What you need to know before you download Fortnite

What you need to know before you download Fortnite- Pros and Cons

Everyone knows the iconic game - Fortnite. If, for some reason you don’t, it is “ a free-to-play battle royale game where up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing.” Now you may ask, what's so bad about it? It seems alright, but it only seems, not is. This is a very bad issue that fortnite, well, isn't good at. Ok, I'll cut to the chase - storage space. If you don’t know just how bad it is, well here you go.

This is a picture of me downloading Fortnite on a Macbook, 12” 

You may think “Oh, 90GB, at least it does not grow in size.”  Well, let me give you news,

The so-called “good-game” fortnite, eats about 50GB every 4 hours you play. Now if you do play Fortnite, is it possible to save at least 10-15GB of space?. Thankfully, some Reddit guru’s have found a way to do this. 

“I have been deleting the Fortnite Logs and EpicGamesLauncher Logs for about 2 weeks. There are two file locations for these logs. I delete the log files every 2 days. First time I found this issue I deleted over 50GB of log files. ITS ONLY TEXT! Text files should never have a need to get this large. EPIC FIX THIS!!! This is unacceptable! I now delete log files every 2 days and its average size has ranged from 8gb to 12gb.”

Here are the log locations

• C:\Users\UFO\AppData\Local\FortniteGame\Saved\Logs

• C:\Users\UFO\AppData\Local\EpicGamesLauncher\Saved\Logs

Courtesy: MoonBassMan (reddit)

Now I have nothing against Fortnite, but Epic really has to fix this. But a solution? - Mobile. Fortnite mobile is not the best way to play, but the best way to save space. Fortnite also has weekly mobile bug fixes, and guess what? You don’t have to live with the log files anymore. However, the game (on iOS at least) does take at least 10GB, but that should not be a problem nowadays with 512GB phones. And did I mention? NO LOG FILES.

Fortnite is a very good game, but until they fix this, I will play Fortnite Mobile only.