The return of alpha boost and rocket pass items, an imminent possibility:
With the release of Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) next season, cosmetic overrides in Bakkesmod and AlphaConsole will no longer work and it will no longer be possible to equip Alpha boost, Laser Wave III, Affluenter, or any other item unless you actually own it.
Almost every player on PC uses bakkesmod and many pros and ranked players use alpha boost and other items due to their popularity and clean design. Losing access to them will make it harder to have consistent presets and many high rank players and most pros use alpha boost almost exclusively since it became available.
Many player have requested that Epic sell these items or make them available again. Although they are exclusive, items like this CAN return and there is a chance Epic will find a way to make it happen. Let’s look at the facts:
- Alpha boost is a reward for playing in the RL alpha test back in 2015, however that doesn’t mean its exclusive to just those players’ accounts, it was previously available to trade between players and ANYONE could potentially obtain it. With trading gone, rarity doesn’t matter anymore and keeping it that way only keeps black market process of alpha accounts high.
- Reworks of Alpha boost have been made, gold crush, golden cosmos, faded cosmos, though all fall short of expectations. Alpha boost has a clean start and end sound, animation, brightness, and thickness/length, the others are all worse in some aspect.
- Epic could potentially rework alpha boost again, release it as a standard non-alpha variant, or offer an og style as has been done before in RL (chemergency/righteous fail) and Fortnite (paradigm/S1 season shop)
- Epic can re-release nearly anything as long as they compensate og owners as needed and release an alternate version of it if need be. S1 Fortnite shop sets the strongest precedent, it doesn’t need to be a mistake for it to happen, they can just do it.
- Not all items need an og style to be made, when trading was around rocket pass items and other limited items were tradeable, they were never kept exclusive. Tournament items previously sold were not removed, just og styles given.
- All rocket pass items are on the table (laser wave, affluenter, neural network) and even tournament items (ball star, righteous gale, etc…)
- Epic would get sales since these are in demand, there are many items in the current shop that are boring, overpriced, and largely ignored by players. Pro and comp players don’t get many new items since most items are too flashy or animated to appeal to them, with Bakkesmod gone, this is a chance to sell sweaty items.
- There are thousands of unobtainable items currently. many were discontinued when RL went free-to-play and when trading was removed, we can’t even get painted items from drops and trades anymore, and the blueprint system (only 4 series, all others removed), drops, and trade-up system needs an overhaul as well.
Overall, anything can be sold or return, and there is more chance of it happening now that the Bakkesmod era is coming to an end.
Use Code KIBI in the item shop if you want Alpha Boost to come back.
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