“Fortnite” now lets you limit the amount of time per day your kids can play

Set a limit on how much time your children (or minors in your care) play each day. Fortnite It won’t be a headache anymore. Epic Games has announced new parental control options that allow you to set specific periods of time during which children are allowed to log into the popular game. battle royale.

The new feature is called Time limit control and is available both in the “Parental Controls” section of the main menu Fortniteand by managing your Epic Games account online. The idea is that parents or guardians can define time interval in which minors can play and at the same time set maximum game time during the period under review.

This means that you can set one or more time windows throughout the day. For example, from 15:30 to 17:30 and from 20:30 to 22:00. You can also set a maximum play time per day—for example, 2 hours—or within certain windows.

Parents or guardians will also be able to enable a feature that allows children to request additional play time, with the option to approve or deny the request. It is worth noting that these restrictions apply not only to Fortnitebut also for Unreal editor for Fortnite (UEFN), an application that allows you to create characters or events for battle royale.

Fortnite will notify minors when they reach the deadline

As soon as new dates Fortnite and UEFN are activated, minors will be notified when they reach the due date. A notification will appear on the screen when they have 30 minutes leftand the ability to request an extension from your parents or guardians (provided they have enabled this feature).

Once the time runs out, players will no longer be able to continue their gaming session. If they have already used up their allotted minutes or hours for the day, they will have to wait until the next day. If they have time left for another usage window on the same day, they must wait until it starts.

Yeah Fortnite goes into sleep mode after inactivity for 15 minutes, time limit will be suspended. In UEFN, the same thing will happen if the application does not register new interactions after 10 minutes.

On the other hand, Epic Games has introduced an information section for adult account holders where they can track the number of hours minors spend. Fortnite or UEFN.

It is worth noting that the new time control works in Fortnite on all platforms. This means that as long as they are logged in on multiple devices using the same account, the restrictions will be the same across consoles, PC and mobile phones.