It's a great tip, life is too short to spend it doing something with your free time that isn't enjoyable for you. The only thing constant on Fortnite is change and it will eventually come back to a state you enjoy more.
One thing I noticed is that anyone who has a mythic car becomes really attached to it. If you can bait them out of their car, you can sometimes get them to do some dumb moves trying to get back to their vehicle.
Things I think would balance the season better: 1. Have the cars use fuel quicker. They take forever to run out. 2. Unvault emp grenades. 3. Have the boom bolt do consistent splash damage to the people in the car. Like 40ish each shot to everyone in the car seems like a solid number to me.
this would make cars useless, and the whole point of the season would be lost, making the season the worst one ever. You can't just nerf a feature of this season to the ground, 3rd one would completely kill car meta, and if you add emps as well, even worse. As for fuel usage, it won't help much as the gas stations refuel you really easily
Maybe instead of the EMP grenades, unvault the radar lock rocket launchers and biplanes, and make it far more difficult to repair the vehicles. Get rid of the wrench box and pads and force the driver out with the torch.
My problem is that none of these are actual hard counters. We don't have anything like EMP Grenades, Boogie Bombs, or the Anvil Launcher-majority of the "counters" involve using a vehicle yourself. Everyone is shoehorned into a particular playstyle; there's no way to opt out of using vehicles altogether and still have a chance. I thought it was vaguely fun for a couple hours but RAPIDLY got bored of it.
Just by the title of this video you KNOW this season is ridiculous... Never in a million years would you have ever expected to see a title that says, " how to stop losing to cars" smh.. crazy
Well... it's a Mad Max themed season. It's less ridiculous as much as it's just not everyone's cup of tea. Everything in this season is fun as hell outside of being Nitro Fist spamming.
its not car teaming, its just if you get out of the car, the dude will spray you, and obviously you don't want that, and dude wants to stay in car cus then ur gonna spray him or steal his car, so in the end neither wants to get out, and yoy can't pass on some easy kills and removal of opponents. Its just mutual fear not car teaming
@@HerominGuzendaso you’re reporting people for no reason? Y’all need to grow a brain stem. If I bust my ass in the beginning to get a mythic car and then someone jumps in it, refuses to leave, I’m not jumping out and letting them take it. That’s what’s happening. Way to help “mate”
I think people are just upset about an oppressive meta in general. Any time you have a weapon or strategy that massively outshines every other playstyle, people are gonna be understandably annoyed unless they happen to love that particular overpowered strategy. Gonna try to have fun with the season as it is but I'm definitely hoping they either nerf the car combat a bit or introduce more counter measures for folks that don't want to use them every game.
Thank you couldn’t find a better way to explain it. Feels like were being forced into a playstyle. Theres no balance. I can see why a small percentage would like it but majority are going to dislike it for that fact that it feels theirs no other way to play. I never liked using cars now basically being forced to kinda sucks. Probably will try warzone til the next season
Well said, that seems to be the theme of ch 5 all together. From snipers being the predominant weapon, to water bending being incredibly strong and over used. Now we have powerful cars that you almost nearly need to rely on to win. We pretty much have our hand forced with what we can use if we want to win consistently
I'm honestly loving the season. The extra mobility options is a game changer and is pure chaotic fun with friends while listening to heavy metal on Spotify
Last season I didn't land at the medallions because they were so hotly contested and 3rd party centric. This season I always land at the medallions so I actually get an old fashioned gun fight in before driving Miss Daisy
Yeh I’m hating this season at the moment. I don’t want to spend the whole game driving around in cars. It doesn’t feel like Fortnite anymore, feels like a different game. One I don’t enjoy
I feel the same way. This is not what made fortnite great. I want to compete against other players, not cars. This forced car meta is too drastic and should have been an LTM instead... that would have been the better approach imo.
@user-hu9rw3dy6k No shame in taking a break or focusing more on creative mode. I have not played one match so far this season. It is what it is. We'll see what changes Epic will come up with.
Played like 5 games and I'm seriously thinking of not playing until they nerf the cars (alot!). Did not buy the battle pass yet either, for the first time in years
Well this is the first season I haven't even touched creative in cuz I haven't got bored of it yet after 3 days of grinding cars made the game fun only Sweats that don't use a car for anything other than mobility are complaining.
One thing you didn't mention: If you hop in the gunner seat with an enemy player in the driver seat, you can just hit F (not sure the controller button for it) and you'll swap to using your guns again instead of the turret, at which point you can easily shoot them through the windshield
so, i’ve kinda been working on a strategy to fight cars and i’ve mostly got it figured out but it has flaws and needs improvement. so, you can use the crossbow like you said in the video, pairs very nicely with the infinite ammo medallion. shield bubbles work VERY well against the cars. ofc you can use it for yourself but if you manage to throw the shield on a car, you can negate all turret damage for a few seconds and run to cover or escape to avoid being ran over. only thing missing is another weapon as strong as the crossbow for damaging cars
I was struggling with the new content, but suddenly when I learned how to use cars more properly it got so much fun. It's so chaotic, and there's no more sweaty sniper camping, it's just a wild game of cars bumping against eachother. I'm loving this season already.
@@NidoMittens tbh i prefer dmrs more since you can shoot quicker after each shot, and they have more ammo, i personally like the stealthy spotter dmr the most.
That’s what am saying. I didn’t like the season at start, but it feels so refreshing just having a bunch of chaos and mayhem during mid games and endgames. It’s an amazing season so far and haven’t had this much fun since chapter 4.
I've always enjoy car combat in previous seasons, just because of the number of ways you could choose to fight (pick axe trick, shoot the conductor, fake getting out and getting in etc...). In this season, I find it quite fun in solos (especially with the boom bow and nitro fist combo). When you get used to it, it's quite easy to avoid a car attack with the fists, then spray the car, get away, rinse and repeat. In duos, I find it a bit less fun. Mainly because in solos, if a car wants to grief you, they have to switch to the passenger seat, spray you with a turret, then go back to the driver seat, re-engage, etc... It does take a fair bit of skill, so I feel like it's quite balanced : the car is over-powered but the player in the car has a lot to manage, and is less mobile that the player who isn't in a car. In duos, it's much easier for the duo in a car to grief a duo that isn't in a car. And since you can't enter the car with them, you have a lot less options. I think they can do quite a bit to balance this season : bring back the EMP's, reduce the car's health, improve the spawn rate and ammunitions of the boom bow, etc etc... so I'm not too worried. The one thing that I find the most annoying so far is the fact that the pick-axe trick doesn't work (most of the time). One annoying side effect of it is that in the late game, when a player enters another player's car, it tends to impose a status quo where none of the players want to get out. Usually that leads to the two players forming o sort of 'alliance' where one drives around and the other shoots other players (since that's the only thing they can do). It has happened to me 2-3 times already where i'm in late game, without a car (because I prefer to play without), and I'm against one or two of these "made-up" teams. And since I can't enter their car, and they are two, it's almost impossible to avoid both the car AND the turrets, and I end up losing the end-game in a pretty frustrating way. *Curious to see If i'm the only one who has experienced this ?* To end this, I'll say that I do find it funny how everybody is sooooo allergic to change, and not ready at all to wait a week or two to see how the new meta unfolds. It's amusing to see everyone lose their shit and be like "that's it, fortnite is over" or "Not playing this season it's the worst". Not saying it's amazing, but give it time, things will get balanced. Probably
My thing is the fact that their is no breathing room for playstyle. Previous seasons of Fortnite always had a few playstyles that were all balanced and now it seems we’re all forced into this 1 playstyle.I can get a car drive around upgrading it but thats not fun to me. Killing someone thats on foot by running them over or shooting them with a turret isnt fun. I think alot of you will understand in a few weeks when its no longer new.
If someone manages to get inside your car, drive them to the storm. Get half on the inside the storm like if they’re the turret gunner. It’ll wanna force them to get out lol
You are genius I keep getting a foot Walker that hates cars with their guts getting in my car for the entire game just because they're upsetti spaghetti they haven't won a game this entire time because they refused to get in a car.😂
I'm not a big fan of this "Twisted Metal" update but I've gotten a little more used to it over the last two days. I think it just changes the game TOO much. I already can't wait for next season to get here when they (hopefully) vault the weaponized cars.
3:10 - You CAN pickaxe in a 2 vehicle car. Press "F" (keyboard) for pickaxe when shooting the gun (because you're still attacking, right) and the pickaxe will come out. Try it by going into the weapon passenger position, attack (gun) and then press F, and your pickaxe will come out.
The Turrets should have been set up where it's a third or fifth seat where you are on the roof of the car and more vulnerable. EMPs should have been unvaulted, or an EMP crossbow.
they removed emps for a reason, and that is, it would virtually make cars useless, since this is a season supposed to be dominated by cars, instantly adding a big counter would make cars quite useless
After 10 minutes of silly fun I refused to use cars and just used gloves to rotate to higher positions, but given everyone uses cars and third-parties it does get too much. I think not playing is the only way for Epic to balance the game and save Fortnite.
Sadly the theme of the season behooves Epic to not remove cars, and nerfing them too much will just make "wrecked" pointless. Adding EMPs sure, and perhaps slower heal rate of mythics, time it takes to heal cars at repair places, and unlock turrets late game or something would help, but sadly cars will be the theme of the season so they're not going to nerf TOO much.
Great tips Jake. I'm not a fan of the cars in solos. You definitely need the nitro fists or shocks to out duel the cars. The crossbow is the new sniper and works great. I have a challenge for you. Win a game using only the nitro fists and a shotgun.
Need to mention if you hire an NPC it totally ruins your turret game with cars. I had to get in and drive off quickly before the NPC got it if it was a 2 seater. Or if it’s a G Wagon. Get in and swap to the gunner seat and the NPC will get in the back.
I played 4 games of solo and not one issue with anyone in cars. It had me thinking "have people stopped using them?"....then I hop on duos. Still, having fun running like I'm in The Warriors.
Most exciting end zones in ages. Now my single colour hero killer is coming at me in a self healing turret wielding bullet proof tire death machine. Instead of just flying past one shotting me. That was getting stale.
One thing to keep in mind is that every new season is that whenever there are new items they tend to put the spawn rate very very high. That way most players will get a chance of experiencing said item/weapon. Then everyone complains if it's a really good item/weapon. Then over time the spawn rate is reduced and/or nerfed through its cycle. It's highly UNlikely that the current state of how many cars, upgrade boxes, heal/gas stations, DPS for weapon mounts, overall vehicle health, etc will stay like this for the whole season. Enjoy it while it lasts because it wont stay like this for this season entirely. EMPs gotta make a comeback surely..
The only ones complaining are the only ones not getting in cars they're literally running around on their feet complaining that everyone else is doing a mad Max you know the whole point of this season like bro..
@@blackskulldud57you don’t see the problem with that ? Being basically forced to drive around in a car and not having the option to run around otherwise you’re dead
@landagreen You aren't being forced to though. I carry nitro gloves, flowberry fizz and/or shockwaves and nitro consumable. A combination of any of those will give you enough mobility to reposition and or get away from the vehicles. You have the option to run around without a vehicle but you better be carrying mobility items. The choice is there.
I'm learning to adapt to cars and this video will help. Epic seemed to have a vocal part of the player base that is unhappy whatever they do... Small changes mean they are letting BR die in favour of other game modes, big changes fundamentally ruin the game play. See the clamour for the OG season that people seemed to want but then seemed to hate when it happened; not enough loot, not enough heals etc.
1 tip not mentioned: •When inside a passenger seat with a mounted gun, you can swap between turret or traditional out-of-window shooting with F on keyboard or left stick click on controller. If the car has nitro, this also increases fire rate of the gun you shoot from your inventory. Most importantly: you can shoot and damage the car you’re riding in using your own guns this way, forcing the driver out or weakening the car enough that it makes it a liability. Also if you’re in a team game, you can use this same tactic with the blowtorch and out-heal other cars without ever stopping. But, being in a car constantly sucks, so…
If you get in someone’s 2 seater car and are stuck on the turret you can press l3 to just sit in the passenger seat and spray them with your normal weapons
I’m having a great time this season. I have noticed that each day the gameplay has changed. The first day in solos was all car, second day the cars had fallen back and now it’s more balanced. It takes time every season to get used to the changes in the map and weapons. I usually only play three of four games a day and am usually behind the people who were playing all day.
@@chucker625 I don't think think even the reaper could save anyone from this season as much as i miss it, it would be completely usless with all these cars😂
Is it called FORDnight now?...I have to say...after watching this I have done OK against cars...but still end up on foot facing 4 or 5 in the endgame and losing....had one last 2 today against another player on foot...they were better than me...was nice...
If you're in the turret seat you can swap to your guns by using the gun swap button. If you're in a whiplash you may still be able to shoot them through the windshield.
7:35 The spiked Thing can kill you if you have no shield, be careful you don’t get caught in the air with a car boosting towards you (The hitbox is pretty big to trying to jump over it may not always work
I haven't had so much fun in Fortnite in a long time as I do now you have constant action on the map, many and crazy fights, but of course at the end of the zone the cars are annoying they need to be buffed especially the medallion cars are way too strong, the weapons the loot the items are very good
Maybe this is just a me thing, but I enjoy the challenge of handling this new kind of combat. To be honest, I was getting a little burned out on how normal fortnite was being with the combat these past two seasons, but this is something that gives a whole new experience, one I actually like. I don't really care that it's hard or challenging if I'm having fun with it, so I see it as a challenge. Lot of good tips in this, even the first once since there's little point playing the game right now if you just hate this season's meta so much. Plus, I think there is a way to be in the turret seat while being able to get out the window and shoot. I don't know the method, but I've seen people do it.
how to fight against cars: actually fight them it really is that simple people have been caught being used to being so safe. I've seen people in the middle of the road, do nothing then get run over...then they get mad. like do something shoot, run or anything.
I think there's a mental block people hit when combating people in cars. The cars feel like an extra shield or health state you have to deal with which makes the combat that much more of a hassle. I get they're not bulletproof tanks or anything, but it is annoying. It's also a nightmare when you're in a place with multiple cars and you have people switching from vehicle to vehicle. (That did actually allow me to pickaxe someone to death once, though)
Hello Jake. I think taking out the turret gunner is effective but doesn't increase odds of fight if driver is reactionary enough to switch seats and use the gunner as well. Thanks for the video as always , very informative and useful.
It’s the final circles where the cars just suck. It’d be cool if they could invent some system that would not allow vehicles to enter late game circles when they get small. Like some sort of dome/barrier that prevents cars from the final circle. Just spit ballin here but 4 or 5 cars in a tiny circle at the end is pretty rough
These cars are to OP the fact that you have 10 percent chance of winning at the end of the circle is insane cause everytine im on rank there is like 3-5 cars driving around just running u over and tossing u off the mountain they should make the turret guns overheat faster or bring back the rpg to combat these cars
Forecast Towers are key. If you can see that the end game is going to be in a mountain train you can know that cars are not going to be useful. Also carrying Med packs. That way if they try to drive you out of the storm you can heal. I want two games by jumping in the passenger seat at end game and then trying to drive me into storm
I wonder how many players complaining at the lack of gun fights reliant on ‘skill’ this season because of the cars took great pleasure one shot sniping unwitting players long range with the reaper in the last two seasons, or who loved engaging with a ‘can’t fail to hit’ gatekeeper close range. The term skill should be objective but it is actually very much subjective for most people
While I am playing and I have people hop in and try and be silly I will actually drive into the storm, or because I only go for the bulletproof tyres so my cars aren’t raised high. But a lot of people as soon as they realise you are going into the storm they jump out as you criss into the storm, but i did have one person stay in my car, so I shifted to a back seat and used a med kit to heal myself while the storm ended up killing them.
Jake, last season you did "deep dives" on various map locations and all of the chest spawns there. Would you consider the same for car wrench boxes? there are loops on the map that can be run that are almost undefeatable in a car because of them
Im digging the car combat. And like you said its not hard to take a car down with having this seasons mobility ro reset fights and do chip damage to cars
i think having to refuel the cars would help a lot. people would have to think about using them instead of just driving endlessly. none of the cars need fuel and i think it’s a big source of some of the unbalanced issues this season
I play solos 95% of the time and it’s been fun to see people fighting on foot against each other and when a car shows up, sometimes, everyone turns their attention to the car to blast it together and then they go back to shooting each other. 😆 The unspoken alliance.
I've been having fun using fighting from the cars but its also been interesting finding ways to try and beat the cars on foot. Plus theres been a lot of intense fights. I'm guessing theres gonna be a car nerf in the near future.
I'm starting to see more and more the issue with the boss cars as they auto-regenerate health. I think regular cars are fine because you can whittle their health down and they will need to find a repair crate or find a place to repair. Boss cars are much faster and harder to kill, and they regen health and can come right back. I think the thing with cars, is that you should have to repair them.
Ive already commented on like 3 other videos but WTF IS EPIC THINKING!?!?! NOBODY WANTED THIS AND I DONT KNOW A SINGLE PERSON THAT DOESNT HATE THIS SEASON There should at least be HALF as many vehicle spawns as there are currently. I should not be getting into games with 20 people left in final circle and having 18 of them be in fully modded cars LOL
as someone who didn’t like season 1 and hated season 2 because of the constant 1 shot kill with the reaper sniper and lack of mobility. Season this is tolerable for me and I am enjoying it. I like the amount of movement there is, makes the game feels fast paced and i actually feel comfortable using an assault rifle as I domt have to worry about a reaper sniper killing me in 1 shot when I am full hp. I like getting in/out and switching seats in vehicles during fights. I still dont like the attachment system or the guns having travel time. I preferred the augment system and hit scan guns with good pumps. too many autos.
I am one of those that will probably not play much until the meta goes back to person v person gunfights. What Epic have done to the game is incomprehensible. The only problem with griefing cars, is that you can regenerate the car v easily at gas stations and with the repair item :(
I like how the first tip is just telling people to quit the game lmao 🤣
Well the only way to get fortnite to change is to lower the players. Boycotts are effective. And I agree with Jake.
It's a great tip, life is too short to spend it doing something with your free time that isn't enjoyable for you. The only thing constant on Fortnite is change and it will eventually come back to a state you enjoy more.
Not all seasons will be for everyone take a month off it will be very diffrent when you come back
I'll be following tip #1 🎉
@1GrilledFoot I wasn't knocking the idea. It just came across funny to me 😉
One thing I noticed is that anyone who has a mythic car becomes really attached to it. If you can bait them out of their car, you can sometimes get them to do some dumb moves trying to get back to their vehicle.
Now i play gta I carjack every cars i see
I steal somebody’s mythic vehicle almost every round. Usually they’re in it shooting. I just drive into the storm or flip it. They exit, I drive off.
True
Lol in any other gamemode but solos you can win the game with just mythic car and blow torches its such a brain dead game rn
It's so fun to rob people's pimped out and mythic cars I done kidnaped so many people they sometimes keep shooing others for me@@IamPreacherMan
Things I think would balance the season better:
1. Have the cars use fuel quicker. They take forever to run out.
2. Unvault emp grenades.
3. Have the boom bolt do consistent splash damage to the people in the car. Like 40ish each shot to everyone in the car seems like a solid number to me.
Or self destruct?
this would make cars useless, and the whole point of the season would be lost, making the season the worst one ever. You can't just nerf a feature of this season to the ground, 3rd one would completely kill car meta, and if you add emps as well, even worse. As for fuel usage, it won't help much as the gas stations refuel you really easily
hijacking will be coming soon, that should help with the cars
Cars don't run out of fuel this season. I think the bus does though.
Maybe instead of the EMP grenades, unvault the radar lock rocket launchers and biplanes, and make it far more difficult to repair the vehicles. Get rid of the wrench box and pads and force the driver out with the torch.
Really needed this I’m so done getting ran over and shot by cars 🤦♂️
💀 wrdd u trying to play
I prefer to lose to a car rather than chains of hades or water bending
@@LRIXJHMW yeah I just got my 13th crown win 🔥what’s ur user?
@@gcflowers86chains was balanced asf stop it
@@boo343they weren’t balanced at all wtf
My problem is that none of these are actual hard counters. We don't have anything like EMP Grenades, Boogie Bombs, or the Anvil Launcher-majority of the "counters" involve using a vehicle yourself. Everyone is shoehorned into a particular playstyle; there's no way to opt out of using vehicles altogether and still have a chance. I thought it was vaguely fun for a couple hours but RAPIDLY got bored of it.
I forgot about boogies, that would be perfect.
Bring back the chains of hades 🤣
Yeah boogie bombs would be great
Need the radar lock rocket launcher and or biplanes back
@@Pool-1232Boogies would feel 3010384829384× worse to go against than cars.
EMPs would be fine.
Just by the title of this video you KNOW this season is ridiculous... Never in a million years would you have ever expected to see a title that says, " how to stop losing to cars" smh.. crazy
Im fully expecting them to add EMPs or something similar to combat the cars later down the road, once they realize how stupidly OP cars are.
Well... it's a Mad Max themed season. It's less ridiculous as much as it's just not everyone's cup of tea. Everything in this season is fun as hell outside of being Nitro Fist spamming.
tbh I have been wanting a season like this where they add more vehicle mods for a while.
My biggest issue is the car teaming in solos.
I've reported it, you should do the same mate.
its funny how teaming happens spontaneously and they kind of designed the game for it now 😂 they really need to change something
I’m guilty of this… won a game because I let a guy in the turret seat kill everybody
its not car teaming, its just if you get out of the car, the dude will spray you, and obviously you don't want that, and dude wants to stay in car cus then ur gonna spray him or steal his car, so in the end neither wants to get out, and yoy can't pass on some easy kills and removal of opponents. Its just mutual fear not car teaming
@@HerominGuzendaso you’re reporting people for no reason? Y’all need to grow a brain stem. If I bust my ass in the beginning to get a mythic car and then someone jumps in it, refuses to leave, I’m not jumping out and letting them take it. That’s what’s happening. Way to help “mate”
I think people are just upset about an oppressive meta in general. Any time you have a weapon or strategy that massively outshines every other playstyle, people are gonna be understandably annoyed unless they happen to love that particular overpowered strategy. Gonna try to have fun with the season as it is but I'm definitely hoping they either nerf the car combat a bit or introduce more counter measures for folks that don't want to use them every game.
Thank you couldn’t find a better way to explain it. Feels like were being forced into a playstyle. Theres no balance. I can see why a small percentage would like it but majority are going to dislike it for that fact that it feels theirs no other way to play. I never liked using cars now basically being forced to kinda sucks. Probably will try warzone til the next season
Well said, that seems to be the theme of ch 5 all together. From snipers being the predominant weapon, to water bending being incredibly strong and over used. Now we have powerful cars that you almost nearly need to rely on to win. We pretty much have our hand forced with what we can use if we want to win consistently
The point is a mad max theme. Just jump off for the season lol nothing wrong with missing a season or play other games.
Perhaps we were abit harsh on the anvil launcher
I'm honestly loving the season. The extra mobility options is a game changer and is pure chaotic fun with friends while listening to heavy metal on Spotify
If you embrace chaos and clumsiness, yeah this season is hell of fun.
Of course for noobs I can see Enjoying this seasson
@@Ccubed92 lolllll
I completely agree. It's been a blast a nice change of pace from sniperwhores.
Last season I didn't land at the medallions because they were so hotly contested and 3rd party centric. This season I always land at the medallions so I actually get an old fashioned gun fight in before driving Miss Daisy
Yeh I’m hating this season at the moment. I don’t want to spend the whole game driving around in cars. It doesn’t feel like Fortnite anymore, feels like a different game. One I don’t enjoy
I feel the same way. This is not what made fortnite great. I want to compete against other players, not cars. This forced car meta is too drastic and should have been an LTM instead... that would have been the better approach imo.
Tournaments might be fun...
yeah I really consider taking a break and try to play next season again. Its really frustrating right now
@user-hu9rw3dy6k No shame in taking a break or focusing more on creative mode. I have not played one match so far this season. It is what it is. We'll see what changes Epic will come up with.
Agree. There's no shooting, just lots of players driving around trying to run people over. Not enjoyable.
Played like 5 games and I'm seriously thinking of not playing until they nerf the cars (alot!). Did not buy the battle pass yet either, for the first time in years
We are getting a sniper that do 3x damage to cars u trying to play tho
Well this is the first season I haven't even touched creative in cuz I haven't got bored of it yet after 3 days of grinding cars made the game fun only Sweats that don't use a car for anything other than mobility are complaining.
@@blackskulldud57 oh
@@blackskulldud57 Not every player complaining is a sweat.
@@LRIXJHMWthey’re just gonna give the new sniper the same bullet drop and bullet speed as the reaper sniper 💀
One thing you didn't mention: If you hop in the gunner seat with an enemy player in the driver seat, you can just hit F (not sure the controller button for it) and you'll swap to using your guns again instead of the turret, at which point you can easily shoot them through the windshield
Anyone know what the controller button is for this?
so, i’ve kinda been working on a strategy to fight cars and i’ve mostly got it figured out but it has flaws and needs improvement. so, you can use the crossbow like you said in the video, pairs very nicely with the infinite ammo medallion. shield bubbles work VERY well against the cars. ofc you can use it for yourself but if you manage to throw the shield on a car, you can negate all turret damage for a few seconds and run to cover or escape to avoid being ran over. only thing missing is another weapon as strong as the crossbow for damaging cars
If u really want to go 4 the win I recommend not going for any medallions
As soon as I get one every car in the game is going for u 😂
Literally I had 5 chasing me in solos one time just cause I got the shield medallion.
Facts, I don't go for medallions. Plus some AI can be unreliable at times.
I was struggling with the new content, but suddenly when I learned how to use cars more properly it got so much fun. It's so chaotic, and there's no more sweaty sniper camping, it's just a wild game of cars bumping against eachother. I'm loving this season already.
Same
Finally someone who embraces the chaos. That’s the entire point this season, crazy fun.
there's still sweaty snipers, they just use dmrs now (me)
@@NidoMittens tbh i prefer dmrs more since you can shoot quicker after each shot, and they have more ammo, i personally like the stealthy spotter dmr the most.
That’s what am saying. I didn’t like the season at start, but it feels so refreshing just having a bunch of chaos and mayhem during mid games and endgames. It’s an amazing season so far and haven’t had this much fun since chapter 4.
I've always enjoy car combat in previous seasons, just because of the number of ways you could choose to fight (pick axe trick, shoot the conductor, fake getting out and getting in etc...). In this season, I find it quite fun in solos (especially with the boom bow and nitro fist combo). When you get used to it, it's quite easy to avoid a car attack with the fists, then spray the car, get away, rinse and repeat.
In duos, I find it a bit less fun. Mainly because in solos, if a car wants to grief you, they have to switch to the passenger seat, spray you with a turret, then go back to the driver seat, re-engage, etc... It does take a fair bit of skill, so I feel like it's quite balanced : the car is over-powered but the player in the car has a lot to manage, and is less mobile that the player who isn't in a car. In duos, it's much easier for the duo in a car to grief a duo that isn't in a car. And since you can't enter the car with them, you have a lot less options.
I think they can do quite a bit to balance this season : bring back the EMP's, reduce the car's health, improve the spawn rate and ammunitions of the boom bow, etc etc... so I'm not too worried.
The one thing that I find the most annoying so far is the fact that the pick-axe trick doesn't work (most of the time). One annoying side effect of it is that in the late game, when a player enters another player's car, it tends to impose a status quo where none of the players want to get out. Usually that leads to the two players forming o sort of 'alliance' where one drives around and the other shoots other players (since that's the only thing they can do).
It has happened to me 2-3 times already where i'm in late game, without a car (because I prefer to play without), and I'm against one or two of these "made-up" teams. And since I can't enter their car, and they are two, it's almost impossible to avoid both the car AND the turrets, and I end up losing the end-game in a pretty frustrating way. *Curious to see If i'm the only one who has experienced this ?*
To end this, I'll say that I do find it funny how everybody is sooooo allergic to change, and not ready at all to wait a week or two to see how the new meta unfolds.
It's amusing to see everyone lose their shit and be like "that's it, fortnite is over" or "Not playing this season it's the worst". Not saying it's amazing, but give it time, things will get balanced. Probably
U know where i can Always find the Nitro gloves?
Idk the official name
My thing is the fact that their is no breathing room for playstyle. Previous seasons of Fortnite always had a few playstyles that were all balanced and now it seems we’re all forced into this 1 playstyle.I can get a car drive around upgrading it but thats not fun to me. Killing someone thats on foot by running them over or shooting them with a turret isnt fun. I think alot of you will understand in a few weeks when its no longer new.
In solos, if they get in your turret you can drive them to the edge of the storm and place the gunner seat in the storm.
They usually hope out
Can verify, have done this. lol
If someone manages to get inside your car, drive them to the storm. Get half on the inside the storm like if they’re the turret gunner. It’ll wanna force them to get out lol
You are genius I keep getting a foot Walker that hates cars with their guts getting in my car for the entire game just because they're upsetti spaghetti they haven't won a game this entire time because they refused to get in a car.😂
I've been hitting this for a few days and it works every time
That's hilarious.
They'll switch seats and either come back or smoke you with the turret anyways. So that only really works in end zones.
@@zsideswapper6718 well if they switch seats you can still try to leave them in storm. And if they get out drive off
I'm not a big fan of this "Twisted Metal" update but I've gotten a little more used to it over the last two days. I think it just changes the game TOO much. I already can't wait for next season to get here when they (hopefully) vault the weaponized cars.
3:10 - You CAN pickaxe in a 2 vehicle car. Press "F" (keyboard) for pickaxe when shooting the gun (because you're still attacking, right) and the pickaxe will come out. Try it by going into the weapon passenger position, attack (gun) and then press F, and your pickaxe will come out.
Gotttt it. This would be clicking right stick on controller 🔥
How to do the pickax glitch on a console
The Turrets should have been set up where it's a third or fifth seat where you are on the roof of the car and more vulnerable. EMPs should have been unvaulted, or an EMP crossbow.
EMP crossbow is actually GENIUS
they removed emps for a reason, and that is, it would virtually make cars useless, since this is a season supposed to be dominated by cars, instantly adding a big counter would make cars quite useless
After 10 minutes of silly fun I refused to use cars and just used gloves to rotate to higher positions, but given everyone uses cars and third-parties it does get too much. I think not playing is the only way for Epic to balance the game and save Fortnite.
It's nice that Epic Games gave their regular players a bit of a vacation with this update.
Sadly the theme of the season behooves Epic to not remove cars, and nerfing them too much will just make "wrecked" pointless. Adding EMPs sure, and perhaps slower heal rate of mythics, time it takes to heal cars at repair places, and unlock turrets late game or something would help, but sadly cars will be the theme of the season so they're not going to nerf TOO much.
I'm enjoying the chaos of this season but if shockwaves knocked players out of cars it would fix most issues players have
that would be hilarious
What about boogie bombs or emps added
Magneto will save us
Great tips Jake.
I'm not a fan of the cars in solos. You definitely need the nitro fists or shocks to out duel the cars. The crossbow is the new sniper and works great.
I have a challenge for you. Win a game using only the nitro fists and a shotgun.
Need to mention if you hire an NPC it totally ruins your turret game with cars. I had to get in and drive off quickly before the NPC got it if it was a 2 seater. Or if it’s a G Wagon. Get in and swap to the gunner seat and the NPC will get in the back.
Love the vids btw. Watch every one. So helpful.
This season’s been fun as hell so far!! Added a lot of spontaneity so that it’s not the same ppl easily winning every lobby like usual
I played 4 games of solo and not one issue with anyone in cars. It had me thinking "have people stopped using them?"....then I hop on duos. Still, having fun running like I'm in The Warriors.
They need a self destruct button in the car like the mechs did in season x
Like if agree
I think Epic took a big gamble. Still getting used to the meta, not sure if I will keep going unless changes occur. Thanks for your videos
First tip very reasonable (also anyone experiencing a bug where if you swap to a gun with some ammo left in it you'll start reloading?)
I really don’t like this season but I’m oddly obsessed with trying to adapt and get better. Such a bizarre paradox lol
Most exciting end zones in ages. Now my single colour hero killer is coming at me in a self healing turret wielding bullet proof tire death machine. Instead of just flying past one shotting me. That was getting stale.
You can also fix your car at the fuel stations on the map. I also carry a repair torch
Loving this season it's the most fun i've had in fortnite in a long time
Because you suck
weirdo
@@lonnlight how is he a weirdo for having an opinion
@@mysteriousguy9708 shut up
I’m loving this season
One thing to keep in mind is that every new season is that whenever there are new items they tend to put the spawn rate very very high. That way most players will get a chance of experiencing said item/weapon. Then everyone complains if it's a really good item/weapon. Then over time the spawn rate is reduced and/or nerfed through its cycle. It's highly UNlikely that the current state of how many cars, upgrade boxes, heal/gas stations, DPS for weapon mounts, overall vehicle health, etc will stay like this for the whole season. Enjoy it while it lasts because it wont stay like this for this season entirely. EMPs gotta make a comeback surely..
The only ones complaining are the only ones not getting in cars they're literally running around on their feet complaining that everyone else is doing a mad Max you know the whole point of this season like bro..
@@blackskulldud57you don’t see the problem with that ? Being basically forced to drive around in a car and not having the option to run around otherwise you’re dead
@landagreen You aren't being forced to though. I carry nitro gloves, flowberry fizz and/or shockwaves and nitro consumable. A combination of any of those will give you enough mobility to reposition and or get away from the vehicles. You have the option to run around without a vehicle but you better be carrying mobility items. The choice is there.
I love how every season you adapt and find ways to win. Thank you for the tips Jake!
I'm learning to adapt to cars and this video will help.
Epic seemed to have a vocal part of the player base that is unhappy whatever they do... Small changes mean they are letting BR die in favour of other game modes, big changes fundamentally ruin the game play. See the clamour for the OG season that people seemed to want but then seemed to hate when it happened; not enough loot, not enough heals etc.
1 tip not mentioned:
•When inside a passenger seat with a mounted gun, you can swap between turret or traditional out-of-window shooting with F on keyboard or left stick click on controller. If the car has nitro, this also increases fire rate of the gun you shoot from your inventory. Most importantly: you can shoot and damage the car you’re riding in using your own guns this way, forcing the driver out or weakening the car enough that it makes it a liability. Also if you’re in a team game, you can use this same tactic with the blowtorch and out-heal other cars without ever stopping.
But, being in a car constantly sucks, so…
Nice bit of advice; thank you.
I already hate the fact they brought all these broken exploits from one update I hope this changes real fast.
Cars are honestly fun, but it’s a shame that they are the only way to win games. If you don’t have a machine gun car by final circle it’s GG 😔
Not true.
@@Isaiah-ft5nx It very may be true for the person making the statement; most likely cannot speak for everyone though.
If you get in someone’s 2 seater car and are stuck on the turret you can press l3 to just sit in the passenger seat and spray them with your normal weapons
This is facts, getting close to the car without taking damage is the only gamble.
I swear there’s some cars where you can’t shoot the driver seat
@@nehmoomakor1872 It's those mythic cars, I've been trying all week.
I’m having a great time this season. I have noticed that each day the gameplay has changed. The first day in solos was all car, second day the cars had fallen back and now it’s more balanced. It takes time every season to get used to the changes in the map and weapons. I usually only play three of four games a day and am usually behind the people who were playing all day.
you lose enough games and you will get into the pool of players who do not like to use cars; think about it.
There needs to be a one-shot kill weapon for cars.
For sure, something like the rail gun with a faster fire rate!
Naw you crazy a one shot weapon for a car is insane that’s way way too much damage
@@Bulbmin1 You: One shot kill weapons are out of the question..... Way too OP
Reaper Sniper Rifle: Hold my beer
@@chucker625 I don't think think even the reaper could save anyone from this season as much as i miss it, it would be completely usless with all these cars😂
I’m not playing ranked this season
Yeah, this season I'll get away from it also.
Same, I played it just long enough to get the chainsaw pickaxe through thr quests cause I thought it looks cool.
Is it called FORDnight now?...I have to say...after watching this I have done OK against cars...but still end up on foot facing 4 or 5 in the endgame and losing....had one last 2 today against another player on foot...they were better than me...was nice...
If you're in the turret seat you can swap to your guns by using the gun swap button. If you're in a whiplash you may still be able to shoot them through the windshield.
7:35 The spiked Thing can kill you if you have no shield, be careful you don’t get caught in the air with a car boosting towards you
(The hitbox is pretty big to trying to jump over it may not always work
This season is so much fun for me. In a few months I will look back to a memorable but chaotic season.
Great video Jake! Solid sound quality, smart gaming strategy, and informing us a ton more about the game. Much appreciated man.
I haven't had so much fun in Fortnite in a long time as I do now you have constant action on the map, many and crazy fights, but of course at the end of the zone the cars are annoying they need to be buffed especially the medallion cars are way too strong, the weapons the loot the items are very good
can you do a guide to not losing to the nitro fists please?
Flow berry juice
An end game the other day was like wacky races crossed with mad max 😅🤦 chaos, I guess fun in some distant way, but a far stretch at Fortnite BR 😂
Maybe this is just a me thing, but I enjoy the challenge of handling this new kind of combat. To be honest, I was getting a little burned out on how normal fortnite was being with the combat these past two seasons, but this is something that gives a whole new experience, one I actually like. I don't really care that it's hard or challenging if I'm having fun with it, so I see it as a challenge. Lot of good tips in this, even the first once since there's little point playing the game right now if you just hate this season's meta so much.
Plus, I think there is a way to be in the turret seat while being able to get out the window and shoot. I don't know the method, but I've seen people do it.
how to fight against cars: actually fight them
it really is that simple people have been caught being used to being so safe.
I've seen people in the middle of the road, do nothing then get run over...then they get mad. like do something shoot, run or anything.
I think there's a mental block people hit when combating people in cars.
The cars feel like an extra shield or health state you have to deal with which makes the combat that much more of a hassle.
I get they're not bulletproof tanks or anything, but it is annoying.
It's also a nightmare when you're in a place with multiple cars and you have people switching from vehicle to vehicle. (That did actually allow me to pickaxe someone to death once, though)
Hello Jake. I think taking out the turret gunner is effective but doesn't increase odds of fight if driver is reactionary enough to switch seats and use the gunner as well. Thanks for the video as always , very informative and useful.
It’s the final circles where the cars just suck. It’d be cool if they could invent some system that would not allow vehicles to enter late game circles when they get small. Like some sort of dome/barrier that prevents cars from the final circle. Just spit ballin here but 4 or 5 cars in a tiny circle at the end is pretty rough
These cars are to OP the fact that you have 10 percent chance of winning at the end of the circle is insane cause everytine im on rank there is like 3-5 cars driving around just running u over and tossing u off the mountain they should make the turret guns overheat faster or bring back the rpg to combat these cars
The one season the devs decide not to add emps
Forecast Towers are key. If you can see that the end game is going to be in a mountain train you can know that cars are not going to be useful. Also carrying Med packs. That way if they try to drive you out of the storm you can heal. I want two games by jumping in the passenger seat at end game and then trying to drive me into storm
I think vehicle combat could be its own mode, which would be fun. Hopefully we get some counters like EMPs and rocket launchers soon.
I have not had one game where the mythic g wagon has been destroyed. Usually if you have the mythic you win the game.
If your not in a car your dead lol almost anyway
I wonder how many players complaining at the lack of gun fights reliant on ‘skill’ this season because of the cars took great pleasure one shot sniping unwitting players long range with the reaper in the last two seasons, or who loved engaging with a ‘can’t fail to hit’ gatekeeper close range. The term skill should be objective but it is actually very much subjective for most people
skill would be maximizing efficiency and effectiveness of that in which is available; fairly objective.
Do you use kontrolfreaks? And if you do which ones do you recommend
Thanks so much! I really needed these tips. I felt like the only way I could play was with a car.
While I am playing and I have people hop in and try and be silly I will actually drive into the storm, or because I only go for the bulletproof tyres so my cars aren’t raised high.
But a lot of people as soon as they realise you are going into the storm they jump out as you criss into the storm, but i did have one person stay in my car, so I shifted to a back seat and used a med kit to heal myself while the storm ended up killing them.
I like the car fight/chase for medallions, they are fun to get, but not the car meta itself
My advice is to rotate around Grim Gate. In this arena Cars have it difficult and you can have the advantage of the green water.
As someone that was just starting to get good at combat with weapons, I truly hate this season 😞
Jake, last season you did "deep dives" on various map locations and all of the chest spawns there. Would you consider the same for car wrench boxes? there are loops on the map that can be run that are almost undefeatable in a car because of them
I use cars to charge in for some initial dmg and possible surprise, then hop out instead of hiding in it
I like the cars lols it's like MAYHEM everywhere
Im digging the car combat. And like you said its not hard to take a car down with having this seasons mobility ro reset fights and do chip damage to cars
i think having to refuel the cars would help a lot. people would have to think about using them instead of just driving endlessly. none of the cars need fuel and i think it’s a big source of some of the unbalanced issues this season
I play solos 95% of the time and it’s been fun to see people fighting on foot against each other and when a car shows up, sometimes, everyone turns their attention to the car to blast it together and then they go back to shooting each other. 😆 The unspoken alliance.
It would be great if they made it so that people died in a car when it blows up instead of just running away.
And bring back the Anvil launcher.
i just play for the challenges that it for my battle pass grinding .
I've been having fun using fighting from the cars but its also been interesting finding ways to try and beat the cars on foot. Plus theres been a lot of intense fights.
I'm guessing theres gonna be a car nerf in the near future.
Now for duos yah this game is great one person driving one shooting
Fr, solos is a nightmare
damn bro, jake just kicked me OUT of this season. I really dont feel like playing. feels like a chore now
I'm starting to see more and more the issue with the boss cars as they auto-regenerate health. I think regular cars are fine because you can whittle their health down and they will need to find a repair crate or find a place to repair. Boss cars are much faster and harder to kill, and they regen health and can come right back. I think the thing with cars, is that you should have to repair them.
I hate this season.
Me too
Me three
Me four
Me too. Played every single Season 3, this one is the worst.
Me five
I hate the car combat, its so overpowered for trios squads, abd even dous.
The only reason im still going to play this season it becuase ive paid for the battle pass so i need this video to help.. thanks Jake.
This would be perfect a a spectate game mode but as a whole season hell no
Thanks
Ive already commented on like 3 other videos but WTF IS EPIC THINKING!?!?! NOBODY WANTED THIS AND I DONT KNOW A SINGLE PERSON THAT DOESNT HATE THIS SEASON
There should at least be HALF as many vehicle spawns as there are currently. I should not be getting into games with 20 people left in final circle and having 18 of them be in fully modded cars LOL
it's been two days, chill
@@rayrobert100 unless they vault the fcking boss vehicles and the car mods it's 2 months of sh*t bro 🤣
as someone who didn’t like season 1 and hated season 2 because of the constant 1 shot kill with the reaper sniper and lack of mobility. Season this is tolerable for me and I am enjoying it. I like the amount of movement there is, makes the game feels fast paced and i actually feel comfortable using an assault rifle as I domt have to worry about a reaper sniper killing me in 1 shot when I am full hp. I like getting in/out and switching seats in vehicles during fights. I still dont like the attachment system or the guns having travel time. I preferred the augment system and hit scan guns with good pumps. too many autos.
I’m loving the twisted metal vibes of the game. People shouldn’t be complaining about this
yeah I played like 2 or 3 games this season and I hate the cars so I definitely won't be playing this season, good tip.
You can switch between turret mode and passenger so you can aim at the driver without the turret...in case you get someone who wants to drive for you
I am one of those that will probably not play much until the meta goes back to person v person gunfights. What Epic have done to the game is incomprehensible. The only problem with griefing cars, is that you can regenerate the car v easily at gas stations and with the repair item :(
Thanks for being so thoughtful about this game. I really appreciate your insights.
When you show the whiplash kill you don't show footage of it. I think you should invest into an editor brother! It'll help a lot. respect