Drop Companion, an AI companion for Fortnite

The idea

The outfit is the character.

Whatever skin you wear, she becomes that character. She speaks as them, with their story, looked up from public sources, in the personality you picked for her. Change outfit and she notices, and greets the change as the new character.

No setup

One companion per account, created silently the first time you play. No wizard, no character sheet, no form to fill in.

Swap outfits, swap characters

Change skin in the lobby and she greets it as the new character. Her next lines come from them.

Lore from public sources

She looks an outfit up once and remembers what she found. If a lookup is not clearly about that character, she does not use it.

Same brain as the WoW one

Her voice and personality come from our World of Warcraft companion. You pick the personality; the outfit is the accent.

CrossoverSpeaks as them, with their story.

OriginalUses the outfit's own description. Invents no past.

Real personWears the look. Never speaks as them.

Crossover heroes get their own story. Originals get only what the game says about them. When an outfit is a real person, she keeps the look and stays herself, instead of putting words in a real person's mouth.

What she notices

She watches the match you are actually playing.

Not a script of generic cheers. These are the moments she picks up on her own, as they happen, and reacts to out loud.

Battle Royale

8 moments

Your eliminations

She keeps count through the match and reacts to each one as it lands.

Hits and low health

When you are taking damage, and when your health is getting dangerously low.

Shield breaks

The moment your shield goes, she knows.

Knocked down

Getting knocked is a moment, and she treats it like one.

Where you placed

When your match ends she has a rough placement, and says it as rough as it is:

"somewhere around 4th"

Victory Royale

She knows when you win, and she has been counting all match.

The kill feed

Other players' fights, called as other players' fights. She never pretends to know which name is you.

Chests

Every chest you open.

Other modes

Save the World · Creative

Save the World debriefs

After a mission she runs through it with you: the XP you earned, any level-ups, and who you played with. If XP was lost because no boost was running, she gives you a nudge.

Creative and islands

The name of the island you loaded into, and the announcements that pop up on screen, like the ones in Tycoon maps.

Every Battle Royale moment above has been checked on real matches, played by the developer with the companion running. Not a mock-up, and not a list of plans.

How it works

Three steps, and your screen stays yours.

She reads two things any screen recorder could: the log file the game writes to your own disk, and a few small regions of your own screen. That is all she has to go on.

On your PC

She reads

The game's own log file, plus a few small HUD regions, captured the way OBS or Discord capture a window.

health bar
elimination counter
kill feed

Your PC understands

Bars are measured by their colour, and text is read by the OCR engine built into Windows, right there on your PC. Each read becomes a small event.

no image leaves

"got an elimination, 3 this match"

A short description like this is all that is sent to write her line.

Her line

She says it

Her line comes back and she says it out loud, in voice, as the character you are wearing, with her small animated self over the game.

out loud
as your outfit
over the game

No screenshot, frame or image ever leaves your machine. The reading happens on your PC; only words go out.

Fair play

She is company, not a cheat.

The first question anyone should ask about software that watches a competitive game. Here is exactly what it does not do, so you can judge it yourself.

It never touches the game

No memory reading. She never looks inside the game's process.
No injection. Nothing is loaded into, hooked into or attached to the game.
No packet sniffing. The game's network traffic is never read.
No input, ever. No keys, no clicks, no mouse movement is sent to the game.

It never gives you an edge

No enemy detection. She cannot tell you where anyone is.
No radar. No map of players, no positions, no warnings of who is coming.
No aim help. Nothing that touches aiming, building or movement.
No hidden information. Nothing you could not already see yourself.

She only reacts to what is already on your own screen.

And the part we cannot promise. Only Epic decides what is allowed in their game, and nobody selling you software can speak for them. What we can tell you is precisely what this does: it reads the game's own log file and a few small regions of your screen, on your PC, and sends no input. Weigh that against Epic's rules yourself.

Performance

Light enough to forget it is there.

A companion that costs you a fight is not company. The screen reading was built to be small, and it was tested where it matters: in a ranked match.

~5 ms

per second of play

The screen reading costs about 5 milliseconds of work for every second you play, around half a percent of one processor core.

Full ranked match

played with it running

Start to finish on the developer's own gaming PC, with the screen reading on the whole time. No lag felt.

Any size

window size

The regions she reads scale with the height of the game window, so it works however you size it.

"I didn't even feel a lag or anything." The developer, after that ranked match. One gaming PC, not a benchmark: we will know more once other people's machines try it.

Questions

The honest answers.

Is this allowed? Can I get banned?

We cannot answer for Epic. Only Epic decides what is allowed in Fortnite, and we make no promise about their policies or how they enforce them.

What we can give you is the facts to judge by. Drop Companion does not read the game's memory, does not inject anything into the game, does not sniff its network traffic, and never sends it any input. It reads the log file the game writes to your own disk and a few small regions of your own screen, the way screen recorders and streaming apps capture a window. It gives you no information that is not already on your screen.

Does it cost FPS?

The screen reading costs about 5 ms of work per second of play. The developer played a full ranked match with it running and felt no lag.

That is one gaming PC, not a benchmark across hardware, so we are not quoting an FPS number we have not measured.

Does it see my screen?

Only a few small HUD regions: the health bar, the elimination counter and the kill feed, and on some Creative islands the island's own on-screen announcements. The rest of your screen is not read.

The text in those regions is read by the OCR engine built into Windows, on your PC. No image ever leaves your machine. What is sent to write her line is a short description of what happened, such as "got an elimination, 3 this match".

Does she know which name in the kill feed is me?

No, and she does not pretend to. To her the kill feed is other players' fights. Your own eliminations come from your elimination counter.

Is it Windows only?

Yes. Drop Companion is a Windows desktop app that runs on the same PC as the game, so it needs Fortnite on a Windows PC. There is no console, Mac or mobile version.

When can I get it?

Not yet. It runs on our own matches today, but it is not released: there is no public download. New builds get announced in our Discord, so that is the place to hear when it opens up.

If you play World of Warcraft, the WoW companion is out now and runs on the same brain.

Is it made by Epic?

No. Drop Companion is an independent product by AI Exodus. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Epic Games, Inc.

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