Save the World is currently sitting at 97% positive ratings, compared to Battle Royale at 83%.

It's nice to see STW receiving such a positive rating, especially considering how long the community has been asking for more support and attention for the mode.

I wouldn't use these numbers alone to compare the two communities, but it's still a good reminder that, despite its smaller player base, STW has a dedicated community that genuinely loves the game.

Seems like Homebase is doing something right.

Swamp Knight is busted. He clears out crowds by aura farming and giga buffs his minigun vs bosses. Because the Phantasms do crowd life leach, buffing their damage pretty much makes you unkillable. He used to be kinda vulnerable while in minigun but not with Ghoulslinger. I used to use Arleen Izza in support because she has the best healing perk and melee synergizes with Swamp Knight but she is just totally outclassed now. This loadout is extremely survivable and is only kinda vulnerable to ranged enemies and your own greed. This is go to main loadout.

You could probably use See-Bot in commander too since you can reliably get Phantasms from Ghoulslinger. He's the only hero in the game who has both LeftyRighty and Minigun, buffing both through headshots

Black Knight is underrated. While Going Constructor you're basically immortal while dealing huge damage and clearing crowds and the shield attracts things to you like decoy. When you're not in your ability he can consistently do a lot of damage with Kinetic overload and avoid damage and manage crowds with Decoy and Bullrush. The main vulnerability is his speed and mobility while Going Constructor. Decoy is very powerful.

Both these loadouts are great in regular missions too. I just swap Minigun cool down for shotgun crit damage. And Black Knight is a constructor

I am always experimenting with off meta weapons, heroes, and team perks, and currently testing Grave Feather in support of some of my builds and thought I’d share one of my favorite super off meta loadouts. Everything is very synergistic and works off eachother. I’m max level Offense 5,678 and everyone is PL144 so your numbers may be different from mine

ED-EE has a massive damage bonus when you crit with a shield, Bio-Energy gives you shield when you use energy. Spamming the heavy attack on melee weapons uses energy which keeps your shield up, combined with Energy Siphon means you should always be taking full advantage of ED-EEs perk. Rapid charge keeps the energy abundant, Anatomy lessons with the Armageddon as I’ve perked it a 60.5% chance to crit, and each heavy attack has 2 hits, so you’re almost guaranteed to explode on at least one of them, and often on both hits. Constructors have a ton of health so Paleo Luna really shines in support for the massive damage bonus. Especially since your shield is always regenerating, meaning you’ll very rarely lose any health, so her bonus is always max and is effective in the event you don’t get a crit. I replaced Corrosive Strikes with Grave Feather at the cost of -8% HAD, -1.75k shield but +6k health. Both heroes work great in this loadout but I’ve been getting roughly +5k or more combat totals per mission with Grave.

TLDR; you spam the heavy attack every swing, almost guaranteed crits, almost always full health and shield. 2 weapons to play with, both insanely strong and fun in this loadout. Staccato Shotto defenders work great with melee loadouts for getting riot husks to drop their fridge shields. Try it out

I was getting my daily v-bucks done, doing a defend mission and using the "Defend Here" command to tell my defenders where to do. Someone else started spamming "Defend Here", "Defend Here" and "Hold On" I assume because they were mocking me or thought I was telling them where to defend, and by the end of the mission I had a chat ban.

A literal IN-GAME feature got me my first ever ban after all these years.

Not ONCE did I use my mic, nor type anything in chat. Just the auto generated Defend Here. Plus I was on Xbox.

I'm so frustrated right now. I've had a clean record and have put so much money into this account that I'm always careful not to do anything wrong, especially since I've heard how people get random bans out of nowhere, and now here I am with this happening.

I've tried my best to play without any outside help, with my 2 violations being asking this sub a while ago how to progress and recently looking up MSK builds. Being on this sub unintentionally led to me learning about the trap wheel though, which I discovered how to access today. I was playing a constructor, and that makes today the day I learned how to equip BASE. I'm in twine, I've fought MSK, and my current hero quest is Activate BASE Ability. Anyone have similar stories?

It still has a use left. What a sad downfall.

I was going to play Scale, but someone said "Look up Horror Deathrun. You can just grind the rail and get there pretty quick. I played Scale for a long time last night and only went up two levels."

Don't be frightened when it eats up your storage!

I was downloading the new update for fortnite, and when it finished, my storage went back up to normal. False alarm! Just make sure you have a good.... 20- 30- extra gigs in your storage to be safe? I almost died when I saw my storage go down so fast.

Whenever you invite someone on your friends list to an already started mission you'll be stuck infinitely on preparing to join mission, unless you leave STW and reload it on the person who joins.

Hey Epic / STW team,

Can we please get a reset feature for Founder’s weapons?

Right now if you evolved a Founder’s weapon to Brightcore years ago, you’re permanently locked into that element. There’s no way to change it to Sunbeam (or anything else). A lot of us made those decisions when we were younger / didn’t fully understand the long-term impact, and now we’re stuck with a noticeably weaker endgame option.

When Epic makes big changes to a weapon (reworks, balance passes, etc.), you already give players a free reset so they can fix their perks. A similar one-time (or limited) reset for Founder’s weapons that lets us change the element would be perfect.

I don’t think this would cause any real issues — it just lets people who want to fix an old decision actually do so. Being permanently locked into Brightcore on a Founder’s weapon feels pretty rough in 2026.

I think we would all really appreciate this quality-of-life change. Thanks for reading.

My backpack is almost always full, so to pick up traps that have quartz crystal in them (a crafting mat I am always running low on), I drop temporarily weapons to pick up them up and recycle 'em.

On this mission (PL88 Evac), I do the same thing I always, temporarily dropping a Founder's Desconstructor that I got long before trading was disabled to pick up the trap, something I've done dozens of times w/o a problem. Only THIS TIME, after I drop it, my backpack and UI glitch up, preventing me from doing anything except move around and access the menus. Couldn't shoot, swap weapons, emote place traps, activate Abilities, activate the hover board, pick up items, drop even more items, etc, as you can see in the vid. WHAT TF happened here? It stayed like this until the end of the mission (which we won of course).

What I mean is that I feel like high end twine peaks are lacking in challenge. I feel like there isn’t enough heavy units on the battlefield. Like, I can understand if it’s lower twine. But 160 missions? Why are there only spawning 3-4 smashers in a wave?

I think high end twine endurance waves and deliver the bomb enemy density would be much better suited for high end twine. Hell, I would even say that we need like 20 mist monsters simultaneously on the field for something to happen.

So I am wondering, why do regular mission keep being so tame? Why aren’t we being pressured by larger numbers of heavy units, especially at 160?

I remember before halloween, Clip sidequest was available to play, but i wasn't able to complete it on time. Now, it's been replaced along with Wolfy Bussiness too. Is there any chance they'll be back before the end of Fortnitemares?

Fortnite used to be a fun normal battle royale, now every match you play you some random event either gives you double health, literal aim booster, and infinite ammo. This sucks it ruins the point of the match. And whats up with these dumb key things that annihilate anyone in its path. Its stupid.

I think you should just find them in missions...and have them in your inventory. They don't ever wear out unless you decide to break them down for upgrade materials.

They can still have all their other features...being upgradeable and can have their perks re-rolled.

I feel harvesting materials should be for for building, crafting traps, and finding upgrade materials.

Anyone agree?