Over 4 months after Fortnite Festival was launched, Harmonix and Epic Video games introduced that the rhythm sport now helps Rock Band 4 plastic guitar controllers.
In (*4*), Epic Video games revealed that, as a part of the brand new adjustments launched in season 3, gamers can now use Rock Band 4 guitar controllers for Fortnite Festival’s new tune elements: Professional Lead and Professional Bass. The brand new tune elements can be found on the Principal Stage, which is taken into account the Fortnite Festival’s primary gameplay mode. Gamers can play solo or with three buddies and select a tune whereas making an attempt to button-mash and get as excessive a rating as doable earlier than the tune concludes.
This guitar controller assist contains the PDP Riffmaster, a brand new third-party wi-fi guitar controller introduced just a few months in the past for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox. Sadly, Epic revealed that the whammy bar on the Rockband 4 controllers doesn’t present any warp to the audio when urgent it, stating that for not the whammy bar “solely offers a visible impact.”
You may verify the total checklist of guitar controller assist beneath:
- PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5:
- PDP Riffmaster Wi-fi Guitar Controller for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4
- RockBand 4 Rivals Wi-fi Fender™ Jaguar Guitar for PlayStation 4
- RockBand 4 Wi-fi Fender™ Stratocaster™ Guitar for PlayStation 4
- Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S:
- PDP Riffmaster Wi-fi Guitar Controller for Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, and PC
- RockBand 4 Rivals Wi-fi Fender™ Jaguar Guitar for Xbox One
- RockBand 4 Wi-fi Fender™ Stratocaster™ Guitar for Xbox One
- PC
- PDP Riffmaster Wi-fi Guitar Controller for Xbox Sequence X|S, Xbox One, and PC*
- RockBand 4 Rivals Wi-fi Fender™ Jaguar Guitar for Xbox One
- *Requires the Microsoft Xbox One Wi-fi Adapter for Home windows 10 to make use of on PC
- RockBand 4 Wi-fi Fender™ Stratocaster™ Guitar for Xbox One*
- *Requires the Microsoft Xbox One Wi-fi Adapter for Home windows 10 to make use of on PC
The weblog submit mentions that Epic will “have extra instrument controller information to announce sooner or later,” so these wishing to play the drums or seize the mic and sing a tune on the Fortnite Festival should wait a little bit longer. Whereas Fortnite Festival’s instrument controller assist remains to be incomplete, together with the guitar and bass elements is a large step in the precise path for the rhythm sport.
Fortnite Festival launched final December and was criticized by critics and gamers, largely because of the value of songs and the shortage of assist for instrument controllers. A couple of days after its launch, Harmonix studio director Alex Rigopulos informed IGN in an interview that assist for sport peripherals formed like devices is “very a lot a precedence” for the studio.
“Fortnite Festival is simply… Rock Band on a gamepad, and it is a little bit like taking part in a lightweight gun sport on an analogue stick. Yeah, it really works, nevertheless it does not really feel like fairly the precise method to play it,” my colleague Luke Reilly wrote in his overview of Fortnite Festival, which he gave a 4/10.
Taylor is a Reporter at IGN. You may observe her on Twitter @TayNixster.