Hey what is going on guys, in this video today
we're gonna be going over how to build faster
on console Fortnite. Building is arguably
the single most important mechanic and skill
for a player to have in all of Fortnite, and
much like all other mechanics, faster is better.
It may get joked about a bit in the community
but being able to build to high ground or
crank 90s faster than your opponent does give
you a major advantage in all fights. Maybe
not as much as it used to before everybody
learned the power of low ground, but it's
always better to at least start the fight
with high ground. So I'm confident that the
tips I share in this video will make you a
faster and better overall builder, and without
further ado, let's get right into it.
Alright so right off the bat you want to make
sure that you have the ideal settings to build
as fast as you possibly can. First off you
need to make sure you're using builder pro
but I'm guessing 99+% of you guys are, then
you need to make sure you have the settings
"Builder pro builds immediately" set to on,
and finally you need to make sure you're using
a high enough building mode sensitivity multiplier.
I've talked about this before but recently
a lot of controller pros have been bumping
up their building sensitivity. In the past,
it was really unheard of for pros to use anything
over about a 2.5x multiplier, but now you
have lots of guys that are all the way up
near 3.0 with relatively high horizontal and
vertical sensitivities. Now as I always say
if you're on console I definitely wouldn't
recommend going that high because on 60 FPS
that's gonna be almost impossible to control,
but at the end of the day, building sensitivity
does play a direct role in how fast you're
gonna be able to build. If you're using a
1.5 building sensitivity with normal horizontal
and vertical sensitivities for example, it's
gonna be really hard to build very fast. But
the good news is since building it requires
much less precision than editing, it's a lot
easier to control a higher sensitivity, so
I would ultimately aim for something in the
2.0-2.5 range.
So now let's get into the more specific things
you can do to make your building speed faster.
One of the most important tips that I can
give you is to work on lowering the distance
your crosshair travels between building pieces.
This was a really crucial part of the "How
To Edit Faster" video I made last month, and
it's definitely just as important for building.
To showcase this I'm gonna play 2 clips in
the background right now. The first will be
of plalism whose one of the fastest controller
builders players out there cranking a few
90s in row, and then I'll show you a second
clip of my friend whose pretty much an average
player doing the same thing. One of the main
things that you're going to notice here if
you look for it is how little wasted crosshair
movement plalism has compared to the other
player. When he makes the sort of square motion
with his crosshair to place the 4 different
walls, he does it with such little movement.
If you highlighted the path of his crosshair
with like a red marker or something you'd
see a very small square shape. So Because
there's almost no extra crosshair movement,
the time between the placement of each wall
is reduced, and therefore he's building faster.
If you didn't fully understand that I'll show
you a super basic example that's a lot more
simple. So let's say you wanna place 2 walls
right next to each other for whatever reason.
If you build the first wall while your crosshair
is on the far right side of it and then build
the second wall when your crosshair is on
the far left side of it, you barely moved
at all and still placed the 2 walls. However,
if you start near the middle of the first
wall and move your crosshair to the middle
of the 2nd wall, you still build the same
2 walls but it took you a little longer. It
may not seem like a super important thing
if you're talking about only building 2 simple
walls, but if you're doing a 90 or high ground
re-take which requires you to place 4-6 different
pieces in a row, that extra time definitely
adds up. And based on what I've seen it seems
like the most common cause of unnecessary
crosshair movement is when players either
use a sensitivity that they struggle to control,
or they just don't practice controlling their
crosshair while building. It's why the best
creative 1v1 players will win the battle of
90s for high ground off the rip almost every
single time. It's not like they know some
kind of secret 90 that's faster than everything
else out there. They're just on a high sensitivity
but at the same time they're also able to
control it well enough to have really short
and smooth crosshair paths while building
The next important tip for building faster
is to make sure that you practice every different
type of building. What I mean by this is that
in Fortnite different situations require you
to build in very different ways. For example,
if you're 1v1 build battling someone, that's
gonna mostly revolve around cranking 90s,
high ground re-takes, ramping over people
etc etc. However, if you're in a low ground
box fight on the other hand, you're not gonna
be cranking 90s or pulling out ramp rushes,
you're gonna be more concerned about things
like piece control and making sure you're
always protected. Because of that, here's
what in my opinion is the best way to practice
and improve your building speed plus effectiveness
in the long term. First, at least once every
few days you wanna get in a decent session
of creative free building. When you do that
you're in a very controlled and low-pressure
environment, you can chill, play music, talk
to friends, and try to build muscle memory
of those short and controlled building paths
that we talked about earlier. However, as
I'm sure we all know, free-building in a private
creative server doesn't take into account
how you build against other players which
is obviously crucial. That's why I believe
you have to also spend time playing creative
1v1s, and also either creative box fights
or zone wars matches. There's a reason why
all the fastest and best builders in the game
are great 1v1 players. It teaches you how
to handle certain situations that simply aren't
possible to emulate when you're just free
building. You basically get to learn which
building techniques actually work against
real players and which techniques don't. However,
even though creative 1v1s are a great tool
for improving your building speed, it also
isn't totally representative of building in
real games either. You don't have to worry
about mats, every fight is a fight for high
ground, most 1v1 map don't have fall damage,
and plenty of other things you could nitpick.
That's why it's also important to mix in zone
wars or box fights, because these modes are
perfect for practicing the things that don't
show up in free building or 1v1s. And if you
don't have any friends to 1v1 you can always
just load into random creative servers and
people will almost always have a 1v1 map going,
and then for zone wars or box fights you can
use the new creative mode matchmaking.
The next important tip for building faster
is to put yourself in situations that require
you to build fast. That may sound a bit weird
on the surface so let me explain. In the background
right now I'll show a clip that seems kinda
random. It's the pro player yung calc in a
regular arena game and he tries to build up
from low ground all the way to on top of a
mountain while an enemy shoots at him and
eventually ends up killing him. Now it's not
like calc was stuck in the storm and forced
to rotate or anything, and because he wasn't,
on the surface what you just saw seems like
a really dumb play especially from a pro.
But, for calc this is just a regular arena
game that he really doesn't care all that
much about, so why not put yourself in a situation
like this where you have to build incredibly
fast and perfect to have any chance of surviving.
If you make yourself comfortable with situations
like that, then building fast in regular situations
is going to feel so much easier. I remember
back in the day mongraal used to say all the
time that when he was warming up or practicing
he would always try to push people on high
ground even if he didn't need to because it
made him uncomfortable and really tested his
skill.
The final tip I wanna share is a bit of an
unorthodox one but I've heard a few good players
mention it so I'll just throw it in here.
Apparently an interesting way to work on improving
the speed of your building is to intentionally
switch to a server that you gives really high
ping, and then just hop into creative and
free build on it for a few minutes. Not sure
if everybody knows this but ping does have
a pretty heavy impact on building speed and
effectiveness. The lower your ping is the
quicker the game registers that your pieces
have been placed. So when you switch to a
really high ping it's gonna feel pretty terrible
and laggy. So you'll build around on that
laginess for a few minutes and then when you
switch back to your main server it'll feel
incredible, and building fast will feel easier
than ever. The pro player Emad refers to this
as the "ankle weights" strategy which is in
reference to the people who do running exercises
with weights on their ankles,,, so then when
they run normally it feels so much easier
and they can run faster. I've only done this
like once or twice so I can't really comment
on if it truly works or not, but I think it's
a cool idea that a lot of people vouch for.
So I hope you guys enjoyed this video and
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