Epic have eliminated the guided missile launcher from Fortnite Battle Royale as a part of a hotfix bringing another much-wanted modifications too. Guided missiles have proved controversial since Epic added them at the end of March, typically feeling frustratingly highly effective and difficult to battle in opposition to. So these are gone for now. Epic have additionally fastened a difficulty which might intrude with firing whereas peeking, and eliminated a few of the newly-added weapon change delays. In brief, much less jank, much less annoyance.
“We’ve gotten a lot of feedback around the Guided Missile, in particular concerns over fairness and strength of the weapon,” Epic defined on Reddit yesterday. “We share your concerns, so we’ve put the Guided Missile into the vault while we figure out the next steps for its future.”
While the Guided Missile was uncommon, it was mighty highly effective, particularly in crew modes. Players might cover away of their fort, safely directing missiles to seek out enemies and smash their defences. Sure, gamers are weak whereas directing missiles, however with robust cowl or squadmates watching over, they had been in a very robust place. It’s a bummer to go up in opposition to somebody who’s risking couple of minutes raining explosives.
As for weapon switching, Epic have eliminated the equip instances from Snipers and Crossbows. Delays had been just lately added to many weapons to cease gamers from queuing up a stream of highly effective weapons to dodge the disadvantage of their lengthy reload instances. But these two weapon varieties, Epic say, “do not benefit as much from quick switching.” The devs additionally notice that they are going to enhance weapon equip animations in a future replace as a result of “it’s possible to fire sooner than the gun appears ready, so they feel more sluggish than they really are.”
Epic additionally acknowledged that, whereas fixing one other difficulty, just lately launched a bug which meant folks peeking over buildings and edges “would accidentally end up shooting your own structures.” That’s being rolled again in replace 3.5.2 this week whereas they work on a repair which doesn’t have that side-effect.
Oh, additionally, I ought to point out the revamped 50v50 mode which was attributable to launch final week. Given the server issues the sport was experiencing over the weekend, Epic selected to delay that and may launch it tomorrow.
Annnd in model 3.6 Epic will fix the issue blocking folks from constructing via fences.
Okay, that’s it, that’s sufficient for this replace on Fortnite updates.
