Epic Games has announced that AI-powered NPCs are being added to Fortnite Creative as an experimental feature, alongside the April 16 version update.
Fortnite has previously seen AI-voiced characters in the form of a recruitable Darth Vader in 2025, and it seems the tools are set to be deployed en masse in the future, with the first major step having been taken.
Fortnite Adds New AI-Powered Conversations Feature
In a blog post on April 16, Epic Games announced that the Conversations system, previously known as the Persona device, is now available as an Experimental feature. This means that Fortnite developers can now use the tool to create AI-powered characters “with personalities and voices that can talk, react, and respond to player actions.”
However, it’s not that publishing content and projects using the Conversations tool is not yet available.
Explaining the feature, Epic Games states that “authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transform an NPC into an AI-powered character capable of unscripted dialogue and interactions with players, like a quest giver or narrator.”
AI-powered characters can remember what’s already happened in the game session, respond in context to player input, communicate through voice, and trigger events in-game.
There are restrictions to creations, as developers cannot create a persona designed to provide medical or mental health guidance, and cannot create a persona that role-plays or simulates a romantic partner.
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