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The Secret of FORTNITE

What Is Fortnite Battle Royale?

Fortnite Battle Royale is a competitive shooter between 100 players as they drop out of a moving plane, then fight to survive as the play space slowly shrinks to force people into combat. True to the battle royale formula, you need to find all of your weapons and equipment on the map — you don’t land with anything other than a pickaxe.

While you could try attacking someone with your pick, it’s best used to harvest building materials from trees, cars and other free-standing objects so you can make your own walls, ramps and platforms.This is a carry-over from the base-defence game Fortnite Battle Royale sprang from, but this mechanic adds a new ingredient to the battle royale recipe that makes it stand apart.

Where can You play Fortnite: Battle Royale?

Fortnite: Battle Royale is currently free to download on PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android.

Where can I download Fortnite?

Fortnite Battle Royale and Fortnite Save the World are both played on PC exclusively through Epic Games’ own launcher, which you can download here. There are currently no plans for a Steam release.

What are V-Bucks?

V-Bucks are the premium currency of Fortnite that are used to buy cosmetic items in the shop. Cosmetics include character skins, dances, glider skins and pickax skins. What’s on offer can change from day to day, so check back often for the skins you’ve been looking for. One V-buck is about equal to a penny, and the fewest you can buy at once is 500 which is listed at $4.99.

Fortnite V-Bucks

What is the Free Pass and Battle Pass?

Fortnite Battle Royale offers a few different progression systems to give you something to work toward as you play the game and it can be a little intimidating to figure out what all of it means. The Free Pass is a tiered system that unlocks some cool freebies, like account icons and emotes every once in awhile as you complete certain challenges. The Battle Pass is a premium version that unlocks rewards more often, including more cosmetic rewards and experience boosters that will help you rank up more quickly. Access to the Battle Pass costs 950 V-Bucks which is $9.50 and lasts throughout the season.

What are battle stars?

In order to reach another reward tier in either the Free Pass or Battle Pass, you’ll need to earn battle stars which are handed out for various accomplishments. At any point in the lobby you can view a list of challenges, both the Battle Pass and Free Pass have their own sets of challenges that you can work through to earn battle stars. Every 10 battle stars increases your tier in both the Free Pass and Battle Pass, so if you buy a Battle Pass at tier 3, you’ll retroactively unlock any rewards you’ve already earned.

If you’re still following all that, there’s also a player account level and experience points you can earn after each match and occasionally as a reward from the Battle Pass. Increasing your player account level hands out 2 battle stars per level, 5 stars for every 5th level and 10 stars for every 10th. If all of this sounds confusing (and it kind of is), you don’t have to engage with any of it if you don’t want to. All of these unlocks are purely cosmetic and just exist to gives players a little something extra to strive for.