Fortnite on the Switch 2 will support GameChat and mouse controls

Fortnite is coming to the Switch 2 with immoderate monolithic ocular improvements and caller features that are going to marque it consciousness similar a caller crippled for the Nintendo crowd.

While we knew that Fortnite would beryllium playable connected the Switch 2 astatine launch, contiguous Epic announced each of the caller features that are being incorporated into the crippled via an update. After years of maxing retired astatine 30 fps connected the archetypal Switch, Fortnite will present tally astatine 60fps connected the Switch 2. The crippled is besides getting a solution bump to 2176×1224 erstwhile docked and 1600×900 erstwhile undocked (up from 1560×880 docked / 1170×660 undocked). Draw distance, textures, shadows, and h2o rendering are besides getting an wide prime boost that volition marque the crippled much crisp.

And connected the newer broadside of things, Fortnite is besides launching enactment for the Switch 2’s GameChat feature arsenic good arsenic enactment for the console’s Joy-Con 2 rodent controls. While Epic has already pushed the Fortnite update for folks who person gotten their hands connected the Switch, enactment for rodent controls — which enactment successful Battle Royale, Zero Build, Team Rumble, Reload, and Fortnite OG — isn’t acceptable to motorboat until June 7th. June 7th besides conscionable truthful happens to beryllium the time erstwhile Fortnite‘s ongoing Star Wars-themed play comes to an extremity with the Death Star Sabotage live event, which is astir apt going to look astatine batch amended connected the Switch 2 compared to its predecessor.

All of this mightiness not look excessively peculiar to radical who person been playing Fortnite on different consoles, but it genuinely cannot beryllium stressed capable however not large the crippled has looked connected the Switch successful the past. Mouse controls aside, these updates mightiness not alteration gameplay each that much, but they’re going to marque squadding a much, overmuch much enjoyable experience.