A Step-by-Step Guide to Hiring a Character in Fortnite
Looking to spice up your Fortnite gameplay by unlocking new characters?
This article explores different methods for unlocking characters in Fortnite, such as purchasing them with V-Bucks, completing challenges, and utilizing the Battle Pass. We also discuss the benefits of hiring characters, the various types available, and how to choose the right one for your playstyle.
Stay tuned for tips on making the most out of your character selection and enhancing your overall Fortnite experience.
Contents
- Key Takeaways:
- How to Unlock Characters in Fortnite?
- What are the Benefits of Hiring Characters in Fortnite?
- What are the Different Types of Characters in Fortnite?
- How to Choose the Right Character for Your Playstyle?
- Tips for Hiring Characters in Fortnite
- Conclusion: Hiring Characters Can Enhance Your Fortnite Experience
- Frequently Asked Questions
- 1. How do I hire a character in Fortnite?
- 2. Can I hire more than one character at a time?
- 3. Do hired characters have any special abilities in Fortnite?
- 4. How long will a hired character stay with me in Fortnite?
- 5. Can I customize the hired character’s appearance in Fortnite?
- 6. What happens to a hired character after their time has expired?
Key Takeaways:
How to Unlock Characters in Fortnite?
Characters in Fortnite are unlocked through the fortnite item shop, battle passes, and events. The Item Shop includes Fortnite bundles as well as individual items. These items (including characters) are available for temporary periods known as rotations. Find and purchase the character from the Shop during the rotation they are available, and they will be unlocked in your locker. Battle Passes grant access to specific characters within the game; earn the required amount of experience to unlock characters from within the Battle Pass.
Purchasing Characters with V-Bucks
The most common way to get a character in Fortnite is to purchase them using V-Bucks. V-Bucks are the in-game currency that can be acquired by completing challenges, buying them at the V-Bucks store from Fortnite, or as rewards for doing activities in “Save the World”.
The price points for buying characters in Fortnite are as follows:
- 350 V-Bucks: *The Major Lazer Character* is the only character in Fortnite which costs 350 V-Bucks and is the cheapest V-Buck-Her price.
- 800 V-Bucks: There are a couple or few dozen characters that cost 800 V-Bucks. This is the most common price point for Fortnite characters.
- 1500 V-Bucks: There are a couple dozen characters at this V-Buck price point.
- 2000 V-Bucks: A small number of characters sell for this amount of V-Bucks.
- V-Bucks and Different Currencies: The minimum purchase is 1000 units in the local currency of the Fortnite player.
Pros of buying the Fortnite characters with V-Bucks are that V-bucks are free of cost if players earn them by playing minigames or levelling up. V-Bucks can easily be acquired in the game by taking on daily tasks as others are up to purchase them to make in-game purchases, or by buying a save the world battle pass that can give you a minimum of 1500 V-Bucks.
Cons of purchasing Fortnite characters using V-Bucks are that accessories, skins, weapons, etc., can be bought using V-Bucks which means players need to spend real money in case they run out of V-Bucks. If left wondering how to get more V-Bucks, the game doesn’t offer enough V-Bucks in exchange for real money, which makes it more complicated to get additional V-Bucks to pay.
Completing Challenges and Missions
Inside of Fortnite, characters can be hired by completing daily and weekly challenges and missions that give Bars as a reward. Every in-match day (approximately 20 minutes), a new set of Daily Challenges is unlocked. These include destroying trees or cars, visiting multiple named locations, using utility items such as a jump pad or campfire, and two or three random challenges. They are worth anywhere from 1 to 10 Bars, and whether or not you complete them, daily challenges disappear when a new set unlocks.
At the start of a new week, weekly challenges unlock. These tend to involve completing quests over multiple days, searching for hidden loot, or doing damage using specific crafting materials. They all grant Bars as a reward, ranging from 1 to 60 Bars. In the Campaign they are referred to as completed quests and are worth more.
These challenges (along with Challenges like Alien Artifacts and Bunker Chests) are featured in the course of a match and are tracked in the pause menu. All of the challenges being pursued and how close you are to completing them are tracked, which really comes in handy if you are doing multiple challenges across days.
Unlocking Characters through Battle Pass
In Chapter 3 of Fortnite’s second season, Agent John Jones asks the Imagined Order to release imaginary agents who have been captured in the Imagined Order’s servers. He specifically asks the character Kevin the Cube to be released. The purpose is to prepare for a new reality where if they are ultimately destroyed, Fortnite agents will cease to exist.
Once they are released, Isabelle**, the Imagined Order Secretary, will detonate a bomb at the center of the map which will trigger the formation of a mothership called the Creature. Players will build this mothership and bring it to life as the Chief Creative Officer of Epic Games, Donald Mustard**, watches their progress via a monitor on the mothership headquarters building. There is a series of special quests and actions that players need to perform to build the mothership, and starting almost as soon as the mothership Character challenges are completed, players will begin to build a Mothership Monster Mob using offg jets.
Players who complete the Mothership Character tasks will be able to summon the giant creature in game and control it. As this is far from the historical norm for Fortnite characters, Google trends shows great interest in these instructions and posts about Fortnite mothership challenges.
What are the Benefits of Hiring Characters in Fortnite?
- Added health points boost to survive an enemy assault.
- Added bespoke attack options or passive ability beyond standard weapons.
- Access to exclusive fortnite quests enhancing game experience.
- Easy affordable access to licensed inr-game characters from Marvel, DC, Days of our lives, Original Characters, and other medias.
- Added light-heartedness and humor to the game.
These are some of the benefits of hiring characters in Fortnite. They have either a unique ability beyond the standard weapons or some boost to standard abilities of all Fortnite characters. All Fortnite trading characters have 100 health points compared to their non-player foes who only have 60 health points. Their health bar appears in purple showing that they have 40 temporary health points above 100 making them harder to take out.
Unique Abilities and Skills
These are the unique abilities and skills put into character in Fortnite so you can have experiences with characters dealing with different situations by having different weapons and ways to advance the objectives. Examples include:
- MYTHIC Characters such as Doctor Victor Von Doom, Wolverine, Iron Man, and soon Spider-Man have special abilities and are especially strong. They need to be accessed by finding their distinctive weapons and can only be used by the player with whom it originally picked up with.
- Grit from Saving Private Ryan was specially designed to indicate special skills.
Customization Options
Customization options refer to the different character skin designs in Fortnite, some of which you can buy and others that are earned for free. Players can choose each character’s skin before a gameplay round in the locker menu. After clicking a character, you can pick any skin you have for that character. Whether you are opening a loot box, participating in a special event, or just purchasing a skin outright through V-Bucks, there is no shortage of custom clothing, hats, and gear to add to your character. Many skins are both for sale and as gifts, but there are many free skins that are given by Fortnite for graduation to different game levels, watching specific movie events in Party Royale, or as a bonus for purchasing things. The default skin for a character is decided by Fortnite and can be changed anytime by the player.
Improved Gameplay Experience
Fortnite characters are hired in bundles of 9 so you must wait to hire a character until the next Fortnite Crew release. This improves the gameplay experience by giving players clear defined options and time to learn how to play each character effectively. Character bundles typically last for a period of one month. Latest subscription details can be found at the official Epic Games Fortnite website.
What are the Different Types of Characters in Fortnite?
There are three different types of characters in Fortnite.
- Battle Pass Characters: These are characters that can be purchased with V-bucks or by unlocking them in the battle pass.
- Item Shop Characters: These are characters that can only be purchased with V-bucks as an individual item in the Item Shop.
- Agents: These are characters that are unlocked during an active Fortnite season and are generally planned to be playable for an entire season but can unlock rewards for progressing in character-specific challenges
Default Characters
A default character in Fortnite is the characters the player starts the game with. In Fortnite teams, each new player is assigned the Jonesy character which acts as a default character acting as a placeholder until a cosmetic character is chosen. Each character skin in Fortnite has a unique appearance and outfit associated with it, as well as a personality. The skin determines almost all of what the new character looks like.
Special Event Characters
Some characters are obtained by purchasing a battle pass that is either earned through gameplay or bought directly. Others are exclusive special event characters which means that their appearances may be limited at some point in the future. These special event characters are among the most difficult (and often expensive) to unlock, as they are typically found only in store bundles that occasionally only last a day or a few days. Once these bundles are removed from the store, these characters (and their pickaxes, backpacks, and other items if they have them) may not be available for purchase again.
Fortnite special event characters can be unlocked by following the Fortnite Item Shop and paying close attention to new offerings. As of 2020, special event characters make up a small percentage of all Fortnite characters relative to battle royale or save the world. As such, players cannot typically use Vbucks or real money to get them at will.
Licensed Characters
These are characters that Epic Games has acquired exclusive rights to feature in Fortnite. Sometimes these rights are exclusive and limited to Fortnite, sometimes they are shareable, and sometimes they can be time-bound. This was used in the release of the Marvel and DC superhero skins which now is a key aspect of Fortnite’s unique position in online gaming. Here’s an overview of the most popular licensed Fortnite characters.
- DC Comics
- Batman and Zero
- Marvel
- Six seasons worth of battle pass features beginning with Chapter 2 Season 4 which focused on the Avengers. The most notable includes Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hulk, Wolverine, and Silver Surfer.
- Star Wars
- The Mandalorian, Marauders, and an Imperial Trooper Armor Set. The Stormtroopers made an appearance during the Star Wars back in Chapter 2 Season 1.
Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 4 featured outfits from the Marvel universe. Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 5 included a revenue-sharing agreement with a record number of video gaming influencers from the Fortnite community. The original video game influencers gave their outfits to Fortnite and were immortalized as 2021 ICON series skins.
Character brands from games, movies, fixed books, and real people offer Epic Games new content to infuse into the Fortnite universe. Every few seasons a new theme is released – Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Rick & Morty, DC Comics, Travis Scott, Marshmallow, and most recently the Prison Break series Squid Game. These are all licensed characters representing the highest quality form of skins in the Fortnite universe.
How to Choose the Right Character for Your Playstyle?
To choose the right character for your playstyle, first decide which weapon you would most like to use. Once you settle on the weapon, pick your character based on skills that most closely compliment that item.
For instance, if you decide to play with a Sniper rifle because you have reasonable experience with long-distance shooter games, you would choose Rey as Survivre’s best character because she receives a 20% damage boost while aiming her sniper rifle. Often referred to as survivor skins, these characters are ideal for victory in the battle royale as opposed to arenas.
Here are easy-to-play weapon suggestions with their aligned best characters. Again, ensuring a match between your chosen weapon and character perks is the most effective way to maximize character utility and your survival rate.
Tips for Hiring Characters in Fortnite
- Collect Gold Bars: Gold bars are obtained in-game by opening chests, finishing quests or missions, and can be used to unlock and then hire characters from NPCs.
- Choose the Right Character for Your Playstyle: each Florida profile has unique strengths and weaknesses, and they also bring unique questlines to the game.
- Test Drive the Character Before Buying: some Florida profiles will give you dialogue options to do a kind of character emulation, which allows you to get a sense of how the character fits into your preferred style.
- Complete Character Quests: Florida characters have unique lore, abilities, and styles which are worth unlocking by completing their quests. These quests require you to have first hired the character, or dialogued with them.
Focus on Characters with Unique Abilities
In Fortnite, few characters are quantifiably superior to others. For example, in a competitive game like Omega Legends where each character has unique abilities, some characters are considered tier-one (or superior), such as Tagger from Phase 2, and tier-two, and some are considered tier-three (or weaker).
Fortnite players will therefore want to select characters based on the unique capabilities of the character that best match the skills of the player. For example, if a player has a better mastery of the shotgun and building mechanics, it might benefit them to use the abilities of Fate over Delirium for a 1v1. If they instead want to play a long game with a character suited to surviving a complex, difficult environment, they might consider Reese’s counterbalance to the Chug Splash Meta.
Having a roster of at least three characters to be able to switch between provides these advantages while providing flexibility for different game situations. Four out of the five identified factors in selection will assist in the following benefits of shared transfer versus not variations in performance based on the character. Characters with unique abilities are the primary reason players switch characters.
Consider Your Playing Style
Your playing style matters because some characters will have abilities that help you attack, while others will have abilities that help you defend. Those that have shield abilities such as Stony, Heavy in the Marvel series or Shanty in general for example are great if you like to build heavycover when you play.
Conversely, characters with powers like Czar, J.B.Ching, Emerald and Menace in the Marvel series, who are able to quickly replace an opponents piece with one of their own structure material, are great abilities for those who like to push hard and attack.
Keep an Eye on New Releases and Events
New Skins and Characters are always released during Fortnite events. During the Zero Crisis Finale Event on March 16 2021, Jonesy, Drift, and Renegade Raider were all released as buyable skins. Agent Jones and Raven, who are also from the Zero Crisis storyline, are now available in-game on a traditional character hire basis. These characters will populate in the environment according to the event.
Don’t Spend All Your V-Bucks on Characters
If a new character you really like is made available in the Fortnite in-game shop, you can already have the 3500 V-Bucks saved up to buy them. If a new character is leaked but there is no set date for their availability, it’s best to be reserved in your spending and opt not to spend V-Bucks at all or limit what you spend. If a new character is added by level as was the case with Marvel and Rising Fortnite characters, it’s easy to plan in advance. Whether spending or limiting is best for you, don’t overextend yourself so that you have to spend real-world money. Spending all your V-Bucks can lead to FOMO (the fear of missing out) and make it difficult to balance real-world finances.
Conclusion: Hiring Characters Can Enhance Your Fortnite Experience
This guide shows how easy it is to hire a character in Fortnite even if the feature is generally underused by players. Characters can be hired by going to the hire-a-character booths located in various places around the map and choosing from available characters, each with unique abilities and prices. Players can pay in gold bars, rainbow bars, or for a limited selection of characters in sparkplug tokens. Characters will then drop into the game as ordinary NPCs, cooperating and combatting as events warrant, until they are eliminated.
Use of characters can add flavor to a game, provide useful sidekicks for completing quests, give you a better chance in combat, or just provide companionship during long walks across the Fortnite map. It is not an essential or widely used feature of the game, but it does provide something special for players to experience above the ordinary Fortnite activity. Characters cost <200> gold bars upwards.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How do I hire a character in Fortnite?
To hire a character in Fortnite, you will first need to open the game and navigate to the “Locker” tab. From there, you can select the “Characters” section and browse through the available characters. Once you have found a character you want to hire, simply click on them and select the “Hire” option.
2. Can I hire more than one character at a time?
Yes, you can hire multiple characters at once in Fortnite. However, keep in mind that each character comes with a cost, so make sure you have enough in-game currency before hiring more than one character.
3. Do hired characters have any special abilities in Fortnite?
Some characters in Fortnite do come with special abilities that can give you an advantage in the game. However, not all hired characters have these abilities, so make sure to check their descriptions before hiring them.
4. How long will a hired character stay with me in Fortnite?
Hired characters in Fortnite will stay with you for a limited amount of time, which varies depending on the character. Some may stay with you for a few matches, while others may stay with you for a set amount of time, such as 24 hours.
5. Can I customize the hired character’s appearance in Fortnite?
Yes, you can customize the appearance of your hired character in Fortnite. This includes changing their outfit, back bling, and pickaxe. However, keep in mind that these customizations may also come at an additional cost.
6. What happens to a hired character after their time has expired?
Once a hired character’s time has expired, they will no longer be available to use in your game. You will have to hire them again if you wish to continue using them. However, any customizations you have made to the character will still be saved for future use.
