Unlike most other battle royale shooters that use the first-person perspective, “Fortnite” relies exclusively on the third-person perspective. This could change soon.
It is unclear why Epic Games chose the third-person perspective for “Fortnite”. Maybe the studio wants players to also see their skins, for which many have to pay deep into their pockets. However, there could be an alternative later this year.
Epic Games gave a talk at “GDC 2024” and talked about a number of changes to the “Unreal Engine”. “Fortnite” was also shown there in the first person perspective for the first time, although it was not revealed whether this would be included in one of the main modes or whether it would just be limited to the game’s Unreal editor.
What is certain is that the first-person perspective is a long-awaited feature for players. So however this is rolled out, it will make a lot of fans happy.