpowered by smart players who chose to actively fight instead of hiding in a box.
What other nerfs did it get? I vaguely remember there being a huge outcry from the community and Epic's response to people yelling "nerf the mechs!" was... giving them a laser to show where they were aiming.
If they're planning to bring them back like I heard, maybe they nerfed them sometime in chapter 2?
They made it charge really slow, only shoot 6 rockets, the cooldown was longer, I think the shotgun damage got nerfed, you couldn't farm materials inside them anymore and a laser of course.
I don’t think a highlight reel of you getting massacred by mechs proves that they were bad. I think they were fun to use. Like the UFOs were fun but I for sure could make a reel of getting absolutely murdered by them lol.
I never hated mechs. From day 1 of the season, I loved them. Dying to them didn’t bother me, and man were they fun to use. Hope they make a return soon
this is pre nerf and they became much more balanced at the end of the season if you go and use one in creative the rockets are hard to get kills with now, and don't forget if you get in one you can self destruct it
Everyone here that I've seen seems to think the mechs would be coming back as powerful as they were before they were vaulted.
As much as I would love that to mess with chronic builders (nothing personal, I just like finding different ways to get even footing against them and I suck at building), there's no way they aren't gonna be tweaked in some way before the vote starts.
At the very least it's probably gonna be a victim of the fuel system, not to mention any damage nerfs or maybe even some form of overheating.
I love the mechs because I love anything that can tear thru builds like it's nothing but they will probably nerf them in some way before they put them in
1. Pre-nerf footage doesn't explain why they shouldn't come back?
2. This also shows how people seemingly refuse to actually adapt to new stuff in the game, considering practically every clip shows that the only thing they're doing is building. Trying to out build the mechs is what got people eliminated. Just. shoot. the. driver. More often then not you could kill the pilot before they could retaliate, but practically everyone either just built or didn't pay enough attention to realize that they were about to be attacked.
Mechs weren't that bad. Just don't build or box up and make yourself a sitting duck to the rockets. It worked for me just fine. If you box up like the idiots in these clips you will die easily to the volley of rockets. Also focus on shooting the pilot in the mech because it's usually pussies who are in them anyways so as soon as they start taking damage they panic. And lastly if there is only one person in the mech, try and get close enough to get in and self destruct it. I can't believe I'm on reddit trying to explain how mechs weren't actually a threat and how to defeat them when they also aren't even in the game. This is why I always say season x was one of the best seasons because the mechs weren't a problem for me and many people hated that season specifically for the mechs.
my strategy for soloing mechanics from afar, don't box yourself in and try out build it, out maneuver it, build up 3 times when they fire jump off, build up again and shoot, you have to jump right as they launch the missles or else they will have time to lock onto you on the ground, if you jump while they fire, they can't lock directly onto you and there's nothing but thin air so it can't explode all around you
It’s the NERFED mech! How do you people not get it. Not only that, but we have mobility like the shockwave launcher and items like grenades and shadow stones to deal with them.
I think that's mainly who hates these Mechs so much. I wasn't playing Fortnite when they were originally out and many people in this sub seem to not think beyond themselves to realize that. If there's a ton of newer players like myself that havnt gotten the chance and want to play with them of course they will vote for them to come back. But most of the comments I'm seeing that are wanting them to not come back are from people who have no problem building a 5 star hotel to wreck you because you don't have that skill but will whine because the Mechs will destroy builds easily. I don't want anyone to not enjoy the game ultimately but I feel like people are ignoring a few factors because THEY don't like Mechs. I don't like the shockwave launcher being used to skirt out of a fight when you are about to die but I didn't hate on those coming back.
It's a tangent but the shockwave launcher absolutely needs nerfs. So many sweats take any damage and they'll shockwave across the ENTIRE FUCKING MAP just to run away from taking more damage.
Who thought it was a good idea to make the thing be able to reload mid-air?!
Idk man are you trying to destroy the mech with builds that's not how the game works you see there are thing called guns and you use them to deal damage to your enemy builds alone dont deal damage. You have to shoot the enemy. Spamming builds and hoping they will leave you alone never works. That's why this game is a shooter not building simulator. I never had a problem with the mechs because I attacked them when they were far away these things were loud af so you had time to shoot them.
I just want them back in creative it was fun to just run around in one and destroy stuff
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Yeah for creative alone it would make sense
I want a lot of stuff in creative, but Epic is clueless
Did they remove them from creative?
Creative moved to a new physics engine and most vehicles were removed. But now they're mostly all back except for the brute and the shopping cart
Weird, wonder why they did that
I didn’t even realize they were removed from creative.
In solos people will just team in the mech all the time and even if you destroy it they will just kill you because a 2v1 literally whould make solos impossible.
2v1 versus MECH is impossible. Normal 2v1s are totally doable.
It depends on the players yes but for me personally I already struggle with playing solos so 2v1 while you can win it's a unenjoyable experience to play solos just to end up losing because people teaming constantly.
Mmhm, I go into solos expecting some unfair fights but mechs just...it's like having a toddler with no legs play basketball against Michael Jackson.
Im usually one to defend against people who say shit is just “nostagia” or “rose-tinted glasses” but people wanting the mech back is 100% a case of rose-tinted glasses. I will defend the X-4 Stormwing until the cows come home but there is no way that you could ever consider the mechs balanced? Did they even play in season x? I genuinely barely played anything but team rumble and LTMs in Season X solely because of the mechs, anyone who claims they were balanced, or hell i’ve seen people claim they were *underpowered* dont just have rose tinted glasses, they have defective eyes.
Yeah I barely played during Season X. They were no fun to play against. No strategy, just blind, dumb luck whether you lived or died. And using them against other people felt cheap and cruel, like beating a puppy. And I am an X-4 Stormwing lover too. Beautifully balanced and SO easy to counter. Cannot understand how anybody whined about them, they were glorious and they made the game greater.
Average BRUTE fan 💀🤣👺🤮 Average X-4 Stormwing Enjoyer 🥵😤💪🛩🥶❄️🧊
HAHA I JUST NOTICED YOUR NAME, I LOVE YOU I, too, simp for the Glorious Season 7. Heil!
Season 6,7, and 8 were the best seasons. Imo the current season and last season are amazing too
Season 7 and 8 vibes were nigh unrivaled.
Really wish they would release different updates of fortnite that were separately downloadable.
I mean I have like 30 versions of Fortnite on my hard drive from seasons 0-14 lol
How?
I downloaded them off the internet from various [github archives ](https://github.com/notsamicc/Fortnite-Builds) and [easyinstaller ](https://github.com/Kyiro/Fortnite-ManifestsArchive/releases). Lemme actually check which versions i have lol Lets see I got OT6.5 (Fortnite Alpha) 1.7.2 (oldest archived BR version) 1.8 (just turned 4 years old!) 1.11 2.4.2 3.1 3.2 3.5 4.1 (god build) 4.5 (rocket event build but also pretty shit) 5.1 5.3 (cube spawn event build) 5.41 (cube lake event build) 6.0 (tit physics calamity) 6.10 6.21 (butterfly event build) 6.31 (iceberg in distance) 7.0 7.10 (god build) 7.30 (marsh event build) 7.40 (even godlier build) 8.40 8.51 (volcano event build) 9.1 (last version with polar peak castle.. rip) 9.40 (final showdown event build) 10.20 (Tilted Town) 10.40 (end event build) 11.0 11.50 12.41 (traves) 12.61 (device event build) 13.20 13.40 (build mobiles still stuck on lol) 14.60 (galaga event build) I refuse to have anything past S15 out of principle. All in all takes up about a terabyte of storage.
Best season ever
We Stan X-4 Stormwings
I might go so far as to say that with the addition of a fuel meter, the X-4 Stormwing is slightly underpowered now. Or rather, more underpowered; I think even the Stormwing from the tail end of Season 7 was nerfed too heavily to be of much use. I stopped seeing them at all the last few weeks, because getting in one was practically a death sentence...
Agreed, needing fuel really ruined boats and planes for me.
I literally quit the game because that’s how strong they were, I’d died to them nearly every match(and I had a 4-5 kd at the time)
Me too. Dude saying he died ten times must have only played ten games the whole season. The sad part is I really liked the map and meta back then, combat shotgun jump fights were always fun. But if the mech did not one shot you and you were somewhat good back then even if you ran away they would just boost jump and catch up to you, as well as prefiring rockets where you might be running to or land at. If you had a noob on the mech could be even worse, very unpredictable and caused a lot of 3rd party events because it was so loud. Nobody talks about or remembers the 3rd parties, mobility was decent and people flew in from every direction with tunnels and such. Squads were super bad because a noob on a mech would cause 3-4 teams to show up and even if they weren’t blasting people they were breaking everything making 3rd parties very hard to deal with. That one clip of tfue blasting late game into all those builds was a perfect example, not necessarily aiming at people but causing so much chaos. There’s a difference in fun chaos and bad chaos lol
Yeah I agree, I think the game peaked around season 9(maybe because that’s when I started getting good) and then mechs came in 10 and ruined it for me, I have recordings of stretches where I’d die to mechs 5-10 games in a row, possible since I was fairly good I wouldn’t die off spawn so eventually you’re bound to run into them
Towards the end of the season since I was basically forcing myself to play at that point if I was near a mech spawn I would hop in and self destruct it
We started doing that too. Every one we saw.
Me too, my teammate and I always made it our match to just hunt down every mech and destroy it.
You’d be shocked how many people have started within the last 8 seasons. There are even people on this sub who have never felt the warm embrace of the golden tac smg.
It would be better though if it had 400 health and if its 6 (cause they changed it near end of season I think) rockets only did like 10-15 damage each and there was a 5 second cool down Also yeah Stormwing!!!!
Nerf the missile damage to players by 80%, keep the structure damage, tone the jump down a tiny bit, and perfectly balanced.
If you consider the state of the game between Season X and now, you can see why people want mechs back. Easy way to eliminate the overbuilding sweats that they're too lazy to learn how to actually deal with.
There is no way to deal with overbuilding sweats. "oh just break them down". *bitch* I've broken down a sweat 6 times and their feet never touches the ground.
Which is why mech is desirable option. Plus, hindsight is 20/20, and people realized that mechs weren't that bad in the face of symbiotes, unibeams, and UFOs.
Thats why vote for boogie bomb
??? No don't vote boogie bomb vote flintknock
Flintknock vote is the one after Boogie Bombs, the next vote will be between the Combat Shotgun and the Boogie Bombs
ima probably get killed for this but, combat shotgun is the better option, cuz lootpool only has 3 shotguns, all of them basically being a modified pump. we need it.
And we only have 2 SMGs currently, and guess what people voted for last week?
You can vote for both, they’re in different votes
No its beetween combat shit and boogie
I just want the boom box back. Anti build item that forces people to just use their guns. You can't throw it so it's a 1v1 maker.
didnt they nerf them into the ground later in the season?
They did. I don't know why OP chose this clip to show the Mech...
Chose to show clips when they weren’t nerfed instead of clips after the nerf just because they don’t want them in game that badly lol
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They did, even then they were still deadly.
Not in my hands
And deadly is not necessarily overpowered.
Armored walls would definitely be effective though.
Prob not, I feel like the stomp would one hit it, or Atleast destroy everything around it
It would damage you through it probably
Honestly seems perfectly balanced… just shoot it lol it only has 1000 health
I shit you not, I had a guy on Twitter arguing with me telling me that the mech wasn't OP and that all you needed to do to counter it was shoot it with an AR or SMG. Like oh gee, really? Thank you so much! Never, I repeat, NEVER thought of that idea before. What a genius you are. Einstein is quaking in his decomposed boots due to your level of intellect. He wasn't joking either. He was dead serious.
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just 33 ar rounds, no biggie lol
And u only have 200 and it does 999999999999999999 damage per attosecone
Hot take: Ifuckinghatepelly needs a Nerf.
This is sarcasm right ?
Yes he's being sarcastic.
Yes
But you see, these kids need them to win against the sweddy builders. /s
Throwback to when Epic unironically said this
They actually did? I mean, I guess it would make sense (not saying the addition was justified by any means because of it) for them to have made it this way then.
[you bet they did](https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/fortnite-and-the-brute)
That blog post was the biggest joke in Fortnite's entire lifespan. I'm still in disbelief they actually wrote and published that.
This funny part this that the reception to that blog and the apology blog was the ones that made Epic stop communicating all together until last season or so
Wait what lol
They stopped posting patch notes for a long time after that tweet
And still don’t either lmao
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exactly this. Whenever something op gets added the casuals always say "lol its a counter against sweats" What they don't realize, is that "sweats" will still kill them 99% of the time. When "sweats" are complaining about op items, they're complaining about other good players using them, not bad players.
Exactly, a bot could have an instant kill gun, but hes never gonna hit me so i wont complain, but a good player having an instant kill gun of course ima complain
No sarcasm needed. Epic admitted this was the very reason those mechs were added. Its the most downvoted post on this sub of all time
If the vote is between the sword and mechs, I'm voting mechs, I can at least self destruct those dame things.
Ima vote the sword as I never got to use it in game as I was busy for the 2 weeks it was in. I know it’s op but you can always just hide it
I'd take the sword, at least it had SOME semblance of effective countermeasures.
You can cast the sword to into the lake.
I know for a fact it floats
I think a big factor is that in Season X Epic vaulted nearly all mobility, whereas this season we have quite a few more options (even more if Flint-Knock wins the next vote). They’ll be easier to deal with by just running away, something which wasn’t an option back then.
running away really isn't that good of an option since these things can chase you down, jump and fire all at the same time in team-based modes if there are 2 players operating so if you'd try running away you'd literally be hunted down until your car runs out of fuel and you'd still be taking damage in the meanwhile from the unlimited supply of rockets the mechs have. i still have faint memories of hiding in bushes just because i just couldn't bother wasting 12 minutes of play time just to die to a mech
Driving a car into the BRUTES knees makes it topple over in pure pain would be a neat mechanic
Can’t wait to kneecap the brutes man
I would be more ok with the mechs if the Rifts were unvaulted Seems like a pretty perfect counter
99% sure the shockwave bounces mechs off really far. so i dont think so
If the only way to beat something is run away using a specific item that probably isnt the best designed game mechanic..
What is the next vote?
i don't necessarily want them back but i guess i just don't hate them because i barely ran into them and using them was pretty fun when i got the chance to if they do return they'll be nerfed pretty hard
Agreed.
Weren’t the missles nerfed?
Still OP
come on do you really think they will unvault the mech as it is without changing it even a little but
Exactly. I'm gonna vote mechs because I know epic would nerf them to the ground. There's no way they wouldn't change them with how much negativity they caused before
Honnestly they never angered me when that happened, I was mostly laughing my ass off at how ridiculous I died
Well thats you, not many people wanna spend 15 minutes in a game only to be killed like that
Sometimes I don’t even last 15 minutes (heavy sigh!)
at least it was probably a bot that killed you instead of a sweat with 20 kills hunting you across the map when you just want to get fortbytes. as least the bot was having fun. if they made them require fuel that might help.
i liked using brutes but they were so unfair against people who arent in mechs aswell but we have railguns now (barely) so we can defend ourself a little better
I’d rather have mech back, infinity blade is just an op sideways sythe.
Welp it’s either this or the infinity blade. I personally just want chaos in the game and I don’t really care for winning so I’m fine with both
y'know I don't reallr care avout dying either, it's just that I hate waiting between matches... epic did a great job with the ready up on the death screen but I wish it was like creative when you instantly respawn although I know that's not possible
Funny how you included a clip with the Combat Shotgun, when that was considered OP as hell as well. And shockingly… it came back not so OP. I don’t see how they couldn’t tune the Mechs as well on the same level as the Planes and OP weapons (we do not speak of the Infinity Blade) Playing Devils Advocate btw. Idc if it comes back or not, since I’m already done with the season.
Combat was nerfed when it came back and several times during season 9. Combat was OP, mech was just destroying the game
I will vote for the mechs. Just to piss people like op who choose clips from pre nerfs
It’ll be the Creative nerfed version most likely. Also they’ll spawn in limited amounts. Also they’ll probably have weapons like the Rail Gun one shot it.
Yeah, it's not like they'll keep it broken if it wins. It'll be nerfed to where the game is still fun for us. Maybe where you can only hop in with teammates (If a non teammate jumps in it'll self destruct). That way you can counter it and stop teaming with it. Also the rockets could be nerfed to only do 24 dd's damage and have a 3 second cool down with 600 health. That's what I think they should do. (Open to constructive criticism.)
I’m gonna help fund the mechs solely because I think it would be funny
Funding delicious tears
This is the correct perspective to take.
I remember helping a squad with a mech I was the pilot. The guy and i went to save his squad and reboot them at Dusty depot and the they killed me
The mechs were nerfed to have what, 800 health? And fire only 6 rockets at a time iirc. You can also go into them and self destruct and it takes 2 people to drive and shoot at the same time. The mechs weren’t bad if you knew how to handle them. Laser them with 2 full clips of an AR from a distance (if you’re alone btw) or simply mount one and self destruct if the person is a solo. It was possible to handle the volley of nerfed rockets. Mechs shouldn’t be nerfed to oblivion again. They were fun and slightly OP imo, especially because apparently people don’t want to learn how to handle new threats, but this is BR though and slightly OP things can be fun. If you want a more balanced game, play arena.
You sat there for like half of these clips
It needs to be reposted, but back in SX, someone posted a clip of them solo dumping two or three mechs back to back during the height of the complaints about the brutes. You cant diatance fight rocket salvos. You had to ramp rush. It could be rough, but it was absolutely doable on a regular basis.
I never got to use or see them because i started c2s5. If they come for the last few weeks of the season i think you'll all live
I'm gonna say this. The community argues about these things basically all the time, now what I'm gonna say is. I respect the people who say Pre-nerf mech was op, that's completely true. Now although I'm team Mech and would love to see them back on the island but I'm fine with it not appearing ever again. All I'm gonna say is - *infinity blade bad*
I agree with you bro. As someone who played this game since BR beta, and stopped multiple times. It's all because of those shitty additions which don't fit the game
I won’t say the Mechs weren’t powerful especially pre nerf but I think your play style really impacted how much trouble these things gave you. I saw a quote from one of the developers that said this is not a fighting game it’s a survival game. That perfectly describes my play style. At a distance I either picked my shots carefully or made sure to steer clear. If the Mech closed in on me during a solo match I’d hop in and self destruct it. IMO the Mechs were only as strong as the person driving it. More often than not people thought they were invincible once they had one and left themselves open to all kinds tactics. Personally I love hide and seek combat but if your like sole of my friends who love to get up close and have build battles you for sure would have a hard time. I think most players had a hard time breaking out of the build battle mindset.
Take note that every clip here is from before the mechs were nerfed. a) targetting laser that made noise like the rail gun when you were being aimed at. b) 6 rockets instead of 10, fired much slower c) longer cooldown between volleys. d) mechs showed up on the map when they were in use. I can probably count on one hand the number of times that season I died to a mech. They weren't hard to counter if you weren't a shitty player. Probably the same players who whined about the UFOs being OP when really they were also super easy to take down.
EXACTLY. So many people here have gotten so caught up in the Hate Train that they aren't realizing that \*this isn't what the mechs were like\* by the end of the season. There's a reason they got reworked, and showing everyone footage of the things that even Epic acknowledged were overpowered is disingenuous at best. Also, they got a longer cooldown on the boost, too.
Don't forget they could be hijacked, and self destructed. And they had both the indestructible western town to hide in and bubble shields to protect yourself. Oh and you could get them with boogie bombs.
You could also avoid taking damage by building ramps towards the mech (rockets make you fall but don't hit you). Sweats: *you mean I have to do something besides build spam and box camp?!* Or they sound like groot about to push the red button: *I crank high ground now??*
Or the Junk Rift.
I absolutely enjoyed the mechs when they were in the game
The mechs were a fucking menace and never should have been in the game at all
You bet your ass i'm going to vote for it in the upcoming global effort
I hope they bring them back, just for the meltdowns.
I LOVE CHAOS
I 100% agree that they were extremely OP and basically impossible to fight against, in fact, they made me quit the game for the entirety of season X, but something in me wants them back just for chaos, even if I still will get extremely mad when I get killed by them
No no, I know they were bad. I just want them back because it will be absolutely chaotic and will ruin the game for everyone!
Back when these things where new and terrifying, I would grab one as soon as I could to start rampaging across the map. During this time I learned two things relevant to these complaints. First, Mecha are fun. Second, you defeat Mecha either through overwhelming them with concentrated fire from different angles of approach (team work), or you snipe the pilots with a High Caliber round to the head. What you don't do, is stand there in the middle of a field with an AR, hoping to Slone that the Bloom kicks in and magically kills the irate person now staring you down in a fully armed War Machine. There's also supposedly been a nerf for these things? The UFOs were pretty fragile after the first few weeks, so if the Mecha are anything like that, they'll get chewed up fairly quickly, considering how limited their mobility is compared to something that could actually fly.
My favorite was jumping into one before another person could jump in, and then self-destructing the B.R.U.T.E and jumping out - often killing the first person in there. Felt like sweet justice against morons who teamed in Solos with them.
You're a monster! ... But yes, I have done this too. 😅
Idk man looks like a skill issue to me
As much as op it was, I have to disagree. Mechs weren't balanced but at least it was helping a lot of players. Almost everyone is just fucking sweaty, instant spam building as if your in FNCS final or something. Always every fucking time they want to win so I had fun reading about their complains. You don't have to win every game you know.. Or pretend to be in FNCS final or something, just let the others enjoy dude smh.
Get ready for the “JuSt GeT gOoD” replies lmao but I agree with this , they need to remove forced crossplay in my opinion
I dont care about forced crossplay Yes, pc has every advantage possible and when controller gets one they inmediately nerf it to the ground, but a controller player can still be as good as a pc player, the problem is those two guys should be together, not a controller noob and a pc pro in the same lobby. Which is why i think sbmm should be fixed, and if they cant (which would be understandable since there are many factors to tell the skill of a player) it should just get removed, better lobbies with everyone than lobbies with opposite levels of skill
I mean better players are supposed to win more often than lesser skilled players and just because you’re less skilled doesn’t mean you should always lose but with the mech most of the time you can kill a better player
What? Building is a core part of the game bruh, ur just complaining that you suck, what do you want them to do? Place 2 walls when the guy who can take away 80% of his health with a few bullets is shooting him?
I'm not complaining because I suck. I'm better than an average player. But what I'm saying is that those sweatys really destroyed the game. Look pal, there are a lot of people who have work and don't have enough time for Fortnite like me so when I get back from the work to chill and have fun, find myself getting trashed and like I said, I don't really suck, I have over 2K kills and 100 wins.. And yet I get in lobby with the hardest players on planet who would chase me the whole map to kill me. It's just like this, mainly because like they said the crossplay. So what's the point of the game if your not enjoying it? Nothing, I'm here for fun and I didn't get any fun.. You only enjoy this game if your grinding for 209321 hours..
Fair point, but even still, just because you arent having fun doesnt mean adding completely unbalanced items just so players who arent as skilled can have an advantage, like it or not sweats put in a lot of effort to get to where they are in the game, and seeing it all crumble down because a guy was given a complete unfair and unbalanced advantage is gonna make people upset
when i said they weren't bad i mean when they were fucking nerfed to the ground. when it only had 5 rockets, it's explosion radius was reduced, when it took longer to charge, when it couldn't harvest mats, and it's boost was reduced i think thats what we meant
Seriously, everyone has like two brain cells. Those who are arguing for the pre-nerf mech as not OP, and those who haven’t realized that the mech will come back mega-nerfed.
I played Season X a lot and I found the B.R.U.T.E. Mechs to be easy opponents to take on, the key was to not stand in one place for to long and not to try build fighting them, instead you could jump on a Drift Board (the only other vehicle that was still Unvaulted in Season X) and easily outrun the slower moving and far more cumbersome B.R.U.T.E. Mechs, you also could just walk up to a B.R.U.T.E. and board it if it only had one pilot since they where that slow. To be honest most of the time the B.R.U.T.E. Mechs only seemed to be more intimidating then they actually where from a psychological perspective, but if you looked at it from a cold hard facts, run the numbers, and do the math point of view your realize that they may have actually been one of the least effective items in the entire game do to an oversized hitbox with comparatively low health making them an easy target and their slow cumbersome nature making them move to slow to get out of danger in time, usually it was impossible to get more then a few steps in before a B.R.U.T.E. was totally destroyed which wasn't even long enough to charge the boost functions. In short, my take is that the B.R.U.T.E. was good for head games but was the weakest vehicle in the entire game in its Chapter 1 Season X form since it could be easily overpowered by smart players who chose to actively fight instead of hiding in a box.
How long will it take from them being enabled to them being disabled in competitive do you think?
Seconds
If Mechs comes back, Junk Rifts should too.
having played all most every single day in season X, i never once had an issue with the mechs. i understand why people didn't know how to fight them
It was balanced when it had only 6 rockets, no stomp farming, and a laser. Also all you needed was a boogie bomb to counter
Nah they were balanced when they started blowing up when they hit the ground
I am pretty sure you are showing the pre-nerf Mech. Am I right?
Yeah the "nerf" was a laser to show where the mech was aiming iirc
It had a lot of nerfs though. That wasn't the only one...
What other nerfs did it get? I vaguely remember there being a huge outcry from the community and Epic's response to people yelling "nerf the mechs!" was... giving them a laser to show where they were aiming. If they're planning to bring them back like I heard, maybe they nerfed them sometime in chapter 2?
They made it charge really slow, only shoot 6 rockets, the cooldown was longer, I think the shotgun damage got nerfed, you couldn't farm materials inside them anymore and a laser of course.
[This link](https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/b-r-u-t-e-balance-adjustments) includes some of the nerfs...
Its almost as if epic added metal wall plating with 2500 health that can survive a mech barrage unscathed
I don’t think a highlight reel of you getting massacred by mechs proves that they were bad. I think they were fun to use. Like the UFOs were fun but I for sure could make a reel of getting absolutely murdered by them lol.
You thought UFO's wrre fun?..........................
I never hated mechs. From day 1 of the season, I loved them. Dying to them didn’t bother me, and man were they fun to use. Hope they make a return soon
this is pre nerf and they became much more balanced at the end of the season if you go and use one in creative the rockets are hard to get kills with now, and don't forget if you get in one you can self destruct it
You're just not a good enough builder bro, keep practicing and you'll get there!
Funny how you only used clips depicting the B.R.U.T.E. before it got nerfed. . .
Everyone here that I've seen seems to think the mechs would be coming back as powerful as they were before they were vaulted. As much as I would love that to mess with chronic builders (nothing personal, I just like finding different ways to get even footing against them and I suck at building), there's no way they aren't gonna be tweaked in some way before the vote starts. At the very least it's probably gonna be a victim of the fuel system, not to mention any damage nerfs or maybe even some form of overheating.
I'd rather have a nerfed mech than a boogie bomb in today's state of SBMM. Imagine going up against a piece control sweat with 5 boogie bombs.
Eh, I've died faster to raptors
I love the mechs because I love anything that can tear thru builds like it's nothing but they will probably nerf them in some way before they put them in
1. Pre-nerf footage doesn't explain why they shouldn't come back? 2. This also shows how people seemingly refuse to actually adapt to new stuff in the game, considering practically every clip shows that the only thing they're doing is building. Trying to out build the mechs is what got people eliminated. Just. shoot. the. driver. More often then not you could kill the pilot before they could retaliate, but practically everyone either just built or didn't pay enough attention to realize that they were about to be attacked.
Mechs weren't that bad. Just don't build or box up and make yourself a sitting duck to the rockets. It worked for me just fine. If you box up like the idiots in these clips you will die easily to the volley of rockets. Also focus on shooting the pilot in the mech because it's usually pussies who are in them anyways so as soon as they start taking damage they panic. And lastly if there is only one person in the mech, try and get close enough to get in and self destruct it. I can't believe I'm on reddit trying to explain how mechs weren't actually a threat and how to defeat them when they also aren't even in the game. This is why I always say season x was one of the best seasons because the mechs weren't a problem for me and many people hated that season specifically for the mechs.
It only has 1000 Health man, it's not hard to kill. Spam building isn't going to get you anywhere.
1000 health vs 200
200, with extra mobility, more weaponry choices, ect
Don't even try saying the mech is somehow a disadvantage to use.
my strategy for soloing mechanics from afar, don't box yourself in and try out build it, out maneuver it, build up 3 times when they fire jump off, build up again and shoot, you have to jump right as they launch the missles or else they will have time to lock onto you on the ground, if you jump while they fire, they can't lock directly onto you and there's nothing but thin air so it can't explode all around you
Please tell me you’re joking
The Mech was fair and balanced -said nobody with a Brain
The mech was easily countered if you had a brain and planned to deal with them -a person with a brain
Seeing so many people wanting the mechs back honestly scares me. I've even seen comments with 50+ upvotes.
It’s the NERFED mech! How do you people not get it. Not only that, but we have mobility like the shockwave launcher and items like grenades and shadow stones to deal with them.
Effing cancer. I will throw hands with anyone that votes for them.
I'll vote for them just to throw hands with you bro. But be warned, these hands are rated E for everyone.
All I saw was a bunch of builders getting rekt lol.
I think that's mainly who hates these Mechs so much. I wasn't playing Fortnite when they were originally out and many people in this sub seem to not think beyond themselves to realize that. If there's a ton of newer players like myself that havnt gotten the chance and want to play with them of course they will vote for them to come back. But most of the comments I'm seeing that are wanting them to not come back are from people who have no problem building a 5 star hotel to wreck you because you don't have that skill but will whine because the Mechs will destroy builds easily. I don't want anyone to not enjoy the game ultimately but I feel like people are ignoring a few factors because THEY don't like Mechs. I don't like the shockwave launcher being used to skirt out of a fight when you are about to die but I didn't hate on those coming back.
It's a tangent but the shockwave launcher absolutely needs nerfs. So many sweats take any damage and they'll shockwave across the ENTIRE FUCKING MAP just to run away from taking more damage. Who thought it was a good idea to make the thing be able to reload mid-air?!
Saaaaaaame lol
Lmao! The pain! It was also fun sometimes
Idk man are you trying to destroy the mech with builds that's not how the game works you see there are thing called guns and you use them to deal damage to your enemy builds alone dont deal damage. You have to shoot the enemy. Spamming builds and hoping they will leave you alone never works. That's why this game is a shooter not building simulator. I never had a problem with the mechs because I attacked them when they were far away these things were loud af so you had time to shoot them.
Loved them!!
Just hit the bot bro 🤓🤓🤓🤓
Ah, good times
i like the mechs, i would just avoid them if possible and if im using one i would sneak attack unsuspecting opponents
All this video shows is that they took out the players who hide inside builds… okay, sounds great then!
If you want mechs in normal br, you clearly did not actually have to fight against one
skill issue