The Fortnite community has discovered yet another exploit to boost their season XP faster than intended. Epic Games has tried to make Fortnite seasons as balanced as possible so that those that bought the Battle Pass wouldn't get through it too fast.
This time around, Epic Games' solution to this issue was to make Weekly Quests temporary instead of a season-long feat for everyone to complete at their own pace. This means that gamers only have seven days to get through all Weekly Quests because once new ones are released, the previous quests will no longer be available.
This definitely adds some pressure to complete the Battle Pass. For those that played actively, it was always a breeze to get to level 100 but now only those that play regularly and focus on finishing these tasks will be guaranteed to finish it.
This week, the community has found a way to trick the game into thinking that the player has played more matches than they actually have. The exploit makes it much easier to finish a particularly difficult quest that has been released as part of this week's temporary Weekly Quests.
Fortnite fans have until the end of the week to play a total of 56 matches; this is part of a five-stage quest that requires players to continuously increase the number of matches they play each stage. Once a new stage is initiated, the counter starts back from zero; it starts out with only one match and by stage five they'll have to play 25 matches.
The exploit works because the game seems to think that each time the player opens their glider and lands, they've started a new match and so it counts towards quest progress.
Players have found two ways to do this:
- activating the Aerialist Reality Augment during a Battle Royale match - this augment allows players to redeploy their glider anytime during a match.
- playing Party Royale or Team Rumble - it's always possible to redeploy the glider when playing a Party Royale or Team Rumble match.
Once glider redeploy is available, either one way or another, the next step is to jump off something. To speed things up it doesn't even need to be a relatively high place - jumping in the water or from a one-story high location is enough. Each time the player touches the ground, the game will think another match has been played and this can be done until all stages have been completed.
Fortnite is available now on Mobile, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.