Watch Fortnite while you play Fortnite with the World Cup’s picture-in-picture

I’ll fess as much as often half-watching one thing on my second display screen whereas taking part in aggressive video games, however I’m unsure how I really feel about Epic Video games planning to indicate gamers aggressive Fortnite whereas they’re already taking part in Fortnite. When the Fortnite World Cup Finals kick off on Friday, see, people who find themselves already taking part in Fortnite will get to fill a nook of their display screen with a World Cup video stream. Bizarre. We’re constructing a bizarre future.

The image-in-picture will present the official English stream when you play, giant sufficient so that you can observe what’s happening and doubtless additionally giant sufficient to distract you. It’ll be enabled for all gamers by default through the World Cup Finals, in your inconvenience.

“Sadly for this model, we won’t have subtitles or captions accessible,” Epic say in the announcement. Which could counsel it’s one thing they’ll think about for future PiP broadcasts?

I can’t inform if Epic assume A) that the Fortnite World Cup is so gripping that individuals will wish to watch it even when they’re actually taking part in the identical sport, or B) that the World Cup is so bland that individuals received’t watch it until they occupy themselves with one other process too, or C) that each Fortnite and the World Cup are so amazingly good that followers shall be unable to choose between watching and taking part in. I’m deep in camp B myself.

What I’ve seen of Epic’s makes an attempt to show their mega-hit battle royale shooter right into a mega-hit digital sport has been effectively rubbo. A $1 million event in winter was ruined by overpowered swords and irritating planes that Epic had blithely added shortly earlier than the competitors. They’ve eased up on including large issues proper earlier than large competitions, at the very least. They nonetheless haven’t solved the issues of seeing battle royale as a spectator, of clearly displaying vital data, of giving a way of a match’s circulation, of… I discover it boring to look at.

However hey, Epic are attempting to make it take off, a method or one other. They put $100 million up as prizes for numerous tournaments and competitions within the first 12 months of aggressive play. They do have, maybe you’ve heard, so very a lot cash.