Fortnite just made a huge change to reboot cards. The game is always evolving and always making changes to keep things fresh. For eight years, the game has largely revolved around a 100-player PvP fight to the death, so changes like this help to keep it from getting stale or boring. This one, however, totally changes how players stay alive.
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Fortnite Updates Reboot Cards
In Fortnite, you can now, thanks to the latest update this week, buy reboot cards. Previously, they were fairly difficult to come by especially if you didn’t pick it up from your teammate’s fallen loot pile.
Now, you can spend 500 gold bars at the van to get the card and reboot a teammate. Leaker HYPEX revealed this after the Chapter 6 Season 2 weekly patch on Tuesday morning.
In the past, reboot cards were not even a thing. If a player went down and was eliminated, they could only watch their teammate(s) try to salvage the win for them. There was no hope of coming back.
Then, Epic Games added reboot cards. Eventually, they added reboot cards as part of vending machines you could find and use to get the card back if you missed it when it dropped originally (or if it was just too far away).
Now, being able to purchase it at the reboot van is a game-changing feature. No longer do players have to make perilous journeys to dangerous battle zones to retrieve a card. Instead, all they need is 500 gold.
It’s interesting that Epic did this because they didn’t gain anything from it. Gold is an in-game currency that’s free, it’s not like V-Bucks. They seemingly just implemented this to make it easier to reboot.
However, that does blur the lines a little bit between Battle Royale and Reload mode. Reload has respawns. Now, as long as a team has someone with 500 gold, there can essentially be respawns without loot endlessly.
Of course, players can only hold a maximum of 10,000 gold. That means they can buy a reboot card at most 20 times before they have to grind some more gold.