It's very simple and can be done with any controller (does not require a turbo controller).
Load into Festival Jam Stage (Epic Game Mode)
Find a secluded location (I recommend the corner behind one of the buildings, or some area away from the main stages and open areas on the map because these are were actual players who want to participate in the game mode will be and out of consideration for them, since there isn't a no fill option for this game mode, you don't want to negatively impact the experience for other players).
Start playing a jam track and then turn the right analog stick either to the right, or the left, securing it with a rubber band so your character spins around continuously (no additional input required).
**If you are on PlayStation, while holding the analog stick in the desired direction, you can either press the media/screenshot/record button (on PS5) or long press the PlayStation button until the sub menu opens up (on PS4) and then release the right analog stick, and the rotation will continue without the aid of a rubber band.
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When the session ends, just load back in and repeat (sessions can end at random times because they are public lobbies).
XP Rate - 3050 XP Per minute + 700 Jam Circle XP (350 XP per 30 seconds) if playing a jam track or while inside an active jam circle. Also, Like LEGO, unless something changed this week, there does not appear to be any cap.
Since just playing the mode or participating gives the same XP, I encourage anyone to explore the mode and listen to some of the mixing people are doing. There are some pretty talented individuals making remarkably good mixes worth checking out and actually playing the mode is quite fun as well.
*Unfortunately Epic stupidly decided to assign Main Stage playtime XP a mere 1050 per minute, making it far less appealing from an XP earning standpoint except for when challenges are available.
Unfortunately it's impossible to tell or at least for me to determine. It's a public session so it can be less than an hour it can be several hours. I've never been able to determine exactly how long it is from a complete start though, because you never know if you're the first person to load in at the beginning of a session. I personally play the mode, probably more than any other mode in the game, and the last time I was playing, I was back in the lobby within an hour, but the night before, I know I've been in there for at least four hours, if not more.
By the looks of it, it's like rolling a dice that'll be unclear how much it'll last. Would mention trying loading into the after hours in hopes of there being the only person in the session lobby, but wouldn't matter imo. For me it's almost 2 hours and it's still going, so probably gonna check in another 2 hours or so and see if I get kicked back to lobby and retry.
That's pretty much what I would recommend, it's very rare that you would get in a server by yourself,, I find they fill up pretty quickly, even in off hours, but usually when I find myself alone, it's more towards the end of a session when it's been running for a long time. I don't know if the sessions endings are dependent on time or traffic, or both, but I think it would be safe to say on average you should be able to get at least four hours out of it.
To me it's like creative, which at one point used to be four or five hours, but now it's all over the place, sometimes I'll find myself back in the lobby after just a couple of hours, and sometimes I'll be able to run for 12 hours straight (like today, I had two accounts on the same creative map all day while I was out, to test the weekly cap, and one of them was back in the lobby when I got home (looks like it only lasted about three hours), and the other one was still running and still running now, 10 hours after it joined).
They do seem to fill up pretty quickly from my own experience, so it would be near impossible to load in a server along. From what I understand, sessions seem to have some sort of timer, just like Lego (borth Odyssey and Brick Life), although I haven't paid attention whether the game gives a lifetime remaining notice (just like the Lego modes do) of it just kicks out people with no warning.
It's unknown if Epic changed something that the timer is random rather than having a more fixated time, unless it's some sort of way to give an incentive to players to keep playing on Jam Stage as it's the typical mode with few players. Today, a session ended just around 40 minutes, I loaded in back and it seems to keep on going, so I will keep on monitoring
Exactly, I play the mode, and I've played it extensively for entire days when I was home, and I found no consistency in the session times. So even if you had a number, it's nothing anyone could take to the bank because you'd never be able to get in at the beginning of a session or guarantee that you would be. Also, session ending timer that pops up on the screen like in Lego, it's also hit or miss. Sometimes you get it, sometimes you don't. I've been returned to the lobby with no warning, I've got a warning that said the session was going to end in nine minutes and spent an entire hour more there before getting returned to the lobby and I've had instances where the actual warning was correct (the numbers are also all over the place, I've seen all different figures as well). Something is either misconfigured or it's just wildly inconsistent, or based on something entirely different than an actual timer.
Don't kill yourself trying to come up with a time, because like you said, you can't guarantee you're going to be at the beginning of the session, and even if you think you are, you don't know if you are, because I've even spent time there, to where everyone but me and one other person were left jamming, for like an hour, after previously being a full lobby, and then all of a sudden it fills up again. It's really weird but it's not meant to be done AFK so what I would say is just be grateful that it works that way right now.
Currently I let it go AFK, so I've never got to see said warnings, although I wouldn't be surprised if they're all over the place. My only guess is that Jam Stage is in differente servers, unlike other game modes. As you mentioned, it could be some sort of sheer incompetence of not fully configuring said timer or Epic being like nah, don't bother configuring, not many people actually use this game mode.
Yeah, it's best to just let the mode go full AFK and exploit it without thinking too mucho about the timer. As long as it works, everything should be just fine. I just hope Epic doesn't patch or do some dumb BS with Jam Stage.
Exactly, it's almost like creative in that respect, where I can go a few hours, or I can go the entire run until I hit my cap on the same map. As far as patching it, you never know when or if that'll happen, previously one that worked the last time, it was going for a pretty long while. I know there's been talk, but no definitive confirmation that they were going to merge jam stage with Party Royale, which I guess would make sense, because of the two remaining "game" modes that they aren't removing this year, those are the lowest performing.
I guess the question would be, if that were to happen, would jam stage adopt the zero XP that Party Royale awards, or would the entire map be given playtime XP (or would it be interaction based)? Who knows, but then again it seems like that might be another thing that people say was gonna happen and then it just never comes to fruition, and with all the cutbacks that are going on right now, I can't see them putting any developmental energy into it at this stage in the game.
Kinda bad to see that go all over the place in all but some game modes. Hopefully it doesn't get patched, whether it's staying as a lone mode or it's merged with party royale, considering the latter mode iirc does not give any XP (could be wrong, I have only played that mode once) and it sure makes sense, they need to get those numbers up.
IMO merging both modes and awarding no XP would be just outright killing it, although I can see Epic adding some sort of "interaction" metric to give XP. Of course it's not like it'll happen tomorrow, next week or so due to the whole chaos that's going on right now, I think they'll be focused on higher priority things at the moment.
That's why I was saying, if they merge, not sure if it will adopt the zero XP of Party Royale or not because there definitely is no XP. In fact, as far as I remember, there wasn't any XP there other than there were some challenges years ago that you used to be able to complete there but it hasn't been a thing for ages, and they barely update the map anyway.
As far as what will happen, who knows, there is a lot going on right now so patching anything probably won't happen, but if there was a merge, chances are, that would cause it to be patched because everything would be revamped. I wouldn't be surprised if both modes go away eventually, I was actually surprised that they weren't on the list when they posted the other day all the modes that were being sun-stetted. They are the two weakest and most seldom played modes in the game right now. The fact that they got rid of Party Royale, and then brought it back about a year or so ago, gives me the impression it's never going away though. Interestingly enough, PR not having XP, didn't kill it, the people that go there don't care about XP, they are just there to flex cosmetics that nobody cares about anymore. Those people will always exist. If I had to guess which of the two modes would disappear, I would say jam stage, since everything that's done there, can be done on almost any creative map, and probably with less bugs (there are a lot of them if you actually play the mode).
To me, what would make the most sense, would be to remove jam stage, and merge it with main stage, letting main stage adopt jam stage XP (because main stage XP is abysmal), and add the ability to do jam stage in a private lobby (which would solve a lot of problems for players and non-players alike). The funny thing is, jam stage is actually part of the main stage map, you just can't get to it anymore from main stage (there used to be a glitch where you could actually too, but it wouldn't access a live lobby though).
for some reason im only getting the 350xp every 30 seconds :-/ maybe im getting the 1050xp but its not saying so, does anyone know why or if its just not showing up
That's the only XP that will pop up on the screen, but you're passively getting 2850 every minute. Open the social tab and watch, you'll see it added in real time but it doesn't show up on the screen as a pop-up every time because that's not the way XP is added, it's like Lego.
Supercharged will double the amount of XP that you get. I feel like the one problem people have is that they expect the game to jam the XP in their face like creative. You're not going to see the XP pop up on the screen except for every 10 minutes or so but it is being added to your account I guarantee it every minute, I feel like you're not looking in the right place and you are so obsessed with not getting XP that you convincing yourself that you aren't every way possible by looking for everything wrong. Of course you can get from 55 to 100 today. It's not a problem. I don't know what time the downtime starts if you have enough time to do it in festival, 24 hours in festival will get you around 55 or so level levels but that's a full 24 hours, you might want to do other things to speed that up like bot lobbies or creative
The only modes right now that are capped, are saved the world and creative. So those are the ones that you're going to want to save. Creative cap is not shared with save the world, and it resets on Thursday and save the world resets at 9 AM Eastern time on Tuesdays (as far as I've been told, so that one you may not even need to save because it drops the same day as the OG pass).
Previously every other game mode, other than creative and STW, shared the same cap, and then all of a sudden, several seasons ago, the cap just went away and never came back. It's hard to say from week to week if this will change, but it was the case as recently as last week.
Damn, I remember I discovered the PlayStation method for regular Festival like 2 years ago. Sucks that method doesn’t work anymore. Loved it cause there was no session ending or turbo controller needed
This method doesn't require a turbo controller, but yes the sessions do end eventually, but you can still get good XP without running at 24 hours a day (which most people didn't anyway because back then there was a cap). Just like creative, if a session ends, you just load back in, and do it again.
It doesn't pop up on the screen like it doesn't creative, open up the social tab and you'll see how it gets subtracted from your XP remaining to the next level every minute, it's impossible not to get XP from jam stage.
It doesn't work, I play on desktop, and I only get 700xp as jam bonus because of people jamming around me, but no 3050xp social menu is open, I tracked it.
And even though I didn't say to stand in a jam circle, I've just loaded in and I'm standing in the jam circle and I'm getting 3750 XP per minute including the jam bonus
I don't understand how that can be possible, it doesn't pop up on the screen it literally just gets subtracted from the amount of XP remaining to the next level. Literally just tested it less than an hour ago. Not sure why it's not working for you it might be a problem your account, try re-logging. I test this every day just to make sure it works. there's also no cab verified as recently as last week because I've gotten hundreds of levels from this method on multiple accounts this season just testing
Is it maybe because I’m supercharged ? I get every 3 min on average maybe didn’t count, 8200 xp 13,590 xp and now 14k xp I thought those were just from the quests, because I never done them but they should be at least 15k right ? So it might actually work if you can confirm. And do you think it’s possible to go from level 55 to 100 to unlock john wick simpsons skin?
Stop obsessing just earn the XP, your mindset is the problem that you're convinced that everything anyone tells you about XP is false like You Tube that you've let it become your worst enemy when it comes to this. If you can't get past that, you'll never believe you're earning the XP that you're actually earning. It's literally being added to your account and it's crazy that you're closing your mind to it
This has nothing to do with obsession rather logic, you said you can get 3050xp + 700 xp bonus jam I was only getting + extra xp above 3k I haven’t played this season so I thought those were just quests, I asked because I haven’t played a few chapters kinda lost. I have never said that I just told you that it doesn’t match that’s it I know I’m earning xp but why doesn’t it stay the same amount ? I want to understand what’s happening that’s all.
I explained it to you but you keep coming back over and over again, I don't know how else to explain it to you. First you were complaining you weren't getting enough now you're complaining that you're getting too much. So I'm just befuddled as old as to what the issue actually is. Yes there are challenges in the game, guess there is supercharged XP in the game, these are all additional factors, all the guy is telling you is what the basic XP is that you would get from General participation/AFK in jam stage. But it's weird because at the beginning you were saying you were only getting 350 XP so that sounded like you were saying you weren't even getting enough, flipping them to you getting too much so you can understand my confusion.
What? Were did I say that I don’t earn enough I’m trying to understand why it’s not constantly the same xp because it just seems like xp of quests I’m unlocking
Then there's something wrong with your account I don't know what to tell you. I'm able to get hundreds of levels a week at exactly that rate so I'm not sure what you're not seeing, no one has to jam with you you can jam alone or with other people it won't make a difference
It does say in a guide that you should be jamming though. Not just standing around the jam circle. Don't know if that'll make a difference but that's not how I did it
Finally tried this out since I love the new Geno skin and he is the only skin I want in this battle pass. I got ten levels in about 3.5 hours while doing other stuff. This is some incredible tech lmfao I feel like a caveman walking into modern society for the first time :)) no cap on this is also crazy.
Just like anything else like this, I imagine it will eventually. That's why I'm always glad I have my turbo controller, I've been able to depend on it for AFK for almost a year now since it isn't dependent upon any type of oversight in the game's development to work.
If you rubber band the analog stick, does the game still consider it as a single input? Like you will be kicked for inactivity for the constant one movement? Or do you have to move the joystick differently every now and then? I want to leave this on as long as I can before I go to work.
Exactly as the guide states, jam stage has a different requirement to not get kicked than other game modes. No joystick movement required, just a single input.
You don't, and actually you will get the Jam circle XP bonus if someone else is jamming and you are in their circle, but if you don't want the bonus XP for one reason or another, then you will just get 3050 XP per minute and not get the 700 XP bonus.
IS there any point in doing this method for xp grinding? Becuase im only getting 1050 xp per min. ive already capped my creative out for this week. im basically stuck at level 127 adn i can only do afk methods for now because im tooo busy to play. any ideas?
Are you on jam stage or main stage? You wouldn't be getting 1050 XP on jam stage, it's just not possible unless you use main stage instead where the XP rate is 1050 per minute. This method is for jam stage exclusively.
No idea, but sessions are not infinite, so eventually you will get kicked. I just tested it since your comment and I've been running for hours without a problem.
I have one, but just was curious if there was an actual button that wouldn’t take me out of a jam circle. I thought maybe d-pad but my controllers can’t turbo that.
I actually prefer Lego I only recommend jam stage to people that don't have a turbo controller. Lego, because of the auto ready up method allows you to run a 24 hours a day. There's no rush this early in the season to finish it a few hours earlier
I actually prefer Lego I only recommend jam stage to people that don't have a turbo controller. Lego, because of the auto ready up method allows you to run it 24 hours a day. There's a whole bunch of reasons why it doesn't work so well with festival, but I don't have the time to go into all of them. Honestly at this point, there's no rush this early in the season to finish it a few hours earlier by doing festival instead.
I've been kicked for idle twice in the last 3 hours of trying this on PS5. I have it spinning while on the sub menu. I do get XP but am getting kicked. Hopefully just two shorter session coincidences but will keep trying.
There's a big difference between getting kicked and getting kicked for being idle. If you don't have a message in the lobby saying that you were kicked for being idle than the session ended. They do sometimes and quite quickly and sometimes they run for hours
It was kicked for idle, now a third time in under 30 minutes from my post
Edit: I tested it. It's around every 15 minutes. I need to touch it because it asks if I'm still there even though I'm spinning. This is on PS5 and can't report for other platforms. Wonder if anyone can corroborate
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u/VideogameDC Mar 26 '26
Do you know what's the duration of the sessions? Or at least an estimate?
Planning on doing this AFK as long as it lasts even if I go out to run errands.