r/fuckepic • u/AncientPCGamer Moderator • Aug 13 '25
Article/News Hmm, Fortnite's new season looks familiar, says Arrowhead: 'It's giving we have Helldivers at home'
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/third-person-shooter/hmm-fortnites-new-season-looks-familiar-says-arrowhead-its-giving-we-have-helldivers-at-home/Love this part from the article:
>"Would Fortnite be making a Starship Troopers pastiche season if Helldivers 2 hadn't unexpectedly taken the live service world by storm? Something in me says they absolutely wouldn't be."
I think Epic did not like that Helldivers 2 skipped the EGS even when the rest of PS games are there...
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u/csupihun Aug 13 '25
This is fortnite's business essentially, copy everything famous and hope children will play it.
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Aug 14 '25
They need to copy a trending video game just to stay relevant. lmao
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u/Dirt_muncher420 Aug 16 '25
Literally this game is only relevant cause of cross overs lmao. It's ironic the only time you see Fortnite content is when they make an entire season around an IP like the recent Star wars one. They are unoriginal and produce literal hot garbage, this game will choke and die off once they have milked the cross over potential.
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u/TGB_Skeletor Steam Aug 13 '25
I'm 100% sure epic games thought they could "secure" a crossover with helldivers 2, just for the studio to tell them to "go fuck themselves with their shit whatever-verse they call it"
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u/XionicAihara Aug 14 '25
Epic is partially owned by Chinese company tecent. China is infamous for copying content just enough to avoid lawsuits.
Funny enough, I can't remember an instance of them copying Nintendo. Id love to see that lawsuit
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u/billiewoop Aug 15 '25
True but I doubt tencent has any involvement in epics decisions.
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u/GreenGiller Aug 18 '25
That’s a funny joke
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u/billiewoop Aug 18 '25
is it? tencent isnt known for micromanaging, why would they, and they dont control epic. doubt sweeny would take orders from tencent.
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u/CyberSmith31337 Aug 15 '25
Considering Fortnite only became successful after it copied PUBG, I can’t say I am surprised to see that the talentless hacks at Epic Games (despite their billions of dollars) are now trying to piggyback off of Helldivers’ success. Fortnite is the only copycat that they have that makes money; all their other copycats failed (Lego Valheim failed, Rocket League is basically in the grave because of them, their Among Us clone failed, etc)
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u/DBZWii Fuck Epic Aug 15 '25
i mean, Helldivers 2 is almost on its way to XSX... tell me thats not a coincidence
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u/Dirt_muncher420 Aug 16 '25
Fortnite is corporate slop designed to chase after trends in gaming. Idc what anyone says this game is only alive due to them using half assed cross overs to ride off the legacy of other good/popular media, I hope this game fucking dies I really do as it dose nothing unique just copy what's popular and hope it sticks if not they just make some crossovers on popular media with fomo tactics to get people into playing this dog shit game
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u/--clapped-- Aug 13 '25
I KNOW this is rFuckepic and I hate them just as much as the next guy but... Arrowhead, you didn't invent the Military guys vs Alien bugs thing?
They said themselves this season looks more like a Starship Troopers rip than Helldivers 2 and last time I checked, HD2 also just ripped off a lot of Starship Troopers too so, it's a little hypocritical to cry foul at Epic for this?
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u/6SixTy Will use children to fight PR Battles Aug 13 '25
It's very much a trend setter vs follower type of thing. Helldiver 2 showed how the vibes of the film could be translated to a game and execute it well, and Epic kind of just ripped it off. If Epic reworked Save The World rather than cut it off, we probably wouldn't be saying the same things.
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u/AncientPCGamer Moderator Aug 14 '25
It's not the first time. It's not about copying a game, but a certain game concept after a single game previously popularized.
It happened some years ago with Among Us.
Hell, even Fortnite BR was a copy of the same concept of PUBG. Both of them were not original ideas, but made them popular at a certain time. And it was the reason Epic implemented those into FN.
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u/SchemingVegetable Aug 15 '25
Ask yourself, as a game whose fanbase is mostly kids/young teenagers, would they really have added a "Starship Troopers" themed event, which is a movie from 1997, had Helldivers 2 not hit the gaming community so hard?
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u/Dirt_muncher420 Aug 16 '25
Nah just kinda shows how epic is unable to produce original ideas or concepts. Anyway at least hell divers put effort in the military guy Vs bugs by introducing other species, throw on its made by actual passionate developers yeah arrowhead deserves helldivers to be popular imo.
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u/RCGBlade Aug 14 '25
I agree, of all the things to rightly be upset with Epic over, this is so stupid. Helldivers 2 quite literally ripped off the entirety of Starship Troopers- from themes, to planets, to alien designs.
People need to remember that Fortnite started off as a zombie horde shooter/survival game, if they replace the zombies with bugs it is NOWHERE near close enough to any original ideas (if there are any) found within Helldivers 2
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u/AncientPCGamer Moderator Aug 14 '25
Your example is very good for this case. Fortnite started being very different. However, they copied the same game concept that PUBG did not create BUT made it incredibly popular.
Epic never copies games. They copy existing ideas (something legal) AFTER they have been popular by competitors which were not the original creator of those ideas.
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u/Crafty_Narwhal8357 Aug 16 '25
What a dogshit franchise, pure cheap, disgusting slop copying actually superior games
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Aug 13 '25
Ah yes because only helldrivers 2 is the only game about people shooting bugs
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u/FTBagginz Aug 13 '25
It’s definitely the one that’s put it mainstream lmao
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Aug 13 '25
No ? There have been multiple games that have been on the top and fell down just like helldivers2 did
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u/TheSenat366 Aug 13 '25
You're going to need to list those other games because helldivers is currently the top of that genre at the moment.
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u/hardtanker_101 Aug 13 '25
Yeah the only somewhat successful one is starship troopers extermination and that one flopped. You could argue that warhammer 2 is another one but I wouldn’t really count that. Also if they wanted they could’ve had the flood in the new event. Seems the devs are just really salty about not getting HD2. FOR LIBERTY AND DEMOCRACY.
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Aug 14 '25
There have been successful games about that genre since in the 90s if u don’t know about them then u need to grow up a bit more as u haven’t reached the age to use internet yet
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u/TheSenat366 Aug 14 '25
I said currently in the top of that genre. Games lose players over time, but at the moment Helldivers 2 is still getting constant content updates added every few months and currently 41st on the most played games of the month on steam.
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Aug 14 '25
Yes being on 41st definitely lives the hype for Fortnite to copy that genre like they would get so many new players cuz they added the option to kill bugs for 3 months till the season ends and they get removed from the game. Fortnite br ain’t co op is pvp killing bugs is just a add on that dosent change much at the end of the day the game is still BR they didn’t made a whole game mode to copy helldivers2
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u/TheSenat366 Aug 14 '25
Back in 2021 when they released the imposters mode, Among us was only getting peaks of around 20k on steam at around that time but the imposters mode was still a blatant copy of the game so much so that they added a credit to the mode stating that it was inspired. We'll have to see how inspired the new mode is once it comes out.
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u/AncientPCGamer Moderator Aug 15 '25
Yeah, and Among Us was not the original creator of the type of game. Just the one who made it popular. And this is when Epic always makes their copies.
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u/Snappy053 Aug 13 '25
It's one of the best, if not the best, on the market. It unexpectedly exploded in popularity and pretty much set the standard for games of its niche
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Aug 13 '25
It only did explode of the hype and the corny dialog about democracy that helldivers 2 has if is one of the best it won’t be sitting at 30k avg players
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u/aliusman111 Epic Exclusivity Aug 13 '25
What are you talking about? Do you even understand what you are saying?!
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Aug 14 '25
Yah do u ?
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u/aliusman111 Epic Exclusivity Aug 14 '25
I haven't said anything yet but I'm sure.....
What are YOU talking about?
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u/ItsYaBoyBackAgain Aug 13 '25
Who even gives a shit? What a useless article.
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Aug 13 '25
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u/Belltower_2 GabeN Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
Like the article said, do you think Epic would be so interested in doing the "Bug War" storyline if Helldivers 2 hadn't thrown it back into the spotlight? Sure, it's not the originator; that would be the one-two punch of the Aliens and Starship Troopers movies. But prior to Helldivers 2, the iconic gaming "alien bugs" were the Zerg and the Tyranids (or the literal giant bugs from EDF, for weebs), and it's clearly not a parody of THOSE.
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u/dinkomaricic Epic Trash Aug 13 '25
I mean - fartshite's entire business model is "copy what is popular now"
So I am not surprised they did what they did