![]() ![]() ![]() However, there is a lot of kudos attached to getting the latest, rarest clothing items and children will want to keep playing to unlock those items. None of the items that are earned through the Battle Pass or bought in the store make the player more powerful or provide a gameplay advantage they’re purely cosmetic. (It’s highly unlikely anyone would buy them all, but that’s £120 worth.) Certain outfits are also available to buy separately. ![]() Each tier costs 150 V-Bucks to unlock in this way, and there are 100 tiers. It’s also possible to buy new tiers individually so you can play them immediately. After that a new pass will need to be purchased. Fortnite: Battle Royale is divided into seasons, with season ten just starting. A Battle Pass costs 950 V-Bucks, which is the game’s own currency – you need to pay £7.99 to download 1,000 V-Bucks, which lasts until the end of the season. But if you purchase a Premium Battle Pass you gain access to exclusive clothing and items which are tiered so that doing well in the game or carrying out weekly challenges to earn more pointsunlocks access to more items. The game is free and players are able to unlock new items as they progress without paying anything. The game’s online FAQ explains how to do this. To make it work however, everyone needs to have an Epic Games account, and they’ll need to be friends on the Epic Games system. If you own an Xbox One, you can play in the same squad as someone with a PS4, Nintendo Switch, iPad, or an Android phone. What if my child has a different console than their friends?įortnite is a cross-platform game, which means you can play with friends no matter what machines they have. There is a non-competitive mode called Playground where pals can meet and practise, or make up their own activities, and a Creative mode, which lets players build and share their own mini Fortnite islands.Ĭleverly, the developer is adding new items, features and play modes on a weekly basis so there is always a new reason to come back and play, and fans like to show off that they have the latest gear. Many children are now forming Fortnite teams, and spending a lot of their free time playing and practising the game together. This adds a social element, and participants are able to chat as they play using headsets and microphones. It’s also possible to team up with a friend, or group of friends, and compete as a duo or a squad. YouTube gamer Ali-A plays Fortnite: Battle Royale They’re broadcasting many hours of themselves playing the game to their millions of fans, making Fortnite the most watched game on major streaming service Twitch. All of this means the game is really fun to watch as well as play, so many of the streamers and YouTubers who play the game – such as Ninja, Tfue and Loeya – have become huge stars. ![]() The Floss, inspired by the viral video of the boy dancing with Katy Perry during her Saturday Night Live appearance last spring, is basically the new dab. You can also pull a variety of dance moves during the game, and some of these have taken on a cult appeal in schoolyards around the globe. While PUGB has a serious, realistic visual style, Fortnite: Battle Royale has very bright, almost cartoon-like graphics as well as loads of ridiculous items and costumes, such as space suits and dinosaur outfits. Well, it’s free, it’s fun and it has a very silly, offbeat sense of humour. (An Xbox One version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now available, but Fornite beat it to the punch.) Why is it so popular with kids? First it was launched as a standalone title separate from the original Fortnite (now known as Fortnite: Save the World), allowing it to gain a dedicated fanbase secondly, it was released as a completely free digital download, which made it easily accessible and thirdly it came out not just on PC, but on Xbox and PlayStation, and later on smartphone and Switch – which meant everyone who had heard about PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds but didn’t have a PC could now play something very similar, for free. The developer made three brilliant decisions with this game mode. Duly inspired, Epic decided to release a new version of Fortnite featuring very similar gameplay. PUBG was highly influenced by the Hunger Games novels and by the Japanese movie Battle Royale, and it’s sold over 30m copies worldwide. Later in the year, however, the game’s developer, Epic, noticed the huge success of PC title PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), which pits 100 players against each other in a last-man-standing battle. Players had to build shelters and defend themselves against marauding zombies. Watch a trailer for Fortnite: Battle Royale Where did it come from?įortnite was originally released in July 2017, but it actually started out as a four-player cooperative survival game set on a postapocalyptic Earth. ![]()
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