Mega City Is The Best Thing That's Ever Been on a Fortnite Map

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A couple weeks before Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 launched, the rumors began circulating about a «Neo Tokyo» kind of futuristic city location being added with the new season. And I thought: «Cool, they're bringing back Neo Tilted Towers.» But I was wrong. Mega City is far beyond anything else we've ever seen in Fortnite--there are no good past comparisons for this place, either in terms of size or quality.

What makes it so great? Well, it's the first place that Epic has built on the Fortnite island that feels like Zero Build was considered when they conceived it. Mega City has a bunch of skyscrapers, but the bulk of the interiors are inaccessible--making the number of places you might get shot from significantly more manageable. Likewise, this place has serious infrastructure in the form of grind rails and three or four different vertical ziplines on each building, and a car or motorcycle on every corner.

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And if you've got a Kinetic Blade, too? And the Aerialist augment? Mega City is your playground.

While it's been a whole year since Zero Build was added at the start of Chapter 3 Season 2, it's taken time for Epic to adjust its design philosophy to account for it--and now, Mega City is the culmination of every lesson the team has learned about how to design the game for Zero Build over the past year.

Chapter 3 had two urban environments for most of last year: Tilted Towers, at the center of the map, and The Daily Bugle, which featured three NYC high-rises