The individuals behind Fortnite, the favored build-and-battle-royale sport, have launched a brand new, kid-friendly tackle the sport: Lego Fortnite. The sport makes use of Lego bricks and characters to give gamers a unique form of expertise that focuses on long-term survival, crafting, constructing, and on-line cooperation with pals. It’s lots like one other survival/crafting sport, Minecraft, however powered by Lego bricks and acquainted characters.
Lego Fortnite was a success from day one; Hundreds of thousands of gamers are constructing and battling monsters collectively in on-line worlds filled with characters to meet, creatures to slay, and mysteries to uncover. It’s additionally free (in contrast to Minecraft), and co-developers Epic Video games and The Lego Group have gone to nice lengths to make it protected for teenagers to take pleasure in.
Right here’s a fast rundown of what Lego Fortnite is, the place to obtain it, and all the pieces else it’s best to want to know about Fortnite’s well-liked new spinoff.
What is Lego Fortnite?
Whereas the favored model of Fortnite is a battle royale sport the place gamers combat one another to be the final participant standing, Lego Fortnite isn’t a shooter or a battle royale in any respect. It’s a sport of exploration, constructing with Lego bricks, and crafting gadgets (like pickaxes and torches).
In Survival mode, gamers tackle the position of just a little Lego hero character. They’ll collect assets, construct buildings, instruments, and weapons, and discover an enormous open world. They’ll additionally work together with different Lego characters who will be a part of their group and assist them out with missions. There’s some fight too, but it surely’s primarily in opposition to Lego variations of skeletons, wolves, spiders, and different beasts. This mode known as Survival as a result of gamers have to collect and craft what they want: meals to stave off starvation, wooden to construct buildings and craft instruments, and different parts to create extra advanced gadgets.
There’s additionally a non-violent Sandbox mode, the place gamers can merely construct no matter they need with Lego bricks to get inventive and discover the world freely.
How to obtain Lego Fortnite
Enjoying and downloading Lego Fortnite is free. You’ll want an Epic Video games account to play, which can be free. All you may have to do is obtain the primary Fortnite sport consumer, and also you’ll discover Lego Fortnite on the primary display screen of a menu that appears like a Netflix library display screen.
On sport consoles like Nintendo Swap, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X, you’ll be able to obtain Fortnite by looking out every platform’s retailer, or by utilizing the hyperlinks under from an online browser:
Observe that if you discover and obtain Lego Fortnite from one of many above on-line shops, you’re really downloading the complete Fortnite sport consumer, by way of which you’ll play Lego Fortnite. Complicated, sure, however at the least all the pieces’s centralized.
How to get and activate an Epic Video games account
To play Lego Fortnite (or any Fortnite sport), you’ll want an Epic Video games account. You may join one utilizing an electronic mail handle at the Epic Games website, use an current login from Apple, Fb, Lego.com, or Google, or log in with an current account from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, or Steam.
You may as well create a model of that account referred to as a Cabined Account, which is meant for youngsters 13 years outdated or youthful. Gamers with Cabined Accounts can play Lego Fortnite, however they received’t have the opportunity to entry options like voice chat or make in-game purchases with cash till their dad or mum or guardian gives consent. You may learn extra about parental controls in Fortnite games at Epic’s website.
How V-Bucks work with Lego Fortnite (and the way to redeem them)
Epic Video games’ digital foreign money for Fortnite, often called V-Bucks, works within the core model of Fortnite and new experiences like Lego Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Pageant. V-Bucks might be spent on in-game gadgets, like outfits and different digital gadgets.
V-Bucks might be bought inside Fortnite and by way of reward playing cards. You may redeem V-Bucks gift cards at the official Fortnite website.
For those who (or your youngster) have spent V-Bucks in Fortnite battle royale, many of the cosmetics in that sport carry over to Lego Fortnite. There are some exceptions, like characters in Fortnite who’ve weapons as a part of their design, however many cosmetics tied to a core Fortnite account can be utilized throughout video games.
Lego Fortnite multiplayer and enjoying with pals
You may play Lego Fortnite with pals on-line. Up to eight gamers can play collectively cooperatively in the identical sport world.
However you’ll be able to’t play Lego Fortnite (but) in split-screen mode on the identical platform. When you have a number of youngsters enjoying Lego Fortnite, they’ll all want their very own console, pill, or PC to play. Lego Fortnite helps cross-play throughout all platforms, so gamers on Swap, for instance, can play with their pals on PlayStation 5, Android, PC, and anyplace else Fortnite is out there.
Do you want a separate on-line subscription to play Lego Fortnite?
Lego Fortnite, like different Fortnite video games, doesn’t require a web based subscription like Nintendo Swap On-line, PlayStation Plus, or Xbox Reside Gold/Xbox Sport Go to play.
Guides for Lego Fortnite
Lego Fortnite is new, however already fairly large. Right here’s how to get started, with some solutions to a number of tough questions:
