The capacity to redeploy your glider like a flying squirrel any time you please in Fortnite Battle Royale has returned, kinda. Once a vast capacity, it’s now tied to an merchandise you’ll want to seek out and which solely has ten prices. As somebody who solely dabbles in Fortnite’s 50v50 madcap modes between my weeks-long matches in Ian Iannucci’s Battle For Basildon, I like glider-redeploying as a enjoyable option to zip a few hectic battlefield. I perceive individuals who play it critically had been annoyed with how a lot its presence modified issues. So… now we’re all half-content? Today’s replace does convey extra wackiness, thoughts, within the type of a low-gravity, snipers-only occasion mode.
The new ‘Gliders’ merchandise is what’ll allow you to Batman across the place, discovered as a Rare from mainly in every single place. It takes a list slot however doesn’t have to be chosen and activated, used just by leaping in mid-air as earlier than. They solely include ten prices, so it’s an merchandise to make use of tactically relatively than simply on a regular basis eternally continuous as a result of gliding is cool. Boo.
That’s a function Epic have experimented with for some time, first attempting it in occasion modes, then pushing it to the principle mode, then eradicating it, and now tying it to a restricted merchandise. They need to like enjoyable, however simply can’t fairly decide to it.
Hey, at the very least this time they didn’t add a hugely overpowered item in the middle of a tournament.
A Scoped Revolver arrives at the moment too, a weapon which I imagine will mark its wielders as baddies. Classic film villain weapon, that. Or traditional overburdened CS substitute weapon mannequin. Either method: one for improper’uns. It’s solely obtainable as Epic and Legendary, so that you’ll have to root round.
As for the ‘One Shot’ occasion mode, that’s yer traditional low-grav snipers-only match. Gravity is decrease, the circle closes sooner, Hunting Rifles and Sniper Rifles are the one weapons you’ll discover, everybody begins with 50 well being, and bandages are the one therapeutic merchandise obtainable.
A lot of stability adjustments hit at the moment too. These embrace making the minigun spin up sooner however overheat after 6 seconds of steady hearth, giving extra snipers the identical bullet trajectory because the Heavy Sniper, and decreasing the rarity ranges of Balloons, Stink Bombs, and the Scoped AR so that they’re extra frequent.
See the version 7.20 patch notes for extra on the whole lot.
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