Fortnite Sidekicks Are Here, Epic Confirms You Can Customize the Appearance of Your Pet Just Once and It's Permanent

Fortnite's Sidekicks, the adorable small pets that travel you connected your Fortnite adventures, person caused rather a disturbance with Fortnite fans — and not needfully for each the close reasons.

As described by Epic Games, Sidekicks are caller pals successful Fortnite that articulation your adventures successful Battle Royale, Fortnite Save the World, Fortnite Festival (your Sidekick volition enactment backstage), LEGO Fortnite, and developer-made experiences (Sidekicks tin lone tag on with you if the Island Developer has enabled Sidekicks successful their island). They fto you "enjoy their institution arsenic they respond to the satellite astir you." You tin plan them yourself, including their property and carnal traits, each of which volition beryllium locked successful arsenic "permanent" details, but you'll beryllium capable to alteration their sanction and accessories — deliberation hats, hoodies, that benignant of happening — astatine immoderate time. And no, they bash not connection a gameplay vantage of immoderate kind, nor tin beryllium wounded oregon killed successful combat. (Phew!)

Fortnite Sidekicks are here. Image credit: Epic Games.

The archetypal is Peels, the ace saccharine pup made of bananas, who'll unlock with tomorrow's (November 1) Battle Pass. More, including Bonesy, Spike, and Lil' Raptor, are acceptable to driblet connected November 7, with thing for feline lovers coming "not agelong after." Bonesy volition beryllium granted to players who ain the Bonesy Back Bling connected the aforesaid date.

So far, truthful cute, right? The spot that's truly raising eyebrows, however, is the cost. As shared connected the Fortnite subreddit, prices volition differ, with Lil' Raptor and Spike costing 1,200 V-Bucks, and Flopsticks and Cuddle Team Jr. a small much costly astatine 1,500. As immoderate are pointing out, this is simply a beauteous steep terms for the caller feature, with the Fishstick-themed Sidekick, Flopstick, costing much than the archetypal 1,200 skin.

Bro… The Sidekick costs much than the archetypal skin. pic.twitter.com/HUi9oqa9N4

It gets adjacent worse, though. Epic has cofirmed you tin customize the quality of your Sidekick 1 clip and it's imperishable (you tin unlock apparel for them, though and tin alteration those whenever you want). This means that if you privation to alteration your pet's colors aft making that initial, imperishable one-time change, you person to bargain the aforesaid favored again.

"You tin customize the Appearance of your Sidekick one time aft obtaining it," Epic said. "You tin acquisition a Sidekick aggregate times and springiness them antithetic Appearances; however, each Sidekick customization you ain successful your Locker indispensable beryllium unique. Duplicate Appearances are not allowed."

"The information they locked customization down needing to bargain the aforesaid favored aggregate times is astir apt the greediest happening Epig [sic] has ever done. Which honestly is simply a immense accomplishment for this company," said 1 unhappy player.

"[This is] the decease of tenable microtransactions successful Fortnite," replied another. "Remember erstwhile they released Wraps, and dissimilar astir games wherever you needed to unlock skins for each weapon individually, wraps could beryllium utilized connected anything? Now we're getting customization locked connected bought items. No crushed for this, but greed."

"Either marque them this terms and person each styles selectable oregon fastener the styles and enactment them astatine 500-600," suggested idiosyncratic else. "If you bash some cipher is gonna bother."

Don't hide that Homer, Marge and co. are coming to Fortnite connected November 1, 2025, with a mini-season that brings Springfield to the conflict royale. Not overmuch is known astir it, different than the villainous alien duo, Kang and Kodos, volition beryllium wreaking havoc connected the Fortnite representation erstwhile Fortnitemares 2025 comes to an end, but here's everything we cognize truthful far, including including commencement times successful your section area, existent teasers, and what to expect.

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