Smart move
A 100-person battle royale needs a thriving playerbase to work well (and stand a chanceagainstPUBG). Epic Games has made the timely call to setFortnite‘s still-fairly-newBattle Royalemode free — it’ll be available standalone on PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One starting next Tuesday, September 26.
There is “no catch,” according to Epic.
“Fortnite Battle Royaleis free and we will not sell items that give a competitive advantage. At some point in the future we will sell other things including cosmetics or compendium-like content.”
One of the big missing features, the ability to play in squads, is planned to go live on Sept. 26. The team says it is also “working to improve the feel of combat, controls, weapons, movement and inventory.”
Fortnite‘s PvE campaign will launch for free next year and continue to be something you may buy into as an early adopter. For any of you who recently purchased the game to play Battle Royale, you canrequest a refundfrom Epic — so long as your transaction happened between Sept. 12 and Sept. 19.
