Fortnite v8.40 replace provides Air Royale LTM, Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants and new Scoreboard customisation for Creative

17.04.2019

Fornite: Battle Royale

LTM: Air Royale
Climb aboard a aircraft and take to the skies on this fast-paced mode the place gamers combat to be the final one flying!

Air Royale is lifting off as a Duos-only mode.
Each aircraft has Three lives, gamers will respawn till they lose their aircraft’s final life.
Touching the bottom will immediately eradicate gamers.
Parking a aircraft on the bottom for various seconds will trigger it to blow up – keep airborne!
Hijacking one other workforce’s aircraft will add that aircraft to your current variety of aircraft lives (and price the workforce who misplaced the aircraft a life).
The storm has a ceiling that regularly 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 aircraft’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’s of the identical or worse high quality, they’ll obtain extra ammo.
Chests with larger high quality weapons will mechanically change 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.

LTM: Food Fight- Deep Fried

Two groups on both aspect 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!

An impassable barrier shall 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 workforce may have an under-construction restaurant close to the middle of the map. Inside is a big mascot head representing that workforce.
If the mascot head is destroyed, that workforce loses the power 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, combat to take out their mascot earlier than they destroy yours!
Special pink 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, protecting 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 larger, requiring gamers to construct as much as them.
May the very best meals win!

Weapons and objects

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 harm.
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 social gathering, you now get a bigger XP enhance for partying with a number of mates.
The total complete XP Bonus stays the identical (120%) and can now be a lot simpler to maintain energetic
In quick, play any match with any variety of mates and also you’ll be getting the identical quantity of XP as somebody who’s been enjoying with a full squad of Battle-Pass-owning mates.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Season Eight trailer wouldn’t play in some instances.
Fixed a difficulty the place the embers from environmental Campfires would linger if the ground they had been connected to was destroyed.
Fixed subject the place Coconuts couldn’t be pinged.
Fixed a difficulty the place turbo constructing might cease should you ran out of the present kind of fabric you had 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 enjoying when certain to particular keys.
Fixed a difficulty when utilizing ‘Replay Last Emote’ earlier than utilizing some 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 will 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 might 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 event would be the one the participant shall 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 supply an improved expertise for stream viewers whereas nonetheless defending streamers.
When a participant is eradicated, their identify shall be proven within the elimination feed.
When a participant eliminates an opponent, their identify shall 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.
If you’re nonetheless experiencing efficiency points on PC, strive manually including the “NoRHIThread” to the Epic Games Launcher settings for Fortnite.

Art and animation

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

Audio

Adjusted the attenuation of the Reboot Van cooldown and Reboot Chip ambient looping audio, in order that it’s not as loud.
Fixed a difficulty that might trigger the Shotgun equip sounds to often not play.

Mimic! When mentioning your emote wheel there’s now an choice that seems should you’re taking a look at one other participant doing an emote you personal, to will let you play the identical emote.
When hiding HUD components within the choices, a few of them now collapse to release the house they had been taking over – the minimap for instance.
There’s now a HUD UI choice to cover the automobile management hints.
The Limited Time Mode Victory display screen is now not pushed misplaced on cellular/Switch.

Replay

Fixed a difficulty the place drone velocity was not saved when scrubbing
Fixed a difficulty the place scrubbing a replay whereas in Drone Attach mode would outcome within the digicam 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.
Fixed a difficulty with the Android app icon being incorrectly displayed.
Fixed a difficulty with Voice Chat whereas spectating
Push-To-Talk button can be now not hidden whereas spectating
Fixed a difficulty the place Auto-run wouldn’t activate in automobiles.
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 sizzling bar generally.
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 automobiles.
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.

Fortnite: Creative

Weapons and objects

Infantry Rifle: Epic and Legendary Infantry Rifle variants, offers 42, 44 harm
Explosive Device: Destruction and demolition are made simple 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 point out the Creator’s identify and the Island’s identify.
Approaching the portal will trigger an outline for the game to animate into view.

Gameplay

Fixed a difficulty the place the participant’s character would face the improper 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 harm one another after the scoreboard seems.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers who be part of a match that’s in progress wouldn’t see progressive Outfit adjustments on the Peely Outfit.
Fixed a difficulty the place some gamers had been unable to intention down sight when enjoying games.
Fixed a difficulty the place gamers can be scored as “Knocked Down” whereas spawning right into a game in progress.
Fixed a difficulty the place Reboot Cards had been incorrectly showing in Creative games.

Creative instruments and cellphone

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 subject: 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.
Fixed a difficulty within the Military Behemoth the place exterior wall vents might seem 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 exhibiting up as pink.
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 machine will explode and harm 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 constructions (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 shall be at knocking again gamers (off, low, medium, excessive, very excessive, tremendous excessive)
Ignore Team For Damage – Turn on to disregard a specified workforce when dealing harm (none, 1-16)
Explode on Proximity Range – Turn on to blow up when a participant is at a set distance from the machine (off, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
Ignore Team For Proximity – Turn on to disregard a specified workforce 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 machine.
Added a “Spawn Through Walls” choice to the Creature Spawner.
Turning this off will stop creatures from being spawned on the opposite aspect 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 throughout the spawn radius.
For the next gadgets, turning “Visualization” off will conceal the machine 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
Fixed a difficulty the place the Billboard had improper collision when reloading the Island or copying with the artistic device.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Item Spawner “Time Before Initial Spawn” choice was not functioning as meant.
Fixed a difficulty with the Shooting Gallery that might stop gamers from hitting the bullseye on some targets.
Fixed a difficulty with the Shooting Gallery the place you couldn’t 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 seem on participant’s Islands when enjoying on cellular gadgets.
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 machine 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, Social and Audio

“UI Settings” will be discovered within the “My Island” menu. Providing the power 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 underneath the first guidelines of the game
The finish of game Scoreboard has acquired 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.
You ought to now be capable to see workforce member names over their heads primarily based on the My Island Options.
Fixed a difficulty the place positioned entice sounds overlap and had 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 depend wasn’t displaying as infinite on weapons when infinite ammo was enabled.

Performance

Fixed varied efficiency and stability points.

Fortnite: Save the World

Weapons and objects

Easter Egg Launcher
Lobs egg mines that explode on contact with enemies. Maximum of 6 eggs energetic at a time.
Available within the Weekly Store from April 17 at Eight PM Eastern Time till April 24 at Eight PM Eastern Time.
Fixed a difficulty the place the Broadside entice’s cannonballs weren’t being destroyed by the Super Shielder’s protect.

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 harm to close by enemies.
Commander Perk: Eggs-plosive Entrance+
Shockwave drops Three egg bombs, which every deal 162 base harm 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 harm to close by enemies.
Commander Perk: Eggs-termination+
Kunai Storm throws Three egg bombs, which every deal 111 base harm 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.
Fixed a difficulty the place T.E.D.D.Y wouldn’t go on cooldown if the power was interrupted mid-throw.

Missions and methods

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

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

Performance

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

Gameplay

Auto Equip Better Weapon” now equips primarily based on Power Rating as an alternative of Weapon DPS.
The Cannonade Launcher has been reclassified as a cannonball weapon, permitting it to get harm buffs from the Avast Mateys perk.

Art and animation

Storm Shield and mission loading screens are actually biome primarily based slightly than mission primarily based.
Fixed a big hole that might be present in some Autumn Cities.

Audio

Updated the audio when Med Bot revives a downed participant.
Fixed a difficulty that induced the in-game music to proceed enjoying after skipping the victory and defeat cinematics.
Reduced quantity on the Nailer weapon to be according to different weapons.

Fortnite: normal updates

Updated the Main Menu Party Bar in Battle Royale and Creative modes to easily be an inventory 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 prime left of the Social Panel.
Fixed a difficulty in Battle Royale and Creative that might generally trigger your foyer character to not reappear in your pedestal.

Social

Updated lists for Save the World, Battle Royale and in-game Social Panel to extra logically establish 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.

Gameplay