On April 23, Fortnite Pageant Season 3 launched, including new music, skins, options, and tweaks to the favored rhythm sport mode that lives inside Epic’s standard on-line battle royale. The massive information is that gamers can now use plastic guitars whereas taking part in Fortnite Pageant, making the mode only a bit extra like Rock Band.
Launched earlier in the present day, Fortnite Pageant Season 3 is themed round “Dangerous Man” singer Billie Eilish, including the favored artist to the sport as a playable character that may be unlocked by way of the brand new Pageant battle go. As with Season 2—which added Woman Gaga to the sport—this new season options songs from Eilish that may be performed in Pageant alone or with different gamers. And now, when you have a suitable plastic guitar sitting round in your basement, you’ll be able to hook it as much as your Xbox, PlayStation, or PC and play bass and lead utilizing the controller.
In a weblog publish saying the brand new season, Rock Band and Fortnite Pageant developer Harmonix (now owned by Epic) defined that every one songs—and all future songs added to the sport—will help Professional Lead and Professional Bass choices, letting you play the sport utilizing a guitar controller. These new tune components will function hammer-on and pull-off notes, letting you play notes with out strumming. Professional Lead and Professional Bass tracks additionally function completely different coloured notes on the in-game observe lane, much like the way it labored in Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
In-game leaderboards will separate Professional Lead and Professional Bass scores, so you’ll be able to see simply how properly you might be doing in comparison with different guitar controller gamers. Sadly, the whammy bar doesn’t actually do something, a minimum of not but. Epic says hitting the bar—which in previous video games distorted the audio—solely modifications the visuals.
In January, Harmonix introduced that after years of supporting Rock Band 4 with new DLC and updates, it was ending help for the sport and would concentrate on increasing Fortnite Pageant. On the time, it promised help for guitar controllers was coming, and now it’s right here.
Gamers are actually hoping that Harmonix and Epic add help for Rock Band drums and mics to Pageant in a future season or replace. Within the weblog publish, the devs tease that they’ll have “extra instrument controller information to announce sooner or later.” Is {that a} trace that drum help is coming? Ought to I mud off my Rock Band 3 keytar controller? We will have to attend and see. For now, I’m grabbing my plastic Fender and taking part in some Fortnite Pageant.
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