Fortnite – v8.40 Patch Notes

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Battle Royale

What’s New?

Air Royale Limited Time Mode
Pilot the X-4 Stormwing on this Limited Time Mode as you battle to turn out to be the final airplane flying! Complete free Challenges to unlock model new Wraps as you rule the skies.

Infantry Rifle
New rarities for this exact, semi-automatic weapon can be found now! Find and wield the Epic/Legendary variants and ship correct hearth downrange.

Limited Time Mode: Air Royale

Summary
Climb aboard a airplane and take to the skies on this fast-paced mode the place gamers battle to be the final one flying!

Mode Details

Air Royale is lifting off as a Duos-only mode.
Each airplane has Three lives, gamers will respawn till they lose their airplane’s final life.
Touching the bottom will immediately eradicate gamers.
Parking a airplane on the bottom for quite a lot of seconds will trigger it to blow up – keep airborne!
Hijacking one other group’s airplane will add that airplane to your current variety of airplane lives (and value the group who misplaced the airplane a life).
The storm has a ceiling that step by step lowers throughout the match. Be cautious to not fly too excessive late within the match!
Loot chests of 5 completely different rarities will fall from the sky, permitting gamers to improve the weapons they’re carrying in addition to boosting their airplane’s weapons for a short while.
- To obtain the contents of a Chest, merely fly by way of it.
If gamers obtain loot from a Chest containing a weapon they have already got that is of the identical or worse high quality, they’ll obtain extra ammo.
- Chests with greater high quality weapons will mechanically substitute the decrease high quality weapon that’s being carried.
Floating restore kits may also be discovered, these heal broken planes and grant well being & shields to gamers.

Limited Time Mode: Food Fight – Deep Fried

Summary

Two groups on both facet of the map. An enormous barrier down the center. Lava steadily rising up from beneath. Build a fort to guard your restaurant mascot. When the Barrier lowers, destroy the enemy’s mascot after which eradicate the remaining enemies to win the match!

Mode Details

An impassable barrier will likely be spawned alongside the middle of the map for the primary a number of minutes. Lava begins rising from beneath the map a couple of minutes into the match.
Each group could have an under-construction restaurant close to the middle of the map. Inside is a big mascot head representing that group.
If the mascot head is destroyed, that group loses the flexibility to respawn when eradicated.
Players ought to use the time that the barrier is as much as assemble a defensive fortress round their restaurant.
As quickly because the barrier lowers, battle to take out their mascot earlier than they destroy yours!
Special crimson provide drops spawn at match begin. These maintain a handful of weapons, ammo, consumables, traps and some hundred steel constructing supplies.
Players will respawn when eradicated, preserving their stock & dropping some ammo and assets.
100 p.c additional assets are gained from farming.
Building assets discovered on the bottom elevated from 30 to 50 per occasion.
No explosive weapons or objects are on this mode.
A small quantity of free constructing supplies are granted to every participant each second.
The eating places are actually a lot greater, requiring gamers to construct as much as them.
May the most effective meals win!

Weapons + Items

Egg Launcher
- Everyone’s favourite egg-themed Grenade Launcher pores and skin is again!
- This is a visible solely change for the Grenade Launcher.
Infantry Rifle
- Added Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants.
- Deals 42/44 injury.
- Can be discovered from Floor Loot, Chests, Supply Drops and Vending Machines.
- Uses Medium Ammo.

Gameplay

You can now pet the canine… and different Pets!
The Battle Pass Friend XP Bonus has been upgraded!
- Instead of giving a small XP enhance to every buddy in your occasion, you now get a bigger XP enhance for partying with a number of buddies.
- The general complete XP Bonus stays the identical (120%) and can now be a lot simpler to maintain lively
- In quick, play any match with any variety of buddies and you will be getting the identical quantity of XP as somebody who’s been taking part in with a full squad of Battle-Pass-owning buddies.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place the Season Eight trailer would not play in some instances.
Fixed a difficulty the place the embers from environmental Campfires would linger if the ground they have been connected to was destroyed.
Fixed problem the place Coconuts couldn’t be pinged.
Fixed a difficulty the place turbo constructing might cease when you ran out of the present sort of fabric you have been utilizing.
Fixed a difficulty with Traps being be positioned inside partitions, making them tough to see.
Fixed a difficulty with Traps being positioned inconsistently when auto-placed.
Fixed ‘Emotes’ not taking part in when certain to particular keys.
Fixed a difficulty when utilizing ‘Replay Last Emote’ earlier than utilizing every other emote, so it now performs the emote within the default slot.

Competitive

New Tournament – April 20 & 21: Fortnite World Cup Online Open Week 2 ($1,000,000 complete prize pool!)
- Top performers in every server area will qualify to the Fortnite World Cup Finals in New York City. Full Fortnite World Cup particulars and official guidelines might be discovered right here: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/competitive/events/world-cup
- Duos Game Mode
- Participation on this occasion requires each gamers to have reached Champion League in Arena.
- Region Lock is in impact – gamers could solely take part within the qualifier for a single server area every week of the Online Opens. The server area of the primary match entered for that weekend’s match would be the one the participant will likely be locked into for that total weekend.
- Format:
  - April 20 – Round One: All Eligible Players.
  - April 21 – Round Two: Top 1500 Teams from Round One.
Added Fortnite World Cup Qualifier slots onto the prize breakout for Online Open tournaments.
Visual enhancements for Lobby panel throughout Online Open tournaments.
Updated how Anonymous Mode works in tournaments to offer an improved expertise for stream viewers whereas nonetheless defending streamers.
- When a participant is eradicated, their title will likely be proven within the elimination feed.
- When a participant eliminates an opponent, their title will likely be proven to the eradicated participant solely.
Maximum Screen Aspect Ratio can now not be larger than 16:9.

Performance

Resolved a efficiency regression occurring on PCs with lower than quad-core CPUs.
- For gamers with quad-core CPUs and above nonetheless experiencing efficiency points on PC, you may even see enchancment by manually including “NoRHIThread” to the Epic Games Launcher settings for Fortnite.

Art + Animation

Increased the dimensions and depth of the Boom Bow explosion results to raised symbolize the injury radius.

Audio

Adjusted the attenuation of the Reboot Van cooldown and Reboot Chip ambient looping audio, in order that it’s not as loud.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty that will trigger the Shotgun equip sounds to often not play.

UI

Mimic! When mentioning your emote wheel there’s now an possibility that seems when you’re one other participant doing an emote you personal, to will let you play the identical emote.
When hiding HUD parts within the choices, a few of them now collapse to unlock the area they have been taking on – the minimap for instance.
There’s now a HUD UI possibility to cover the automobile management hints.

Bug Fixes

The Limited Time Mode Victory display is now not pushed misplaced on cellular/Switch.

Replay

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place drone pace was not saved when scrubbing
Fixed a difficulty the place scrubbing a replay whereas in Drone Attach mode would outcome within the digital camera being left behind.

Mobile

Updated the Baller controls on default and customized HUDs.
- Baller controls can be found to be adjusted within the HUD Layout Tool for customized HUD gamers.
Audiovisual shot indicators will now not show for gamers in the identical automobile.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty with the Android app icon being incorrectly displayed.
Fixed a difficulty with Voice Chat whereas spectating
- Push-To-Talk button can also be now not hidden whereas spectating
Fixed a difficulty the place Auto-run wouldn’t activate in autos.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Reboot Card description was lacking.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Arena overview panel was not displaying.
Fixed a difficulty with the FPS counter being proven twice.
Fixed a difficulty the place the weapon icon wouldn’t show in stock scorching bar typically.
Fixed a difficulty the place textures would seem stretched when on a Creative Island.
Fixed a difficulty that displayed a checkmark icon on sure instructions of autos.
Fixed a difficulty the place a second storm wall would seem within the desert biome throughout the first closing interval.
Fixed a difficulty the place some chests couldn’t be opened.
Fixed points the place weak wifi halted gameplay and will trigger some disconnects.

Creative

What’s New?

Explosive Device
Destruction and demolition are made straightforward with The Explosive Device, now in Creative Mode.

Scoreboard Customization
Customize the in-game scoreboard in new methods! Open the “My Island” menu to find the completely different potentialities.

Islands

When on the Hub, Featured Island portals now seem as doorways to those featured games.
Simplified the textual content above the portals to indicate the Creator’s title and the Island’s title.
- Approaching the portal will trigger an outline for the game to animate into view.

Gameplay

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place the participant’s character would face the flawed path when beginning a game.
Fixed a difficulty the place games might be began concurrently on completely different islands when initiated by a participant in the identical server.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers might injury one another after the scoreboard seems.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers who be a part of a match that’s in progress wouldn’t see progressive Outfit modifications on the Peely Outfit.
Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers have been unable to intention down sight when taking part in games.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers could be scored as “Knocked Down” whereas spawning right into a game in progress.
Fixed a difficulty the place Reboot Cards have been incorrectly showing in Creative games.

Weapons + Items

Infantry Rifle
- Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants
  - Deals 42, 44 injury

Creative Tools + Phone

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place a vibrant blue mild would seem whereas copying and pasting objects with the Phone.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers couldn’t enter Build Mode when the Phone was geared up, whereas utilizing a controller.
Known problem: Delete sound impact performs twice when deleting an object.

Prefabs

Updated Car Gallery A with a Submarine, Arctic Submarine and Helicopter.
Updated the Jungle Temple Props Gallery with Three completely different sized Moai Statues.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty within the Military Behemoth the place exterior wall vents might look like floating.
Fixed a difficulty within the Military Behemoth the place gamers might unintentionally drop off some stairways.
Fixed a difficulty the place Military Gallery B Blue had a few constructing items displaying up as crimson.
Fixed a difficulty the place the collision field was too massive round some property within the Ring Gallery.

Devices

All new Explosive Device
- When broken throughout a game, the gadget will explode and injury objects and gamers round it
- Limited to 100 Explosive Devices per island
- Modify the next choices:
  - Player Damage – The quantity of harm inflicted on surrounding gamers (0, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, elimination)
  - Structure Damage – The quantity of harm inflicted on surrounding buildings (0, 5, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1000)
  - Damage Indestructible Buildings – Turning on this feature will destroy buildings, even when “Building Damage In Game” is “Off”..
  - Health – The well being of the Explosive Device (1, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 1000, 2000, 5000)
  - Blast Radius – How far the explosion will attain from the purpose of origin (0.25, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3)
  - Knockback – How forceful the explosion will likely be at knocking again gamers (off, low, medium, excessive, very excessive, tremendous excessive)
  - Ignore Team For Damage – Turn on to disregard a specified group when dealing injury (none, 1-16)
  - Explode on Proximity Range – Turn on to blow up when a participant is at a set distance from the gadget (off, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
  - Ignore Team For Proximity – Turn on to disregard a specified group when coming into designated proximity vary (none, 1-16)
  - Time To Detonation From Game Start – Turn on to begin a timer for automated detonation when a game begins (off, 5 sec, 10 sec, 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, 30 min, 1 hr)
Creature Spawner has been up to date to visualise the spawn radius across the gadget.
Added a “Spawn Through Walls” choice to the Creature Spawner.
- Turning this off will stop creatures from being spawned on the opposite facet of partitions.
Added “Preferred Spawn Location” choice to the Creature Spawner with “At Max Distance” or “Random” choices.
- “At Max Distance” will spawn creatures on the fringe of the Max Spawn Distance.
- “Random” will spawn them at random factors inside the spawn radius.
For the next units, turning “Visualization” off will disguise the gadget instantly upon beginning a game, as an alternative of ready for the game begin countdown to complete.
- Barrier
- Damage Volume
- Player Checkpoint Plate
- Player Spawn
- Item Spawner
- Radio
- Music Sequencer

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place the Billboard had improper collision when reloading the Island or copying with the inventive device.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Item Spawner “Time Before Initial Spawn” possibility was not functioning as supposed.
Fixed a difficulty with the Shooting Gallery that will stop gamers from hitting the bullseye on some targets.
Fixed a difficulty with the Shooting Gallery the place you could not hit the bullseye till you had began a game.
Fixed a difficulty with the Shooting Gallery that prevented sniper rifles from with the ability to register hits on the bullseye.
Clarified the items of time (eg. seconds, minutes) for associated choices on the Target Dummy Track within the Shooting Gallery.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Target Dummy “Proximity Pop Up Range” setting solely triggered at half the anticipated distance.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Billboard was inflicting stretched textures to look on participant’s Islands when taking part in on cellular units.
Fixed a difficulty the place the participant character’s head would seem floating over the Cannon when making an attempt to fly whereas inside.
Fixed a difficulty with the Capture Area gadget having inconsistent collision across the base.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Creature Spawner destruction animation would set off regardless that visibility was set to “Off”.

“UI Settings” might be discovered within the “My Island” menu. Providing the flexibility to change varied consumer interfaces.
- Time – Choose whether or not the clock counts down or up
- Score Display Time – The period of time the scoreboard is displayed after a match (Don’t Show, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 seconds)
- Winner Display Time – The period of time the Winner UI is displayed (Don’t Show, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 seconds)
- HUD Type – Choose the optimum heads-up-display for the kind of game you created (Default, Creature Elimination, Score)
- Scoreboard Stat 1-5 – Choose the statistics which might be tracked and proven on as much as 5 columns on the scoreboard on the finish of the match (None, Eliminations, Assists, Knocked Down, Collect Items, Health, Creature Eliminations, Score, Objectives, Time)
  - These statistics will function a tie-breaker (in sequential order) within the case that there’s a tie beneath the first guidelines of the game
The finish of game Scoreboard has obtained a visible makeover to coincide with the brand new scoreboard choices out there for creators.
Winners are actually prompted with new celebration animations, much like the Victory Screen in Battle Royale.

Bug Fixes

You ought to now be capable to see group member names over their heads based mostly on the My Island Options.
Fixed a difficulty the place positioned entice sounds overlap and have been very loud when spawning right into a game.
Fixed a difficulty the place automobile destruction sound results would play loudly when spawning right into a game.
Fixed a difficulty the place favourite Island codes couldn’t be faraway from the Featured Island Code listing when utilizing a controller.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Fly Up immediate exhibits ‘Unbound’ within the Tooltip when utilizing a controller.
Fixed a difficulty the place the ammo rely wasn’t displaying as infinite on weapons when infinite ammo was enabled.

Performance

Bug Fixes

Fixed varied efficiency and stability points.

Save The World

What’s New?

Bunny Brawler Luna
Make an egg-plosive entrance with this new Soldier!

Dashing Hare Ken
Poach the Husks with this new and egg-citing Ninja.

Missions + Systems

Beta Storm Test the Limits returns!
- The variety of race gates has elevated from Four to six.
- A cinematic has been added to make clear when the race begins.
- Watch out for the Husks! Prevent them from destroying the gate otherwise you gained’t be capable to earn a platinum badge throughout your race.
  - This happens after incomes the Gold Medal.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty which precipitated BluGlo Siphons to be mislabeled on the map in Refuel the Homebase missions.

UI

The Hero Loadout picker panel now has a button callout for “Cancel”.
The Hero Loadout “Clear All” button is now out there when solely a gadget or group perk has been chosen.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty with Hero rewards displaying Survivor associated descriptions on the XP bar when within the Command tab.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the ‘Manage Player’ panel to indicate an incorrect banner and energy degree whereas within the foyer.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the merchandise particulars panel to have incorrect data when quick switching between stock screens.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the “reward icon” and “earned reward” screens to not replace correctly when gamers skip the animation.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the tiles on the mission choose display to not refocus when occasion members level-up or evolve Heroes and Survivors.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated Hero names to flicker when utilizing a controller within the Hero Loadout choose display.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the reset menu to lose performance when switching to a unique Hero whereas the reset menu is open.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the facility degree notification to not present up when a brand new participant joins your occasion.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the participant to not see the respawn button immediate when falling off the world.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the looted objects notification to have massive areas within the textual content.

Performance

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty that precipitated gamers to hitch when accessing the boosts menu throughout gameplay.
Fixed a difficulty that precipitated gamers to hitch when opening the Armory tab.

Heroes

Introducing Bunny Brawler Luna, a brand new Legendary Soldier!
- Standard Perk: Eggs-plosive Entrance
  - Shockwave drops Three egg bombs, which every deal 54 base injury to close by enemies.
- Commander Perk: Eggs-plosive Entrance+
  - Shockwave drops Three egg bombs, which every deal 162 base injury to close by enemies.
- Available within the Event Store on April 17 at Eight PM Eastern Time.
Introducing Dashing Hare Ken, a brand new Legendary Ninja!
- Standard Perk: Eggs-termination
  - Kunai Storm throws Three egg bombs, which every deal 37 base injury to close by enemies.
- Commander Perk: Eggs-termination+
  - Kunai Storm throws Three egg bombs, which every deal 111 base injury to close by enemies.
- Available within the Event Store on April 17 at Eight PM Eastern Time.
The Legendary Soldier Rabbit Raider Jonesy Returns!
- Standard Perk: Sure Shot
  - Increases Sniper Critical Damage by 75%.
- Commander Perk: Sure Shot+
  - Increases Sniper Critical Damage by 225%.
- Available within the Event Store on April 17 at Eight PM Eastern Time.

Bug Fixes
Fixed a difficulty the place T.E.D.D.Y wouldn’t go on cooldown if the flexibility was interrupted mid-throw.

Weapons + Items

Easter Egg Launcher
- Lobs egg mines that explode on contact with enemies. Maximum of 6 eggs lively at a time.
- Available within the Weekly Store from April 17 at Eight PM Eastern Time till April 24 at Eight PM Eastern Time.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty the place the Broadside entice’s cannonballs weren’t being destroyed by the Super Shielder’s protect.

Gameplay

“Auto Equip Better Weapon” now equips based mostly on Power Rating as an alternative of Weapon DPS.

Bug Fixes

The Cannonade Launcher has been reclassified as a cannonball weapon, permitting it to get injury buffs from the Avast Mateys perk.

Art + Animation

Storm Shield and mission loading screens are actually biome based mostly somewhat than mission based mostly.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a big hole that might be present in some Autumn Cities.

Audio

Updated the audio when Med Bot revives a downed participant.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty that precipitated the in-game music to proceed taking part in after skipping the victory and defeat cinematics.
Reduced quantity on the Nailer weapon to be in line with different weapons.

General

UI

Updated the Main Menu Party Bar in Battle Royale and Creative modes to easily be a listing of gamers who’re in your chosen voice channel.
- Interacting with mouse or controller will carry out a “Toggle Mute” on that participant.
The icon to your chosen pores and skin or hero loadout now seems within the high left of the Social Panel.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a difficulty in Battle Royale and Creative that will typically trigger your foyer character to not reappear in your pedestal.

Updated lists for Save the World, Battle Royale and in-game Social Panel to extra logically determine Party Members earlier than the game begins, and Team Members as soon as in-game.
- We additionally show any Party Members that aren’t in-game with you when relevant.