Lego Fortnite Expands With New Social Sim Brick Life

Lego Fortnite is increasing in a giant manner this week. Not solely are we getting a brand new Lego Go with piles of latest content material for the prevailing Lego Fortnite survival/crafting recreation, however we’re getting a completely new Lego recreation, dubbed Brick Life.

Lego Fortnite Brick Life, which launches on December 12, is an open-world social sim by which you and 31 of your closest associates can hand around in Brick Bay, a full of life Lego Metropolis that is stuffed with actions, jobs, and empty heaps you may construct on, and Brick Bay can be increasing on a regular basis. For instance, December 18 will mark the opening of the Rooftop Membership, a flowery social house that gives gorgeous views of town from above. The launch of Brick Life occurs to coincide with the addition of textual content chat to each Fortnite expertise, which can be key for a social sim like this one.

Brick Life is not just a few new Inventive Lego island, however–Epic is treating Brick Life as a full new recreation on the identical degree as the prevailing Lego Fortnite survival recreation. Because of this, that unique Lego Fortnite recreation is being rebranded as Lego Fortnite Odyssey, with the time period “Lego Fortnite” now referring to all the pieces beneath that umbrella, quite than a particular mode.

Lego Fortnite Odyssey, in the meantime, is getting its personal huge replace this week that introduces a brand new villain, the Storm King, and a brand new faction that opposes him referred to as the Storm Chasers. This new quest line will trigger harmful storms to pop up all around the map at random–you’ll must navigate treacherous Storm Dungeons to make them go away and make progress towards defeating the Storm King.

All this new content material for Lego Fortnite is being accompanied by an all-new Lego Go, which is headlined by the brand new Raven Staff Syd pores and skin, which unlocks as quickly as you purchase the go. Keep in mind that entry to the Lego Go, together with the Music Go and OG Go, at the moment are included with Fortnite Crew, so should you subscribe to Crew at any time whereas this Lego Go is lively, you will instantly obtain the Raven Staff Syd pores and skin.

On high of that, Lego Fortnite has some fully free skins it needs to offer you. Connecting your Lego and Epic accounts will grant you the Mr. Dappermint skin–he’s that enormous sweet cane that they promote within the store every December–as effectively because the Explorer Emilie pores and skin that has been accessible for doing that since final 12 months. And only for good measure, taking part in Fortnite on cell and incomes any quantity of XP earlier than February 21 will grant you the Chord Kahele pores and skin, which would be the first Competition default pores and skin that can be equippable as a pores and skin, and which additionally has a Lego fashion.

Brick Life is only one of Fortnite’s massive new modes in Chapter 6, together with the brand new OG mode, and the first-person Ballistic mode. Fortnite’s received loads of stuff to maintain us occupied by means of the vacations, it appears.