Epic Video games says a current change to Fortnite Save the World that drastically reduce on the XP gamers might earn was actually a bug, and the problem is being mounted.
The difficulty got here to gentle yesterday when gamers found that Epic had apparently made a change to the XP cap on Save the World, the unique Fortnite PvE expertise. Fortnite Save the World is just about an afterthought at this level, way back left within the mud of Fortnite Battle Royale, however gamers can nonetheless use it to earn progress in Fortnite general. As Forbes explains, gamers might beforehand earn a number of ranges per day from enjoying Save the World, however with the beginning of Chapter 6 Season 1, it was minimize to a complete of 9 ranges per week, a drastic discount.
This didn’t go over nicely with the Fortnite neighborhood. A number of threads on the Fortnite subreddit have been extremely important of the change, complaining that the tighter cap unfairly impinges upon their progress. Many felt the change was a part of a extra forceful push to monetize the Fortnite battle move, and there was additionally appreciable upset that each one of this occurred with none warning: Epic stated nothing in any respect concerning the new XP cap previous to pushing it reside.
Now it has stated one thing, and it seems the Save the World XP concern is a bug. “We’re conscious of a difficulty the place after a sure threshold is reached, Save The World gamers earn much less XP than meant,” Epic posted on X. “We’re working to resolve this now and can let you realize when a repair is reside.”
It seems to be like this might need been a part of a broader downside with Fortnite, as XP awards in Lego Fortnite have been additionally disabled due to an issue with the way it was being handed out. The Lego Fortnite Standing account stated all XP that might have been earned in the course of the interval that awards are disabled might be granted in some unspecified time in the future earlier than the present Lego move ends.
All of this may increasingly have emerged from a change to Fortnite’s general XP reward system that was introduced in October. Quite than having separate each day quests for every mode, as of December 1 the common battle move, the music move, and the Lego move all share reward tracks and advance with XP earned from any Fortnite mode besides Save the World. This hasn’t confirmed totally fashionable both, as some gamers say the merging of each day rewards has reduce on the quantity of XP they will earn and compelled them to play sport modes they don’t seem to be desirous about, however at the least it isn’t a bug.
