Another season of Fortnite Festival brought us a new Festival Pass and a new Icon skin featuring Billie Eilish, but perhaps the biggest news from the start of Season 3 is that Fortnite Festival now supports guitar controllers.
With Eilish headlining this season, the Festival Pass has undergone some significant changes to structure it more like event passes, like the current Avatar Elements Pass. This means that this season (and likely future ones), purchasing the premium Festival Pass for 1,800 V-Bucks will instantly unlock a skin for the associated artist – in this case, the Green Roots Billie skin – and you can win an additional and exclusive style at the end of the pass.
This style of bonus is another change to how the Festival Pass works. Epic has placed a disclaimer on these passes, reserving the right to sell the pass cosmetics in the item shop in the future, but here we have an exception: the Ultraviolet style of the Green Roots Billie skin can only be obtained from the Season 3 Festival Pass.
You can progress through the Season 3 Festival Pass by completing Festival quests while playing. You can get a free rewards track, which includes four jam tracks and culminates with the pretty gnarly Lavatronik Bass. For those who upgrade to the premium track, you’ll unlock the new Billie Eilish-themed keytar and mic stand, four new jam tracks, and a variety of other cosmetics.
The new jam tracks on the Festival Pass premium track are:
- Oxytocin by Billie Eilish
- Friday I’m In Love by The Cure (that’s the one referenced in the title)
- Youngblood by 5 Seconds of Summer
- Cards by Maroon 5
Unlike previous Festival headliners, Eilish only has one skin at the moment, the one available with the Festival Pass, although Epic promises that Eilish will get a new Item Shop skin later in the year. season to coincide with the release of his next album. For now, however, Eilish will have three new jam tracks available in the store – “Happier Than Ever”, “So I Am” and “All Good Girls Go to Hell” – as well as two emotes, dubbed “Bad” . dude” and “you should see me in a crown.” And yes, the lack of capital letters is intentional: it’s a Gen Z thing, come on.
As mentioned above, the addition of support for guitar controllers is another big story for the new season. Since the start of Season 3, Festival officially supports three guitar controllers: the Rock Band 4 Fender Stratocaster, the Rock Band 4 Fender Jaguar, and the all-new PDP Riffmaster R controller.
Guitar controllers will have their own separate guitar and bass charts for each song, as well as their own rankings. If you’re stuck on a regular gamepad, you won’t compete with guitarists for high scores. Epic promises more news on instrument controllers in the relatively near future – support for plastic drums could be on the horizon.
Another season of Fortnite Festival brought us a new Festival Pass and a new Icon skin featuring Billie Eilish, but perhaps the biggest news from the start of Season 3 is that Fortnite Festival now supports guitar controllers.
With Eilish headlining this season, the Festival Pass has undergone some significant changes to structure it more like event passes, like the current Avatar Elements Pass. This means that this season (and likely future ones), purchasing the premium Festival Pass for 1,800 V-Bucks will instantly unlock a skin for the associated artist – in this case, the Green Roots Billie skin – and you can win an additional and exclusive style at the end of the pass.
This style of bonus is another change to how the Festival Pass works. Epic has placed a disclaimer on these passes, reserving the right to sell the pass cosmetics in the item shop in the future, but here we have an exception: the Ultraviolet style of the Green Roots Billie skin can only be obtained from the Season 3 Festival Pass.
You can progress through the Season 3 Festival Pass by completing Festival quests while playing. You can get a free rewards track, which includes four jam tracks and culminates with the pretty gnarly Lavatronik Bass. For those who upgrade to the premium track, you’ll unlock the new Billie Eilish-themed keytar and mic stand, four new jam tracks, and a variety of other cosmetics.
The new jam tracks on the Festival Pass premium track are:
- Oxytocin by Billie Eilish
- Friday I’m In Love by The Cure (that’s the one referenced in the title)
- Youngblood by 5 Seconds of Summer
- Cards by Maroon 5
Unlike previous Festival headliners, Eilish only has one skin at the moment, the one available with the Festival Pass, although Epic promises that Eilish will get a new Item Shop skin later in the year. season to coincide with the release of his next album. For now, however, Eilish will have three new jam tracks available in the store – “Happier Than Ever”, “So I Am” and “All Good Girls Go to Hell” – as well as two emotes, dubbed “Bad” . dude” and “you should see me in a crown.” And yes, the lack of capital letters is intentional: it’s a Gen Z thing, come on.
As mentioned above, the addition of support for guitar controllers is another big story for the new season. Since the start of Season 3, Festival officially supports three guitar controllers: the Rock Band 4 Fender Stratocaster, the Rock Band 4 Fender Jaguar, and the all-new PDP Riffmaster R controller.
Guitar controllers will have their own separate guitar and bass charts for each song, as well as their own rankings. If you’re stuck on a regular gamepad, you won’t compete with guitarists for high scores. Epic promises more news on instrument controllers in the relatively near future – support for plastic drums could be on the horizon.