Fortnite's Progression System Will Forever Make It The Ultimate Battle Royale

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With almost three weeks to go until its conclusion, I’ve already hit Level 100 on the current season of Fortnite. Battle passes are normally a bit of a grind, demanding we invest dozens of hours into live service games to earn all potential rewards before time runs out. This might involve spending extra to ascend the ranks in fear we won’t have time to play everyday to complete challenges, quests, and earn those sweet experience points, or investing an irrational amount of our personal lives into a game for rewards that just aren’t worth it.

Fortnite is different. Ever since the release of Chapter 2 several years ago, Epic Games has established a cadence of progression that nothing else in the genre is capable of matching. It is arguably too rewarding. You need to be a member of Fortnite Crew or fork out a paltry amount of V-Bucks to gain access to each new battle pass, but the stream of unlockable cosmetics and surprising updates scattered throughout each season provide so much incentive to keep playing. I’ve already maxed out the vanilla pass, but I won’t be stopping.

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While they have improved with more recent seasons, games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty: Warzone so often associate battle pass progression with completing challenges and goals instead of earning basic experience. Points still play a role, but are more concerned with increasing an overall rank instead of feeding into the seasonal loop. Fortnite doesn’t have a base level for each player, and likely never well, and is so much better for it.

I remember dropping into Fortnite: Chapter 2 and being taken aback by how generous the free-to-play battle royale had become. It was a