Fortnite is at the moment offline for patching, and with this newest replace waves goodbye to its Winter seasonal occasion. In phrases of recent stuff although, an thrilling new merchandise enters the Battle Royal mode – the Chug Jug – whereas Save the World gamers can sit up for the return of the Mutant Storms occasion.
The Chug Jug is a robust merchandise that grants the person full well being and shields – however at a worth.
To use the Chug Jug it’s important to stand nonetheless for 15 seconds, which isn’t an enormous deal early on, however throughout the latter levels of a heated match is an absolute eternity. A robust merchandise certainly, which might actually swing issues in your favour.
In the Save the World mode, the place devoted gamers have felt a bit disregarded when it comes to updates just lately, the Winter content material is changed by the returning Mutant Storms occasion. This time it’ll additionally characteristic mini-bosses that appeared over the vacation season, so that you’re not dropping out on any selection.
The occasion can even introduce new quests, the place you possibly can earn seasonal gold to spend in an Event Store that shares particular objects that rotate each week.
Other notable modifications from the patch embrace elevated loot spawns in Fortnite’s new map location, Haunted Hills, in addition to the implementation of autorun, and a plethora of bug and UI fixes throughout each modes.
The full patch notes are under:
Battle Royale
Gameplay
- Added AutoRun!
- Input defaults for PC are “=” and “NumLock”
- Input defaults for controller is double-clicking the left stick.
- Added a setting to disable intention help on consoles.
- Remapped weapon binds on AZERTY keyboards to the highest row quantity keys.
Bug fixes
- Wooden energy poles now not block constructing.
- Spike Traps present in Supply Drops will now stack with different Spike Traps discovered elsewhere.
- The Spike Trap’s efficient vary will now extra precisely match the space of the spike animation. The injury space was beforehand too giant.
- Fixed a problem which prevented the Shield Potion and Slurp Juice visible results from taking part in when the participant is already shielded.
- Fixed a problem that made Cozy Campfires seem like energetic after they’ve expired.
- Fixed a problem which brought about collision of eradicated gamers to persist for too lengthy.
- Fixed a problem which allowed gamers to cover inside provide drops if the availability drop landed on a crouched participant.
- Fixed a problem which allowed gamers to move via partitions as they edited them.
- Optimized the pace at which gamers can cycle constructing items beneath poor community circumstances.
- Fixed a problem which brought about dropped objects to fall off the sting of the map and spawn close to a residing participant.
- Kicking a basketball via a soccer web now not counts as a purpose. Soccer balls nonetheless rely.
Weapons
Bug fixes
- Improved the accuracy of grenade arcs.
- Fixed a problem which allowed gamers to modify between two scoped weapons with out leaving the scoped view.
- Player’s weapons will now not disappear for a short while after the results of the Boogie Bomb put on off.
- Reduced the delay between throwing a grenade and switching to a different weapon.
General
- Shadowplay Highlights now data participant knockdowns (DBNO).
- Quitting a match early will now not award stat or problem progress. Progress will solely be awarded when a participant leaves after they’re eradicated or have received.
Bug Fixes
- Players can now not buy the Battle Pass x10 Tier bundle when at or above Battle Pass tier 65.
- We mounted this on January 19th and affected gamers have been compensated.
- Fixed a problem which allowed objects within the locker to rotate on the incorrect axis whereas spinning them.
- Fixed a problem which brought about the consumer to lock up after ALT-TABing on PC.
- While spectating, gamers will now be returned to scoped view when the spectated participant switches between scoped weapons, as an alternative of being pulled into third-person view.
- Brick constructing results have been mounted.
- Players can now mute celebration members from the foyer display screen.
- Players banned from voice chat can now not apply it to the foyer display screen.
UI
- Added Auto Decline Friend Requests as a brand new possibility for PC gamers to the Social Widget.
- When enabled, buddy requests can be auto-declined. Enabling this selection will decline all pending buddy requests.
Bug Fixes
- Friend and Party invite notifications will now appropriately seem for Battle Royale gamers which have by no means performed Save the World.
- You now not open the fullscreen map whereas spectating a participant with report menu up,
This situation solely occurred if a participant was utilizing the “Combat Pro” controller config. - The radial emote menu will now not persist after the warm-up part if left open.
- Characters pose now not resets after opening the information widget.
- The ping worth displayed within the Net Debug Stats UI is now extra correct. It will seem greater than earlier than for all gamers.
Audio
- Lowered quantity of bus music and the sound performed when leaping out of the bus.
- Lowered quantity of wind sounds performed throughout skydiving and gliding.
- Lowered the quantity of gunfire, footsteps, and impacts throughout warmup part.
- Removed the “Caw” sound layer from the Death Valley pickaxe.
- Removed some layers from the brand new pickaxe sounds that might be mistaken for bullet whiz-bys
Bug Fixes
- Music from dance emotes will now not overlap.
- Loot chest audio is now not hushed by pickaxe impression sounds.
World
- Added extra loot spawns to Haunted Hills.
Bug fixes
- Fixed lacking collision on junkyard crane.
- Fixed two areas the place gamers might disguise beneath the terrain by the sting of the river.
- Fixed a piece of the Moisty Mire water that didn’t gradual gamers down.
- Fixed a mine cart in Shifty Shafts that might not be destroyed.
- Fixed a problem inflicting the soccer stadium to typically not load in correctly.
- Fixed a seam within the terrain close to Flush Factory that allowed gamers to see via the map.
- Added collision to pillars in Haunted Hills so gamers can now not disguise inside them.
- Scoring a purpose within the Soccer stadium will now present correct visible results.
Save the World
- Mutant Storm occasion returns!
- This storm season, Mutant Storms will seem in better numbers.
- Mutant Storm mission alerts award Storm Tickets along with the Evolution Materials that they normally drop.
- Quota: 10 per day.
- Up to five Mutant Storms can be found at a time in Stonewood, and as much as 25 Active Storms can be found at a time in Plankerton, Canny Valley, and Twine Peaks.
- Purchased improve Llamas award Storm Tickets.
- All missions will proceed to award Seasonal Gold, and Daily Quests will proceed to award Daily Coins.
- Seasonal Gold will reset as soon as the Spring Event begins, deliberate for early February.
- Most Event Quests award Storm Tickets.
- Some Event Quests award V-Bucks.
- Hydraulic Weapons and Storm Zone Heroes have returned, and can be found within the Storm Llamas throughout this occasion.
- Event Store has been up to date!
- The Legendary Hydra Transform Key is on the market within the Event Store!
- The Event Store additionally provides Legendary Constructor BASE Hype.
- The Event Storm Llama additionally has an opportunity of awarding this hero.
- Since we’re reintroducing the Legendary Hydra with this Mutant Storms occasion, it might probably now be recycled, put within the Collection Book and consumes stock area.
- For each 1,000 unspent Snowflake tickets, a Holiday Survival Llama will routinely be granted and might be discovered within the Loot Tab. All remaining tickets can be misplaced.
Mini-bosses
- Mini-bosses are nonetheless current on the map, however the variety of mission alerts have been lowered from the Holiday occasion.
- Up to three of those Mini-Boss mission alerts can seem in Stonewood at a time and as much as 6 at a time in Plankerton, Canny and Twine.
- Quota: three per day.
- These Mini-boss alerts have changed the outdated generic Mission Alerts that was once on the map. As a outcome:
Mini-boss Alerts can now be performed in higher-difficulty missions that you haven’t unlocked but. - Mini-boss Alerts reward a wide selection of things, together with remodel keys, schematics, survivors, and extra!
- Return of “Mini-Boss” Quests:
Awards Seasonal Gold forex and is repeatable. - Seasonal Gold forex can be utilized to buy objects from the Event Store.
- This forex solely lasts for a season, so spend it whilst you can!
Gameplay
- Added Auto-Run!
- Input defaults for PC are “=” and “NumLock”.
- Input defaults for controller is double-clicking the left stick.
- Adjusted a number of weapon Perk rolls
- Break shotguns can now not roll Rate of Fire perks
- VinderTech Rocket Hammer can now roll Energy and Elemental perks
- VinderTech and Vacuum Tube sniper rifles can now roll perks that set off a small explosion of injury after headshot kills.
- Standardized the injury melee weapons do to the surroundings.
- Melee weapons beforehand various from 20%-70% of weapon injury relying upon the weapon sort and the goal materials.
- All weapons at the moment are set to a flat 50% of weapon injury in opposition to wooden and stone, and 20% versus metallic.
- Pickaxes stay unaffected.
Bug Fixes
- Lightning Pistol now appropriately exhibits up as a part of the Vacuum Tube weapon set.
Heroes
Balance
- Increased the length of Keep Out to 10s to match the tooltip. Reduced the injury per tick from 20% of grenade injury to 15% of grenade injury in consequence.
- Increased the injury of Cluster Bomb explosions from 20% of grenade injury to 25%
Bug fixes
- Frag grenades and cluster bombs will now not fall via water, which brought about Soldier’s to be unable to throw a second grenade.
- Fixed a problem that was inflicting TEDDY to have lowered vary whereas firing.
- Fixed Overbearing Perk in order that it correctly extends the vary of TEDDY.
UI
- Added Auto Decline Friend Requests as a brand new possibility for PC gamers to the Social Widget.
- When enabled, buddy requests can be auto-declined. Enabling this selection will decline all pending buddy requests.
Added rely indicator to assortment guide slots. - Added XP counts to the Collection Book Rewards schedule.
- Added complete rely to “root” rows on the gathering guide nav.
- Power widgets now present buffed energy glow when buffed from celebration members.
- “Warcry” tooltip now correctly shows the melee assault pace bonus.
- Updated the outline of Seasonal Gold to make clear that it’s a non permanent forex that can be reset on the finish of the season.
Bug fixes
- Consumable merchandise remodel keys can now solely create objects that match the rarity of the important thing.
- This will stop gamers from unintentionally utilizing a high-rarity consumable remodel key to create a low-rarity merchandise.
- Mission alert rewards will now not present within the goals menu in-game when the participant had already collected the present mission alert or reached their quota.
- Buying Llamas throughout the tutorial will now not trigger the UI to have show points.
- Fixed a visible situation that made it seem like Survivor energy ranges weren’t growing after leveling them up.
- Fixed a problem that was inflicting giant font energy ranges to look the place teammates names ought to go.
Art/Imagination
- Blinking lights on the Vacuum Tube weapons have been boxed up and put into the attic till subsequent 12 months. The lights have returned to their default orange color.
- Energy weapons now not seem fully blue.
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