Final month, Fortnite’s latest season, Chapter 4 Season 1, began. With it got here some huge modifications, contemporary content material, and a brand new island to discover. Many of the new stuff this season has been nice! However one change to how quests work has annoyed some gamers, myself included, and whereas Epic’s current makes an attempt to repair this downside have helped a bit, the state of affairs isn’t fully remedied.
Over the previous few years, Fortnite has grow to be one of many greatest and hottest video games on this planet. One huge purpose Epic’s free-to-play on-line battle royale continues to be so profitable is that the developer is continually altering, bettering, updating, and increasing the sport through new seasons and chapters. For instance, this season noticed the introduction of recent randomly generated perks that gamers select each time they play. These perks, like one which makes your assault rifle’s first bullet do extra harm, can shake up every match. Nonetheless, not each change in Fortnite’s historical past is effectively obtained. Living proof, Epic’s resolution this season to make weekly quests time-limited, forcing gamers to finish them in a single week or miss out, has gone over fairly poorly amongst gamers who can’t play the sport as a lot as others.
Earlier than Chapter 4 Season 1, Fortnite had weekly quests that will be added to the sport each week. (Just like the title says.) However these quests would stick round in your quest log and may very well be accomplished anytime after they have been added, letting you knock out simpler ones first and goal onerous ones later. It additionally meant that if you happen to took a couple of weeks off to play one thing else or reside your life or no matter, you possibly can come again and have a bunch of quests to finish, letting you degree up your battle go and proceed to make progress on getting all of the season’s rewards.
Now, issues have modified. On this new season, weekly quests solely stick round for the week they arrive. After that, they vanish, even if you happen to haven’t completed them or logged in that week. This variation makes it tougher to degree up your battle go if you happen to aren’t enjoying persistently. Extra annoyingly, a few of these quests contain a number of steps that may take lots of time to finish if you happen to get unfortunate or don’t have the time to take a position every week in doing them. Positive, previous weekly quests had a number of steps too, however you had extra time to do them, so it wasn’t an enormous deal.
I held out some hope that Epic may change this after a couple of weeks of gamers criticizing the change on social media and Reddit. And yesterday, Epic did acknowledge the frustrations gamers had with this new system. However sadly, it’s not altering. As an alternative, Epic is simply going to make multi-stage quests shorter and easier to complete. That’s good, however I and plenty of others nonetheless miss the previous system, and never simply since you had extra time to do quests.
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The previous quest system additionally allowed you to skip quests till later within the season if it was too onerous to finish attributable to different gamers attempting to do it too. You see, when new weekly quests have been added, lots of gamers would give attention to the brand new missions abruptly. So if a quest requested you to go to a selected space and hunt three wolves or one thing, it could seemingly be you and 30 others all attempting to finish it directly every match. Annoying! However as extra weekly quests have been added and the season went on, these earlier quests would grow to be simpler as extra gamers moved ahead to new missions, letting you decide off difficult quests later within the season with much less competitors.
I think about Epic determined to make the modifications to how Fortnite’s weekly quests work to encourage gamers to go browsing extra incessantly, which can also be why the corporate runs weekly occasions, modifications its retailer on a regular basis, and gives day by day quests and bonuses for finishing them. Factor is, I feel there have been loads of causes earlier than this season to log in nearly daily to play Fortnite just like the already talked about day by day quests in addition to mid-season rewards, time-limited cosmetics, and in-game tournaments. And weekly quests have been one system within the recreation that appeared constructed to help these gamers unable to play as usually, which was good. Now, it’s gone and appears unlikely to return anytime quickly.