Fortnite: Why some players received the FNCS back bling for free

The Badge of Honor back bling (Image via The Brothers on YouTube)
The Badge of Honor back bling (Image via The Brothers on YouTube)

Every now and then, Epic Games gives away free Fortnite cosmetics to the playerbase. Although the game is free-to-play and cosmetics are one of their biggest sources of revenue, they routinely reward the community with free items. Occasionally, there will be challenges or some requirements involved, but it's almost always an easy task to complete them.

Most recently, the FNCS back bling was given away to some players completely free of cost. The Badge of Honor back bling was added alongside the recent v22.40 update, which will be the final major update for Chapter 3 since Chapter 4 Season 1 is coming next.

Certain qualifying players who completed the prerequisites were able to unlock it, and this article will explain how they did that.


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How some Fortnite players earned the Badge of Honor back bling for free

The first thing that players needed to do, as pointed out by popular Fortnite YouTuber Tabor Hill, was connect their Epic Games account to their Twitch account. If interested players don't have a Twitch account, they can simply make one for free.

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Furthermore, the account doesn't necessarily have to be active and it doesn't need to be a streaming account. An account that existed was all that was required to go ahead with this process.

The next step for these players was to find a Twitch Fortnite streamer who had 'drops enabled.' To find out which streamers did and did not have that feature, players can verify this on the right side of the streaming window above the chat.

Several streamers would put a disclaimer on their stream titles stating that they had drops enabled, but this was an effective way to get more viewers, so it was often misleading. If the banner atop the chat specified that drops were enabled, then it would qualify for potentially receiving this back bling.

By clicking on that banner, players will see a message that tells them to continue watching the streamer to unlock certain free rewards. In this case, the free reward would be the back bling.

In this instance, Tabor Hill chose to watch the popular Twitch streamer Ranger. When he first began watching, he was 97% away from unlocking the reward. Clicking on the profile icon will reveal a dropdown menu that shows one's progress.

Being a timed challenge, players will have until the end of the day to obtain the required viewing time. If they did, they would unlock both the back bling and the spray that came along with it.

The spray, as well as other FNCS-related drops (Image via Epic Games)
The spray, as well as other FNCS-related drops (Image via Epic Games)

Each reward will be unlocked after 30 minutes of viewing time. If players are on stream for an hour before the deadline, they will receive the Fortnite back bling and in-game spray. However, viewers do need to claim the spray before the next 30 minutes start counting.

While this is not an active giveaway, there's a fairly high chance that Fortnite players will see many similar giveaways in the near future. Streaming is a major element of the multiplayer game's growth, which is exactly why Epic Games wants to foster and nurture it. With the help of these giveaways, they're helping grow both the game as well as its content creators' channels in one go.

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