Fortnite Battle Royale Season 3 Battle Pass detailed

Fortnite Battle Royale

Season 2 of Fortnite Battle Royale is coming to an end and information technology's fair to say it'south been nothing merely a success. This week sees the arrival of Season 3 and the new Battle Pass, with more loot and more tiers than ever before.

The new Battle Pass volition cost the same as the old one, at least initially, and will only exist available as an in-game purchase using V-bucks. Ahead of its arrival, Epic Games has detailed what Season 3 entails and the sweet new "mission specialist" outfit that everyone who buys it volition unlock immediately. There are also new categories of loot to unlock, including loading screens, skydiving fx trails and "dorsum blings."

The new Battle Laissez passer has more than tiers, xxx more to be precise, so information technology'll now go up to 100. With more tiers comes more loot to collect, but Epic says you should nonetheless be able to max out at level 100 in the same game fourth dimension equally you could hit 70 in flavour 2. In that location'due south too a new package you lot tin can buy with V-bucks to get a kickstart of 25 levels when you get your Battle Pass.

Daily challenges have been replaced by weekly challenges, with seven new ones striking every week. The keen thing is that these at present stack up, then you can consummate whatsoever and all of them at any point during season 3.

Of course, more tiers means that if you were paying to unlock Battle Pass tiers rather than playing, you'll have to spend more than. But it's more fun to practise information technology the proper way, anyway. Equally always, all of the items unlocked in the Battle Pass are entirely cosmetic and take no impact on your performance in the game. And so folks can continue to enjoy Fortnite Battle Royale for free if they wish.

The Boxing Pass news comes alongside the decision from the developers to nerf the pump shotgun and the "double-pump" glitch which allows players to circumnavigate the pumping required between shots by speedily switching to a second shotgun. This will be applied in the three.0 update.

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