Fortnite reveals an upcoming collaboration with The Weeknd for the sport’s upcoming ‘Pageant’ mode starting on December 9, full with particular outfits and different cosmetics.
The Weeknd has introduced his collaboration with Epic Video games’ online game sensation Fortnite for the upcoming “Pageant” mode, debuting on December 9. The brand new recreation mode sees gamers experiencing a musical rhythm recreation in Fortnite, with free cosmetics to earn as they stage up.
Fortnite Pageant will function a leveling system separate from the sport’s Battle Royale and different modes. Expertise factors gained for finishing quests within the Pageant mode won’t depend in the direction of the Battle Move included within the core recreation. As an alternative, this expertise will depend towards development of the Pageant Move — very like earlier “mini-game” passes in Fortnite, reminiscent of their collaborations with Star Wars and different IPs.
The Pageant Move will allow gamers to buy entry to a “Premium” rewards observe, granting double the quantity of cosmetics, together with an unique “After Hours” model of The Weeknd as an in-game outfit.
Cosmetics earned within the Fortnite Pageant will embody Auras — a brand new sort of beauty solely usable within the Pageant mode — and traditional objects like emotes and outfits, which may nonetheless be utilized in different recreation modes.
Extra info will drop as soon as Fortnite Pageant drops on December 9, with the primary season of the sport mode completely that includes The Weeknd. It caps off an enormous week for Fortnite, with a number of new recreation modes releasing within the days main as much as the Pageant. Fortnite welcomes its new LEGO mode on December 7, and Rocket Racing on December 8.
LEGO Fortnite, described as a “survival crafting recreation that lives inside Fortnite,” will introduce “huge, open worlds” for gamers of all ages to get pleasure from constructing with LEGO blocks within the brightly coloured Fortnite universe. The sport will “encourage creativity, experimentation, and collaboration by play,” and serves as the primary digital expertise from the partnership between The LEGO Group and Epic Video games.