Don’t get hung up on winning. Realistically most people win like 3-5% of their games. Just have fun and have some good fights and that 😀

Jump the second you can. Always head towards fighting. Practice like crazy. Never run away from a fight.. you will die 98% of the time. Have fun!

Play in moderation.

Kbm not controller if you get used to controller it’s very hard to switch off of

1.) dont take it so seriously, its a silly fun game and 99/100 players lose each match

2.) any playstyle is valid. you can get 5th place and higher consistently just from hiding

3.) (in regular fn, not og mode) dont be afraid of the storm early on. you can travel in it safely for a while

4.) try out zero build for a while before moving into build mode.

5.) (right now) purple swords are very helpful for beginners

6.) dont land right after the bus lets you leave. wait a little and find a spot. all the tryhards hop out early

my strategy is to mainly hit people from afar (because my building skills are... interesting) and generally not try to go into too many big battles

Minis before bigs, hide and loot until your confidence is built enough for a fight, don’t worry about going back to lobby or readying up because it’s gonna happen , good luck out there

I also mostly play as a solo player, and I'm not very good, but I have fun. Here are some good newbie tips for playing like me ie a coward.

1. Priority 1 is to turn on "Visualize Sound effects," this puts a little ring on your HUD that will show you footsteps or gunshots of other players directionally around you. It's phenomenal for seeing where players are. When you crouch you don't make these footsteps.
2. There are bots everywhere. In your first few games there can be as many as 99 bots alongside you in the arena. As time goes on that drops to 80, 60, or even 0, but at the beginning it's largely bots. This can give you a false sense of confidence, as they're fairly easy to defeat, but then you may encounter a real human and they can kill you in a second.
3. Hiding is a great way to get wins. Not every player enjoys playing like a coward, but if you want you can jump into a car or SUV and jump in the passenger seat or the back seat by pressing the crouch button. This makes it so you make no sound and most people don't think of checking the back seat of a car, so it's pretty good cover. Also you can hop in the front seat easily enough to drive places.
4. Run from fights you didn't start. It's pretty easy to kill somebody in this game, so if somebody gets the jump on you, it's usually better to run away than to stay and fight. They've got the element of surprise, and if you can use a rift/jump in a car/whatever to get away you've got a much better chance than staying and fighting. It is usually good to keep a mobility item, like the grapple glove or a Chug Splash and a lighstaber.
5. Keep your shields high. I like to land next to SLURP trucks which are buried semis with SLURP written on the side of them. Destroying one of those will get you 100 healing, and if you're fully healed that's gonna be 100 shield. Try to maintain 100 health and then keep some large shield potions on you, if possible. Currently killing the NPCs around storm forecast towers will get you a chug jug which gives 200 healing, either to shields or health, and that's my favorite healing item. Also lets you know where the next storm circle will be, which is nice. You probably don't need more than 2 guns unless you're gonna get in a lot of fights, so use your other slots for healing and mobility items.

Obviously there are dozens of things to keep in mind, but as a fairly unskilled player, I prioritize being healthy and being hidden. Find some items that work for your playstyle and focus on that. I like to keep a shotgun as my weapon of choice and to use cars to both get around and provide cover. It's nice enough.

There is a Discord group called Fortnite Girls Only, I’ve made a few friends to play with that way! I recommend joining! For gameplay tips, for sure turn on visualize sound fx like the other commenter said, that’s crucial. That said, I have five more crucial tips:

1. ⁠Play around with your controller settings - the default settings have you turning pretty slow (extremely slow if you ask me, haha) and the dead zones are set high, which slows/reduces sensitivity and reaction time. I would recommend lowering your dead zones and increasing aim sensitivity (and ramp speed) gradually as you get better, and eventually you’ll find a sweet spot.

2. ⁠Practice opening your inventory and moving your items around quickly. Rifle to the left, then shotgun, then your mobility item (grappler, shockwaves, etc) or whatever works best for you - the key is to always have your items in the same places, so you can very quickly toggle to what you need, the split second you need it.

3. ⁠Practice shotgun fights without aiming down sights, or in other words, firing from the hip. Not exclusively, but it should be a skill you practice. As you get better you will get into close range battles where opponents are jumping all around you and if you’re trying to scope them at close range, especially with a pump, they’ll knock you before you can fire a round.

4. ⁠Get good at using mobility items. Especially if you’re playing no-build. There won’t always be a car available, especially in a small circle, or if you need to bounce from inside a building. It’s essential to practice using shockwave grenades and develop muscle memory to propel yourself up and forward, not backwards into the storm (I’ve done that so many times, lol) To be honest, you’d probably develop better habits and a better skill set if you play Reload for a while, but, you do you!

5. ⁠Lastly, never stand still for too long, even if you think no one can see you (you will get sniped), don’t run around with your weapon pointed at the ground (tits up, always) and RELOAD, for fuck’s sake, reload your weapons! 💕

The thing that took me longest to learn, but I grew more naturally into as I aged, was patience.

Patience will help you universally with aim, survival in BR, and winning fights.

• Waiting to line up the shot before taking it - even in a heated fight or facing damage, being able to stop, think, see, process what's going on, not panic, and calmly aim and take your shot. This takes a lot of fortitude to overcome the natural fight/flight reaction and corresponding surge of fear and adrenaline that will naturally want to take over your body. Practice maps are great for getting over this.
• Waiting to get the advantage - high ground, better loot, escape route, more shields, etc.
  • e.g. Tempting to run right into the fray with a small blaster off the landing, but maybe let the herd thin out and find yourself a shield potion, a movement item or a better weapon or two.
  • Your patience will be rewarded with an easy third-party of the semi-finalists of the landing, who have conveniently gathered some of the key loot for you already.
• Waiting to survive (knowing when to sit it out)
  • Maybe you need more heals
  • Maybe you need more loot
  • Maybe the ring's close
  • Or maybe you can't shoot
  • These are all good reasons
  • To plant your ass down
  • Get to crouching,
  • And sitting around.
  • Don't be impatient
  • Don't feel so bad
  • Always remember
  • It works for BushCampDad 😂

My main tip for Zero Build would be that when you get down to the Top 10 players or so, pay very close to the safe circles and try to get to the new circles when they are revealed before your opponents do.  If you're in the circle and they have to move towards where you are, you are at a huge positional advantage and can often get some pretty easy kills.

Feel free to send me those kisses when you get your next Victory Royale.

Me and my fiancée play Zero Build duos, I've played Fortnite on and off since before Battle Royale and she started playing in the Greek or Wrecked season, can't 100% remember. For reference I play on Series X and she plays on mobile both with Xbox controllers.

Tips I've given her as we've played and she's learned that she said has helped are (in no particular order):

1. Enable Visualize Sound Effects in Settings, while it's an accessibility feature technically, everyone uses it and you will be at a disadvantage without it. It allows you to see the direction and type of sound effects such as damage, healing, rebooting, footsteps, etc on a 2D wheel on your screen. Often times, I'll "see" a sound before I even hear it.

2. Always try to secure high ground, especially in the later circles. Mountains, hills, etc. Easy for you to shoot down on people, harder for them to shoot up and the terrain means the enemy rushing up to you will be more vulnerable.

3. Don't rely solely on a single weapon in a fight, switching weapons is faster than reloading. Especially with the lightsaber, it can be easy to get "tunneled" solely using it, resulting in you getting gun downed when switching to a gun yourself might have worked better.

4. Get the Forecast Tower. Strangely not many players do. The ability to see more circles sooner allows you to secure the best terrain easily, see #2. The NPCs at the Forecast tower also always drop a purple gun and a couple blue, along with shields and sometimes even a chug jug.

Bonus: Figure out where you like what type of guns in your loadout, what works best for you. I personally do the AR in my first slot, shotgun in second, smg in third, sniper or special in fourth and heals in fifth. You can configure settings to automatically sort your loadout slots once you figure out your preferences as you pick up weapons and loot.

Honestly just jump into zero build and go have fun. (Or build if that's your thing! But my point is just hop into a game lol)

Think about having fun more than anything else, think about small objectives rather than big ones -- I don't have guns, lemme get some guns. I don't have shields, lemme get some shields. Lemme make the next storm circle.

The bigger picture will come to you naturally, don't stress about it, it's a silly fun game and you'll get the most out of it by starting trying to have a silly fun time :)

Ok my best advice for a new player is probably a few things.

First off I would recommend learning basics down like learning the weapons, movement like tac sprinting, mantling, and stuff like that, and try and play Zero Build or Zero Build creative maps

Then once you learn the basics and want to start learning how to build, its best to either find private creative maps and just free build, or play some creative maps that have building and try it out

And if you want to I can even add you to try and how you how the game works, Im actually trying to look for more people to play with so it would help both of us if you'd be down

All I'll say is that my SO has been playing since C3S3 and he's still terrible somehow. This is basically the only shooter he plays and he always panics and gets himself killed. His arch nemesis is gravity.

Basically, your first goal is to work on your nerves. Stay calm and just point and shoot at enemies. Also practice movement. You need to know how to run just as much as shooting. Its a long process but if you keep at it you'll improve.

My advice is to watch some streamers for a bit. Help you learn how to use some things.

Fortnite is definitely rather overwhelming at first and it will take months if not years in order to fully get comfortable with all of the nuances of the game. I think the best advice especially if you're brand new is to just play the game and try your best to figure out what all the weapons and items do. Don't worry about getting a lot of eliminations or winning, that will come with time as you improve and get more comfortable playing.

Stop playing on Combat pro

Play the game before it was terrible

you cant improve my sitting under a staircase every game

That i didn’t have to practice 90’s 6 hours a day

Good key binds. I have switched my key binds around so much when I first started playing. Wish I had figured out my current key binds sooner.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FORTnITE/comments/7op7ad/whatahs_pve_save_the_world_guide_and_tips_for/?st=JK5L1LDN&sh=325f86de

This person provided a lot of info in theirs post and also if you go to the menu and go to help there is some additional info on how things work.

Hope it helps!

don't ask people to do hard missions for you

Most important tip: DO NOT TRADE WITH ANYONE. It is pointless and everything can be obtained by simply playing the game. Except exclusives, although they're mostly reskins anyway except founder weapons.

For more guides, see r/STWguides.

The game is abandoned by devs, dont expect a good future for it. other than that just go have fun and explore things your way!

It's a feature complete game, it's turning 3 years and only had 1 year of active development but 2 years w open servers,constant 500 players and great gameplay and fun, it's great! There will be system bots in every match so it's pvpve, but the movement and gunplay makes it one of the best battle royales imo

Learn at your own pace and have fun! play with friends too! I’m down to play if you are fr

go to r/fortnitecompetitive even if you’re not competitive. This subreddit is an echo chamber for the worst players imaginable

just experience the game. Make your own opinion about it. There's more than one mode, you have RL, lego, ballistic as well.

Creative is a whole other can of worms. You can find a LOT of unrelated things. It's good for when you're burnt out on the main game :P

Learn how to build in a creative setting. I never really learned to build and I really wish I have.

Leave this subreddit.