Fortnite Deathmatch Have Incredibly New Maps That Players Just Have To Try

There’s a pretty cool new Fortnite Creative 2.0 map that’s gotten a lot of spotlight this week, and for good reason–the Lucky Block Arena free-for-all map by Rafa To Ja is a refreshing remix of an old Creative formula.

You and the other players will spawn on your own floating platforms above an arena battlefield, a format that Fortnite creators love to use for all sorts of different games. Usually these involve building, but the Lucky Block Arena does not.

Fortnite’s Creative 2.0, powered by the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, is still so new that developers are stil figuring out what exactly they can do with it. For now, that means most Fortnite Creative maps made with UEFN are mostly the same kinds of things creators were making before, but with new bells and whistles that weren’t possible previously. In other words, Creative 2.0 is more evolution than revolution so far. The Lucky Block Arena is a high-quality example of that kind of thing.

Where this map is different is how it turns a standard Creative deathmatch formula upside down. There are many deathmatch maps in which you’ll start with some blue-quality guns and beat other players to earn coins to buy better guns from a huge selection of vending machines–like The Pit, for example. But you decide what guns to use the game decide for you randomly .

Instead, You’ll be spending the coins you earn to open lucky block which gives you a random gun but, you can choose what quality you want–higher qualities require more coins–and you can also open boxes that have gadgets and other items. All the lucky block have a skin or image on them to make them identifiable. And on top of that, once you jump into the free-for-all arena, you’ll find various power-up boxes, like damage multipliers. And there are certainly other surprises to be found–like the occasional appearance of a low-gravity area.

This may not sound incredibly impressive, but that’s because this map is largely a in-the-developement-phase kind, quality-of-life evolution: These boxes are custom assets that do things that cannot be done with the old Creative tools. They aren’t doing anything particularly shocking or astounding, but Rafa To Ja basically had to invent them (or toke the idea from someone).

Beyond that, the Lucky Block Arena is simply a well-designed free-for-all map that’s fun to play on. So, unlike many of the new Creative 2.0 maps, this one is actually practical and fun and could become a long-term community favorite–rather than being an amusing tech demo, like most of the other Creative 2.0 maps we’ve seen so far.