Review: Fortnite Season 3 first impressions

First impressions after two weeks and the 33.20 patch. Season 3 is good. It is not a revolution. It is the first season in a while where the island, not the mythic, is the main character.

What works

• The coastal pois have loot and a rotate. That should be table stakes. It has not been.
• Kinetic Sling is a movement item with a restriction in late Ranked. Someone at Epic has been yelled at, correctly.
• The shotgun pass in 33.20 stopped the one-click reset. Fights last a second longer. That second is the season.

What does not

Grand Bazaar is still a trailer poi. The battle pass has three pages of filler before the first pickaxe anyone will use. Creative advertising in the lobby is louder than the season trailer, which is a sentence I wish I did not have to write.

Verdict

Play it. Land Tidewell. Ignore the bazaar. If Epic keeps the late-game sling ban in Ranked, this is the best Fortnite has felt since the last time they remembered that moving around the map is the game.