Fortnite: Save the World no longer going free to play in 2018

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Initially, planned free-to-play Fortnite: Save the World in 2018 is postponed to 2019. Epic games have mentioned they took this step to improve the game type by adding more features, reworks and the backend system scaling.

Fortnite: Save the World State of Development October and Other Details

Epic Games has posted the new State of Development for Fortnite. Considering their last State of Dev, Epic Games mentioned that they kept an eye on their updates and constantly work on free-to-play. Constantly releasing major updates, adding more content to Save The World by releasing the first part of the Canny Valley quest line, added new enemies and celebrated their first birthday.

Initially, Epic planned to go with free-to-play Save the World but postponed it into 2019.

Here’s what Epic Games has to say about no more free-to-play Fortnite: Save the World in 2018:

We decided to move the free-to-play launch of Save the World out of this year. We’re working on a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling we believe are needed to go free-to-play. Save the World has grown consistently since our launch in July 2017 and Fortnite overall has experienced unprecedented growth. Scaling up for the legions of player heroes who will be joining the fight is key to providing an excellent experience. This applies to all of our players, old and new, so we’re taking the time to get this right.

To thank our founders, both new and old, if you log in and play during the Fortnitemares Event, you’ll receive both Brainiac Jonesy and Skull Ranger Ramirez for free!

For those of you who want to start playing right now, we’ve got you. Starting this week, we’ll be hosting a 50% off sale for the Standard, Deluxe, Super Deluxe and Limited Founder’s packs.

What is Fortnitemares?

The official Twitter account has been teasing new Fortnitemares is a new quest line for Save the World. You will need to head to Hexsylvania to revisit last year’s Vlad Moon Rising questline. According to the website,

If you have played the event last year you may notice some changes.… and even more Vlad than before.

What kind of changes? Not sure neither they said anything about it. Two old heroes are also returning with new faces:

Fortnite: Save the World

New Hero System

A new update has been announced for Hero System. Basically, the new update provides more flexibility and ease for customization of your loadout with more options and room for creativity. There will be 6 hero slots which you can manage instead of 3. You will have to choose a hero first for commanding and up to five additional which will determine your perks and traits.

The number of loadouts will be expanded which you can create with the tools provided. We will make a guide for this in the future as soon as the update will roll out.

Investment refunding system

A new refunding system will also be added that will activate whenever Epic will new changes will be made to schematics, heroes, survivors, defenders or any other items that the user will upgrade. De-leveling of the items will not be automatic. The first version “re-balance flag” will be released to only Heroes adjusted by the new system. While the devs will figure out how to grant back other materials in edge case scenarios.

UI and Other Frontend Updates

UI is the most important thing that determines the future of the game in most cases. If the UI is too complicated and difficult to get many people will not play the game just because of time consumption. Epic is also planning to improve the UI by taking a first step with bringing inventory into the front-end earlier this year. The second step is the upcoming revamp which will take things further ahead.

Fortnite: Save the World State of Development October

Firstly, the menu options will be reorganized for easier to use and converting some old UI tutorial quests to use a new callout system. The update will roll out in a few months and we will be posting the details in depth.

Fortnite: Save the World State of Development October

What do you think about this decision of postponing of free-to-play Fortnite: Save the World by Epic games to 2019? Mention down your thoughts in the comments section.