Fortnite Festival Season 3 Adds Guitar Controllers, Billie Eilish, And One Of The Greatest Bands Ever

Another season of Fortnite Festival has brought us a new Festival Pass and a new Icon skin with Billie Eilish, but the biggest bit of news at the start of Season 3 may be that Fortnite Festival now supports guitar controllers.

With Eilish as this season’s headliner, the Festival pass has undergone some significant changes to structure it more like the event passes, like the current

The new jam tracks on the premium track of the Festival pass are:

• Oxytocin by Billie Eilish
• Friday I’m In Love by The Cure (This is the one referenced in the title, by the way)
• Youngblood by 5 Seconds of Summer
• Maps by Maroon 5

Unlike the previous Festival headliners, Eilish only has one skin right now, the one that’s available with the Festival pass, though Epic promises that Eilish will get a new Item Shop skin later in the season to coincide with her upcoming album release. For now, though, Eilish will have three new jam tracks available in the shop–“Happier Than Ever,” “Therefore I am” and “all the good girls go to hell”–as well as two emotes, dubbed “bad guy” and “you should see me in a crown.” And yes, the lack of capital letters is intentional–it’s a Gen Z thing, just go with it.

Developing story: Guitar controllers are cool again.

As mentioned above, the addition of support for guitar controllers is another huge story for the new season. As of the start of Season 3, Festival officially supports three guitar controllers: the Rock Band 4 Fender Stratocaster, the Rock Band 4 Fender Jaguar, and the brand-new PDP Riffmaster R controller.

Guitar controllers will have their own separate guitar and bass charts for each song, as well as their own leaderboards–if you’re stuck on a regular gamepad, you won’t be competing against guitar folks for high scores. Epic promises more news about instrument controllers in the relative near future–support for plastic drums may be on the horizon.