Fortnite Festival - Five Seasons In

Metallica is HERE! What an exciting season we've had. Here's the current state of Fortnite Festival!

0:00 - Intro
2:05 - Harmonix History Lesson
2:29 - Battle Stage Thoughts
3:33 - Complaints
5:43 - Cool New Features
6:33 - Outro

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[SwiftyStardust]

I still wish they'd give us the option to customize our band for solo play. Like, I'm not asking for full character creation or anything, but wouldn't it be awesome to pick three skins from your locker to be your bandmates instead of being stuck with that stupid purple horse again?

[thatguynamedhunter]

The timing of this video when they said for season 5 they’re doing a restart and replay function lol

[MrwhopperGaming]

Him: where’s the fuckin restart button
Epic and Harmonix seconds later: I think you want to take a seat😂🤩

[mardiman]

The restart button was on the first week of season 1 of fortnite festival, and after that it's gone. So they have done it before, but then removed it for some reason or another.

[Mathtriqueur]

Still wondering why private battle stage only 4 players matches in a gamemode where the public limit is 16.

[interviolet]

I wish they would animate the crowds better along with introducing more characters for variety, and for god's sake adjust the way the band is animated too it's weird to watch james hetfield dance awkwardly like a male stripper lmao

[PatoChu]

My biggest complaint with this season and Festival overall is how damn expensive the Jam Tracks are... like seriously lmao 5 dollars for 1 song is ridiculous... the fact you can't even play the full song in Battle Royale is what really bothers me. I'm paying 5 dollars for a song and I can only play a certain instrument on a 20-30 second loop... 💀

[lanceams]

Glad we are getting the restart button confirmed, but a practice mode should be one of the next major additions to the game. I'd also like to be able to play at previous venues in the game (or at random), and change out the bandmates to whatever skins I own when I play solo. I might not want to play as Vegeta every time I play, but having him as my stand-in singer when I'm Goku on Lead would be really fun. Plus, I'm tired of seeing the same 5-6 Fortnite skins playing with me, there's only so much of that creepy unicorn I can take.
They've been adding more animations over time, but I also want some more camera angles like we had in Guitar Hero and maybe even some of the camera effects like we saw in a few Rock Bands. The stages have all been reskins of the same stage, so I'd also love to see (in future season since this upcoming season is also just a reskin) some more variety in the stage design. Make each band member further apart on some intricate platforms, or keep them all close on one like a traditional stage. Maybe make a runway with the singer at the end, while the bass and lead players stay on the sides and drums up in the back. I don't need some of the crazy stuff that we saw in some of the later Guitar Heroes like an Ice Fortress or playing on the back of a Robo-Titan, simple yet uniquely different stages to change the visuals up.

[dracopliskin]

0:47 for me it feels like hammer-ons and pull-offs just don't register sometimes seemingly for no reason. it could be the confusing calibration system which i feel i still haven't figured out yet despite messing with it numerous times but idk. i'd be willing to accept it just being a skill issue if i at least had the ability to practice certain sections of songs : \

[Lyndis_]

The lack of offline and local multiplayer can't be understated. It may be built off Fortnite, which is online and live service but for a game like Rock Band where they expect you to buy songs the lack of guarantee I'll actually get to keep them makes me hesitant to ever. Not to mention the game becoming completely unplayable when something is happening with Fortnite that requires the servers go down. You're also never going to get your friends over to play Festival with you because they can't.

[MetalSonic]

A good video on Fortnite Festival and the state of it at the moment.

[PatoChu]

There was a restart button back in Season 1/2 but due to some bugs they had to remove it... I'm not sure why it's not back though...

[cmyk]

My main complaint about Battle Stage is that so many people disconnect that the match is pointless because all of us qualify by default. I’ve had 5 person matches with 1 DC, 6 person matches with 2 DCs, even 10 person matches with 2 DCs.

[oliviafortnite]

the game did let you restart songs back in season 1 but it was removed cause it was bugged, its back for season 5 though and you can now restart after finishing too which is nice

[WaifuDealer]

Honestly this video speaks for the community I agree with everything you said

[xViperGTR]

If they’re gonna make Battle Stage decent they NEED a 1v1 mode where it’s like Guitar Hero 3’s battles like how we had against Tom Murello and Slash.

[ASCENSiON_]

After mass frustration from the community within the past few weeks of this season, I can tell next season's video is gonna be an interesting one...

[toxicman]

The jam stage idea is great. Definitely has potential to be good.

[stCenturyGuy]

I do like the various genres they have Incorporated into Festival so far. R&B with Season 1, Pop with Season 2, Alt Pop For Season 3, Metal for Season 4, and Reggaeton foe Season 5. That being said I am so not interested in the Icon this season tho she is a good excuse to put more Latin hits into the game, hopefully more than just Reggaeton. But because of this I have no insensitive to play this Festival Season outside of whatever weekly tracks we get. I am definitely much more excited for next season tho.

[rubenrave]

I believe the Metalica season is by far my favorite we have had. It really hit close to home with the song choices they have made as I am a person who grew up playing Guitar hero and Rock Band. Im really enjoying festival, but I wish there was more for what you can do, mainly in the battle stage. it would be cool if there was like a "Battle of the bands" type thing where it is similar to battle stage, but its 2 or more full bands. I also wish there was more customization you could do, like change board design, or maybe the note colors. Maybe have theme color palette sets and bring back being able to see other players note boards like we could in Rock Band! One more change I would make is the color of the overdrive. I use the pro-colors on controller because they help me decipher which note is which due to me being visually impaired and the yellow overdrive makes it hard to see the end notes, especially the orange notes, but its mainly a nit-pick of mine. The new season stage is honestly very nice looking. Its just very magical, even though I have no idea who Karol G is, at least the ashetic is good lol.