Summary
Fortnite’s Festival mode receives eight new music tracks on March 14, including Darude’s Sandstorm, DMX’s X Gon' Give It To Ya, and other recognizable songs.Fortnite Festival’s Season 2 began last month and runs until April 22.
In celebration of Season 2,Fortnite Festival introduced Lady Gagaas one of the game’s newest Icon Series additions, which included a skin, emote, and instruments inspired by the popular artist. Fortnite Festival’s Season 2 also added a Festival Pass themed around Lady Gaga, which users can progress through to earn additional items. TheRock Band-likemode adds new tracks on a regular basis, with last week’s additions including songs like Linkin Park’s Numb, Paramore’s Misery Business, and Disturbed’s Down With the Sickness.
Fortnite Festival adds another fresh set of tracks on Thursday, March 14, which include Jimmy Eat World’s The Middle, Juice WRLD’s Lucid Dreams, Juice WRLD and Marshmello’s Come & Go, Katy Perry’s Firework, P!nk’s So What, SAINt JHN’s Roses (Imanbek remix), and the previously mentioned tracks. These are expected to go live at 8 PM EST along withFortnite’s Item Shop rotation. Assuming thatFortniteuses the same approach as previous weeks, the new tracks will be available to play for free for a limited time before being cycled out. Users will need to purchase the tracks in the Item Shop for 500 V-Bucks each if they wish to play them whenever they want to.
Fortnite Festival’s Newest Tracks
Fans ofFortnite’s Festival modecan also check out Epic Games' new collaboration with Fender, which resulted in the Fender Stratocaster and Fender Precision Bass being added to the Item Shop on March 13. The iconic instruments can be purchased for 800 V-Bucks each alongside two new rockstar-themed emotes, Windmill Stomp and Kick It, which can be bought for 200 V-Bucks each.
Epic seems to have big plans for the unique mode, which is intended to consistently add new songs until it builds up a massive library.Fortnite Festival is also set to receive aRock Band-like instrumentlater this spring when third-party peripheral company PDP releases its Riffmaster guitar controller. It’s still unconfirmed whether Epic plans to support additional controllers in the future based on other instruments like drums, but it certainly seems possible.
AJanuaryFortniteleakclaimed that Epic plans to add a new mode to Festival as well. The leaked mode is called Music Battle and allows users to compete against each other instead of performing as a team. However, Epic has yet to confirm this mode.
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