An expansion for Fortnite
Play in a band with friends or perform solo on stage with hit music by your favorite artists in Fortnite Festival!
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No replay option? Crashes every time I play more than two songs with people online but not solo? Constant lag spikes? Horrible aesthetics? Frequently awful song picks? Battle pass? Yep, everything I'd expect from an Epic Games rhythm game. I'd say poor Harmonix for being contracted into developing absolute garbage, but I'm sure they feel sad about the nice Fortnite payday they're getting. (Though if Epic isn't paying them fairly - which wouldn't surprise me - then I would actually feel bad for them!)
Fortnite Festival added support for rock band controllers!! I love my new Riffmaster. It's a really solid controller that I can't wait to play Clone Hero and YARG with instead of Fortnite Festival.
Instrument support in Festival is a hot mess at the time of writing. Navigating menus is a pain in the ass on the guitar controller. I'm not sure if this is a specific Riffmaster issue but tilting the guitar to activate overdrive sometimes just straight up does not work. Only the Riffmaster or expensive used Rock Band 4 controllers are currently available to use for the Pro instrument modes as of now, with keybinding support coming at a later time. The vast majority of the Pro charts have been improved from their normal charts (Sandstorm and i were two favorites of mine) but some songs - particularly keys only charts - just aren't as fun on a guitar controller instead of the keyboard (Boy's A Liar). I noticed Everlong got a bit neutered too in the translation from RB2 to Festival.
We're now in Season 3 and the song list has grown pretty significantly. Quality is still all over the place, with a couple new surprise bangers (Ella Baila Sola) with fun charts... but the majority being kind of dull TikTok songs or ports from older Rock Band games. This season is Billie Eilish themed - I'm neutral on her music but a lot of it just is not that exciting to play in a rhythm game.
It's kind of obvious at this point that Harmonix has struggled to adapt their game to the live service model, and I feel for the developers trying to deal with all the quirks of Fortnite's frequent updates, UE5 issues and pushing out between 5 and 9 new songs per week. Issues that Festival has had since the beginning have still not been ironed out, for example:
No way to easily restart a song
Song list UI is still pretty terrible
Cannot view leaderboards for songs not in the rotation
Goofy canned animations
Glitchy stage visuals
No way to deal with people afking in multiplayer
Still no practice mode
Wonky lift notes and overdrive detection
The core 5 key Harmonix rhythm gameplay is still fun and I like to see Kratos singing my favorite songs so I still play, but it's obvious at this point the future of plastic guitar games is community built stuff like Clone Hero. I understand they're still ironing the kinks out of the live service rhythm game niche they're trapped under, but as someone who has put thousands of hours into Rock Band games, it's hard not to be disappointed with Fortnite Festival.
Instrument support in Festival is a hot mess at the time of writing. Navigating menus is a pain in the ass on the guitar controller. I'm not sure if this is a specific Riffmaster issue but tilting the guitar to activate overdrive sometimes just straight up does not work. Only the Riffmaster or expensive used Rock Band 4 controllers are currently available to use for the Pro instrument modes as of now, with keybinding support coming at a later time. The vast majority of the Pro charts have been improved from their normal charts (Sandstorm and i were two favorites of mine) but some songs - particularly keys only charts - just aren't as fun on a guitar controller instead of the keyboard (Boy's A Liar). I noticed Everlong got a bit neutered too in the translation from RB2 to Festival.
We're now in Season 3 and the song list has grown pretty significantly. Quality is still all over the place, with a couple new surprise bangers (Ella Baila Sola) with fun charts... but the majority being kind of dull TikTok songs or ports from older Rock Band games. This season is Billie Eilish themed - I'm neutral on her music but a lot of it just is not that exciting to play in a rhythm game.
It's kind of obvious at this point that Harmonix has struggled to adapt their game to the live service model, and I feel for the developers trying to deal with all the quirks of Fortnite's frequent updates, UE5 issues and pushing out between 5 and 9 new songs per week. Issues that Festival has had since the beginning have still not been ironed out, for example:
No way to easily restart a song
Song list UI is still pretty terrible
Cannot view leaderboards for songs not in the rotation
Goofy canned animations
Glitchy stage visuals
No way to deal with people afking in multiplayer
Still no practice mode
Wonky lift notes and overdrive detection
The core 5 key Harmonix rhythm gameplay is still fun and I like to see Kratos singing my favorite songs so I still play, but it's obvious at this point the future of plastic guitar games is community built stuff like Clone Hero. I understand they're still ironing the kinks out of the live service rhythm game niche they're trapped under, but as someone who has put thousands of hours into Rock Band games, it's hard not to be disappointed with Fortnite Festival.
Up top, I love seeing Harmonix finally given a win. I have loved Harmonix as a company for so long but outside of the original Guitar Hero games and the first two Rock Bands I don't think they've made anything that didn't completely flop. I hope Epic is paying them a ton.
But uhhh... this isn't exactly Rock Band 5 unfortunately. It's good, but has some really iffy monetization ideas and some really unpolished looking visuals when actually playing. (Love that one single vocalist loop where they sway back and forth.) Was looking forward to having full instrument support only for that update to come with the condition that you buy either a controller that's 10 years out of print or a new controller that costs $150 and they seemingly made 10 of total. It feels REALLY stupid and greedy and I can't just bind the advanced keys and use the same PS2 controller I use for Clone Hero.
That's the big thing for me. This has to compete with Clone Hero, and I know that's hard but I think a lot of people are really open to supporting this official Harmonix made equivalent but they're making it really tough. Everything's too expensive and artificially gatekept in ways that aren't addictive but simply off-putting.
But uhhh... this isn't exactly Rock Band 5 unfortunately. It's good, but has some really iffy monetization ideas and some really unpolished looking visuals when actually playing. (Love that one single vocalist loop where they sway back and forth.) Was looking forward to having full instrument support only for that update to come with the condition that you buy either a controller that's 10 years out of print or a new controller that costs $150 and they seemingly made 10 of total. It feels REALLY stupid and greedy and I can't just bind the advanced keys and use the same PS2 controller I use for Clone Hero.
That's the big thing for me. This has to compete with Clone Hero, and I know that's hard but I think a lot of people are really open to supporting this official Harmonix made equivalent but they're making it really tough. Everything's too expensive and artificially gatekept in ways that aren't addictive but simply off-putting.
i lost my shit when they added scenario
O complicado é ter as músicas pagas e daqui um tempo terão centenas de músicas custando 500 vbucks. O jogo em si é legal, as músicas que ficam um tempo de graça já valem um tempinho pra jogar. Como jogo de ritmo é ótimo, mas como é gratuito, eles tinham que lucrar de alguma forma.
oops! all tiktok songs!