![]() ![]() If you've made it this far, you should be ready to take on the world with the Kinetic Blade. It won't necessarily even the odds, but it might give you a real shot-we've already lost track of how many times a panic dash right into somebody's face has saved us when we thought we were seconds from death. So while dashing at somebody who's already shooting at you will frequently be a bad idea, using the dash to start a fight has a great chance of throwing your target into a panic and making them easy pickings.Īnd while most folks will reflexively use the sword to try to flee when they're overrun by an opposing team-that's usually the right thing to do, for the record-it's got decent combat potential in those situations because of the aforementioned panic factor. A big element of success in any competitive multiplayer game is aggression-when you surprise somebody and get them on their back foot, that's usually good for you and bad for them. It's also great for, well, scaring the crap out of people. High-ground battles aren't the only main combat use for the sword, though. But even if they pop a glider or get a sword dash off to save themselves, they're not on that roof anymore, and you are. If somebody is hanging out on that roof, hit them with the knockback attack and fire up your best taunt emote while they fall all the way back to the ground. Instead of using a zipline to get up to it, use one of the rifts that litter the ground beneath it and dive in at the roof of the house that sits on it. The best place to practice this way of using the sword is on the Loot Island that spawns in mid-round. And the Kinetic Blade is perfect for that. Players do have plenty of methods for surviving getting yeeted this season-like the Aerialist augment and the Kinetic Blade itself, which can do the dash attack at any time when you're in the air.īut even if you don't finish them off, clearing your opponent off the high ground and taking it for yourself is a great way to turn a fight around in your favor. So what it's really good for is just clearing people off of your hill, whether it be the house on the Loot Island, the top of a skyscraper in Mega City, any of the castles around the map, or just an actual hill. Namely: whenever you're about to fight someone near a big ledge, like on Loot Island, the top of a skyscraper in Mega City, any of the castles around the map, or any of the many cliff faces on the island.įor these situations, the Kinetic Blade is a King of the Hill weapon-that's referring to the children's game rather than the TV show. But there are occasions during every round of battle royale in which whipping this thing out is the right thing to do. When it is time to fight, you shouldn't use the Kinetic Blade as your primary weapon most of the time-guns are still far more efficient at deleting your foes in most scenarios. The best way to use the Kinetic Blade as a weapon against other players While each dash won't take you as far as the hammer did, it takes half the time to recharge-and you can use it to dash straight up in the air three times in a row, letting you get much better height than the hammer ever did. You can and should use it as a weapon, of course, because that fall damage is no joke with all the height added to the map this season, but you'll use it for getting around pretty much constantly. Like last season's Shockwave Hammer, the Kinetic Blade is primarily for mobility as you move around the map. ![]() So try not to button mash with the Kinetic Blade or else you might accidentally lock yourself into the lengthy animation a second time when you don't mean to. That knockback attack, by the way, is not a combo-you only need to click/pull the trigger once and your character will automatically do the entire knockback sequence. And the second hit will also send the target flying back from you, causing fall damage if you're elevated enough. The Kinetic Blade can do two things: a dash attack, which will propel you forward pretty quickly and does 60 damage, and a two-part knockback attack, which does 35 damage on the first hit and 70 on the second. So we're all starting fresh with this thing, which requires a bit more finesse than the hammer did. But in more literal terms, the Kinetic Blade is a whole new gameplay mechanic that doesn't work like the hammer did at all, really. The Kinetic Blade fills the same niche that the hammer did, as a tool for quick movement that also has some serious combat capabilities when used correctly and in the right situations. ![]() Now Playing: Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 Launch Official Gameplay Trailer How exactly the Kinetic Blade works By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's ![]()
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