• Llamas! Set randomly on the map. As you know, it’s the same thing as loot boxes. You just need to hit the pinata and grab the loot, everything is pretty simple. Now, as I’ve caught your attention, there will be more content available in llamas: it will be available only for the current game session, and all the stuff that you get from llama in Battle Royale is not available for purchase. Hope you’ll enjoy it as the update rolls out :)
  
• Jetpacks! (Dealyed) Epic are super busy bees, they’ve faced some problems while they were developing jetpacks. And they’re working on fixing them. That’s what Eric Williamson said in the interview, and GameSpace team totally believes him. We’ll see how it all worked out not in the upcoming update, but soon!
  
• Smoke grenades! I mean, Epic will banish them. Developers claim that they seem to be not as useful as predicted.
  
• And the last thing about the upcoming update is that Fortnite Battle Royale comes to mobile devices. And it will be a cross-play. Insane, right? And note, that if you’re gonna gather a team, it will be balanced: PC-console-mobile proportions must be kept.
  

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• Adventures — sidequests. The missions that are unnecessary to complete and don’t have any impact on the main questline (Red War). You can get loot and experience points from those. Once you’re done with all Adventures in a certain region, the vendor proposes four side quests that you can complete daily for more rewards.
  
• Call to Arms — a weekly Milestone. Can be completed in PvP. Your progress depends on your performance: the better you play, the quicker you complete the quest. Usually, it takes 4 to 5 matches, but do not worry. Take your time!
  
• Challenges — daily missions you can complete for extra XP and vendor tokens. Unlock them by bringing Ikora Rey to the Farm while you play Red War campaign.
  
• Crucible — competitive PvP stuff. 8 maps at your disposal, same as different gaming modes (quickplay for fun, competitive for grinding). Actually, there’s more than two:
  

• The Dawning — a winter holiday event, starts after Season 2 kicks off.
  
• Faction Rally — an event that permits to pick one faction, and while the event is active you earn glory for everything you do in game in the name of a chosen group. Once the event is over the most loyal folks get good discounts for weaponry.
  
• Flashpoint — another weekly milestone, concerns public events. You can unlock one by returning Cayde-6 to the Farm while completing the main campaign.
  
• Iron Banner — an upcoming PvP monthly event, similar to Crucible.
  
• Lost Sectors — short dungeons; defeat a mini-boss to get a cache key to the closest loot chest.
  
• Meditations — replay story missions for more loot, XP and reputation. Available once the main campaign is completed.
  
• Patrols — short missions that have nothing in common with the main story. Pick one while wandering through Destinations.
  
• Raids — long and challenging missions.
  

• Assassin's Creed and Doom: your last health point has more hit points, so you feel like you’re the real survivor.
  
• Serious Sam: bullets are 1m thick when testing enemies, and 0m when testing the world. So you can shoot near a corner, but hit enemy easily.
  
• Surgeon Simulator: if you dial your real phone number in the game, it calls you. SPOOKS!
  
• Firewatch: a player not responding to dialogue prompt is a noted choice. The game reacts to non-response, and it helps create a feeling that ignoring someone has social consequence and the other person is "real".
  
• Alien Isolation: The Xenomorph has two brains one that always knows where you are and gives hints to the second that controls the body.
  
• Far Cry 4: deliberately turns down the accuracy and damage of NPCs the closer they are. Still think you’re savage and fearless? :)
  

• F.E.A.R: AI dialogue is selected by the NPC doing an action, then it tells another NPC to say it. That’s a good way to build a social environment around the gamer.
  
• Left 4 Dead 2: AI chooses to attack the player that is out of group and that didn’t get his pile of claws (that makes you stick together to lessen the damage). It also analyses how complicated is the situation around you, and whether you go solo or in a group, and calculates the time that you need to heal. At that moment you get some spare time to “patch yourself up”.
  
• Halo 2: the game helps players feel like they have influence over battle by forcing grunt NPCs to panic if elites are killed in proximity. Same thing in any GTA game, once you take out the gun people get anxious.
  
• Arkham Asylum: the thugs maintain your sneakiness by not-turning around on 180’.
  
• Bioshock Infinite: Elizabeth provides whatever you need at the current moment. Out of ammo? New gun! Nearly dead? Take a first-aid kit! (when I started playing Bioshock it was a big surprise for me, I couldn’t understand HOW she gets everything I need!)
  

• Civilization Beyond Earth: picks you an enemy with an opposite ideology, to incite conflict.
  
• Hi-Octane: all the vehicles have SAME stats. My life is a lie :( 
  
• Bioshock 2: the first Big Sister Fight will always end when you have a few health left, no matter how good you were at the fight.
  
• GTA San Andreas: when you and Catalina rob a bank and you keep bank employees at gunpoint, you’ll have to shoot.
  
• System Shock: your last bullet does double damage, a similar trick to the last bit of health thing when trying to defeat the boss.
  
• BioShock: the first shots from an enemy against you always missed, so you could quickly get yourself together and fire back.
  
• Fable 2: if the dog companion is stuck navigating and gets far enough from the player, it'll respawn off camera running to you.
  

• LUFTRAUSERS: first few enemies deliberately miss you to give you the feeling of being really good at dodging. (Actually, this got implemented in a lot of games.)
  
• Halo 2: during the tutorial, the game asks a player to look up. Their input determined whether y-axis would be inverted. (Genius! Also Portal 2 and Infamous do that trick.)
  
• Half Life 1: if you face more than two enemies, only two would actually attack. The rest would run to random locations and get busy with other stuff.
  
• Platformers: some of these implement the “coyote time” thing. When you’re standing at the edge point of a platform you can still jump!
  

• The Suikoden: the world map is made to not frustrate players. If you walk in a straight line, fewer enemies will appear, as they clearly have a destination. If players zig-zag around, more enemies will attack, to help them grind.
  
• Devil May Cry: off screen enemies slow down or stop their attack patterns, to avoid hits from blind spots and to allow players to fight larger numbers. (not only DMC has this secret feature)
  
• Pac-Man: hidden ghosts mechanics. The Red ghost follows you, the Pink one tries to go to space 4 tiles in front of you, the Cyan one follows Pac-Man, turns around when close. Easy-peasy!