So fucking excited to finally announce what we've been working on!
I can't wait to to help introduce rhythm gaming to a whole new audience as well as continuing to help players connect with music and discover new artists and songs!
Can’t believe we need to post this but - there’s no ‘sex’ in Fortnite Festival.
Our PEGI ratings descriptor refers to sexual references in lyrical content.
Actual 🎸gameplay when ???
Soon™️! We've been cookin' on physical instrument controller support, and it's looking like a next year thing. Before you get too excited, that doesn't mean January next year, but we're working on it, we promise 🫶
Stay tuned (and in-tune) for more.
Y'all are not ready for Paradise City. Genuinely one of the hardest songs so far.
Also, I hope people appreciate the timing of the Cage The Elephant track.
Reminder that
1. Voting with your wallet works and sentiment on social media is a tangible factor
2. Companies are composed of lots of different people with their own unique opinions.
3. That truck looks fucking silly and the CEO of that company is a piece of shit
Really excited to see this change. The Jam Track team works really hard on those 3 tracks every season and I really want everyone to get the chance to play them.
Incoming Battle Pass update:
Items in future Fortnite Battle Passes may be offered for purchase in the Shop after 18 or more months from a Battle Pass’ expiration.
Find out more:
Missed the premiere because I was at the dentist but HOLY FUCKING SHIT IM SO EXCITED.
BATTLE STAGE IS FUN AS FUCK.
METALLICA IS OUR ICON ARTIST
AND WE HAVE SO MANY AMAZING SONGS
There's a bit over 210 songs now w/ six instrument choices and four difficulties each
Can we give some love to the charters for 5,000+ different charts in Festival already? Absurd for just over six months 🔥
Yeah we definitely weren't done with heavy music for the season.
Super excited to see folks get into the Final Countdown solo and Unsainted drum part especially.
Two fantastic tracks from two legendary 90s rock bands
two 90s hip-hop classics
a 00s pop classic
two 2010s pop classics
and a super new track from Glass Animals
If you can't find at least one song you like in this list, then I have questions for ya.
I absolutely love how much we were all able to do with this Metallica partnership.
Dope shit in BR
Dope shit in RR
Dope shit in Lego
Dope shit in Festival
If you guessed Ride the Lightning yesterday, you were half right! 😉
I was the gameplay producer for BOTH Ride the Lightning and Metallica Loot Island!! ⚡🤘
#FortniteWrecked
#Metallica
Hella excited my team was able to work on another rad Green Day track.
Also, note the "may be available for purchase in the Fortnite Shop at a later day"
Also also, WE'RE ANNOUNCING NEW JAM TRACKS IN 52 MINUTES AND THEY'RE PRETTY DAMN COOL AND I'M EXCITED
Associate no longer. I'm now officially just a regular Producer!
I'm still basically doing all of the same things I was already doing, just now with more...
✨PRESTIGE✨
Forcing people to go work in offices when they've shown for the past 3 years that they can work from home and lose zero productivity is some clown shit.
No one fucking cares how prestigious you think your studio is, no one wants to get underpaid, commute, AND pay 3k+ in rent.
one of the folks on my team brought it up that this week marks our 200th song in just under 6 months.
I'm so absolutely grateful for my incredible team of folks who mix, author, implement, and test these Jam Tracks.
Also I'm grateful to everyone who plays them!
I'm now officially understanding how the Overwatch and Valorant devs feel when it comes to high level and lower level players having completely separate types of feedback on balance.
We got two more Karol G bangers
Two newer hits that I genuinely really enjoy
and an absolute high school classic for me
SHAWTYSS LIKE A MELODY IN MY HEADDDD
THAT I CANT KEEP OUT GOT ME SINGING LIKE
NA NA NA NA EVERYDAY
Missed the premiere because I was at the dentist but HOLY FUCKING SHIT IM SO EXCITED.
BATTLE STAGE IS FUN AS FUCK.
METALLICA IS OUR ICON ARTIST
AND WE HAVE SO MANY AMAZING SONGS
Festival feels SO much better. Seems the highway is running at 120 FPS now
Check out the new Battle Pass songs The Claw and For Latveria. Two of the best Epic songs so far
Code JPARA to support with the new Battle/Festival passes!
#EpicPartner
Appreciate the shout-out!
Also fucking wild that I've been watching content from these guys since like 2018 and now we're all doing some real cool shit.
I'm still impressed we were able to get Get Low in Fortnite. Absolutely wild song but so damn fun.
Also, I'm happy we're able to release Light Em Up and Gangnam Style into the store so folks who missed out on S1's Festival Pass can get em!
also these 3 free Festival Pass songs are rad as hell.
"Dreamer" from Amplitude (shoutout to
@stevepardo
)
"The Night Porter" from DropMix/FUSER
"S.O.M.P." the shredfest track that you've heard every time you open Rock Band 4
Hey festies 👋
With v30.00, we’ll be adding expanded accessibility options for the Pro Lead & Pro Bass song parts introduced with Season 3. This includes the ability to play these song parts without a supported guitar controller!
Strum on over:
Pro Lead and Pro Bass are out in the world now!
Time to brush the dust off that plastic guitar and play through all your owned songs in a whole new way!
In addition to Jam Tracks, I've been the producer on Patchwork for the past few months and we just shipped this device that lets you sync MIDI, audio and level sequences with Patchwork.
This device is POWERFUL and I can't wait to see what people do with it!
It's wild to think that I produced about 250 songs on Rock Band since I took up the mantle in early 2022.
It was an honor to be part of this legendary franchise and I'm so thankful that the community welcomed me in with open arms.
HYBRID THEORY ERA LINKIN PARK (this album was my entire childhood)
A FANTASTIC RAP BANGER (that's def just promoting healthy eating)
A WILD MODERN RAP TAKE ON A 90s BANGER
AN EARLY 00s POP CLASSIC
and a nice lil treat for anyone who missed out on maps in the Festival Pass :)
Similar to most other metalhead guitarists in the world, Metallica were absolutely pivotal for me growing up. The intro riff for One was one of the first I ever learned and played Seek & Destroy in my high school talent show.
I'm so unbelievably excited we got them for Festival
So much cool shit being added here including the CANTINA BAND SONG!!!!!
It's an absolute blast to play and I can't wait for you all to see for yourselves!
Also, real ones know the REAL name of the genre.
You heard right, the Harmonix plugin (currently listed as experimental) is available to the world in UE 5.4 and it has a LOT of amazing tools for connecting music to gameplay.
QUAD ARI TIME
Also happy to bring another GH3 classic to Festival w/ Bulls on Parade. I think this might be my favorite version of the scratch part so far.
Gratitude and goodbyes are the common themes shared by The Calling “Wherever You Will Go,” Dido “Thank You,” and Rusted Root “Send Me On My Way,” and parting is such sweet sorrow. This new DLC is available on Thursday.
So today is my first day as Community Manager for
@Harmonix
! Super excited to become a permanent member and move into a new position with new challenges and possibilities.
It's been a weird and winding journey to get to this point but I'm incredibly excited and ready to start!
Also, we have some Jam Track updates!
We've applied some recent learnings to some of the tracks we did early on so they are hopefully a bit more fun now.
Oh, you wanna Pea Like Me? Become Lord of the Wasteland? You're gonna need to use some Fire and Steel 😏
Unlock these Ch5 S3 Battle Pass bangers, and then play them as Jam Tracks in Fortnite Festival!
This is an absolutely wild week. We got some 90s and 00s rock classics, some modern pop bangers and hoooooo boy Ella Baila Sola has some real fun authoring choices. I'm really curious to see what people think of that one.
Real excited to do some fun stuff with ??? this week.
Also, I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller.
Also also, IF EVERYTHING COULD EVER FEEL THIS REAL FOREVER
to clarify, I have no idea why it's taking longer. There's much smarter people who do these build updates and stuff.
I just was planning on taking the afternoon off to play BR a bunch but now I'm just working instead.
I'm right there with y'all waiting.
With the exception of "because dunking on less skilled players is fun" does a good argument against Skill Based Match Making actually exist?
Genuinely curious.
Missed the premiere because I was at the dentist but HOLY FUCKING SHIT IM SO EXCITED.
BATTLE STAGE IS FUN AS FUCK.
METALLICA IS OUR ICON ARTIST
AND WE HAVE SO MANY AMAZING SONGS
Realizing how many of my current favorite artists I discovered through my work on RB4 and Festival:
Origami Angel & Mom Jeans (credit to Troy for these)
Spiritbox
I Prevail
The Devil Wears Prada (knew of them but didn't listen much in the old days)
Pigspigspigspigspigspigspigs
Get ready to rock! Introducing the RIFFMASTER Wireless Guitars for Xbox and PlayStation.
Be one of 1st to play this Spring by entering our giveaway via the link in our bio. Winners will be selected 3/1. 🎸🎮
#playpdp
#RIFFMASTER
#rockband4
#PlayStation
#xbox
New Festival season on the horizon? That means new Leaderboards are coming soon 🤘🔥
Consider this your encore! Rock out & leave your legacy on the Main Stage Leaderboards before Season One concludes.
Learn more about our seasonal Leaderboard plans here:
@benprunty
'The ones who respond to messages on nights on weekends also make the most money'
and I'm SURE their partners LOVE that and feel like they see them enough. And their kids TOTALLY feel like they see enough of that parent as well.
@MonteCristo
AKA if Dallas loses, everyone will be so busy flaming Jayne that no one will flame Effect or Zach like they normally do. Jayne is out here jumping on grenades.
As stated here, there's a bug with specific HOPO notes (like that single green pull-off in the Master of Puppets verse riff) you can either strum it or fret it after having no other frets pressed and it should work.
We're working on a proper fix for it.