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mabdog420

How can we make underutilized cosmetic types more useful?

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I'm sure we can all agree that some of the cosmetic types in this game are severely underutelized and just serve mostly as battle pass fluff that not many people care about. While there are some really great integrations for some of these (certain cosmetics allow you to use your own wraps, emoticons, banner icon) I still think that a lot more can be done to make these things much more exciting to collect.

For example: Instruments were a cool addition, but they were made so much better when they added the option to use them as pickaxes or back blings. This is the kind of expansion of functionality I would like to brainstorm on.

Sprays:

- Up to 40 sprays can be put in the world at a time. Why does nobody ever use them? Because the game is too fast paced and does absolutely nothing to incentivize using them.

- They could add certain walls that when sprayed give you some loot. This would go great with a street or graffiti themed season (would have been a great fit for season 1 on the west coast map)

- They could add a sprite that heals you a little each time you put a spray on a wall

- If there is ever a player home system implemented sprays should absolutely be usable and should save between sessions. This would add so many customization options. This would even be great in modes like Lego FN Odyssey or Brick Life.

- They could allow you to customize skins with a spray or two, allowing you to move it around freely on the skin kind of like a tattoo. (I know some skins allow this already.. but I think more skins should allow this. Maybe not licensed ones if that may be an issue for them). Let us add them to everything if we want - our instruments, our pets, our gliders, or pickaxes.. more customization / personalization is always better.

- Let us create a custom spray wheel for each character if we want to (so we don't have to sacrifice our emote wheel for this)

slightly off topic, but the emote wheels should be a lot more customizable anyway. Let us choose what categories we want. Never use jam tracks? Remove them and add a spray wheel instead. Want 3 emote wheels for your character? Go for it.

Emoticons:

- more customization abilities for other cosmetic types (see sprays)

- Let us set one of these to pop up on enemy players screen when we eliminate them

- Let us set up custom emoticons that trigger automatically upon certain actions (chest opened, revived by teammate, downed enemy, downed, shields full) It would be like creating custom reactivity

Aura:

- Making your aura trigger on victory is cool. But I think there could be more.

- Option to trigger aura when on a killstreak (if they don't want this for BR they could add it as an option in creative)

- Maybe powerups that enable your aura when activated

- A skin that allows you to enable your aura at all times

Toys:

- Toys should get a similar overhaul that pets got

- Rather than just throwing a ball, turn it into a game. Let other players catch the football and throw it back. Let people join in on our golf game. Spawn holes dynamically and keep score. Let's have the toys allow actual minigames. Let's actually play tetris or pacman with my friends. If fortnite is truly a metaverse, why not sell other games within the game? Is this insane? Yes. But you can't deny that it would be cool.

Banner Icon:

- The banner icon shows when you use your banner in STW. It also showed up on the flags when you captured a zone and on the port-a-bunker. These are all really cool integrations. Let's have more of this. Add a banner item to BR that heals all nearby teammates or can even revive downed teammates. Maybe you could have different powers for your banner.

- More abilities to add it to skins or other things

- DEAR GOD update the banner interface to be more in line with all the other cosmetics. There's no search, no filtering, no sorting, nothing. It's just all dumped into a giant list and you have to tediously look through everything just to find what you're looking for.

Pets:

- Unlock customization. This one is a no brainer.. we shouldn't just accept the level of greed where we're expected to buy the same cosmetic multiple times just to change something about it.

- I would just improve the integration, add more animations, maybe even animations where pets interact or play with each other. Make them more expressive. Find a way to remove the weird thing where they turn into a ball of energy and teleport to you. I don't care how.. that just breaks immersion.

- Let pets using the same skeleton/anim set share animations. Why even have an option to choose between animations if they all only have one? Unless they are extremely specific to that skin, why not let us mix and match? Or randomly choose between any of them? This would be a lot more interesting and give more incentive to buy new pets.

- Let us use any of our pets as a back bling, like the legacy pets. Bonus points if you can put your pet on your back or take them off freely.

- Add more interactions. Allow me or my teammates to pick up my pet and carry them around (this is something really cool that they let you do with your pets in the game sea of thieves - mid game but it had some cool ideas)

Wraps:

- Why in the world can't we put these wraps on our vehicles? We were able to put them onto the old vehicles. Now that vehicles are more customizable there is absolutely no wrap support? Crazy.

Loading Screens:

- please release the loading screen skin already

- Let us customize our loading screens or make completely new ones by decorating them with sprays, emoticons, banner icons, wraps.. Let players get creative.

These are just some ideas, I know a lot of them are pretty crazy and likely will never happen. But these things would absolutely make me more interested in collecting these lesser used cosmetic types.

I'd love to hear more ideas if anyone has any.

Posted Sep 10, 2026, 7:22 PM UTC

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