Fortnite Reload--a new version of battle royale in the vein of Call of Duty: Warzone's Resurgence mode--came out of nowhere this past weekend, a surprising shot in the arm to a game that's needed one badly after the launch of the vehicle-oriented summer season fell flat for a lot of players--in particular with folks who prefer build mode. That included many prominent streamers, who struggled to adapt to all the new changes in Chapter 5 Season 3 that were at odds with normal build-mode playstyles.

Reload feels like Epic's constructed-as-quickly-as-possible response to the poor season launch. And while I'd love to be annoyed that it seemingly hacked something together so quickly to appease streamers, Fortnite Reload is so much fun, and such a dramatic change of pace from Fortnite norms, that I'm pretty sure I'm in love. Epic got this one right.

The reason why Fortnite Reload works is because the idea is a good one that Epic had probably been pondering for a while. Call of Duty Warzone's Resurgence was created as a sort of bridge between standard Call of Duty deathmatch and the battle royale of Warzone, allowing players to automatically respawn after they die, so long as they have living teammates. It was a great hybrid between the modes of Call of Duty, the best of both worlds.