Fortnite Creative Discovery Could Get Slightly Less Terrible, Eventually

Fortnite Creative Discovery is your portal to a huge world of different maps, at least that was the original selling point of UnrealFN. Since the new tools got added, discovering game modes hasn’t gotten any easier. Logging in, you can fight plenty of tycoon maps, bizarre creations where stand hitting a clicker over and over. But everything else seems buried in a world of AI thumbnails and deliberately misleading map titles.

That’s supposedly going to change soon! Epic is making a big change to Fortnite Creative discovery. Part of their continued efforts to make Fortnite more of a platform, with less of a focus on Battle Royale and Reload. What exactly is coming and can it actually help to make Fortnite Creative Discovery finally work?

Fortnite Creative Discovery Changes Planned

Fortnite Creative Discovery is how you find alternative maps and games. Essentially, when you log in, how do you find what you’re going to play? That’s what Creative Discovery is supposed to be. Helping players load up what they’re looking for or find something cool they didn’t know they were looking for.

Increasingly since the last big UI overhaul, players have been frustrated. It’s difficult to find Epic made modes, let alone track down anything of value in the Creative ecosystem. It’s become a needle in a haystack situation.

A number of new changes are coming to try and fix it, supposedly over 2025 and even into 2026. We’ll be seeing changes long after the current season ends. Epic has acknowledged the problems with the Discovery tab at the moment. They’re trying to reconfigure it to bring unique and innovative maps to the surface. Instead of the endless clones we currently have.

They’ll be making changes to algorithms for Discover, to try and encourage it to surface more creative experiences. Although, they’ve already clarified they’re not banning AI thumbnails. It doesn’t seem like they’ll stop separating every LTM or BR experience into 4 different branches of every intersection between Ranked, Builds, and Zero Builds. They also seem committed to making small and needless changes to the UI every few months too. Fortnite Creative Discovery might be a bit harder to fix though.

Can it Work?

The big problem with Discovery in Creative maps is what’s being uploaded. Epic provided tools to create of ton of cool stuff with UnrealFN. Partially, players delivered. Entire Battle Royales and other experiences have been impressive. The vast majority of the maps though, are just chasing that monetization. The current system partially encourages copycat maps to chase trends like Pillars or Octo game and try and pick up some cash from Epic as players accidentally load up the wrong map. It doesn’t encourage time spent on a creative experience that few will ever find.

Creative Discovery could try and move players into more innovative maps, but finding them is going to be difficult without some kind of manual moderation. A human-curated list could highlight cool and unique islands in Fortnite. Changes to the algorithm might just help discovery better select maps to grind Fortnite XP. As that’s pretty much the biggest use of the entire suite of new features for most players. Better moderation could help to make sure good maps get players, and it’s worthwhile to create them, but it’ll take big changes.