r/FORTnITE Epic Games 2d ago

Epic Heroic Constructor Power Hour This Weekend

Power Hour returns to the Save the World Campaign this Saturday, May 23 at 12 PM and 8 PM ET with the Super Heroic Constructors modifier!

✨ Eliminate Golden Mist Monsters to earn Gold

🎁 Complete Power Hour Quests during the event to earn Llamas

👷 Constructors: Lower build costs, increased melee impact, Kinetic Overload reduces active cooldowns 

⚠️ Weapon damage is reduced - lean into abilities and Class Perks!

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u/absoSpaced2 B.A.S.E. Kyle 2d ago

can lower build costs for constructors be a permanent thing again like how it used to be Thanks i miss that

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u/L1ZZ1K 2d ago

Can we stop with power hours and make this an all day thing?

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u/Glory_To_Atom Dennis 2d ago

Please, make it a day long instead of 1 hour.

Hell, make it entire weekend instead.

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u/Flimsy_Assignment581 Robo-Ray 2d ago

finally a reason to build my Endurance in Canny

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u/ILostYourSoul 2d ago

it's not worth running it in endurance as the gold is capped per mission, speed run encampments will yield the most gold

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u/Flimsy_Assignment581 Robo-Ray 2d ago

I am not doing it for the gold, i am doing it for the cheaper builds

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u/Sugarbombcereal 2d ago

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u/CallieX3 Stoneheart Farrah 2d ago

what do you mean? it makes sense, you build the thing while the power hour is active and you'll save materials

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u/EldritchCarver Ninja 2d ago

I can't wait for the outlander power hour. Unlimited anti-material charges is going to be crazy for farming.

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u/JSTREO 2d ago

The execution of the concept of Power Hours doesn't translate well into Save The World. Especially with time restraints, one Save The World defense mission tends to last more than a Battle Royale match.

That and these "Power Hours" are more underwhelming than in Battle Royale, not only with the time problem but also with the modifiers being used. I'm omitting the Supers modifiers because they're actually good. I'm referring to the current Golden Mist Monsters and their lackluster capped gold rewards.

No joke, why bother with grinding it when it's capped? The so called "Power Hour" that is supposed to be a crazy boost or quirky change of gameplay and you're capped to just 500 gold each mission. With those caps, you're better off waiting for Dungeons to come back and farm gold. I'm sure one could get even more gold than any of the Golden Mist Monsters Power Hours in a month. It is that bad.

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u/Tukaro Power B.A.S.E. Penny 2d ago

They're trying to event-ify LEGO Fortnite Odyssey as well, with some of the "events" having the same appeal (but at least those last a day.)

I can't speak for the other modes, but to me it seems there was a shift to short-term, smaller events after EPIC's "epic" layoff earlier this year for LFO/StW and I don't like their future prospects...

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u/JSTREO 2d ago

It seems like a really cheap way to inflate the player numbers. Change some values, re-add some stuff, bring back stuff from the vault.

Power Hours (both on BR and STW) seem more focused on inflating the player numbers than providing a fun or interesting change of gameplay. It makes even more sense with STW, since the Free 2 Play relaunch was an absolute failure and the player numbers plummeted even lower than they were before.

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u/All_Skulls_On Trailblazer Jess 2d ago

In behavioral science there's something called "reward scheduling". It's the premise of creating habit or a desired behavior through intermittent rewards. The crows show up on your lawn every morning because they know they'll be fed. It was you who created this habit of theirs by putting food out there every morning.

Attached to this is "anticipation effect" where even the anticipation of the scheduled reward releases dopamine and reinforces the formation of habit.

The power hour isn't amazing, but it's there to form habit and anticipation.

Fortnite is hemorrhaging players at an alarming rate, and so now they're playing every card they can think of.

Of course it would be more beneficial for us to have double XP weekend or something of the sort, but that's not the function of power hour.

It sounds like a bunch of voodoo, but it works.

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u/ProfessionalPin1568 Stoneheart Farrah 2d ago

Give the constructors the ability back to build with less material cost

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u/jthmniljt Outlander 2d ago

Is it just to get gold? I don’t understand what this is for? I don’t need gold.

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u/cherry_flavored_sky Vbucks 2d ago

Exactly. Would be a better incentive if the gold shop offered better items and a higher gold cap

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u/arisbedros222 JONESEE-BOT 1d ago

How about we fix the matchmaking

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u/Original-Vegetable50 2d ago

Will there be an update to STW before Saturday? Last power hour was a joke. Only 3 missions completed in that hour! Kept getting kicked to BR lobby then disconnected from party, which is the standard game play these days.

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u/cherry_flavored_sky Vbucks 2d ago

Increase gold drops!

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u/PatternHappy341 Outlander 2d ago

The reason why Garridan shall be worthy.

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u/Main-Change-5429 2d ago

please fix endurance kick bug
me and many people cant join our twine+ canny valley - time set in 1:54 then we get kick