Epic Games is making a major change to battle passes that should remove some angst if you can’t buy or complete a pass before the end of a season. battle passes offer a bunch of exclusive in-game rewards that you can only obtain during an individual season, but that means you might entirely miss out on rewards if you can’t level up enough or don’t buy the pass before it expires. To help alleviate that pressure, Epic that items from future battle passes might be available in item shop to buy at least 18 months after the pass expires.
Epic’s battle pass policy adjustment is intended in part to let people buy outfits featuring licensed crossovers even if they miss a season’s battle pass, the company writes in its blog post. (Some of the game’s best skins, like and , have only available to players who bought previous battle passes featuring those characters.) Every type of item in a battle pass is eligible to show up in the shop, Epic says, including “Outfits, Back Blings, Pickaxes, Emotes, Instruments, Decals, Wraps, Loading Screens, Banner Icons, and more.
” However, items from battle passes won’t be guaranteed to show up in the item shop after that 18 month window, so if you see something you want in a pass, you should probably get it while the pass is still available. This change will kick in with the game’s next season, Epic spokesperson Stephanie Thoensen tells . The ends on August 16th.
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