Hey what is going on guys, in this video today
we're gonna be going over 8 simple controller
Fortnite tips I wish I knew earlier. And when
I say simple I absolutely mean it. None of
these are anything absolutely groundbreaking
that will single-handidly make you a beast,
but they're helpful little tricks that will
take no time at all to implement into your
game, all of them should carry over into next
season, and in certain situations, they'll
definitely help you. Now, if you're a more
experienced player you may already know some
or even a lot of these things, but I'm sure
you'll find at least 1 helpful. So, without
further ado, let's get right into it.
Alright so the first little trick I wanna
share involves your finger positioning on
the controller in certain situations. So if
you hold the controller normally, by default
you'll have your thumbs on the right and left
thumbsticks not a surprise based on the name,
and then you'll have your two pointer fingers
on the left and right triggers for ADSing
and shooting. This is great and all about
99% of the time, but there's a situation where
holding the controller this way kinda hurts
you, and that's when you need to reaction
build. Let's say you're running through an
open field and someone you don't see has you
lined up with their gold SCAR. When they line
up their crosshair and start shooting at you,
well then you obviously wanna react and start
building as quick as possible to prevent yourself
from taking damage. Now the problem is, the
vast majority of people have pulling out their
building menu bound to a button like B on
Xbox circle on PS4. That's a button that you're
gonna use your right thumb to press, and going
from right thumbstick to B/Circle is a very
long distance to travel on a controller. So
first you're gonna have to realize you're
being shot at, then move your finger all the
way from right thumbstick to whatever button
pulls out your building menu, and only then
can you start spamming walls. So the better
alternative here is whenever you're running
out in the open, simply have your finger rest
of your building menu button instead of right
thumbstick. All right thumbstick does is adjust
your crosshair, so if you're running in an
open field with a good view in front of you,
unless an enemy emerges from a hold in the
ground like a groundhog or something, there's
not gonna be a situation where you're instantly
going to need to adjust your crosshair. By
keeping your finger on the building menu button
it's gonna make your reaction building a lot
faster, and that could be the difference between
getting hit once by that gold SCAR compared
to 2-3 times. And then obviously if you see
an enemy you wanna shoot with your AR in the
distance, just move your thumb back to your
thumbstick and you're good to go, no problem
at all.
The next tip is one that will help you tarp
in Fortnite a tad bit faster. A fairly common
building combination that a lot of people
like to use to change positions on high ground
the is 2 level tarp. That's the one where
you place a floor and then a cone on top of
it. It's a really great structure because
it's fairly easy to build, it allows you to
move in a straight line without going any
higher up, and since you're building a floor
and cone your opponent needs to shoot out
2 structures. Now how most people build this
is they'll place the floor first, then cone
on top of it, and just repeat that process
over and over again. Obviously that works
but there's a much faster way to do it. What
a lot of people don't realize is that it actually
doesn't matter which structure you place down
first. If you place a cone and then a floor,
the floor will go under the cone every single
time, that's just the way the building grid
works. So because you don't have to worry
about the order the pieces get placed in,
you should be pressing your cone and floor
button at the same time which makes the process
quicker. Instead of carefully going LB, RB,
LB, RB, just go LB RB LB RB. It may not sound
like it'll make a huge difference, but next
time you pick up your controller try it out
and see for yourself because you'd be surprised.
So as long as you're pressing the cone and
floor button at the same time over and over
again you'll be able to do that 2-level tarp
while sprinting with no trouble at all.
The next tip is about a feature that Fortnite
recently added into the game that not enough
people are taking advantage of. So a few weeks
back in a random update a new feature was
added into the game which makes it so that
anytime an enemy shoots their weapon near
you, a red dot shows up above the compass
on top of your screen. And what this does
it it allows you to easily pinpoint the direction
and even the exact location of where the shots
are coming from. This isn't some cute little
feature that looks cool but doesn't really
have much use, this is something that you
should really be paying attention to any time
you're in a chaotic fight. As I'm sure most
of you know, sound in Fortnite is pretty bad,
so when multiple people are shooting it can
be hard to sort of get you bearings and understand
where you are in relation to the shots. So
paying attention to the little bootleg UAV
you get above your compass now will really
help with that.
The next tip is one that I believe I shared
on this channel a long time ago, but since
I'm guessing most of you guys didn't see it,
I'm gonna show it again. So let's say you
edit away a portion of a wall so that there's
now a bunch of empty space, and then you want
to reset it back. If you hover your crosshair
over the empty space and press your edit button,
it's going to say "unable to edit and not
let you do so." That right there is something
that gets people killed in hectic situations
where they're scrambling to reset their edit
all the time. However, there's a super easy
workaround to this. All you have to do if
first pull out your building menu and then
the game will let you select and then edit
totally normally. And here's just a quick
example of an in-game situation where this
would be really helpful.
Moving on to tip #5 I wanna show you guys
the 2 most popular methods to do a low pad
in Fortnite. In case you're unfamiliar this
is a method to make it so that when you hit
a launchpad you don't go as high in the air
so there's less of a chance for your enemy
to hit you, and this is most commonly used
when a player is on high ground. The first
method is the regular low pad, this one is
as simple as placing the pad, putting a wall
behind it, and then a ramp on top of that
wall. Then when you jump your head will hit
the ramp which limits your height. The 2nd
method is the super low pad and this one is
even easier. You simply place a floor at your
feet, go to about the halfway point of it,
look straight down, and place a ramp so it
goes behind your back. Then all you have to
do is place the pad at your feet and it'll
work. With that method you'll go significantly
lower than the regular low pad.
Tip #6 is a very situational one, but depending
on your map rotation could be pretty helpful
for you. So let's say you're rotating across
the map and you see a chest a bit out in the
distance on top of some low health object
like a box or wooden cart. If you destroy
the object supporting the chest, the contents
of the chest will drop onto the ground. So
instead of running 30-50 meters out of your
way to open a chest that may not give you
anything useful, just destroy the object,
and then look at if the chest dropped anything
useful. If so you can run and pick it up,
if not you can just keep going and be happy
you didn't waste your time. There's a bunch
of chests on top of objects that can be 2-3
shotted by an AR all across the map, so this
tip can definitely be useful fairly frequently.
Our second to last tip is one that you want
to use whenever you're running out in the
open, and you know a sniper is nearby. What
a lot of people will mistakenly do in this
situation is sprint, jump, and keep repeating
that process over and over again. The problem
is, jumping actually makes you fairly easy
to hit with a sniper because your movement
is so predictable once you leave the ground.
So the much better alternative is to spring
in a zig zap pattern while still going forward
the entire time. Your movement while doing
this is much more unpredictable and random,
so that makes you almost impossible to hit
unless the sniper just gets super lucky. And
the good news is this is so much easier to
do on controller compared to keyboard because
thumbsticks have a full 360 degree range of
motion while keys obviously don't.
The final tip in this video is something you
wanna avoid doing in 50/50 box fights. Let's
say an enemy hops into your 1x1 from the front
wall, so now you need to take a point-blank
range shotgun/SMG fight.
What you don't wanna do is back up and hit
your back wall. This may sound weird but moving
all the way to the back of your box creates
a very weird problem with the game's camera
angle. At first your character model becomes
very zoomed in and occupies a large amount
of your screen compared to the regular 3rd
person view. This can easily ruin your field
of view and end up losing you the fight. Then
when your back hits the back wall, your player
model will totally disappear. Definitely less
of an issue, but still, it's always a good
idea to see your player model in close range
fights because then you know your position
in relation to enemy, and that will make it
a bit easier to dodge shots.
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