Epic Video games shall be dramatically altering how progression works in Fortnite’s various modes within the close to future. Beginning with all new passes added after the present season ends, you’ll progress by means of any cross you could have utilizing XP–Pageant factors and Lego studs shall be retired, and you’ll progress your whole present passes concurrently by incomes XP in any mode. This alteration will begin with the brand new Pageant pass–which is being re-dubbed because the “Music cross”– that launches on Nov. 2, and the Lego Go shall be up to date with this alteration on Dec. 1, when Fortnite Chapter 6 begins.
On prime of the modifications to development, the passes themselves shall be altering too. The present Pageant and Lego passes, in addition to the mini-pass occasions like this summer season’s Pirates of the Caribbean one, have all used the identical 11-tier template that is cut up into free and paid tracks. New passes that begin after Chapter 6 begins in December will lastly abandon that template, switching to a brand new single observe that can have each paid and free objects. Likewise, the battle cross is being simplified, removing the battle star forex and swapping in a extra easy development system.
In essence, the battle passes, Lego passes, and Music passes will now all have an identical format, although the Lego and Music passes will seemingly nonetheless be a lot shorter than the battle passes.
On prime of all that, beginning in Chapter 6, Fortnite will not have an choice for getting ranges on its passes–instead, you’ll purchase any particular merchandise immediately, although you may nonetheless want to purchase the cross itself first. In concept, this implies you would have the ability to present up on the finish of the season and buy the tier 100 pores and skin instantly with out having to purchase out the entire cross for $100+.
The passes will nonetheless go away at their acknowledged finish dates, and you will not have the ability to buy or progress them after their respective season ends.
This could possibly be thought-about a high quality of life increase, since it should imply that you just need not play Pageant in any respect to finish the cross for that mode. However these modifications will seemingly be accompanied by the removing or extreme nerfing of passive XP from Pageant and Lego Fortnite–because the quests for these modes will now award XP as an alternative of a mode-specific forex, the passive XP turns into pointless. Since a number of people used these modes to stage up whereas AFK, it is doable that this alteration is being made a minimum of partly to eradicate that follow.
That passive fee of XP acquire in these modes has been fairly good, however total development could also be slower as soon as these modifications kick in. We’ll need to see the way it really works earlier than we all know if it is a optimistic change.