ESPORTS
By Anushka Mohanta
FORTNITE IS A BATTLE-ROYALE GAME THAT CAN PRIMARILY BE PLAYED ON PC BUT A LOOPHOLE ALLOWS THE GAME TO BE PLAYED ON IOS DEVICES. HERE IS A GUIDE ON HOW TO ACCESS THE GAME IN IPHONE AND IPAD.
THE GAME HAS RECENTLY ENTERED INTO CHAPTER 4 SEASON 1 WITH MANY COLLABORATIONS BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IOS PLAYERS NO LONGER HAVE A DEDICATED APP FOR PLAYING FORTNITE. THIS SITUATION CAN HOWEVER BE OVERTURNED BY XBOX CLOUD GAMING.
FOR PLAYING FORTNITE IN IOS THROUGH XBOX CLOUD GAMING, PLAYERS DO NOT REQUIRE A XBOX GAME PASS. RATHER, THEY NEED TO CREATE A MICROSOFT AND EPIC GAMES ACCOUNT.
ONCE PLAYERS ARE DONE WITH BOTH THE ACCOUNTS, THEY SHOULD HEAD OVER TO THE CONNECTIONS TAB OF EPIC GAMES ACCOUNT AND CLICK ON XBOX AFTER INTERLINKING THE MICROSOFT ACCOUNT.
THE NEXT STEP WILL REQUIRE PLAYERS TO OPEN XBOX.COM IN THE SAFARI WEBSITE (BROWSER FOR IOS DEVICES). SIGN IN WITH YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT THERE AND SEARCH FORTNITE IF ITS NOT ALREADY AVAILABLE.
A NEW POP UP WINDOW WILL APPEAR WHERE PLAYERS HAVE TO TAP ON THE SHARE BUTTON IN SAFARI FOLLOWED BY THE ADD TO HOME SCREEN OPTION. PLAYERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE XBOX CLOUD GAMING SHORTCUT IN THEIR HOME PAGE.
THE LAST STEP IS QUITE EXPLANATORY ITSELF AS PLAYERS JUST NEED TO LAUNCH XBOX CLOUD GAMING IN THEIR IOS HOME PAGE AND CLICK ON FORTNITE TO LAUNCH THE GAME.
WHILE TOUCH CONTROLS WILL BE HELPFUL FOR PLAYING FORTNITE IN IPHONE AND IPAD, PLAYERS CAN ALSO USE THE XBOX GAME CONTROLLER AS AN ALTERNATIVE.