On April 23, Fortnite Pageant Season 3 launched, including new music, skins, options, and tweaks to the favored rhythm recreation mode that lives inside Epic’s common on-line battle royale. The massive information is that gamers can now use plastic guitars whereas enjoying Fortnite Pageant, making the mode only a bit extra like Rock Band.
Launched earlier right now, 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 through the brand new Pageant battle move. As with Season 2—which added Girl 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 possibly can hook it as much as your Xbox, PlayStation, or PC and play bass and lead utilizing the controller.
In a weblog publish asserting the brand new season, Rock Band and Fortnite Pageant developer Harmonix (now owned by Epic) defined that each one songs—and all future songs added to the sport—will assist Professional Lead and Professional Bass choices, letting you play the sport utilizing a guitar controller. These new music elements will function hammer-on and pull-off notes, letting you play notes with out strumming. Professional Lead and Professional Bass tracks additionally function totally different coloured notes on the in-game monitor lane, just like the way it labored in Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
In-game leaderboards will separate Professional Lead and Professional Bass scores, so you possibly can see simply how effectively you might be doing in comparison with different guitar controller gamers. Sadly, the whammy bar doesn’t actually do something, at the very least not but. Epic says hitting the bar—which in previous video games distorted the audio—solely adjustments the visuals.
In January, Harmonix introduced that after years of supporting Rock Band 4 with new DLC and updates, it was ending assist for the sport and would concentrate on increasing Fortnite Pageant. On the time, it promised assist for guitar controllers was coming, and now it’s right here.
Gamers are actually hoping that Harmonix and Epic add assist 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 assist 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 enjoying some Fortnite Pageant.
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