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Fortnite patch 2.5.zero is stay, and alongside the belated Valentine’s Day occasion for Save the World, updates have been utilized to Battle Royale.
Patch 2.5.zero introduces a brand new grenade, Shrines, weapon stability and bug fixes for Battle Royale. Save the World introduces Spring it On together with a Valentine’s Questline, Lunar New Year Heroes and a few tremendous cool Dragon Weapons.
Battle Royale gamers will discover thematic Shrines hidden throughout the map stuffed with treasure and the brand new Impulse Grenade seems to be reasonably cool, too. It is a Blue rarity merchandise and is just present in Treasure Chests and Supply Drops.
Save the World gamers will discover 4 Lunar New Year Heroes and Dragon Weapons out there. As famous yesterday, Seasonal Gold has been converted to Firecracker Tickets.
New and improved Universal Inventory can be coming to Save the World, nevertheless it gained’t arrive in-game till Monday, February 19. This is because of in-progress testing.
Some common fixes had been additionally utilized to the sport, one among which full 4K decision for Xbox One X. PS4 gamers shall be happy to know Epic Games addressed a problem the place patches took longer to obtain than they need to. The replace additionally allows dynamic decision and prime quality temporal upsampling on each consoles.
Full patch notes are under for each Battle Royale and Save the World.
Fortnite patch 2.5.zero
General
- Enabled dynamic decision and prime quality temporal upsampling on PS4 and Xbox One.
- Dynamic decision provides extra constant framerate throughout heavy fight and will increase visible constancy when load on the GPU is lighter.
- Full 4K Resolution now supported on Xbox One X.
- Added a key binding for “Toggle Pickaxe” on PC.
- PC + Mac Social Panel has been expanded to make searching lengthy lists of buddies simpler.
- Added distinctive sound variations when beginning to construct with Wood/Stone/Metal.
- Fixed a number of eventualities the place connectivity errors would block login.
- Improved XMPP connection restoration on console.
- Optimized XMPP payloads.
- Removed additional queries when getting back from match.
- Removed redundant retailer queries.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with empty progress bars incorrectly exhibiting as full bars on Mac.
- Fixed Discord recreation invitations and wealthy presence data.
PS4
Bug Fixes
- In continued partnership with SIE, we’ve got been capable of resolve the difficulty that occurred for some Fortnite gamers through which patches took longer to obtain than they need to. If you expertise a recurrence of this problem, please attain out to Epic Customer Service and we are going to tackle appropriately.
Fortnite patch 2.5.zero – Battle Royale
Weapons and Items
Additions/Changes
- Impulse Grenade added. Blue rarity. Found in Treasure Chests and Supply Drops solely.
- The Scoped Assault Rifle is now completely correct whereas scoped.
- Scoped Assault Rifle headshot injury decreased from 250% to 200%.
- Revolver now makes use of Medium ammo.
- Crossbow drop probability decreased by 20%.
- Minigun drop probability decreased by 12.5%.
- Chug Jug drop probability decreased by 15%.
- The White/Green/Blue SMG is rotating out and heading into the vault.
- Tactical Submachine Gun
- Magazine measurement elevated from 30 to 35.
- Firing charge elevated from 10 to 13.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Sniper Rifles sometimes not registering hits when aiming downward with excessive community latency.
- Fixed a problem with projectiles failing to hit close by gamers when hitting one other goal.
- Fixed a problem permitting gamers to fireside round partitions with the Crossbow and Minigun in the event that they stood very near the sting of the wall.
- The reload-failed messages will not show on weapons that wouldn’t have a clip to reload (i.e. – Minigun).
- Removed per-bullet rounding on shotgun injury calculation.
- Damage was rounded right down to the closest entire quantity for every particular person pellet.
- Instead, all projectiles shall be added collectively earlier than rounding.
- Fixed a problem which brought on the Minigun’s barrel to proceed to glow after use.
Gameplay
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem which prevented gamers from utilizing the primary weapon picked up on consoles.
- Fixed a problem the place below sure community situations, gamers could possibly be broken by bullets passing by means of constructions constructed on the final second.
- These photographs will now hit the construction as a substitute of the participant.
- Fixed a problem which allowed photographs to move by means of doorways proper after they had been closed.
- Fixed a problem which allowed gamers to pick-up an additional weapon/consumable whereas holding a lure.
- This problem was additionally brought on gamers to drop full stacks of sources and stopping them from harvesting that useful resource for the remainder of the match.
- Fixed defend hit results taking part in when taking falling injury.
- Fixed provide drops hovering mid-air if the thing beneath them was destroyed.
- Fixed a potential crash that might happen whereas firing weapons earlier than boarding the Battle Bus.
World
Bug Fixes
- The Soccer Stadium and different buildings ought to now load correctly.
- Fixed a problem which brought on treasure chests to be empty in uncommon instances.
- Fixed an ammo crate in Lonely Lodge that didn’t spawn ammo.
- PERFORMANCE
- Optimized efficiency of participant animations to enhance general body charge.
- Optimized mud cloud and defend results on low settings for higher efficiency.
- Eliminated varied hitches attributable to sure skins and gadgets being loaded at sudden instances.
- Character fashions, weapons and atmosphere belongings now make the most of a Level of Detail system to enhance efficiency.
- Improved smoothness of degree streaming by loading content material on a background thread.
- Major tweaks to FX settings, concentrating on Medium to Low specs.
UI
General
- Enabled “Net Stats” possibility for PS4. This function exhibits your ping time to Epic’s servers and general bandwidth utilization whereas taking part in.
- This possibility might be discovered within the HUD tab below Game Settings.
- Added an icon to the HUD that signifies which button is used to open the map.
- Added the entire elapsed time to the Matchmaking UI.
- The ammo widget above the participant’s well being bar now shows the depend for any chosen utility merchandise.
- The keybinding widget within the HUD not exhibits “Not Bound”.
- Added the flexibility to let gamers scale the HUD.
- Known Issue – This doesn’t have an effect on the HUD when spectating after dying.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem the place PS4 gamers weren’t getting credit score for taking part in with buddies.
Audio
General
- Improved footstep audio by including separate above and under step sounds for Wood, Stone, and Metal supplies.
- Moved quantity attenuation to be primarily based off participant location, reasonably than from the digital camera.
- Players can now higher hear their environment whereas constructing.
- Lowered the audio ranges of initially putting a construction.
- Added new Wood, Stone and Metal sound variations when putting constructions.
- Added a sound that performs when the Crossbow is able to fireplace once more.
- Lowered teammate footstep quantity barely.
- Lowered the quantity of the Sniper influence sound.
- Lowered the quantity of emote music when within the pre-game section.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem which prevented different gamers from listening to the Minigun’s spin up sound.
- Fixed some audio panning points when equipping the Minigun.
Art and Animation
General
- Improved visible FX when transferring by means of deep water.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Royale Knight’s head clipping by means of the again of her helmet.
Known Issues
- Weapon crosshairs will disappear generally after utilizing a scoped weapon.
- Weapons will generally seem like loaded, however can’t be fired.
- In uncommon instances, an merchandise dropped by an eradicated participant can’t be picked up by different gamers.
Fortnite patch 2.5.zero – Save the World
Spring It On! Event
General
- New quests shall be launched all through the period of the occasion.
- Lunar New Year Heroes added, that includes four new kits
- Dragon weapons added
- Quest Rewards (Sneak Peak):Love Trooper Jonesy, Legendary Soldier, Choice of three Legendary Dragon Ranged Weapon, New Legendary Melee Defender, Firecracker Tickets, V-Bucks
Spring It On! Gold
- Awarded for finishing a repeatable Quest
- Firecracker Tickets might be earned through the use of the brand new Opt-In Difficulty function (detailed under). They’ll be awarded every time you full a mission at elevated issue.
- Used to buy Spring Llamas from the Loot tab.
- Updated Loot Llamas to award Firecracker Tickets all through the occasion.
- Spring Llama is offered within the Loot tab and prices 1000 Firecracker Tickets to buy.
- Each Llama will include a Lunar New Years Hero, or a Dragon weapon.
- Each stack of 1000 Storm Event Tickets has been exchanged for Storm Llamas.
- Up to 3000 Seasonal Gold shall be transformed three to 1 into Firecracker Tickets, and any further gold past that’s misplaced. Spend any further leftover occasion gold earlier than the replace! Spring It On! Gold can be seasonal and shall be changed when a brand new season begins.
- Mutant Storm and Miniboss Mission Alerts are usually not tied to this occasion. Both have returned to their decrease “passive” ranges of exercise, and neither awards occasion tickets.
- Up to three Mutant Storms in Stonewood, 10 in different areas. | Quota: four per day
- Up to three Miniboss Alerts in Stonewood, 6 in different areas. | Quota: three per day
- New, Spring it On!-themed gadgets will seem within the retailer all through the occasion.
- Event retailer Items will seem, and stay out there for buy till the top of Spring It On!.
- Weekly retailer gadgets will solely be out there for the week through which they seem.
New and Improved Universal Inventory
Feature shall be out there on Monday, February 19 because of in-progress testing.
- You can now put together your stock within the Armory earlier than loading into the world.
- Use the Backpack display screen to craft, equip, and recycle world gadgets.
- Use the Storage display screen to switch gadgets between backpack and Storm Shield storage.
- These screens can be found in an inspect-only model when connecting to a recreation session.
New Opt-in Difficulty
- A brand new kind of BluGlo Pylon might be discovered all through the world, permitting the problem of most mission varieties to be elevated as much as 5x.
- Each time it’s used, the variety of enemies will increase considerably, giving a small bump to their well being + injury output.
- Each time the sport’s issue is elevated, further Seasonal Gold is awarded upon completion of the first mission.
- During the Spring It On! occasion, rising the mission’s issue a minimum of as soon as awards plenty of Firecracker Tickets, beginning at 40 tickets in decrease Stonewood, and topping out at 94 tickets on the finish of Twine Peaks.
Rarity Evolution and Recycling Changes
- The prices of Rarity Evolution have been reworked. The price to extend the rarity of a Hero now prices extra Training Manuals and evolution supplies (Drops of Rain, Eye of the Storm, and many others) relying on the star degree of the Hero.
- A partially-complete model of this alteration was launched early in v.2.four.2 and had higher-than-intended prices for evolving three,four and 5-Star Heroes. These prices have been corrected on this patch.
- When 2-Star or larger Schematics, Heroes, Survivors, Survivor Leads and Defenders are recycled they are going to now refund all evolution supplies spent evolving the merchandise.
- This change was made as a result of we wished gamers to have the ability to degree up and check out new heroes, weapons, and traps with out the danger of dropping helpful evolution supplies.
Heroes
- Introducing Lunar New Years heroes, that includes 4 new kits:
- Berserker – A fearless Soldier who rushes into fight at shut vary with War Cry and Shockwave.
- Thunderstrike – A Ninja who focuses on gorgeous close by foes, and exploiting that state to deal elevated injury.
- Riot Control – Constructor targeted on controlling the battlefield with DECOY, and wiping out packs of enemies with Plasma Pulse.
- Flash – An elusive Outlander who makes use of Phase Shift to stun and escape from teams of enemies.
- Plasma Pulse
- Redesigned to not bounce when positioned.
- Rate of fireplace elevated from 2 pulses/second at eight pulses/second.
- Base injury has been lowered from 80 to 14.
- Goin’ Commando’s minigun is now flagged as a Ranged Weapon, inflicting it to profit from Debilitating Shots and varied different Soldier perks.
- Outlander’s Phase Shift will not interrupt most actions when activated, permitting it for use extra fluidly throughout fight.
- Long Arm of The Law makes Anti Material Charge not cease on the primary constructing hit.
- In The Zone capacity
- Updated the tooltip to make clear that it requires 5 hits in a row.
- Increased the reset timer between hits to five seconds from three seconds.
- Hearty Strikes base heal quantity decreased from 12 to 10.
- [Rework] Firewall Perk
- Melee assaults towards the Constructor’s defend set off an vitality pulse dealing Energy Damage and knocking again close by enemies in a zero.5 tile radius (16 Second Cooldown).
- [Rework] Firewall Tactical Bonus
- Melee assaults towards the Primary Hero’s defend triggers an vitality pulse dealing Energy Damage and knocking again close by enemies in a zero.5 tile radius (48 Second Cooldown).
- [Rework] Flak Vest Perk
- Reduces injury taken by 60%.
- Reduction drops by 15% every time the Soldier is hit. Regain 15% each 10 seconds if discount is decrease than 60%.
- Reduces injury taken by 60%.
- [Rework] Structural strike has been reworked: When Anti Material Charge hits a constructing it’ll refund a few of its vitality price and have a lowered cooldown.
- [Rework] Survivalist Perk/Tactical Bonus
- Killing an enemy with a capability or weapon recovers three base well being/second (scaling with Hero degree and Tech) over three seconds. Additional kills reset the therapeutic period. Will not activate on full well being.
- [Rework] Soldier Support Specialist
- ‘There Are Many Like It…’ Weapon lifespan enhance lowered to 80% whereas War Cry is energetic.
- ‘There Are Many Like It…’ now unlocks at degree 30 (up from degree 18).
- Added ‘Practiced in Combat’ perk at degree 18.
- Removed ‘Blitz’ from degree 30 (changed it with ‘There Are Many Like It…’)
Bug Fixes
- Damage of Tactical Perk ‘China Shop’ now correctly will increase with Hero degree.
- Fixed a problem inflicting Constructor and Machinist Harper to have the Legendary stats in any respect rarities.
- Fixed problem the place Blitzen Base Kyle Hearty Blows didn’t specify that its activation required a Hardware melee weapon.
- Updated tooltips for TEDDY and Shocktower talents to elucidate that every capacity provides to the max Fragment Charges capability by 1.
Weapons
- Heartbreaker Crossbow added
- Valentines-themed Sniper Crossbow.
- Fires bolts that pierce by means of enemies and deal excessive injury + knockback.
- Bolts will drop barely as they journey by means of the air.
- Consumes heavy ammo.
- Available within the Event Store for Seasonal Gold.
- Dragon Weapons can be found:
- Dragon’s Roar – Semi-auto rifle that fires piercing rounds that afflict enemies with fireplace injury.
- Dragon’s Might – Shotgun that fires a number of explosive firecrackers.
- Dragon’s Claw – Sniper rifle that fires small rockets that stick with targets and explode after a brief delay.
- Dragon’s Fury – Rocket that leaves an explosive cloud behind after influence.
- Dragon’s Tooth – Medium sword that offers fireplace injury.
- Dragon’s Fang – Heavy spear that offers fireplace injury.
- These weapons function a number of distinctive perks – discover all of them!
Gameplay
- Weapons and Hero Perks that enhance injury to ‘knocked down’ enemies now perform whereas husks are of their restoration animation.
- Reduced well being, stability, and rating awarded for defeating minibosses by 20%.
- Slightly lowered the variety of different enemies spawned whereas a Miniboss is current.
- Drops of Rain and different evolution supplies at the moment are extra closely impacted by issue and mission reward chests. This causes a rise in drop amount for all the things besides the bottom worth chests.
- Added Cozy Campfire Trap Schematics to Loot Llamas.
- Also added a slot for Cozy Campfire within the Collection Book.
- The following Quests have been moved to the Side Quests class within the Quest Journal since they’re not Daily Quests.
- A Little Van That Could!
- Data Retrieval
- Storm Chaser
- Crafted weapons now come preloaded with precisely one clip of free ammo acceptable to the weapon (This doesn’t think about the present hero, so the Waste Not Want Not perk doesn’t apply to the clip measurement).
Bug Fixes
- Twine Peaks Quest Glimmer of Hope ought to not record Retrieve the Data as an goal twice. Ride the Lightning ought to now be listed as a substitute.
- Clarified the outline of Life Leech Attacks Storm Zone mutation.
- Affliction can not deal crucial hit injury.
- Fixed a problem the place gamers may sometimes not degree up after outpost tutorial.
- Fixed a problem the place mild swords heavy assault animation was interrupted by motion.
- Fixed gamers seldom being unable to gather Bluglo when close to a player-made constructing.
- Fixed some ammo bins being tough to loot.
UI
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New Updates featured added.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a case of textual content overrun within the Store tab.
- It is not potential so as to add to a partial stack in Storm Shield Storage when the merchandise restrict is already exceeded.
- Updated the tooltip for Survivalist tactical perk to make clear that it doesn’t stack with the Survivalist hero perk.
- Fixed weapon perk lists disappearing quickly specifically instances.
- Fixed merchandise degree indicator not updating in sure conditions.
- Updated the Grenade Generation perk tooltip to correctly record 20 as a substitute of 30 required kills.
Audio
- Added sounds to Dragon Daze Ninja capacity.
- New sounds for Firewall activate and recharge.
- New sounds for Flak Vest influence and recharge.
Known Issues
- Event Side Quest “Things That Go Bang In The Night” seems on the Quest Map however isn’t out there till the following section of the Event.
- Event Side Quest “Things That Go Bang In The Night” seems incorrectly full within the Quest Map upon completion of the Main Event Quest “In Your Ears”.
- Spring It On! Gold Is incorrectly named Sprint It On Gold!
- Twitch quests are at the moment not giving out day by day missions.
- Crafting quest targets should be accomplished in world zones.
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