What You Need To Know About Fortnite’s Huge Upcoming XP Changes
Epic Games will be dramatically altering how progression works in Fortnite’s various modes in the near future. Starting with all new passes added after the current season ends, you will progress through any pass you have using XP–Festival points and Lego studs will be retired, and you’ll be able to progress all of your current passes simultaneously by earning XP in any mode. This change will start with the new Festival pass–which is being re-dubbed as the “Music pass”– that launches on Nov. 2, and the Lego Pass will be updated with this change on Dec. 1, when Fortnite Chapter 6 begins.
On top of the changes to progression, the passes themselves will be changing too. The current Festival and Lego passes, as well as the mini-pass events like this summer’s Pirates of the Caribbean one, have all used the same 11-tier template that’s split into free and paid tracks. New passes that start after Chapter 6 begins in December will finally abandon that template, switching to a new single track that will have both paid and free items. Likewise, the battle pass is being simplified, doing away with the battle star currency and swapping in a more straightforward progression system.
Fortnite Festival will soon move on from this pass format.
In essence, the battle passes, Lego passes, and Music passes will now all have a similar format, though the Lego and Music passes will likely still be much shorter than the battle passes.