Final week, Fortnite Festival had its first-ever week by which just one new jam observe hit the store, which despatched Festival gamers right into a tizzy over the chance that Epic is winding down assist for the mode like the corporate did final yr with Rocket Racing. On Tuesday, Epic lent some credibility to these considerations by as soon as once more saying just one new jam observe for the week.
This week’s new observe is no less than a well-known one, Outdated City Street (Remix) by Lil Nas X that includes Billy Ray Cyrus–one of the most important hits of the twenty first Century. Final week’s lone observe, against this, was the EDM observe Slay! by Eternxlkz. Usually, Festival has had three or extra songs every week because it launched in December 2023, and so devoted followers have been extraordinarily apprehensive about what this transformation in process means–there’s a variety of despair going round on the Festival Reddit, the place the highest six threads are presently about this. See here and here and here.
That is simply the newest regarding piece of stories for Festival followers this yr. Earlier than this yr, all Fortnite Festival jam tracks had been within the store on the similar time, which means you may purchase any track at any time–but throughout this previous spring, Epic eliminated many of the tracks from the store and shifted them to a FOMO-driven mannequin like the whole lot else within the merchandise store, the place the obtainable tracks rotate usually and solely stick round for a couple of days at a time.
Regardless of all that, Fortnite Festival did simply convey out Bruno Mars as its new seasonal headliner with ABC by the Jackson 5 on the Music Cross, and most Epic staff are off work on the corporate’s summer season break. Maybe the scenario will change later within the month.