Ways Season 8 Improves Fortnite
Party Assist
We’ve all been there. A new set of weekly challenges drops and you sigh as you see another annoying “Deal damage with X weapon type” or “Search Chests in Y named location.” These aren’t always the most enjoyable to complete, and are often the most time-consuming, especially if you’re RNG luck just isn’t all that great.
That’s where the introduction of Party Assist in Fortnite Season 8 comes to save the day. Simply put, you can head into the Challenges tab from the lobby menu, select a challenge you’re struggling on, and enable this feature. In doing so, your entire squad of teammates’ can help you progress on that challenge.
Fortnite’s challenges should be fun, and for the most part, they are. Other times, you’d rather just see the back of them so you can get the secret star or secret banner, collect that chunk of XP, and boost your Battle Pass tier in the process.
The fact that Party Assist allows you to choose which challenges you use it on, and only allows you to use it on one at a time means you don’t have to use it, but it’s there for when you just have to clear that one off your ‘Suggested Challenges’ list.
Party Assist is the kind of feature that offers the best of both worlds for Fortnite players — accessibility for those that want it, and no change to those who don’t — and that can only help to retain its enormous player base moving forward in light of the competition.
