Fortnite has been and continues to be one of the most popular games around the world, both among older and younger people. Despite having a Pegi 12 classification, many are the children who play before they have reached those years and who still have a long way to go to do so.
In Fortnite you do not see blood at any time, but when using weapons, it does not stop represent violence not suitable for the little ones. However, from a father's point of view, as is my particular step, I have never seen any problem in my son being able to enjoy this title.
The problem that parents face in Fortnite is not that our son becomes a psychopath, but in the people you may meet during games when playing in duos or squads. Although later than one might expect from Epic Games, Fortnite has introduced a section called parental control.
The Parental Control section allows us to control both the friendships our children make in the game, as well as the language used in chats as well as receiving a periodic report of our son's activity in the game.
Configure Parental Control in Fortnite
In order to play Fortnite, it is necessary to have an email account associated with the Fortnite account. When configuring Fortnite parental controls, we can establish a different email account (It does not have to be associated with Fortnite) to be able to change or recover the password that is used to manage these options. If the account our son uses is ours, it is not necessary to use a new one.
Another aspect that we must take into account in Two-step authentication, a function that will notify us every time a device is logged in with our Fortnite account. That message includes a code that we must enter in the application if we want to give the go-ahead to be able to enjoy the game on that new device.
So that our child cannot modify the Parental Control options that we have established in his / her Fortnite account, we must set a 6 digit code, a password that we must enter whenever we want to modify any of the options.
The following options are shown below, options that are disabled by default:
Can see adult language
If during chat communications, profanity is displayed, the game will show asterisks instead to prevent our son from expanding his vocabulary while enjoying this title.
Can accept friend requests
Friend requests are one of the big problems for the little ones, since they accept each and every one of them without bothering to check if he has really played with it or if they have looked up his name through the Friends section.
Visible name for players outside the squad
When a player is eliminated, the name of the account of the player who has eliminated him appears on his screen. By activating this option, instead of displaying the account name, se will display the word Anonymous.
This option does not prevent the rest of the squad members from seeing the name of the account.
Name of players outside the visible squad
In the games, the names of the accounts of the players who are eliminated appear on the screen. If we deactivate this option, instead of showing the name of the account, the word Player will be displayed without any reference to the Fortnite account.
This option does not prevent the rest of the squad members from seeing the name of the account.
Voice chat
By deactivating this option, we will prevent the little can talk with the other players on the team with whom he is playing and thus avoid being intimidated or threatened by other players when verifying, by his voice, that he is a small child.
Thanks to the options mark objects that the game offers us, it is not necessary to have conversations with other players at any time, especially when they are not doing it with friends.
Weekly reports on usage time
Every week, we will receive in our email, a report with the time our son has been playing this title, which will allow us, if necessary, to begin to take action in this regard.
Text Chat
When you cannot have a verbal conversation, in Fortnite we can use text messages to communicate a need that can be announced to us through the options offered by the game. If we deactivate this option, we will not be able to send any kind of message to the rest of the players of our team.
Parental controls on consoles
Fornite's Parental Control feature is available on all platforms, and is focused mainly on mobile devices and computers, where there is no native option of the system that allows to establish a series of limitations. Windows puts at our disposal a series of restrictions for the little ones, but only to the use of applications, not about what can and cannot be done in the games / applications.
Both the PS4 and the Xbox One, put at our disposal a series of control options that we canallow restricting and controlling the use made by the smallest of the entire platform, not just a game. All the adjustments that we make in the parental controls will be available on all platforms where this game is used, be it PS4, Xbox, smartphone, tablet, Nintendo Switch or PC.
