Fortnite introduction guide / Fortnite for dummies

**Titan33** · 04-04-2018

If you're reading this, I'm guessing you're a new Fortnite player that want to prepare and learn some basic before you head into the battle.

Quick Facts:

Battle Royale is a 100 player PVP mode and the objective is to be the last man standing
You can play solo, duo or with 3 friends
When the game starts you're in a plane, and you need to jump out to reach a desired location on the map
You begin with no weapons, shields or ammunition. You can find this around the map in caches or inside buildings
If you kill another player you will get his items
You can gather materials (wood, stone, metal) to build a fort or other defensive/offensive structures

Before you do anything, I advice you to take a look at this brilliant intro video from rhinocrunch

Early game priorities:

Try to get some good weapons as soon as possible
Learn how the different weapons work!
Shotgun is the ultimate close range weapon
The assault rifle is a very capable all round weapon
Sniper rifles are good to drop enemies from a distance
Some times it's better to run/hide than fight. You don't have to engange in battle with every player you see!
Be careful when entering buildings! Other players can be waiting for you/camping inside!
Only gather materials when no players aren't near by
Build defensive structures!

Item Rarities:

Grey items are the lowest quality.
Green items are a bit better than grey.
A blue item indicates that this is a rare item.
Once in a while you will find purple items. Those are epic and not so easy to find.
Orange items are legendary! Those are super hard to find and you need a good chunk of luck to get across one, but when you do you have the upper hand!

Survival tips:

Open doors are usually a bad sign!
Don't be in the open unless you have to. Try to use terrain, trees, buildings to get cover.
Always upgrade weapns if you see something with a better rarity than the weapon you have equipped
Use traps!

I hope you enjoyed this guide and you feel more prepared to play the game now!