Season 4 for Fortnite is here, and unlike the new seasons for most games, this one comes with huge changes. The biggest change is that the comet that players have seen hovering above the map has crashed into the earth. Dusty Depot is no more, and all across the map signs of the crash are evident. Of course, there are other changes the comet crash has brought, but the big takeaway here is that Fortnite is doing right by their community, and they are keeping the game engaging and fun.

The biggest changes to Fortnite are obviously to the Battle Royale, or at least that is what everyone is going to be paying attention to. As mentioned, Dusty Depot is now Dusty Divot, a crater full of construction pieces with the comet at the center. Battle Royale also has another new spot, Risky Reels. Risky Reels is up in the corner of the map – where most players tend to avoid and possibly where the drive-in once was. The game has also added a few fixes to headshots as well as retiring the shotgun.

In addition, Fortnite’s other game mode – Save the World – has had a new quest added to its main story, one which also features the comet quite prominently. New builds, new bosses, new zones, and new stories have all been added to the mode. This is all probably in preparation for when the Save the World mode goes free sometime later this year. Epic hasn’t given a hard date on it, but they have said that their goal is to have the entire Fortnite experience as a free-to-play model.

It’s actually Epic’s approach to updates, as well as events and game modes, that has made it so wildly successful. Not since Team Fortress 2 has a company seemed as dedicated to crafting an experience for their community, and the Season 4 trailer even bears some resemblance to the Man vs Machine update.

What the two games share is an understanding of how to do content and community correctly. In addition to Season 4, Epic also announced they would be adding ‘Orange Shirt Kid’ as a dance to the game after the BoogieDown contest. Despite losing the contest, Epic realized that this was what the community wanted, and they added it.

With only four seasons in, the Comet event is one of the best ideas to come to an online game in a long time. Epic could have added maps as PUBG has been recently doing, or they could have tried adding new gear or guns like every other game does. Instead, they made it into an event. It started as just a dot in the sky, but it built into something that changed the entire experience for players. There will undoubtedly be an uptick in active users following the comet event, if only because players will want to see what happened to the old Dusty Depot. It will also take pressure off of Tilted Towers, the previous hotspot of Fortnite: Battle Royale. The move also adds interest to their other game mode – Save the World.

Right now, Battle Royale is all most people care about in Fortnite, but by creating an event which crosses into all their game modes, they create interest across the entire game. It also shows that Epic is thinking strategy in the long haul.

League of Legends once struggled with how to stay relevant early in its life, and one of the solutions the community often suggested – and which Riot attempted – was to add more maps and modes to the game. What they discovered was that it was far better to create a dynamic game – champions that evolve and change, runes that upgrade, improving upon the way players play – than to just add more stuff. Epic seems to have understood that that might be a better strategy already. With only one map, they are focusing on the community and the experience of Fortnite moreso than just adding boatloads of content.

We’ll have to check back later to see if the community responds well to the comet crash, but all signs are pointing to a big yes.