Epic Games introduced a new feature to welcome October 2024. The v31.30 update came in to bring the Fortnite Sleep Mode to players. With this, the popular battle royale game has its own power-saving feature that will effectively conserve energy during gaming sessions. Definitely, this is an innovative addition to the current game that often has players spending most of their time in a day on. Here’s more detail on this new “Sleep Mode” and how you can customize it for your gaming experience.
Understanding Fortnite Sleep Mode
The long hours of waiting are definitely exhaustive of energy resources. Good thing, Epic Games is taking active steps in the preservation without costing you of your gaming hours. This mode is automatically activated once a player has been inactive for a period of time. Moreover, it operates in a low-power mode while online, to preserve the energy and give clarity on other players’ status.
Key Functions of Sleep Mode:
- Automatic Status Update: The player’s status is changed to “Away” once they enter the Sleep Mode. This is to indicate that the user is not actively playing for the time being.
- Voice Chat Deactivation: This turns off the Voice Chat to avoid the unnecessary communication while the player is away.
- Matchmaking Cancellation: It cancels all the ongoing matchmaking processes to make sure that the player won’t enter any game while they remain inactive.
Why Was Sleep Mode Introduced?
With the current changes in several popular game titles, Fortnite came in with a unique addition for most online games. Fortnite’s Sleep Mode seeks to address some of the issues within the game.
- Unintentional AFK (Away From Keyboard): Some players tend to get distracted and stay away from the game longer than they intended. With the sleep mode, players will automatically enter this state once they’ve gone way too long.
- Battery Conservation: Running the game in the background can drain the device batteries quickly for mobile and console players. Through sleep mode, it manages the player’s energy level during gaming sessions.
- Preventing Misunderstandings: This sleep mode also prevents confusion between circles trying to engage in a play with an inactive player.
How to Use Fortnite Sleep Mode
This addition is definitely useful for most Fortnite players. Fortunately, it is easy to activate and customize its settings that will fit your playing style and habits.
Automatic Activation
Epic Games designed Sleep Mode to activate by default after a period of inactivity. However, the duration for this can be set through the settings.
Manual Activation
Further, the players may be apt to enter the Sleep Mode manually by following these steps:
- Open your game menu.
- Select the Exit button.
- Activate this by choosing the “Sleep Mode.”
It is also easy to exit this mode and resume your playing sessions. By simply selecting “Keep Playing” on your Sleep Mode screen lets you deactivate it.
Customizing Sleep Mode Settings
What makes the Fortnite Sleep Mode intriguing is its option for customization. For instance, you may select its time duration to tailor the players’ preferences. Here’s the way to change the mode setting of Sleep Mode:
- Go to the Settings Menu.
- Navigate the Game tab.
- Scroll down to see the Energy Saving section.
- Look for the “Activate Sleep Mode after.”
- Select from the following options:
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- Never
- 5 Minutes
- 10 Minutes
- 15 Minutes
- 30 Minutes
- 60 Minutes
Choosing “Never” will let you activate the Sleep Mode through manual activation only.
Conclusion
Fortnite is definitely stepping up its game features to cope with the rapidly progressing gaming scene. The Sleep Mode may appear unnecessary at first yet, at its core, is a thoughtful addition to the game. It sought to effectively conserve the energy upon the gaming session and provide accurate player status to clear out confusion. Fortunately, it is easy to manually activate or deactivate this feature. Other than that, it adds a custom option to let players decide on the duration of this mode’s effect.
With Epic Games’ new feature, its player community can only expect more innovative features to come in FortniteD
