Epic Video games has reversed course on its choice to make Fortnite’s weekly quests expire after seven days – a change launched at the beginning of the favored battle royale’s most up-to-date season.
Previous to the beginning of Chapter 4 Season 1, weekly quests would launch over the course of a Fortnite season and stick round till the top. It meant you may go surfing at any level and full the challenges after they had been launched, with out the FOMO-inducing want to complete them inside a set timeframe.
For the reason that begin of this season, nonetheless, weekly quests had been modified to supply a extra heavily-themed set of challenges which have simply seven days to finish, together with a number of with a number of quest steps (that Epic Video games has, in a earlier replace, already made simpler).
Followers complained concerning the change, and stated it meant they may now not go surfing at their leisure and full quests to earn battle go rewards and XP on their very own timeframe.
Some gamers, for instance, depart a number of this levelling till the top of the season – when it is fairly straightforward to knock off a lot of challenges without delay by way of regular play, somewhat than selecting them off as they’re launched one after the other.
Fortnite has at all times featured a spread of quests, together with each day rewards and time-limited occasions or crossovers with the necessity to end varied goals inside a sure timeframe. Certainly, there’s a bonus to this, as Fortnite regularly tweaks its Island map and loot pool, that means long-lasting challenges should work round any modifications. And, in fact, time-limited weekly challenges are comparatively commonplace in video games of this sort.
It is pleasing, then, to see Epic Video games U-turn on its change to weekly quests this season following fan suggestions that they had been too tough to tick off and sustain, and that they had been one FOMO step too far.
As of at the moment’s replace, new weekly quests will as soon as extra stick round till the top of the season they had been launched in, returning issues to how they labored beforehand.
Elsewhere in at the moment’s replace, Epic Video games has added but extra Dragonball Z characters to purchase within the sport’s Merchandise Store, and reactivated the anime crossover’s mythic objects. Paired up with the frankly overpowered Deku’s Smash skill from My Hero Academia, which remains to be energetic, now you can wage the anime struggle of your desires.