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Bem mais ou menos. Esse modo foi feito para fãs de musica ou de guitar hero. Eu não gosto muito deste modo porque não combina com o meu gosto (Tiro/Ação/Rpg).

Remember when later Guitar Hero games had songs that can't do anything but have boring easy-mode charts? Yeah, that's this.
Pair it with a really shitty rotation model where if you want to play a song for any other period than when it shows up for a few days, you have to pay 5 whole dollars for it and only when it's in the item shop, and you've got Fortnite Festival.

Pair it with incredibly boring visuals, as you've got a very ugly giant stage with band animations going below even GH2 quality, but hey, during those long breaks certain instruments will get in songs due to a bad track-list, you can use your emotes!
There's really no huge flair either, there's nothing like the audio getting filtered when using Overdrive, the particles while you're using it are very small and tied almost entirely to just your player, and most of them are battle pass/shop purchases anyways.

Generally it just is very clunky as well, you can't quick restart a song or practice it, instead you can just jump into the song from the start and if you fuck up you have to back out to the main-stage with on some songs this being a downtime of like 40s.
You've also got to deal with the fact that all the notes share the same color so on harder tracks (if you can actually FIND one) it's a bit annoying to deal with as it's harder to read for no other reason than it has to be the Fortnite purple color.
Lastly there's just a lot of instabilities, It's on the second season now and there's still major issues with just random hitching in the middle of songs (far better than it used to be at-least) and crashes happen randomly as well.

AAA Licensed Rhythm games are pretty much dead, and this is the best you'll get out of it in the modern industry, just move on and go download like Clone Hero or YARG or something.

Epic, Stop trying to make metaverse Fortnite happen, It's not going to happen, nobody plays the shitty racing mode, Festival is mediocre, Lego Fortnite has been nothing but boring and the Creative mode's expansion has pretty much exclusively been used to make things that you could already play, like arenas or boxfights etc. but now they have a random theme of Streamer/Country/IP, or just are something I could have played in ROBLOX back in 2009, it's not working and players are just going to jump to the one where they already have all the different things they want to make.

[3/11/24]

A rhythm game in the vein of classic Guitar Hero and Rock Band without needing to shell out hundreds of dollars or going to Dave & Busters, all in a game I already play? Sign me up! This was easily my most anticipated mode out of the three, but mostly because I already have a history with rhythm games of this variety. Come December 9, and... well, it's enough to satiate my rhythm game desire, at least.

The most obvious issue with this game is how limited the charts need to be to compensate for controllers. There's a noticably thicker line in between lanes 2 and 3 designed to separate the D-Pad and face buttons. There will never be a chord where both notes are on one side of the line and that's pretty lame. Half the fun of Guitar Hero/Rock Band is having that guitar and feeling like you're good at something you're not, but no official support as of yet leaves me with a controller and an awkward feeling. The feedback is also pretty lackluster and the charts are pretty piss easy, even after speeeding up the track. I get having to appeal to people who've never played a rhythm game before, but come on.

Monetization is easily the worst part of this mode. The Festival Pass is 1,800 VBucks, 850 more than the standard Battle Pass. Only thing I can see justifying it is licensing fees. Nothing else aside from the icon skin at the end really is that impressive. Instruments, up until a few weeks back, could only be used in Festival, but now they can also be used in BR with certain emotes. Jam Loops is just Fuser if multiple people were needed. The larger sin is making each song 500 VBucks each. Without those, you're at the mercy of a small rotating list. I at least have Save The World's Founder bonuses to grind VBucks.

Instrument support is coming soon, and I'm still questioning on whether or not I'll shell out a couple hundred for a plastic guitar, but currently, Fortnite Festival is just doing the bare minimum to satisfy me. I remain optimistic.

for people not good enough for other rhythm games (me)


Good songs, fun gameplay, horribly priced instruments in the shop.

Yeah, it's fine (i have purchased every single song Epic Games has to offer.)

Guitar hero só que no Fornai, simplesmente muito foda poder montar uma banda com leon Kennedy junto com Goku black

My rhythm game brainrot still goes strong and Fortnite is becoming part of it as well. HOWEVER, locking songs for $5 EACH just doesn't go well with me, though that might be because I've been spoiled by Clone Hero and Osu!

At least, if you play it with other players you can play the songs they bring up so that's a very strong saving grace, other than that, this would be an easy 0.5

the jam tracks in the main game are my new favourite part about fortnite at the moment

Pretty good! Has some issues but i’m always willing to support a rhythm game in the mainstream considering how niche the genre is. Besides bugs, one of the biggest issues was just the lack of (good) content. the songs chosen aren’t that great and not even just in the sense that i don’t like them. most of the songs chose just don’t translate into charts that are fun to play. most of the songs picked are boring pop songs with easy and repetitive charts. i highly regret buying seven nation army cuz now everyone is trying to play that boring ass song from my shared library and it makes me never wanna play online. speaking of never playing online, i fucking hate featured songs! due to what i assume is the quest from playing featured songs, everyone pick them in online lobbies. hearing barbie girl that many times can drive a person insane! looking forward to season 2 and i hope they shape fortnite festival into its own thing throughout its lifetime. hoping for some variety in the venues, more interesting songs, and maybe even customizable lanes. so many features they could add to the game so i really hope improve this game a lot more.

If you go on youtube you can actually just listen to the songs without having to do anything

completamente viciado nessa merda

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you
Can't you see that you're smothering me
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control?
'Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you
And I know
I may end up failing too
But I know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
Become so tired
So much more aware
I'm becoming this
All I want to do
Is be more like me
And be less like you
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)
I've become so numb
I can't feel you there
(I'm tired of being what you want me to be)

They added Feel Good Inc. to the game, they are going straight for my heart with that one

BABY DONT HURT ME, DONT HURT ME, NO MORE

This awakened something in the rhythm game player deep in me the likes of which haven’t been seen since I was obsessed with FNF in high school

Out of all the three new modes introduced in Chapter 5, Fortnite Festival is easily the best, as a fan of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. The gameplay is almost identical to Rock Band, but tweaked for playing on a keyboard, which I think is a benefit. The song selections are also great, with a wide variety of genres. And even a few original songs are in there too. The drawback though is that they're all on rotation, but can be purchased permanently in the item shop for $5, which is over twice more than a DLC song in RB4. However if one person owns it, everyone can play it, which is much better than how DLC songs were handled in Rock Band 4, for better and for worse. There's also no practice mode either.

Here's where things get sour.

As for controller support: It was a total disaster. Only specific RB4 controllers and the Riffmaster work, no legacy controllers work at all. However with the power of external tools, You could spoof a Festival-Compatible controller and play with most legacy instruments. And it took them until the next BR season for them to actually add legacy support. Fuck you Epic.

Although I think my other big disappointment in Festival is the lack of motion capture, which really gave the GH/RB games a lot of it's charm (and hilarity with mods). This may have been done to save space which is respectable, but it's such a huge missed opportunity. Regardless of all the bullshit that's attached to it, it's still a pretty alright mode, even if it's a far-cry from a traditional Guitar Hero or Rock band game

See also: Clone Hero, YARG.

A decent little free rhythm game. A lot of solid music here mixed in with a couple of stinkers. The songs, instruments, and festival pass are too expensive, though. I also dislike that the leaderboard resets after each season.

It's a game. It's just not fun, especially compared to guitar hero and rock band.

Fantástico
É o melhor modo adicionado ao Fortnite, nunca me diverti quanto agora.
Gameplay ainda precisa de algumas melhorias mas o ponto forte são as músicas, e a cada adição a qualidade se mantém.
Porém só consigo jogar tranquilamente no PS5 no Switch e uma péssima experiência

I have a long history with Rock Band and Guitar Hero. 2 of the most important series of my early life. This is just so hollow and lifeless. Makes me so upset seeing what a waste the team that made those great games is making now.

This sucks, that's all I got to say.


i like pressing the buttons

the only alternate gamemode that actually lived

Buddy Holly carried the entire game mode and I'm only half joking