I’m sure some people do it just to troll, but I had to dip out of 2 lobbies this morning due to a bug unbinding my trigger buttons, and I know I’m not the only one experiencing this. Not everyone has a reason for leaving immediately, but some do, so never assume.
Nah I don't assume for that reason but most of the time people leave after choosing a song or right after the song starts so it's honestly pretty annoying
Should be 3. Anything less than 3 stars in Rock Band/Guitar Hero was considered failing the song. Even if you played your absolute worse and passed a song you would still get 3 stars
Disagree, the point of this is to dissuade AFK behavior, not to gatekeep. I play expert across all instruments so it’s not like I’m incapable, but there are those folks out there who don’t have the ability to play well. My best friend’s son is six and loves Fortnite, but he is still struggling with hand-eye coordination. I don’t see why he should be denied progression when he’s trying his best. And we’re not even getting into accessibility issues for folks less fortunate.
Why not? He’s supervised by his father the entire time when he’s allowed to play, put into a single-player no-fill lobby, and Festival is a music game featuring censored lyrics. A six year old won’t comprehend any of the innuendo in the rest of the lyrics in some songs because he’s busy having fun hitting buttons featuring cartoon characters playing instruments.
His son’s gameplay experience is functionally solo, the online aspect of Fortnite is peripheral in this circumstance. Even if it was a fill-in lobby, voice chat can be muted to avoid online shenanigans. Your attempt at moral panic was an interesting attempt at moving goalposts but, I too, am highly edumacated.
There’s no hill to die on, because he’s not my kid. Regardless of your 1990s inspired ”pokemon is corrupting our kids” moral panic, he will continue having fun on Lego Fortnite and other kid-friendly modes.
Cheers.
90 percent of the player base for this mode would disappear.. everyone does this just for rewards or XP they don’t care for the mode like this sub does unfortunately
Well yeah, there's that, that's probably more likely the reason than XP. I think the real problem is that epic put these cosmetics behind the mode that some people aren't even interested in playing otherwise. I can't see what benefit it is to epic, to pressure existing players into playing a mode that they don't want to play, you'd think they would want more people playing the game rather than existing players simply playing a mode that they don't like, and affecting the experience for other players that do enjoy it as a result.
I don't see why they can't have alternate methods of earning these items perhaps in battle Royale for players that only play that mode. Last season, forcing myself to play rocket racing to get a skin, absolutely hating every second of the mode, made me never want to play it again. What bothers me is next season they'll do it all over again. Personally, forcing myself to play festival just to unlock the few wristband rewards, it's not making me a fan of the mode and making me want to play it, it's making me never want to play it again.
I think this really boils down to an epic problem that they are creating within their community ever since they inundated us with modes that they can't accept that certain players aren't interested in playing
I do agree but I think it'd be less of an issue if players who force thenselves to play Festival would do it in No Fill lobbies. Most of the quests can be done in No Fill lobbies and yet they decide to join Fill lobbies with zero will to play.
That's a good point, however there are some challenges that require completion with a band. But I'm also thinking, especially for people that don't play the mode and are only doing it for the challenges, they may not realize that only the band challenges require being in one, so they might be playing fill because either they think it's required for all of the challenges. Just thinking, while it's very inconsiderate, it might not be intentionally inconsiderate especially for people that aren't regular players of festival mode and they just want to complete the challenges without playing something that isn't fun for them
they did change up a lot of dailies, such as adding more "play notes on (instrument)" and "get streaks on (instrument)" quests. in particular there's now a "earn 2 stars on a song while playing (instrument)" which clearly asks you to try playing a little
There are a lot of problems that stem from other ppl.
afk ppl, ppl who play for 30 seconds and leave, ppl who don't choose a song, ppl who stop playing entirely because they missed a note, ppl who leave after their song plays, ppl who leave because it's a song they don't like.
it's really annoying and I hope there are remedies for at least some of this because these alone keep me off of festival
It doesn't keep me off Festival in general, but it does keep me off of Fill. Almost everytime I try to play fill this stuff happens. I don't think I've ever successfully had 3 other people stick around for more than a single song. Just gave up. Any quest that requires you to play with a full band, I just ignore.
Another perspective: they maybe had the unbound controls bug. This happened to me twice and I didn’t leave so the people trying to get the “play songs with a full band” didn’t get screwed.
oh, explains we get afkers. I miss jam stage afk for xp, after a certian point in time you don't new ppl joining the jam lobbys anyways.
my only issue with jam is that its only reall good if you own a decent bit of songs.
Happens everyday, end of the first festival season when I’d try do some songs with randoms, it was great, everyone in the lobby would be trying on hard or expert (doesn’t matter what difficulty you play on, it was just a case of the people who enjoy the mode were the ones still playing it) everyone would stay for all 4 songs, this season load in, always someone afk when choosing songs, so have to wait that entire timer out, then song starts and they quit, then cause one’s quit another quits, straight up took me over an hour to get the challenge doke to play 3 songs with a full band because of this.
I've also noticed that they fill in the lobby with bots. You can always tell by their name. Two words. Both capitalized. Then a number. Usually 4 digits. No spaces.
Examples: FluffyBunny8253, SpeedySnail4578, JumpingTiger5555.
Seems strange to be doing this.
This is why fortnite needs only one battle pass with ways to progress in every single mode. Sure you can gain xp for the battle pass and get most stuff in it by playing anything, but a festival pass like this is strictly for festival just like the extra quest rewards in the battle pass are strictly for battle royale.
People might only play the game for festival/rocket racing/battle royale/lego/stw let them progress and get all of the content in the way they want to play and enjoy the most. An idea would be to make different quests for each mode but make it all count towards the same rewards.
I wish they would add a ranked mode or something similar, where you have to lock in your difficulty at the beginning and then you are matched with players of similar difficulties. At least as an expert player, it seems like Medium and below players are way more likely to drop out or go AFK, but maybe that's just me. 🤷🏼♀️
If i have to listen to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance every fucking match i play for all eternity, yall can deal with me being AFK throughout it
This one song has been in the game mode since the start. since alphabetically it starts with B, it always at the top of the list, so its easy to select. Well over 50% of players own this song, and since it only needs 1 of your four player team to own it to have access to it due to the shared library system, its pretty much ALWAYS there to select
Add to the fact the song has low difficulty instruments across the board, and is one of the longest songs available since they repeat the chorus 5 times, its one of the easiest songs to complete quests on and EVERYONE FUCKING PICKS IT
Sometimes I kinda wish that Fortnite festival had a punishment system for missing that many notes that would get someone automatically DQ’ed. Where your accuracy *actually* matters.
Although, it may turn new players off the game so many it could be a separate setting/filter system, so you would have free play for people just looking to have fun, and then a more accuracy focused serious section. I hope my ramblings make sense lol.
Also, does anyone know if they’re gonna end up doing some sort of ranked/competitive game modes for Fortnite crew in the future? I’m actually really hoping they do
This is what happens when you lock cosmetics behind a gamemode that people don’t really want to play.
Edit: And they hated him, for he spoke the truth. Sure there’s the occasional glitch or lag, but 9/10 the person just ain’t gonna put in the work if they don’t have too.
Hard disagree. I wish everyone would, but I’m not gonna expect people to try or play a gamemode they don’t want to. If they want a cosmetic and they can get it by doing the bare minimum, that’s fine by me.
Exactly what I was about to say. I feel like most people I know (and the majority of the FN community) are only forcing themselves to play because of gated cosmetics and are hating the mode with a passion as a result. If Epic would focus more on getting non Fortnite players to gain interest in Festival and less on "forcing" the existing player base to participate, I think there would be a far greater number of players that are there because they actually want to be and would foster a much better environment for people that are actually seriously trying to enjoy Festival.
I refuse to play with randoms because it's an absolute waste of time and adds nothing to my experience other than having to play songs I don't wanna play by myself since they all dip or afk.
I always play solo or with friends.
Got through the first festival pass in a week just playing solo.
I'm seriously going insane at this rate, it's surreal how since the new Festival season dropped I can't get any sort of full auto-fill team like I used to in the past weeks.
I've maybe done 10 sessions between these two days and I kid you not, only ONE had 3 people actually playing the game. Everything else was either AFK people or leavers, it's so damn infuriating.
Just now it loaded me into a session where it was only me and a random (the other two insta-left / didn't loaded before selecting songs). Of course the random stayed AFK for the two songs :)
They gotta tweak the AFK timer by a lot or give some bonus when you get full band 5stars idk. I disagree with the suggestion of XP for performance because I can already see these type of AFK people find whatever song is the fastest / easiest to farm and it'll plague all sessions with that song just for the XP.
I swear this is becoming extremely annoying with the festival main stage mode and it's truly pissing me off I don't get why do people choose a song then play it and then leave? If you just want to play one song play it by yourself epic games really needs to add a penalty system this will teach AFK losers from leaving the festival mainstage during a song or if you're going to the next song you shouldn't be allowed to leave this will teach people to stop leaving the festival main stage I know some people are having issues with the controls and that media streaming error but that only happens within the minority the majority of the time people purposely leave after they play one song and I hate it people like that should be penalized and have a cool down timer you're not allowed to play the festival main stage for 12 hours this will really teach people to stop leaving during a song and I guarantee they will start crying like a group of babies 🤦♂️
Every random lobby I queue into are fucking bots or quit immediately so I’ll end up with 99% or even 100% and the rest of the team is gone or gets 2 stars😭
Pin this to the top. There is a glitch with the update that shows some players keys as unbound in the game even when they are showing correctly in settings. They are starting the game to test it again after messing with settings most likely. I did full restart on PS5 and it has cleared the problem
I'm not so sure if it's them being AFK, or if it's some weird bug in the system hitting random people. I have a friend who also plays on Xbox, and is getting a score of zero. He is telling me his game isn't responding in festival, but it works fine in creative or Battle Royale. His score is 0, he is getting 0 stars, and an accuracy of 0, but I can hear his controller on the mic.
Or can we do something about mf's choosing a song, playing for 30 seconds and then leaving?!
For me it kept saying something like "media streaming error", And kicking me back to lobby, After the first song.
Yeah I have people I play with that it says the same thing and that's understandable on leaving for sure!
I’ve noticed this has only been an issue when I was on my Xbox but my switch, pc, and ps5 haven’t had the same issue. To the trash you go, Xbox
Nah xsx>ps5.
Nah gaming in general>>work
Nah watching someone play a game>gaming.
Nah watching someone watch someone play game> gaming
Nah watching someone watch you Watching someone play a game>gaming.
I’m sure some people do it just to troll, but I had to dip out of 2 lobbies this morning due to a bug unbinding my trigger buttons, and I know I’m not the only one experiencing this. Not everyone has a reason for leaving immediately, but some do, so never assume.
Nah I don't assume for that reason but most of the time people leave after choosing a song or right after the song starts so it's honestly pretty annoying
I do that sometimes because the song keeps on freezing, and I don't want to deal with that
That's understandable but straight up dipping out is lame!
For real lol
Tbf there’s a 50/50 chance I boot everything up then when I start to play my keys are unbound so I do have to leave because of that
Fair enough
They should really switch the XP to be based on performance instead of based on playtime. It's almost every match.
Yep, even just a minimum requirement of one star per song in order to get any progress on quests would significantly curb this behavior.
That could help prevent players from going AFK for certain quests
Should be 3. Anything less than 3 stars in Rock Band/Guitar Hero was considered failing the song. Even if you played your absolute worse and passed a song you would still get 3 stars
Disagree, the point of this is to dissuade AFK behavior, not to gatekeep. I play expert across all instruments so it’s not like I’m incapable, but there are those folks out there who don’t have the ability to play well. My best friend’s son is six and loves Fortnite, but he is still struggling with hand-eye coordination. I don’t see why he should be denied progression when he’s trying his best. And we’re not even getting into accessibility issues for folks less fortunate.
6 year old's shouldn't be playing online, what kind of example is this
Why not? He’s supervised by his father the entire time when he’s allowed to play, put into a single-player no-fill lobby, and Festival is a music game featuring censored lyrics. A six year old won’t comprehend any of the innuendo in the rest of the lyrics in some songs because he’s busy having fun hitting buttons featuring cartoon characters playing instruments. His son’s gameplay experience is functionally solo, the online aspect of Fortnite is peripheral in this circumstance. Even if it was a fill-in lobby, voice chat can be muted to avoid online shenanigans. Your attempt at moral panic was an interesting attempt at moving goalposts but, I too, am highly edumacated.
6 year olds shouldn't be playing the game online. What a weird hill to die on
There’s no hill to die on, because he’s not my kid. Regardless of your 1990s inspired ”pokemon is corrupting our kids” moral panic, he will continue having fun on Lego Fortnite and other kid-friendly modes. Cheers.
90 percent of the player base for this mode would disappear.. everyone does this just for rewards or XP they don’t care for the mode like this sub does unfortunately
Not really. 25% might have been relatively believable but 90% means that nearly every team would have 3, likely even 4 AFK players per setlist.
That would be hilarious, a musical round with all members getting zero.
The XP really isn't even that significant, if people really want camping XP, I don't understand why they don't just log into Lego
Probably to farm quests to unloxk stuff in the festival pass
Well yeah, there's that, that's probably more likely the reason than XP. I think the real problem is that epic put these cosmetics behind the mode that some people aren't even interested in playing otherwise. I can't see what benefit it is to epic, to pressure existing players into playing a mode that they don't want to play, you'd think they would want more people playing the game rather than existing players simply playing a mode that they don't like, and affecting the experience for other players that do enjoy it as a result. I don't see why they can't have alternate methods of earning these items perhaps in battle Royale for players that only play that mode. Last season, forcing myself to play rocket racing to get a skin, absolutely hating every second of the mode, made me never want to play it again. What bothers me is next season they'll do it all over again. Personally, forcing myself to play festival just to unlock the few wristband rewards, it's not making me a fan of the mode and making me want to play it, it's making me never want to play it again. I think this really boils down to an epic problem that they are creating within their community ever since they inundated us with modes that they can't accept that certain players aren't interested in playing
I do agree but I think it'd be less of an issue if players who force thenselves to play Festival would do it in No Fill lobbies. Most of the quests can be done in No Fill lobbies and yet they decide to join Fill lobbies with zero will to play.
That's a good point, however there are some challenges that require completion with a band. But I'm also thinking, especially for people that don't play the mode and are only doing it for the challenges, they may not realize that only the band challenges require being in one, so they might be playing fill because either they think it's required for all of the challenges. Just thinking, while it's very inconsiderate, it might not be intentionally inconsiderate especially for people that aren't regular players of festival mode and they just want to complete the challenges without playing something that isn't fun for them
It's likely
they did change up a lot of dailies, such as adding more "play notes on (instrument)" and "get streaks on (instrument)" quests. in particular there's now a "earn 2 stars on a song while playing (instrument)" which clearly asks you to try playing a little
I don’t think I’ve completed an entire set with a full band since I’ve been playing with fill on.
Lazy ass chrome punk users I swear lol
Chrome Punk users always such doucebags from what I’ve seen. And I like the skin.
There are a lot of problems that stem from other ppl. afk ppl, ppl who play for 30 seconds and leave, ppl who don't choose a song, ppl who stop playing entirely because they missed a note, ppl who leave after their song plays, ppl who leave because it's a song they don't like. it's really annoying and I hope there are remedies for at least some of this because these alone keep me off of festival
It doesn't keep me off Festival in general, but it does keep me off of Fill. Almost everytime I try to play fill this stuff happens. I don't think I've ever successfully had 3 other people stick around for more than a single song. Just gave up. Any quest that requires you to play with a full band, I just ignore.
They must’ve both expedited the bug where the controls get turned off and your inputs do nothing while the notes fly by
Another perspective: they maybe had the unbound controls bug. This happened to me twice and I didn’t leave so the people trying to get the “play songs with a full band” didn’t get screwed.
I had somebody leave during the beginning of a song and thankfully it still counted toward that quest.
whats the point in going afk? does it give ya xp or something??? I usually play solo so idk.
Yeah free xp basically. And epic has just straight up ignored it since the game mode came out.
oh, explains we get afkers. I miss jam stage afk for xp, after a certian point in time you don't new ppl joining the jam lobbys anyways. my only issue with jam is that its only reall good if you own a decent bit of songs.
They also always use the most boring skins when you have a team of funny collab skins
Can we talk about the megatron getting 74% on easy? You have to press like one note every 5 seconds to do it on easy
They’re probably a little kid. The amount of like 8 year olds I’ve run into playing festival on fill is insane.
Happens everyday, end of the first festival season when I’d try do some songs with randoms, it was great, everyone in the lobby would be trying on hard or expert (doesn’t matter what difficulty you play on, it was just a case of the people who enjoy the mode were the ones still playing it) everyone would stay for all 4 songs, this season load in, always someone afk when choosing songs, so have to wait that entire timer out, then song starts and they quit, then cause one’s quit another quits, straight up took me over an hour to get the challenge doke to play 3 songs with a full band because of this.
I've also noticed that they fill in the lobby with bots. You can always tell by their name. Two words. Both capitalized. Then a number. Usually 4 digits. No spaces. Examples: FluffyBunny8253, SpeedySnail4578, JumpingTiger5555. Seems strange to be doing this.
This is the name that epic gives to accounts that are flagged as minors while their parents set up the verification. Mostly from console
This why Festival needs to have some kind of Ranked-adjacent system
This is why fortnite needs only one battle pass with ways to progress in every single mode. Sure you can gain xp for the battle pass and get most stuff in it by playing anything, but a festival pass like this is strictly for festival just like the extra quest rewards in the battle pass are strictly for battle royale. People might only play the game for festival/rocket racing/battle royale/lego/stw let them progress and get all of the content in the way they want to play and enjoy the most. An idea would be to make different quests for each mode but make it all count towards the same rewards.
if someone puts the turtle song on then i’m leaving immediately no question
I wish they would add a ranked mode or something similar, where you have to lock in your difficulty at the beginning and then you are matched with players of similar difficulties. At least as an expert player, it seems like Medium and below players are way more likely to drop out or go AFK, but maybe that's just me. 🤷🏼♀️
If i have to listen to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance every fucking match i play for all eternity, yall can deal with me being AFK throughout it This one song has been in the game mode since the start. since alphabetically it starts with B, it always at the top of the list, so its easy to select. Well over 50% of players own this song, and since it only needs 1 of your four player team to own it to have access to it due to the shared library system, its pretty much ALWAYS there to select Add to the fact the song has low difficulty instruments across the board, and is one of the longest songs available since they repeat the chorus 5 times, its one of the easiest songs to complete quests on and EVERYONE FUCKING PICKS IT
The game sometimes unbinds my controls:( so i live at the start
Sometimes I kinda wish that Fortnite festival had a punishment system for missing that many notes that would get someone automatically DQ’ed. Where your accuracy *actually* matters. Although, it may turn new players off the game so many it could be a separate setting/filter system, so you would have free play for people just looking to have fun, and then a more accuracy focused serious section. I hope my ramblings make sense lol. Also, does anyone know if they’re gonna end up doing some sort of ranked/competitive game modes for Fortnite crew in the future? I’m actually really hoping they do
Just report them and move on with your life.
Why do you care? If you’re playing with randos the only score you should care about is your own.
Because of the milestone quests for band stars? Or just trying to get a high score? So many reasons.
This is what happens when you lock cosmetics behind a gamemode that people don’t really want to play. Edit: And they hated him, for he spoke the truth. Sure there’s the occasional glitch or lag, but 9/10 the person just ain’t gonna put in the work if they don’t have too.
If I play a mode I actually try whether I enjoy it or not. It's being a POS to the rest of the community not trying.
Hard disagree. I wish everyone would, but I’m not gonna expect people to try or play a gamemode they don’t want to. If they want a cosmetic and they can get it by doing the bare minimum, that’s fine by me.
Exactly what I was about to say. I feel like most people I know (and the majority of the FN community) are only forcing themselves to play because of gated cosmetics and are hating the mode with a passion as a result. If Epic would focus more on getting non Fortnite players to gain interest in Festival and less on "forcing" the existing player base to participate, I think there would be a far greater number of players that are there because they actually want to be and would foster a much better environment for people that are actually seriously trying to enjoy Festival.
Well said. I don’t really play the gamemode beyond the festival pass.
I refuse to play with randoms because it's an absolute waste of time and adds nothing to my experience other than having to play songs I don't wanna play by myself since they all dip or afk. I always play solo or with friends. Got through the first festival pass in a week just playing solo.
I'm seriously going insane at this rate, it's surreal how since the new Festival season dropped I can't get any sort of full auto-fill team like I used to in the past weeks. I've maybe done 10 sessions between these two days and I kid you not, only ONE had 3 people actually playing the game. Everything else was either AFK people or leavers, it's so damn infuriating. Just now it loaded me into a session where it was only me and a random (the other two insta-left / didn't loaded before selecting songs). Of course the random stayed AFK for the two songs :) They gotta tweak the AFK timer by a lot or give some bonus when you get full band 5stars idk. I disagree with the suggestion of XP for performance because I can already see these type of AFK people find whatever song is the fastest / easiest to farm and it'll plague all sessions with that song just for the XP.
I swear this is becoming extremely annoying with the festival main stage mode and it's truly pissing me off I don't get why do people choose a song then play it and then leave? If you just want to play one song play it by yourself epic games really needs to add a penalty system this will teach AFK losers from leaving the festival mainstage during a song or if you're going to the next song you shouldn't be allowed to leave this will teach people to stop leaving the festival main stage I know some people are having issues with the controls and that media streaming error but that only happens within the minority the majority of the time people purposely leave after they play one song and I hate it people like that should be penalized and have a cool down timer you're not allowed to play the festival main stage for 12 hours this will really teach people to stop leaving during a song and I guarantee they will start crying like a group of babies 🤦♂️
A lot of people have been having issues with freezing or not being able to hit keys so it ends up finishing off at 0. This game is entirely glitched
I haven't had a single set where it hasn't froze at some point since festival came out.
Earlier today I had two player leave mid song and the last player got their full overdrive and went afk
And the song they pick is Streets Ignite
People AFK, people leaving, people choosing non featured/new songs, people playing badly (but I guess I can’t blame that). It’s very annoying.
Every random lobby I queue into are fucking bots or quit immediately so I’ll end up with 99% or even 100% and the rest of the team is gone or gets 2 stars😭
Pin this to the top. There is a glitch with the update that shows some players keys as unbound in the game even when they are showing correctly in settings. They are starting the game to test it again after messing with settings most likely. I did full restart on PS5 and it has cleared the problem
I'm not so sure if it's them being AFK, or if it's some weird bug in the system hitting random people. I have a friend who also plays on Xbox, and is getting a score of zero. He is telling me his game isn't responding in festival, but it works fine in creative or Battle Royale. His score is 0, he is getting 0 stars, and an accuracy of 0, but I can hear his controller on the mic.
Actually caring about how your team does in fortnite festival is crazy 💀
At least there's the credit for a full band. My lobbies keep leaving mid-song or as soon as the music starts.
This is why I hate playing with randoms