Note di aggiornamento di Fortnite: Cacciatori di tesori v43.10

La piu' grande avventura continua! Nuovi Capitani stanno approdando, portando nuove armi e nuovi spiritelli, e la Mappa del tesoro continua ad ampliarsi. Trovi i dettagli qui sotto. 

Giorno del Capitano: Buggy e' qui | 12 novembre

Un nuovo Capitano getta l'ancora, e questo ha un gusto per il dramma! Buggy arriva alla testa di ponte di Buggy, facendo da padrone di casa come Boss della settimana. Affrontalo per riscattare la Palla Buggy speciale e il fucile a pompa a leva.

Ore del tesoro: Maledetto | 14 novembre

Ogni benedizione ha un prezzo. Gli spiritelli maledetti vengono potenziati questo sabato 14 novembre, e la regola e' semplice: portarne uno aumenta le probabilita' di trovare varianti piu' rare di spiritelli, ma l'acqua si fa sentire. Anche il Capitano della settimana scorsa condivide l'arsenale: la mitraglietta Lil' di Lil Uzi Vert arriva in partita con te. Il primo round inizia alle 20:00 ora italiana, il secondo alle 03:00 ora italiana.

Giorno del Capitano: Miku e Teto | 15 novembre

Le Dive virtuali sono in arrivo! Hatsune Miku e Kasane Teto arrivano a Villa dell'amicizia questa domenica 15 novembre e per questo Giorno del Capitano, i Capitani vengono in pace. The Leekcapper e il Flapjack Rifle si aggiungono al bottino e un terzo frammento di mappa emerge questo weekend. Vai a fare visita alle Dive!

Aggiornamenti al gameplay

Bottino

• Alcune armi esotiche della Season ora possono comparire nei forzieri... e la leggenda narra di un forziere che le contiene tutte...

• Le armi dei Boss ora sono una ricompensa garantita. Sconfiggili e prendile!

  • Nota degli sviluppatori: Con piu' Boss sparsi per l'isola, ci sono un sacco di scontri tra cui scegliere. Per questo ci va bene che ogni eliminazione ne faccia cadere una, cosi' affrontare un Boss vale sempre il viaggio.

Aggiornamenti agli spiritelli

Gli spiritelli maledetti ora mostrano un effetto visivo quando la maledizione e' attiva, cosi' e' piu' chiaro quando l'acqua ti sta danneggiando.

Nuovi spiritelli oggi | 12 novembre

• Alga maledetta: aumenta la probabilita' di varianti rare di spiritelli.

Nuovi spiritelli in arrivo il 15 novembre

• Mini Miku: conferisce una Bolla dell'amicizia quando fai un'emote con altri giocatori. Al sicuro e tranquillo!

• Squiplash: attiva un fumo curativo quando i tuoi PS sono bassi.

• E un nuovo spiritello raro segreto, che potrebbe conferire cariche di Scatto Punto zero rigeneranti...

Miglioramenti della qualita' della vita

Audio e UI

• Con Visualizza effetti sonori attivo, l'indicatore del forziere ora mostra una freccia su o giu' quando il forziere e' sopra o sotto di te, cosi' saprai se salire o scendere. Se non hai ancora attivato Visualizza effetti sonori, vai in Impostazioni > Audio > Scheda audio.

• Aumentata l'intensita' dell'indicatore di Visualizza effetti sonori, con un'opacita' minima del 30%.

• Aggiunta piu' varieta' alla musica del Bus della battaglia. 

• Aumentato il contrasto delle aree non scoperte sulla minimappa per migliorarne la leggibilita'.

Miglioramenti continui dell'Armadietto

Con l'aggiornamento di oggi, abbiamo aggiunto altre opzioni di layout per rendere piu' semplice sfogliare l'Armadietto. Un nuovo pulsante Densita' griglia accanto alla barra Cerca ti permette di alternare tre dimensioni delle tessere: Grande, Media e Piccolo. In questo modo puoi vedere piu' elementi della tua collezione in una volta sola oppure dare un'occhiata piu' da vicino a ciascun oggetto. 

Abbiamo anche aggiornato lo scorrimento: ora le frecce Su e Down si spostano tra i tuoi oggetti di una pagina intera alla volta (anche nella ruota emote), rendendo piu' facile raggiungere cio' che ti serve. Facci sapere cosa ne pensi!

PC 

Opzione Asset di alta qualita'

Ora e' disponibile un'opzione Asset di alta qualita' per Fortnite nel Launcher di Epic Games, che si aggiunge all'opzione Asset di qualita' epica introdotta con l'aggiornamento 42.30 (1 ottobre). 

Selezionando la casella Asset di alta qualita', questi asset verranno scaricati sul tuo PC, cosi' non dovrai affidarti alla connessione per eseguirne lo streaming durante le partite. Per abilitarla, fai clic sui tre puntini sull'icona di Fortnite nella tua Libreria e seleziona Opzioni. 

Correzioni di bug e miglioramenti su PC

• Risolto un problema di perdita di memoria quando si tornava alla lobby dalle isole. 

• Risolto un problema nella schermata Impostazioni per cui lo scorrimento poteva abilitare o disabilitare erroneamente alcune impostazioni, consentendo modifiche non valide. 

• Risolto un potenziale danneggiamento della memoria relativo alla personalizzazione dei personaggi. 

• Risolto un problema che poteva causare crash o blocchi della GPU su DirectX.

• Risolto un problema per cui le mesh scheletriche venivano renderizzate con un livello di dettaglio troppo alto in modalita' Prestazioni con Qualita' mesh impostata su Bassa, cosa che dovrebbe migliorare le prestazioni della GPU. 

• Risolto un problema che poteva verificarsi durante il cambio delle modalita' di rendering. 

  • Questo impedisce un problema futuro per cui la modalita' di rendering potrebbe cambiare senza riavviare il gioco. 

• Risolto un potenziale crash legato ai display di Windows.

✅ Correzioni di bug e modifiche

Generale

• Aggiornata l'animazione di apertura del forziere del tesoro dei costumi Oro Settimanali per differenziarla meglio dalla scoperta dell'accesso al Negozio pirata.

• Il movimento con il controller non devia piu' in diagonale quando ti muovi in linea retta con le preimpostazioni Vecchia scuola e Costruttore veloce.

• Le associazioni dei tasti Attiva/disattiva inventario e Attiva/disattiva mappa ora rispondono in modo coerente e possono essere riassegnate.

Oggetti estetici

• Il braccio del costume Leon S. Kennedy non appare piu' deformato quando e' inattivo. 

• Il costume Venom non mostra piu' erroneamente due lingue durante l'emote We Are Venom.

• Il braccio destro del costume Foxy il Pirata non appare più contorto.

• Il laccetto del cappello del costume Portgas D. Ace non trema più e non attraversa più il corpo durante la carica della Fionda di Usopp.

• Risolti vari problemi di compenetrazione e animazione del costume Miasma e del suo stile ora del tè.

• Le maniche del costume Alastor non attraversano più i picconi in stile guanti.

• L'occhio sinistro della mascotte TonyTony Chopper ora appare in modo costante su Android e la mano non si compenetra più durante un Batti cinque.

• La copertura Mostro neon ora attiva in modo costante la sua reattività quando spari con un'arma.

• Aggiunte le informazioni Season mancanti a diverse emote nell'Armadietto (es. Assolo di sassofono, Nascondiglio nella siepe di Homer, Just a Girl, Microgiro)

Gameplay 

• Risolto un problema per cui, a volte, dissotterrare un forziere sepolto richiedeva di muoversi o accovacciarsi per sferrare il colpo finale.

• Cambiare arma a metà ricarica non forza più una nuova ricarica quando torni all'arma precedente.

• Il fucile d'assalto Martello non causa più tremolio continuo della visuale dopo aver esaurito il caricatore.

• Risolto un problema per cui l'immunità ai danni da caduta dello spiritello Chester andava persa dopo aver usato un veicolo.

• Rimossa una ringhiera alla fabbrica di Barile succoso che poteva impedirti di arrampicarti.

• Risolto un problema per cui non era possibile raccogliere gli oggetti in un magazzino al porto del Saccheggio.

• Risolto un problema per cui, a volte, acquistare PE da una console Polvere di spiritello non assegnava i PE.

• Lo spiritello Sogni d'oro non mostra più un'icona e un testo segnaposto nell'inventario.

Mobile 

• Il pulsante Raccogli ora resta disponibile mentre rianimi un compagno: l'interazione automatica che avvia una rianimazione non ti impedisce più di trasportarlo.

• Camminare sopra la Fionda Galassia di Usopp o la LIL MITRAGLIETTA di Lil' Lil' Uzi Vert ora sostituisce correttamente la versione di rarità inferiore quando l'opzione di raccolta automatica delle armi è attiva.

• Risolto un problema per cui, dopo il riavvio, la lingua del gioco tornava sempre in Inglese.

• Risolto un problema su alcuni dispositivi pieghevoli per cui gli elementi della UI risultavano troppo piccoli dopo il passaggio dalla visualizzazione aperta a quella chiusa.

Per altre correzioni, miglioramenti e problemi noti della v43.10, dai un'occhiata a questo post.

Ci vediamo sull'Isola Tibie Incrociate! 

Il team di sviluppo BR

The Paradigm. One of the most story relevant characters. She was a huge part of the Chapter 3 storyline that led into Chapter 4, she’s a part of The Seven, who’ve had a huge impact on the game’s narrative as a whole, and… She’s a skin you can’t get… And we’re not even talking about her Battle Pass reskin from Chapter 3. Nope, somehow that version is more commonly owned by at least 3 times over than the Item Shop version, ya know the one that can actually come back at anytime Epic Games decides to?

Now the argument I always hear is that Epic “can’t” bring back The Paradigm skin because it was a “limited time” and an “exclusive” skin. As I’m sure most people are aware, this already happened. There was one instance in 2024 when this skin came back to the Item Shop for about 1 hour before it was instantly removed from the shop. It was a big deal, Donald Mustard even reacted on Twitter to Epic’s initial response of revoking The Paradigm from new buyers with a face palm emoji, indicating that making this skin a true exclusive was a bad idea. So as Epic seems to do when these things happen they ultimately apologized for the bug, and decided to refund everyone who bought The Paradigm and gave the original owners an actual exclusive edit style that the new owners of the skin wouldn’t be able to access. I want to repeat the language that Epic themselves gave through Twitter on October 11th 2019 when the skin released, “Her allegiance is unknown.The Paradigm Outfit is available in the Item Shop now!” Interestingly no mention here of the skin being exclusive until the next day, “Unknown allegiance. Grab The Paradigm Outfit, Welcome! Emote and Go home! Emote in the Item Shop now. These exclusive items are only available for a limited time.” However, the ingame news tab DOES mention how The Paradigm is time limited when the skin debuted on October 11th, “The new limited-time Paradigm Outfit is available now!”

So before we get to The Paradigm I think it’s important to gain some context and look back at the cosmetic that kicked off this whole "exclusive" thing, which is the Mako Glider. Now most players today were definitely not around for this (myself included) but initially this glider was a part of the Season 1 cosmetics. It wasn’t a part of the season shop, no it was gained through what we would classify today as either a battle pass reward, or a challenge. You had to get to level 25, now by today’s standards that sounds pretty simple, but back in Season 1 this was apparently very difficult due to how few sources there were for XP. Flash forward to Season 2 and Epic either intentionally or accidentally ads the Mako glider to the Item Shop, and players weren’t happy about this. Much like The Paradigm years later, Epic removed the glider very quickly from the shop, and asked players on Reddit how they felt about keeping past cosmetics exclusive and most players agreed they should stay exclusive which is why you haven’t seen any of the season 1 items or items gained through challenges return**** Eagle eye readers and Fortnite cosmetic history aficionado’s will notice how many asterik’s I’ve included after that statement, and will know how absolutely untrue that is.

I’m sure you’re all aware of the Renegade Raider (RR) and Aerial Assault Trooper (ATT) skins. These were highly popular rare skins since they were only available during Season 1 where most players didn’t play the game, and if they did they likely didn’t spend any money on it. RR and AAT weren’t initially billed as “exclusive” or “limited time” when they were released. However due to the aforementioned Mako glider incident Epic games decided to have a select few Season 1 items stay in Season 1 only and not return later, this led players into believing a community legend that these skins and associated comets were truly exclusive and would never be seen again. That is until they were brought back, (more on that later)

Now this wasn’t the first time Season 1 cosmetics came back either; Epic brought back the Skull and Ghoul Trooper skins in CH2 S1. Now Epic never advertised these skins as “exclusive” or “limited time” they just didn’t return in Season 6 for that Fortnitemares event and because they were released in Season 1 people assumed it was exactly like the RR or AAT skins. However when these Halloween skins returned to the Item Shop; Epic apologized to the original owners and gave them an exclusive edit style. Which was the first time this happened. Since then Skull Trooper and Ghoul Trooper have gone on to have 144 and 94 occurrences respectively in the Item Shop as of the time of this writing.

When CH6 S1 launched Epic brought back the Season 1 OG island via the then new OG mode, and to recreate the feeling that this really was a recreation of OG season 1 Epic brought back the infamous Renegade Raider and Ariel Assault Trooper skins into the item shop, along with the same XP requirements to buy the associated gliders, pickaxes and skins as you needed in the original Season 1. Now much like all the other skins we’ve discussed these were also not previously advertised as “limited time” and “exclusive”, but Epic had retroactively made them exclusive skins, and just like The Paradigm and the Halloween skins; the original owners of Renegade Raider and Assault Trooper skins got new exclusive edit styles that were the exact same color scheme as the exclusive Paradigm edit style. Not only that but these skins stayed in the shop for over a month, being in the shop from Dec 20th to Jan 31st.

Here’s the kicker if you ask me. Like we stated earlier bringing back the RR and AAT skins was a huge deal, Epic retroactively made these skins exclusive and brought them back anyway as a part of a throwback to re-create the feel of the original Season 1. Fast forward to CH 7 S1 and the OG mode is now in Season 7, and for some reason Epic brings back the RR and AAT skins again for a second year in a row for the same exact time period. Dec 20th to Jan 31st. These skins weren’t re-released during the original Season 7, so why now? Now these previously “exclusive” “limited time” skins have had - as of the time of this writing - 85 occurrences in the Item Shop. That’s more than most skins in the game and completely negates these being rare skins anymore.

Now let me be clear. I have no problem with bringing back “rare” skins -if the other paragraphs weren’t already an indication- I have some “rare” licensed skins like Kratos, and Snake Eyes and previously rare licensed skins like Street Fighter, Naruto, and Arcane League of Legends. Now when Epic brought those aforementioned skins back into the item shop earlier this year alongside the RR and AAT skins I was happy. I’d had these skins for years so while part of me was sad that they were less rare I was ultimately glad that players that either started in CH4 or even CH6 finally had a chance to get these colab skins that came out WAAAAY before these players even had a chance to get them. And these were licensed skins, not Epic owned properties. So why are skins like The Paradigm so hard to come back then?

My last piece of evidence on exclusivity being a bad excuse is a more recent one. CH 7 S2. Great season imo, the last week of that season Epic decided to have a community day, tons of free items, and more importantly for this discussion; rare skins in the Item Shop. I’m of course referring to Epic finally releasing Brilliant Bomber, and the then believed EXCLUSIVE Indigo Kuno. Now Brilliant was up to that point a 99% unreleased skin. There were ways to have the skin legitimately if you knew someone who developed the game at Epic, or through a Discord bot in 2019. but otherwise for most practical purposes it was unreleased. It was speculated to be a part of a yearly subscription model that Epic dumped in favor of the monthly Crew subscription, so because the yearly model was never released it would’ve been a part of an “exclusive” model, but was then sold in the item shop. The second, Indigo Kuno is a bit more relevant for this discussion. Before community day you HAD to play in a tournament that lasted a couple hours in December of 2020 and ONLY on PlayStation AND you had to rank high enough in said tournament to qualify to get the skin. So while this was a released skin out of the millions of players it was estimated that around 6000 or less actually had this skin or around 0.006 of the player base if said player base was 1 million players. So I think it would be safe to categorize Indigo Kuno as an exclusive skin. AND YET both of these skins were released in the Item Shop for sale for two total occurrences. Showing how Epic can release skins in the Item Shop that are “exclusive”

So clearly Epic has already presented precedence for bringing back “exclusive” and “limited time” skins by re-defining what those terms mean. If skins like RR or Indigo Kuno were truly “exclusive” then we would’ve never seen these skins in the shop ever again. if a skin is “time limited” it doesn’t really mean anything if you ask me. Technically all skins in the game are “time-limited” since that’s how the item shop functions, that could be stretched to define the means by which all skins in this game are acquired, any amount of time is technically limited. So bringing back a “limited time” skin for a short period of time would still be “time limited”

So finally we’re here. Much like Chapter 1 of the new OG seasons, where RR and AAT re-released; we’re finally back in Season X when The Paradigm initially released, and quickly disappeared on October 13th 2019, 7 years ago. Obviously The Paradigm wasn’t re-released on October 11th a couple days ago and isn’t in the Item Shop tonight either, but I feel it only makes sense to re-release The Paradigm if they’re trying to re-create the original Season X. The Paradigm released 3 total days before the The End Event, and I feel it only makes sense to re-release her in the same manner, 3 days before the End event occurs in OG Season X again, around Dec 1st-4th. So if Epic wants to continue the trend they started in CH6 S1 with OG Fortnite feeling authentic then they’re actually obligated to bring The Paradigm back. Plus the original owners of the skin already have their exclusive edit style so there really shouldn’t be a problem with bringing this skin back. That and the lore which for ONCE I hope they ignore and just re-release the skin regardless of if she’s actually involved in this End Event or not.

TLDR; exclusive skins have slowly been creeping their way into the item shop. WHICH IS GOOD, and The Paradigm has already been re-released once already, plus OG buyers have an exclusive edit style, so they should just re-release her at this point. They re-released Renegade Raider to re-create the authenticity of Chapter 1 season 1 so they should do the same for Chapter 1 Season X by re-releasing The Paradigm. Also she's a huge lore character (who looks sooooo cool) so it's pretty ridiculous that Epic hasn't brought her back yet.

Vielen Dank, das Update hat es ja in sich.

The Paradigm. One of the most story relevant characters. She was a huge part of the Chapter 3 storyline that led into Chapter 4, she’s a part of The Seven, who’ve had a huge impact on the game’s narrative as a whole, and… She’s a skin you can’t get… And we’re not even talking about her Battle Pass reskin from Chapter 3. Nope, somehow that version is more commonly owned by at least 3 times over than the Item Shop version, ya know the one that can actually come back at anytime Epic Games decides to?

Now the argument I always hear is that Epic “can’t” bring back The Paradigm skin because it was a “limited time” and an “exclusive” skin. As I’m sure most people are aware, this already happened. There was one instance in 2024 when this skin came back to the Item Shop for about 1 hour before it was instantly removed from the shop. It was a big deal, Donald Mustard even reacted on Twitter to Epic’s initial response of revoking The Paradigm from new buyers with a face palm emoji, indicating that making this skin a true exclusive was a bad idea. So as Epic seems to do when these things happen they ultimately apologized for the bug, and decided to refund everyone who bought The Paradigm and gave the original owners an actual exclusive edit style that the new owners of the skin wouldn’t be able to access. I want to repeat the language that Epic themselves gave through Twitter on October 11th 2019 when the skin released, “Her allegiance is unknown.The Paradigm Outfit is available in the Item Shop now!” Interestingly no mention here of the skin being exclusive until the next day, “Unknown allegiance. Grab The Paradigm Outfit, Welcome! Emote and Go home! Emote in the Item Shop now. These exclusive items are only available for a limited time.” However, the ingame news tab DOES mention how The Paradigm is time limited when the skin debuted on October 11th, “The new limited-time Paradigm Outfit is available now!”

So before we get to The Paradigm I think it’s important to gain some context and look back at the cosmetic that kicked off this whole "exclusive" thing, which is the Mako Glider. Now most players today were definitely not around for this (myself included) but initially this glider was a part of the Season 1 cosmetics. It wasn’t a part of the season shop, no it was gained through what we would classify today as either a battle pass reward, or a challenge. You had to get to level 25, now by today’s standards that sounds pretty simple, but back in Season 1 this was apparently very difficult due to how few sources there were for XP. Flash forward to Season 2 and Epic either intentionally or accidentally ads the Mako glider to the Item Shop, and players weren’t happy about this. Much like The Paradigm years later, Epic removed the glider very quickly from the shop, and asked players on Reddit how they felt about keeping past cosmetics exclusive and most players agreed they should stay exclusive which is why you haven’t seen any of the season 1 items or items gained through challenges return**** Eagle eye readers and Fortnite cosmetic history aficionado’s will notice how many asterik’s I’ve included after that statement, and will know how absolutely untrue that is.

I’m sure you’re all aware of the Renegade Raider (RR) and Aerial Assault Trooper (ATT) skins. These were highly popular rare skins since they were only available during Season 1 where most players didn’t play the game, and if they did they likely didn’t spend any money on it. RR and AAT weren’t initially billed as “exclusive” or “limited time” when they were released. However due to the aforementioned Mako glider incident Epic games decided to have a select few Season 1 items stay in Season 1 only and not return later, this led players into believing a community legend that these skins and associated comets were truly exclusive and would never be seen again. That is until they were brought back, (more on that later)

Now this wasn’t the first time Season 1 cosmetics came back either; Epic brought back the Skull and Ghoul Trooper skins in CH2 S1. Now Epic never advertised these skins as “exclusive” or “limited time” they just didn’t return in Season 6 for that Fortnitemares event and because they were released in Season 1 people assumed it was exactly like the RR or AAT skins. However when these Halloween skins returned to the Item Shop; Epic apologized to the original owners and gave them an exclusive edit style. Which was the first time this happened. Since then Skull Trooper and Ghoul Trooper have gone on to have 144 and 94 occurrences respectively in the Item Shop as of the time of this writing.

When CH6 S1 launched Epic brought back the Season 1 OG island via the then new OG mode, and to recreate the feeling that this really was a recreation of OG season 1 Epic brought back the infamous Renegade Raider and Ariel Assault Trooper skins into the item shop, along with the same XP requirements to buy the associated gliders, pickaxes and skins as you needed in the original Season 1. Now much like all the other skins we’ve discussed these were also not previously advertised as “limited time” and “exclusive”, but Epic had retroactively made them exclusive skins, and just like The Paradigm and the Halloween skins; the original owners of Renegade Raider and Assault Trooper skins got new exclusive edit styles that were the exact same color scheme as the exclusive Paradigm edit style. Not only that but these skins stayed in the shop for over a month, being in the shop from Dec 20th to Jan 31st.

Here’s the kicker if you ask me. Like we stated earlier bringing back the RR and AAT skins was a huge deal, Epic retroactively made these skins exclusive and brought them back anyway as a part of a throwback to re-create the feel of the original Season 1. Fast forward to CH 7 S1 and the OG mode is now in Season 7, and for some reason Epic brings back the RR and AAT skins again for a second year in a row for the same exact time period. Dec 20th to Jan 31st. These skins weren’t re-released during the original Season 7, so why now? Now these previously “exclusive” “limited time” skins have had - as of the time of this writing - 85 occurrences in the Item Shop. That’s more than most skins in the game and completely negates these being rare skins anymore.

Now let me be clear. I have no problem with bringing back “rare” skins -if the other paragraphs weren’t already an indication- I have some “rare” licensed skins like Kratos, and Snake Eyes and previously rare licensed skins like Street Fighter, Naruto, and Arcane League of Legends. Now when Epic brought those aforementioned skins back into the item shop earlier this year alongside the RR and AAT skins I was happy. I’d had these skins for years so while part of me was sad that they were less rare I was ultimately glad that players that either started in CH4 or even CH6 finally had a chance to get these colab skins that came out WAAAAY before these players even had a chance to get them. And these were licensed skins, not Epic owned properties. So why are skins like The Paradigm so hard to come back then?

My last piece of evidence on exclusivity being a bad excuse is a more recent one. CH 7 S2. Great season imo, the last week of that season Epic decided to have a community day, tons of free items, and more importantly for this discussion; rare skins in the Item Shop. I’m of course referring to Epic finally releasing Brilliant Bomber, and the then believed EXCLUSIVE Indigo Kuno. Now Brilliant was up to that point a 99% unreleased skin. There were ways to have the skin legitimately if you knew someone who developed the game at Epic, or through a Discord bot in 2019. but otherwise for most practical purposes it was unreleased. It was speculated to be a part of a yearly subscription model that Epic dumped in favor of the monthly Crew subscription, so because the yearly model was never released it would’ve been a part of an “exclusive” model, but was then sold in the item shop. The second, Indigo Kuno is a bit more relevant for this discussion. Before community day you HAD to play in a tournament that lasted a couple hours in December of 2020 and ONLY on PlayStation AND you had to rank high enough in said tournament to qualify to get the skin. So while this was a released skin out of the millions of players it was estimated that around 6000 or less actually had this skin or around 0.006 of the player base if said player base was 1 million players. So I think it would be safe to categorize Indigo Kuno as an exclusive skin. AND YET both of these skins were released in the Item Shop for sale for two total occurrences. Showing how Epic can release skins in the Item Shop that are “exclusive”

So clearly Epic has already presented precedence for bringing back “exclusive” and “limited time” skins by re-defining what those terms mean. If skins like RR or Indigo Kuno were truly “exclusive” then we would’ve never seen these skins in the shop ever again. if a skin is “time limited” it doesn’t really mean anything if you ask me. Technically all skins in the game are “time-limited” since that’s how the item shop functions, that could be stretched to define the means by which all skins in this game are acquired, any amount of time is technically limited. So bringing back a “limited time” skin for a short period of time would still be “time limited”

So finally we’re here. Much like Chapter 1 of the new OG seasons, where RR and AAT re-released; we’re finally back in Season X when The Paradigm initially released, and quickly disappeared on October 13th 2019, 7 years ago. Obviously The Paradigm wasn’t re-released on October 11th a couple days ago and isn’t in the Item Shop tonight either, but I feel it only makes sense to re-release The Paradigm if they’re trying to re-create the original Season X. The Paradigm released 3 total days before the The End Event, and I feel it only makes sense to re-release her in the same manner, 3 days before the End event occurs in OG Season X again, around Dec 1st-4th. So if Epic wants to continue the trend they started in CH6 S1 with OG Fortnite feeling authentic then they’re actually obligated to bring The Paradigm back. Plus the original owners of the skin already have their exclusive edit style so there really shouldn’t be a problem with bringing this skin back. That and the lore which for ONCE I hope they ignore and just re-release the skin regardless of if she’s actually involved in this End Event or not.

TLDR; exclusive skins have slowly been creeping their way into the item shop. WHICH IS GOOD, and The Paradigm has already been re-released once already, plus OG buyers have an exclusive edit style, so they should just re-release her at this point. They re-released Renegade Raider to re-create the authenticity of Chapter 1 season 1 so they should do the same for Chapter 1 Season X by re-releasing The Paradigm. Also she's a huge lore character (who looks sooooo cool) so it's pretty ridiculous that Epic hasn't brought her back yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Paradigm. One of the most story relevant characters. She was a huge part of the Chapter 3 storyline that led into Chapter 4, she’s a part of The Seven, who’ve had a huge impact on the game’s narrative as a whole, and… She’s a skin you can’t get… And we’re not even talking about her Battle Pass reskin from Chapter 3. Nope, somehow that version is more commonly owned by at least 3 times over than the Item Shop version, ya know the one that can actually come back at anytime Epic Games decides to?

Now the argument I always hear is that Epic “can’t” bring back The Paradigm skin because it was a “limited time” and an “exclusive” skin. As I’m sure most people are aware, this already happened. There was one instance in 2024 when this skin came back to the Item Shop for about 1 hour before it was instantly removed from the shop. It was a big deal, Donald Mustard even reacted on Twitter to Epic’s initial response of revoking The Paradigm from new buyers with a face palm emoji, indicating that making this skin a true exclusive was a bad idea. So as Epic seems to do when these things happen they ultimately apologized for the bug, and decided to refund everyone who bought The Paradigm and gave the original owners an actual exclusive edit style that the new owners of the skin wouldn’t be able to access. I want to repeat the language that Epic themselves gave through Twitter on October 11th 2019 when the skin released, “Her allegiance is unknown.The Paradigm Outfit is available in the Item Shop now!” Interestingly no mention here of the skin being exclusive until the next day, “Unknown allegiance. Grab The Paradigm Outfit, Welcome! Emote and Go home! Emote in the Item Shop now. These exclusive items are only available for a limited time.” However, the ingame news tab DOES mention how The Paradigm is time limited when the skin debuted on October 11th, “The new limited-time Paradigm Outfit is available now!”

So before we get to The Paradigm I think it’s important to gain some context and look back at the cosmetic that kicked off this whole "exclusive" thing, which is the Mako Glider. Now most players today were definitely not around for this (myself included) but initially this glider was a part of the Season 1 cosmetics. It wasn’t a part of the season shop, no it was gained through what we would classify today as either a battle pass reward, or a challenge. You had to get to level 25, now by today’s standards that sounds pretty simple, but back in Season 1 this was apparently very difficult due to how few sources there were for XP. Flash forward to Season 2 and Epic either intentionally or accidentally ads the Mako glider to the Item Shop, and players weren’t happy about this. Much like The Paradigm years later, Epic removed the glider very quickly from the shop, and asked players on Reddit how they felt about keeping past cosmetics exclusive and most players agreed they should stay exclusive which is why you haven’t seen any of the season 1 items or items gained through challenges return**** Eagle eye readers and Fortnite cosmetic history aficionado’s will notice how many asterik’s I’ve included after that statement, and will know how absolutely untrue that is.

I’m sure you’re all aware of the Renegade Raider (RR) and Aerial Assault Trooper (ATT) skins. These were highly popular rare skins since they were only available during Season 1 where most players didn’t play the game, and if they did they likely didn’t spend any money on it. RR and AAT weren’t initially billed as “exclusive” or “limited time” when they were released. However due to the aforementioned Mako glider incident Epic games decided to have a select few Season 1 items stay in Season 1 only and not return later, this led players into believing a community legend that these skins and associated comets were truly exclusive and would never be seen again. That is until they were brought back, (more on that later)

Now this wasn’t the first time Season 1 cosmetics came back either; Epic brought back the Skull and Ghoul Trooper skins in CH2 S1. Now Epic never advertised these skins as “exclusive” or “limited time” they just didn’t return in Season 6 for that Fortnitemares event and because they were released in Season 1 people assumed it was exactly like the RR or AAT skins. However when these Halloween skins returned to the Item Shop; Epic apologized to the original owners and gave them an exclusive edit style. Which was the first time this happened. Since then Skull Trooper and Ghoul Trooper have gone on to have 144 and 94 occurrences respectively in the Item Shop as of the time of this writing.

When CH6 S1 launched Epic brought back the Season 1 OG island via the then new OG mode, and to recreate the feeling that this really was a recreation of OG season 1 Epic brought back the infamous Renegade Raider and Ariel Assault Trooper skins into the item shop, along with the same XP requirements to buy the associated gliders, pickaxes and skins as you needed in the original Season 1. Now much like all the other skins we’ve discussed these were also not previously advertised as “limited time” and “exclusive”, but Epic had retroactively made them exclusive skins, and just like The Paradigm and the Halloween skins; the original owners of Renegade Raider and Assault Trooper skins got new exclusive edit styles that were the exact same color scheme as the exclusive Paradigm edit style. Not only that but these skins stayed in the shop for over a month, being in the shop from Dec 20th to Jan 31st.

Here’s the kicker if you ask me. Like we stated earlier bringing back the RR and AAT skins was a huge deal, Epic retroactively made these skins exclusive and brought them back anyway as a part of a throwback to re-create the feel of the original Season 1. Fast forward to CH 7 S1 and the OG mode is now in Season 7, and for some reason Epic brings back the RR and AAT skins again for a second year in a row for the same exact time period. Dec 20th to Jan 31st. These skins weren’t re-released during the original Season 7, so why now? Now these previously “exclusive” “limited time” skins have had - as of the time of this writing - 85 occurrences in the Item Shop. That’s more than most skins in the game and completely negates these being rare skins anymore.

Now let me be clear. I have no problem with bringing back “rare” skins -if the other paragraphs weren’t already an indication- I have some “rare” licensed skins like Kratos, and Snake Eyes and previously rare licensed skins like Street Fighter, Naruto, and Arcane League of Legends. Now when Epic brought those aforementioned skins back into the item shop earlier this year alongside the RR and AAT skins I was happy. I’d had these skins for years so while part of me was sad that they were less rare I was ultimately glad that players that either started in CH4 or even CH6 finally had a chance to get these colab skins that came out WAAAAY before these players even had a chance to get them. And these were licensed skins, not Epic owned properties. So why are skins like The Paradigm so hard to come back then?

My last piece of evidence on exclusivity being a bad excuse is a more recent one. CH 7 S2. Great season imo, the last week of that season Epic decided to have a community day, tons of free items, and more importantly for this discussion; rare skins in the Item Shop. I’m of course referring to Epic finally releasing Brilliant Bomber, and the then believed EXCLUSIVE Indigo Kuno. Now Brilliant was up to that point a 99% unreleased skin. There were ways to have the skin legitimately if you knew someone who developed the game at Epic, or through a Discord bot in 2019. but otherwise for most practical purposes it was unreleased. It was speculated to be a part of a yearly subscription model that Epic dumped in favor of the monthly Crew subscription, so because the yearly model was never released it would’ve been a part of an “exclusive” model, but was then sold in the item shop. The second, Indigo Kuno is a bit more relevant for this discussion. Before community day you HAD to play in a tournament that lasted a couple hours in December of 2020 and ONLY on PlayStation AND you had to rank high enough in said tournament to qualify to get the skin. So while this was a released skin out of the millions of players it was estimated that around 6000 or less actually had this skin or around 0.006 of the player base if said player base was 1 million players. So I think it would be safe to categorize Indigo Kuno as an exclusive skin. AND YET both of these skins were released in the Item Shop for sale for two total occurrences. Showing how Epic can release skins in the Item Shop that are “exclusive”

So clearly Epic has already presented precedence for bringing back “exclusive” and “limited time” skins by re-defining what those terms mean. If skins like RR or Indigo Kuno were truly “exclusive” then we would’ve never seen these skins in the shop ever again. if a skin is “time limited” it doesn’t really mean anything if you ask me. Technically all skins in the game are “time-limited” since that’s how the item shop functions, that could be stretched to define the means by which all skins in this game are acquired, any amount of time is technically limited. So bringing back a “limited time” skin for a short period of time would still be “time limited”

So finally we’re here. Much like Chapter 1 of the new OG seasons, where RR and AAT re-released; we’re finally back in Season X when The Paradigm initially released, and quickly disappeared on October 13th 2019, 7 years ago. Obviously The Paradigm wasn’t re-released on October 11th a couple days ago and isn’t in the Item Shop tonight either, but I feel it only makes sense to re-release The Paradigm if they’re trying to re-create the original Season X. The Paradigm released 3 total days before the The End Event, and I feel it only makes sense to re-release her in the same manner, 3 days before the End event occurs in OG Season X again, around Dec 1st-4th. So if Epic wants to continue the trend they started in CH6 S1 with OG Fortnite feeling authentic then they’re actually obligated to bring The Paradigm back. Plus the original owners of the skin already have their exclusive edit style so there really shouldn’t be a problem with bringing this skin back. That and the lore which for ONCE I hope they ignore and just re-release the skin regardless of if she’s actually involved in this End Event or not.

TLDR; exclusive skins have slowly been creeping their way into the item shop. WHICH IS GOOD, and The Paradigm has already been re-released once already, plus OG buyers have an exclusive edit style, so they should just re-release her at this point. They re-released Renegade Raider to re-create the authenticity of Chapter 1 season 1 so they should do the same for Chapter 1 Season X by re-releasing The Paradigm. Also she's a huge lore character (who looks sooooo cool) so it's pretty ridiculous that Epic hasn't brought her back yet.

The Paradigm. One of the most story relevant characters. She was a huge part of the Chapter 3 storyline that led into Chapter 4, she’s a part of The Seven, who’ve had a huge impact on the game’s narrative as a whole, and… She’s a skin you can’t get… And we’re not even talking about her Battle Pass reskin from Chapter 3. Nope, somehow that version is more commonly owned by at least 3 times over than the Item Shop version, ya know the one that can actually come back at anytime Epic Games decides to?

Now the argument I always hear is that Epic “can’t” bring back The Paradigm skin because it was a “limited time” and an “exclusive” skin. As I’m sure most people are aware, this already happened. There was one instance in 2024 when this skin came back to the Item Shop for about 1 hour before it was instantly removed from the shop. It was a big deal, Donald Mustard even reacted on Twitter to Epic’s initial response of revoking The Paradigm from new buyers with a face palm emoji, indicating that making this skin a true exclusive was a bad idea. So as Epic seems to do when these things happen they ultimately apologized for the bug, and decided to refund everyone who bought The Paradigm and gave the original owners an actual exclusive edit style that the new owners of the skin wouldn’t be able to access. I want to repeat the language that Epic themselves gave through Twitter on October 11th 2019 when the skin released, “Her allegiance is unknown.The Paradigm Outfit is available in the Item Shop now!” Interestingly no mention here of the skin being exclusive until the next day, “Unknown allegiance. Grab The Paradigm Outfit, Welcome! Emote and Go home! Emote in the Item Shop now. These exclusive items are only available for a limited time.” However, the ingame news tab DOES mention how The Paradigm is time limited when the skin debuted on October 11th, “The new limited-time Paradigm Outfit is available now!”

So before we get to The Paradigm I think it’s important to gain some context and look back at the cosmetic that kicked off this whole "exclusive" thing, which is the Mako Glider. Now most players today were definitely not around for this (myself included) but initially this glider was a part of the Season 1 cosmetics. It wasn’t a part of the season shop, no it was gained through what we would classify today as either a battle pass reward, or a challenge. You had to get to level 25, now by today’s standards that sounds pretty simple, but back in Season 1 this was apparently very difficult due to how few sources there were for XP. Flash forward to Season 2 and Epic either intentionally or accidentally ads the Mako glider to the Item Shop, and players weren’t happy about this. Much like The Paradigm years later, Epic removed the glider very quickly from the shop, and asked players on Reddit how they felt about keeping past cosmetics exclusive and most players agreed they should stay exclusive which is why you haven’t seen any of the season 1 items or items gained through challenges return**** Eagle eye readers and Fortnite cosmetic history aficionado’s will notice how many asterik’s I’ve included after that statement, and will know how absolutely untrue that is.

I’m sure you’re all aware of the Renegade Raider (RR) and Aerial Assault Trooper (ATT) skins. These were highly popular rare skins since they were only available during Season 1 where most players didn’t play the game, and if they did they likely didn’t spend any money on it. RR and AAT weren’t initially billed as “exclusive” or “limited time” when they were released. However due to the aforementioned Mako glider incident Epic games decided to have a select few Season 1 items stay in Season 1 only and not return later, this led players into believing a community legend that these skins and associated comets were truly exclusive and would never be seen again. That is until they were brought back, (more on that later)

Now this wasn’t the first time Season 1 cosmetics came back either; Epic brought back the Skull and Ghoul Trooper skins in CH2 S1. Now Epic never advertised these skins as “exclusive” or “limited time” they just didn’t return in Season 6 for that Fortnitemares event and because they were released in Season 1 people assumed it was exactly like the RR or AAT skins. However when these Halloween skins returned to the Item Shop; Epic apologized to the original owners and gave them an exclusive edit style. Which was the first time this happened. Since then Skull Trooper and Ghoul Trooper have gone on to have 144 and 94 occurrences respectively in the Item Shop as of the time of this writing.

When CH6 S1 launched Epic brought back the Season 1 OG island via the then new OG mode, and to recreate the feeling that this really was a recreation of OG season 1 Epic brought back the infamous Renegade Raider and Ariel Assault Trooper skins into the item shop, along with the same XP requirements to buy the associated gliders, pickaxes and skins as you needed in the original Season 1. Now much like all the other skins we’ve discussed these were also not previously advertised as “limited time” and “exclusive”, but Epic had retroactively made them exclusive skins, and just like The Paradigm and the Halloween skins; the original owners of Renegade Raider and Assault Trooper skins got new exclusive edit styles that were the exact same color scheme as the exclusive Paradigm edit style. Not only that but these skins stayed in the shop for over a month, being in the shop from Dec 20th to Jan 31st.

Here’s the kicker if you ask me. Like we stated earlier bringing back the RR and AAT skins was a huge deal, Epic retroactively made these skins exclusive and brought them back anyway as a part of a throwback to re-create the feel of the original Season 1. Fast forward to CH 7 S1 and the OG mode is now in Season 7, and for some reason Epic brings back the RR and AAT skins again for a second year in a row for the same exact time period. Dec 20th to Jan 31st. These skins weren’t re-released during the original Season 7, so why now? Now these previously “exclusive” “limited time” skins have had - as of the time of this writing - 85 occurrences in the Item Shop. That’s more than most skins in the game and completely negates these being rare skins anymore.

Now let me be clear. I have no problem with bringing back “rare” skins -if the other paragraphs weren’t already an indication- I have some “rare” licensed skins like Kratos, and Snake Eyes and previously rare licensed skins like Street Fighter, Naruto, and Arcane League of Legends. Now when Epic brought those aforementioned skins back into the item shop earlier this year alongside the RR and AAT skins I was happy. I’d had these skins for years so while part of me was sad that they were less rare I was ultimately glad that players that either started in CH4 or even CH6 finally had a chance to get these colab skins that came out WAAAAY before these players even had a chance to get them. And these were licensed skins, not Epic owned properties. So why are skins like The Paradigm so hard to come back then?

My last piece of evidence on exclusivity being a bad excuse is a more recent one. CH 7 S2. Great season imo, the last week of that season Epic decided to have a community day, tons of free items, and more importantly for this discussion; rare skins in the Item Shop. I’m of course referring to Epic finally releasing Brilliant Bomber, and the then believed EXCLUSIVE Indigo Kuno. Now Brilliant was up to that point a 99% unreleased skin. There were ways to have the skin legitimately if you knew someone who developed the game at Epic, or through a Discord bot in 2019. but otherwise for most practical purposes it was unreleased. It was speculated to be a part of a yearly subscription model that Epic dumped in favor of the monthly Crew subscription, so because the yearly model was never released it would’ve been a part of an “exclusive” model, but was then sold in the item shop. The second, Indigo Kuno is a bit more relevant for this discussion. Before community day you HAD to play in a tournament that lasted a couple hours in December of 2020 and ONLY on PlayStation AND you had to rank high enough in said tournament to qualify to get the skin. So while this was a released skin out of the millions of players it was estimated that around 6000 or less actually had this skin or around 0.006 of the player base if said player base was 1 million players. So I think it would be safe to categorize Indigo Kuno as an exclusive skin. AND YET both of these skins were released in the Item Shop for sale for two total occurrences. Showing how Epic can release skins in the Item Shop that are “exclusive”

So clearly Epic has already presented precedence for bringing back “exclusive” and “limited time” skins by re-defining what those terms mean. If skins like RR or Indigo Kuno were truly “exclusive” then we would’ve never seen these skins in the shop ever again. if a skin is “time limited” it doesn’t really mean anything if you ask me. Technically all skins in the game are “time-limited” since that’s how the item shop functions, that could be stretched to define the means by which all skins in this game are acquired, any amount of time is technically limited. So bringing back a “limited time” skin for a short period of time would still be “time limited”

So finally we’re here. Much like Chapter 1 of the new OG seasons, where RR and AAT re-released; we’re finally back in Season X when The Paradigm initially released, and quickly disappeared on October 13th 2019, 7 years ago. Obviously The Paradigm wasn’t re-released on October 11th a couple days ago and isn’t in the Item Shop tonight either, but I feel it only makes sense to re-release The Paradigm if they’re trying to re-create the original Season X. The Paradigm released 3 total days before the The End Event, and I feel it only makes sense to re-release her in the same manner, 3 days before the End event occurs in OG Season X again, around Dec 1st-4th. So if Epic wants to continue the trend they started in CH6 S1 with OG Fortnite feeling authentic then they’re actually obligated to bring The Paradigm back. Plus the original owners of the skin already have their exclusive edit style so there really shouldn’t be a problem with bringing this skin back. That and the lore which for ONCE I hope they ignore and just re-release the skin regardless of if she’s actually involved in this End Event or not.

TLDR; exclusive skins have slowly been creeping their way into the item shop. WHICH IS GOOD, and The Paradigm has already been re-released once already, plus OG buyers have an exclusive edit style, so they should just re-release her at this point. They re-released Renegade Raider to re-create the authenticity of Chapter 1 season 1 so they should do the same for Chapter 1 Season X by re-releasing The Paradigm. Also she's a huge lore character (who looks sooooo cool) so it's pretty ridiculous that Epic hasn't brought her back yet.

thank you chatgpt for writing this!

actually goated improvements for once

Holy moly you need too put this much effort into studying or a job. 😭