Epic has now removed cosmetic rarities for the first time since the launch of Fortnite. Following the update, players think it’s an L for the game.
Despite Epic assuring players of a hotfix, the team has now made another contentious change to Fortnite’s cosmetics with thenew 29.20 updatein Chapter 5 Season 2. According to theEpic blog post, colors, tags, and rarities that differentiated cosmetic items will no longer be visible in the Fortnite locker and Item Shop.
The new Item Shop timer change is a very cool idea, but removing locker rarities honestly sucksApart from the whole locker UI just looking bad (for me), not having these different colors makes it look bland and boringThe colors gave it some sort of “personality"pic.twitter.com/C16sHmGvsr
In the same post, Epic wrote, “The Shop has evolved significantly to support multiple types of cosmetics and items across games, so we’re retiring the old Battle Royale-inspired system of colors and tags for cosmetic quality. Different Series of cosmetics — such as the Icon Series or Gaming Legends Series — will still be there to help you find your favorite stuff.”
Another chimed in, “Literally an iconic part of the game. They are trying to move past the old Fortnite. So cringe.”
A third player said, “It’s gonna work against them when people don’t buy their ugly no-rarity skins when at least before if it was a higher rarity, maybe people would buy it.”
Someone else wrote, “If they’re removing rarity then they need to adjust prices. Have all skins be unified in price, Make them cheaper. But going off the price of Lego builds, etc. they’ll just increase the price of everything. Uncommon-looking skins will now be 2,000 V-Bucks etc.”
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Rishabh Sabarwal was a Games Writer on Dexerto’s UK team, specializing in Fortnite content. He is an expert in FPS games and has covered Call of Duty, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout, Roblox, and trending games on Twitch. He also has bylines at Sportskeeda and CharlieINTEL.
