hey what's up it's Jerad with state of tech and Fortnite has finally come to
Android of course if you have a galaxy device that is what you're gonna have to
have in order to play Fortnite it is actually now available in the galaxy
apps store so if you go into the galaxy App Store on your device you're gonna
see Fortnite there it actually downloads the fortnight launcher the
fortnight installer kind of in a similar way to how when you download it on the
PC there's a launcher and then it installs it and you're good to go it was
a pretty involved process I was kind of surprised at how long it took to get set
up and all that stuff and I had to do a full restart of my phone in order to get
it to perform I mean I tried playing the game without restarting my phone and it
was impossible to play the game so I've played it a couple of times now just to
kind of get the experience it's not the first time of course that I played
Fortnite on mobile I've been playing Fortnite on mobile on my iPhone and my
iPad for a while now and so now that it's available on Android which is my
primary I use this s9 plus as my primary device I'm excited and I wanted to
download it and play it right away so it's been a little bit of a mixed bag on
the experience Samsung you know all the rumours were saying you know fortnight
is coming exclusive to the Galaxy phones in the announcement today at unpacked
2018 they said that a fortnight beta is coming to Galaxy devices first so they
didn't say exclusive necessarily they just said beta and it does feel very
beta kind of low resolution kind of glitchy it seems to be a little
problematic still in some areas so it is very much beta so I've got it loaded up
here just to kind of show you a little bit of what's going on we're gonna show
you some in game play the problem is is that I can't actually record it using
the the app here you know you've got your game tools and I can't actually
record I tried recording and it made the experience so glitchy
this game needs every little bit of horsepower that your device has and I
don't even know if you have an s8 or maybe a note 7 or a note 8 I feel like
it's it's gonna be even more challenging for gameplay to take place on a slightly
older galaxy device this is the newest one that you could buy right now of
course the note 9 comes out soon and I'm gonna do a full video on that because
you know I watched the keynote I was excited about some things and so make
sure to check out that video but let's see what gameplay is like so I'm gonna
go ahead and we're just gonna start eh we'll just start a squads game so I'm
very much used to playing Fortnite more on a PC I haven't been playing fortnight
much lately especially since the latest season season 5 has come out I've just
been so busy with work and everything as you can say I'm only at level 6 even my
kids are in the low-level 20s right now and they only play once or twice a week
so that just goes to show how little I've had an opportunity to play
all right so as you can see it's a little glitchy there's definitely some
situations there that I would have been a little bit more responsive if I could
move around a bit faster so that's definitely something that probably will
be fixed you could go into your settings and of course there are some settings
you can adjust typical 30 frames per second on most mobile devices anyways
but you can go down to 20 and you can also lower your quality I recommend
making sure that you quit out of every single app maybe do a restart of your
phone right before you play 4 at night and make sure every app is quit and that
some of the background processes maybe even shut off you're gonna need as much
of your phone's horse power as possible to play some Fortnite if you're on a
Galaxy device so make sure to head on in and and get access to it because it is
pretty much only Galaxy devices right now that are able to run this if you
want to join me my name on Fortnite is dadbotio so make sure to friend me up
and let's play some duo squads whatever let's have some fun so make sure to
check out my video on the note 9 my initial thoughts I'm also going to talk
about the new galaxy watch and of course the galaxy home in that video so make
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