Fortnite Save the World will not see free codes released en masse in 2018.
This was announced by Epic Games earlier this week, although it wasn’t all bad news for fans.
This was because Epic also revealed a new Fortnite Save the World sale price, which is still available to take advantage of right now.
The price of Fortnite Save the World has been dropped by 50% across all versions of the game.
That means you can pick up the Standard, Deluxe, Super Deluxe and Limited Founder’s packs for half price right now.
Fans who want to try out PvE in Fortnite have until November 6th to pick up their chosen edition of the game.
They all come with varying degrees of content, but that might not be the reason you fancy picking up the original Fortnite mode.
It’s also possible to farm V-Bucks from playing STW, something that can sound enticing to Battle Royale players.
However, Save the World has its own dedicated fanbase that isn’t particularly keen on seeing a lot of new players join only wanting to earn free V-Bucks.
So for anyone who is genuinely interested in playing Fortnite Save the World, it will cost around $19.99 on PC for the next week.
Epic Games were frank about their ambition to bring free-to-play to Save the World earlier this week.
Confirming they would be making big changes to the game before making the switch, they also confirmed that a lot of backend work was needed.
This was supposed to happen in 2018 but has now been pushed back into the future, without a year set for launch.
“We decided to move the free-to-play launch of Save the World out of this year,” Epic Games confirms.
“We’re working on a broad set of features, reworks, and backend system scaling we believe are needed to go free-to-play.
“Save the World has grown consistently since our launch in July 2017, and Fortnite overall has experienced unprecedented growth. Scaling up for the legions of player heroes who will be joining the fight is key to providing an excellent experience.
“This applies to all of our players, old and new, so we’re taking the time to get this right.
“To thank our founders, both new and old, if you log in and play during the Fortnitemares Event, you’ll receive both Brainiac Jonesy and Skull Ranger Ramirez for free.”
Epic Games are also looking to make some big changes to how the base game operates before F2P goes live.
This includes improvements of varying importance as well as a revamped hero system, with Epic Games adding:
“This system has been redesigned to offer a more flexible approach to customizing your loadout with more options and room for creativity. You’ll have a total of six Hero slots to manage up from the previous three.
“First choosing a main Hero to command and up to five additional which will determine your perks and traits.
“We’re looking to expand the variety of loadouts you can create – putting the tools in your hands to make meaningful new decisions.
“We’ll put together a comprehensive blog to run you through the system when we finalize all the details.”
And for those who are worried about losing some of their best upgrades along the way, Epic Games says they’re trying to make that as painless as possible.
“We’re working on an investment refund feature that will activate whenever we make significant changes to schematics, heroes, survivors, defenders or any other items you’ve upgraded,” the Epic Games statement adds.
“Upon launch, it will be an opt-in process, we will flag the item that has been re-balanced, and you choose to de-level if you wish.
“We will NOT automatically de-level your items. For this first version, we will be rolling out the “re-balance flag” to only Heroes adjusted by the new system, while we investigate how to grant back other materials in edge case scenarios.”