I had to scrape my chin off the floor when I first clapped eyes on Fortnite Creative 2.0. The absurdly powerful set of mod tools, rolled out with Epic's new Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) last week, has already seen the battle royale morphed into glorious renditions of Dark Souls, Silent Hill, Call of Duty, and more. The creation suite – which will be PC-exclusive for at least six months – is jaw-dropping, and its current public beta phase is inspiring a wonderful boom of creativity among players determined to push the envelope in artistic and technical terms.
For some players, that means reworking parts of their favorite games by virtue of the UEFN. For others, it means painstakingly recreating to-scale incarnations of popular game locations with meticulous care and precision. And for the most depraved among us, it means adding one of the most soul-crushing, griefer-delighting vehicles in video game history. If my jaw dropped upon seeing Fortnite Creative 2.0 for the first time, then my heart sank after scrolling past that one single image. Which is to say: Fortnite's new mod tools could change the face of gaming as we know it, but technological strides like this one are bound to coax some bad actors out of the woodwork at the same time.
