Fortnite Save The World No Longer Going Free-To-Play This Year
By Ford James ·
Fortnite Save The World, the less loved gamemode in the most popular game of the year, is no longer going free-to-play in 2018. But there's some new Halloween heroes coming!
A good while ago, Epic Games announced that Save The World - the co-op PvE gamemode in Fortnite - would be going free-to-play before the end of 2018. That is no longer the case as the ex-Gears of War developer has announced in a blog post that the launch date has been moved “out of this year.” There’s no date set, though we’d expect it to be during 2019, surely?
“We decided to move the free-to-play launch of Save the World out of this year,” reads Epic’s October 2018 “State of Development” blog post. “We’re working on a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling we believe are needed to go free-to-play. Save the World has grown consistently since our launch in July 2017 and Fortnite overall has experienced unprecedented growth. Scaling up for the legions of player heroes who will be joining the fight is key to providing an excellent experience. This applies to all of our players, old and new, so we’re taking the time to get this right.”
The blog post goes on to explain that if anyone is considering getting involved before it goes free-to-play, all Save The World versions will be 50% off this week. That’s right in time for the upcoming Fortnitemares event they teased on Twitter, though we’re still not sure exactly what it will contain. What we do know however is that two new Save The World heroes are coming: Brainiac Jonesy and Skull Ranger Ramirez.
They’ll star in the returning Hexsylvania location with the Vlad Moon Rising questline, this time with “even more Vlad than before.” There’s also a brand new hero system, with six hero slots compared to the usual three. The full blog post details all of the changes, but Epic has said they want to put the “tools in your hands to make meaningful new decisions.” Alongside that is a completely revamped Save The World UI.
It’s unconfirmed whether we could see Brainiac Jonesy in Battle Royale, but in other Fortnite Battle Royale news, check out the new world record for Fortnite trick points set in a Quadcrasher by Dr Lupo.