Epic Games has reversed course on its decision to make Fortnite’s weekly quests expire after seven days – a change introduced at the start of the popular battle royale’s most recent season.
Prior to the start of Chapter 4 Season 1, weekly quests would release over the course of a Fortnite season and stick around until the end. It meant you could log on at any point and complete the challenges after they were released, without the FOMO-inducing need to finish them within a set timeframe.
Since the start of this season, however, weekly quests were changed to offer a more heavily-themed set of challenges which have just seven days to complete, including several with multiple quest steps (that Epic Games has, in a previous update, already made easier).
Fans complained about the change, and said it meant they could no longer log on at their leisure and complete quests to earn battle pass rewards and XP on their own timeframe.
Some players, for example, leave a lot of this levelling until the end of the season – when it’s quite easy to knock off lots of challenges at once through normal play, rather than picking them off as they’re released one by one.