For starters, I'm typically someone who resists most trends coming down the pike and try to stay true to the original in most cases. I'll be honest when I first heard about this Thanos game mode and immediately rolled my eyes. Yes, just like a high school girl and if I'm being honest there was probably groan in there too. I just couldn't imagine it not being some annoying, cheesy game mode that I'd play once or twice and then never to be played again. I thought Fortnite was just going to start taking on promotions left and right, and they eventually might, but hey if they're all this good - why not?
Well, I will admit I was wrong. That's usually a tough thing for me to do because I'm a pretty headstrong dude. EPIC knocked it out of the park again, they decided to speed up the circle and the storm and they also decided to make the storm much more deadly. I could be slightly off, but it's roughly -10 health every second or so. All this means they force you to fight and fight right off the bat. If you survive the initial craziness, you'll find yourself squaring off with the Mad Titan himself Thanos!
1v1 you can just about forget about trying to take him down yourself. Unless the person grabbing the gauntlet is just whack as hell and has zero awareness of course. The thing is you can't even rely on pot shots from a distance because as soon as he gets a sight of you he'll jump across the circle and thunder punch you into your grave.
The best aspect of this game, in my opinion, is the feeling of everyone teaming up on this OP titan. One game I played, the gauntlet fell in Tilted Towers and it was at this point I've never seen more bullets flying at any other point in playing Fortnite. It was borderline hysterical. There was basically an unspoken bond between us non-Thanos players do whatever we can to we to take him down. We did actually take him down pretty quickly, I'd love to claim like I did a ton of damage myself, but I'm not sure with only one snipe for about 40ish shield damage I can say anything at all. Nonetheless, I survived the first couple of run-ins with Thanos and eventually made it to top 10, but sadly Thanos didn't take mercy on me.
Anyway, kudos to EPIC I feel like they simply can't miss right now. Any type of complaint or suggestion at least gets tried or implemented. Their community interaction is seriously unmatched. I think they are fully paving the way in that department. Take notes everyone else! Here's a link to perhaps my favorite example of community interaction good ole' Orange Justice.
P.S Here's to hoping for a Superheroes game with character creations and fighting style modeled just the way they did for Thanos.
