Fortnite Battle Royale is proving very popular with fans on PC, Xbox One and PS4.
And this is what led in part to the game becoming unplayable over various days last week.
This included problems with the game’s new update, as well as a surge of new players knocking the servers offline.
Now Epic Games have confirmed that they will be making up for some of these problems with new in-game freebies.
“We told you we appreciate your patience with some of the issues we’ve had after releasing V.2.3.0, and we meant it,” a message from the Fortnite support team explains.
“In recognition of that patience, we are going to be providing some goodies to both StW and BR players.”
For Battle Royale players 20 Battle Stars will be added toward their Battle Pass progression, while Save the World player will also get 1600 Seasonal Gold you can use in the Event Store.
These new freebies haven’t gone live yet, as Epic have decided to release them sometime after Fortnite’s next update.
Patch V.2.4.0 doesn’t have a solid release time as of yet, but it’s expected to be launched quite soon.
Epic also took the chance to give a big update on the game’s Save The World mode, which is currently paid-for content.
With the company’s other title Paragon closing down shop this year, Epic moved to make sure everyone knew that the same was happening with Save The World.
“You may have read of our recent decision to stop development on Paragon,” a new Epic statement reads.
“We want to assure you this is not the case for the Fortnite Save the World campaign.
“Rather, this decision allows us to build more features and bring you more content at a faster pace.”
Fortnite will be free-to-play at some point in 2018, meaning that its progressing will make a lot of sense to Epic, moving forward.
A new limited-time mode has been released this week, which will be of some interest to Fortnite sniper players.
Having had a bit of a time of it this weekend with server outages and PSN problems, Epic Games released the new Battle Royale experience today.
The Sniper Shootout Limited Time Mode is live right now on PS4, Xbox One and PC and allows for players to duke it out from vast distances.
Players are luckily not limited to just Sniper Rifles though, with Revolvers also included for closer engagements for near the end of the game.
But while it isn’t just Sniper Rifles-only, there are no grenades to be found on the map, while consumables remain the same.
The new Fortnite game mode is having a very short run on servers this week, with Epic Games planning on removing it from playlists on February 2.
No exact time has been give for when it will disappear, although fans in the UK can expect something later in the day.
