Month: February 2025

Fortnite Season 8 got off to a slow start in the eyes of many players, thanks largely to a faulty seasonal XP system that offered too few challenges for too little XP. Epic fielded complaints from players for weeks and promised a fix. Now that it’s here, it’s plain to see things are much improved. XP is now more generously awarded to players completing challenges.

Prior to the Fortnite 18.10 patch, players were kept from leveling up their battle pass quickly thanks to a dearth of both challenges and XP per each challenge. Today’s patch addresses both of those complaints. For starters, the daily XP gains have increased from 17,000 XP per challenge to 30,000, and each player can unlock three dailies at this nearly doubled rate.

NPC quests have also vastly improved. The old system would award a growing number of XP with each subsequent quest in a character’s five-part questline, totaling 80,000 XP by the end of any questline. Now each challenge offers the same number of XP at each stop along the way–30,000 a piece– totaling 150,000 XP for completing a questline the first time through.

Even repeating Party Quests will award XP now as well, starting at 500 XP for …

After you beat the Ghostrunner 2 intro–that is, the first two missions–and defeat Ahriman, you’ll head to the Interface Council HQ for the first time. This is where you can find the GR Augmentation Unit and buy the best upgrades in the game. Known as Upgrade Chips, there are 48 upgrades in total, as more unlock as you progress through the game. Here is everything you need to know about the best Ghostrunner 2 upgrades and skills you should prioritize acquiring.

How to unlock upgrades

To unlock new upgrades, you must spend data, which you can earn more of by defeating enemies. Chaining together kills and increasing your combo will reward you with more data and you can buy more upgrades whenever you find an Augmentation Unit–usually back at the Council HQ, but sometimes during Ghostrunner 2 missions too.

Installing upgrades isn’t as simple as just purchasing them, however, as you must have sufficient memory in your motherboard. Upgrading your available memory is as simple as finding memory shards during missions, which are the floating purple collectibles Come from Continue Reading