Fortnite v8.50 Patch Notes

What’s New?

Endgame – Limited Time Mode
Join the battle for the Infinity Stones! Fight as Chitauri and Thanos or wield Avengers gadgets within the Endgame LTM. 

Limited Time Mode: Endgame

Summary
Thanos and his Chitauri invade the Battle Royale island, seeking the six Infinity Stones.

Mode Details

• Endgame includes a crew of heroes preventing to cease Thanos and his Chitauri from claiming all six Infinity Stones.
• Both groups respawn when eradicated till the opposite facet completes their goal.
• On one facet is the Hero crew. Heroes respawn when eradicated till the enemy crew has discovered all six Infinity Stones.
• Heroes begin with a treasure map that leads on to a Mythic Avengers merchandise.
• Other Avengers gadgets might be present in Chests all through the map.
• The purpose for the Hero crew is to destroy the Chitauri military and defeat Thanos.  
• Team Thanos is comprised of Chitauri Invaders and Thanos himself.
• Chitauri Invaders begin with a strong laser rifle, an anti-structure grenade assault, and a jetpack that lets them briefly leap excessive into the air.
• The first Chitauri to recuperate an Infinity stone can be reworked into Thanos.
• Thanos has a strong punch, a harmful beam assault, and the power to leap excessive into the air after which smash something in his approach when he comes again down.
• Each time an Infinity Stone is claimed, Thanos’ talents develop extra highly effective and the Chitauri achieve well being.
  • Reality Stone (Red) = Heath & Shields doubled (1000->2000)
  • Soul Stone (Orange) = Siphon activated (grants Thanos shields solely)
  • Mind Stone (Yellow) = Jump peak doubled
  • Space Stone (Blue) = Ground Pound AOE measurement tripled, injury x6
  • Time Stone (Green) = Big knockback added to every hit, injury x3
  • Power Stone (Purple) = Laser injury x6
• If Thanos is eradicated from the match, one other Chitauri will turn into him after a brief wait (except Thanos is the final one standing).
• If Thanos & the Chitauri discover all six Infinity Stones, Heroes will not be capable to respawn.
• The purpose for Thanos and his military is to seek out the stones after which remove the remaining heroes.

Weapons + Items

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• The Hold to Swap performance is now confirmed upon releasing the Use button reasonably than when initially urgent it.
  • This ought to assist with the problem of by accident swapping.
• If a participant is eradicated by fall injury whereas inside a car, the participant that final broken that car will obtain the credit score for that elimination.
• Re-enabled hit markers to be server-side authoritative as an alternative of client-side.
  • This will assist forestall situations the place gamers see hit markers however no injury.
• Players that had been Rebooted into Rifts had been teleporting into the sky however wouldn’t enter skydiving mode.
• Vehicles weren’t getting impulsed away from the Reboot Van.
• Collision for the Reboot Van was not affecting some automobiles, permitting them to cover inside the Reboot Van.
• The yellow “invulnerability” impact wasn’t showing on gamers who had been revived by the Reboot Van.
• The Reboot Card was nonetheless enjoying its spawn sound even when the participant disconnected.
• Dropping stock gadgets whereas in automobiles with weapons is now blocked to forestall numerous digicam points.
• Traps had been sometimes being positioned in the midst of a tile reasonably than in opposition to a wall when utilizing Builder Pro.
• When exiting automobiles, the equip animation will now at all times play earlier than weapons might be fired.
  • This will forestall the problem the place gamers would sometimes see themselves fireplace proper after exiting a car earlier than the server had time to register the shot.
• The elimination feed textual content will not show the “eliminated by ally” message if an ally interrupts a participant reboot animation.  
• Fall injury was being taken when utilizing a Jetpack (in supported Limited Time Modes) after being launched from the Pirate Cannon.
• Players weren’t capable of negate fall injury utilizing a Flintlock Pistol whereas crouching.
• Players couldn’t see the nameplates of get together member’s Reboot Cards within the UI.
• Players wouldn’t drop a Reboot Card in the event that they had been eradicated after confirming a Reboot however earlier than their teammate really spawned.

Gameplay

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• We’ve resolved a problem that was stopping the correct quantity of Survival XP from being granted after games and have gifted XP to gamers as compensation.
  • You’ll obtain this compensation through the Gifting system.

Competitive

• New Tournament – April 27 & 28: Fortnite World Cup Online Open Week 3 ($1,000,000 whole 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
• Solo Game Mode
  • Participation on this occasion requires gamers to achieve 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 event would be the one the participant can be locked into for that total weekend.
  • Format:
    • April 27 – Round One: All Eligible Players.
    • April 28 – Round Two: Top 3000 Players from Round One.
• Streaming Replays – Currently solely obtainable on PC & Mac
  • Added event Match History, which might be considered by choosing a participant on the leaderboards.  
    • Replays might be considered from every match that participant has performed.
  • Added the power to spectate stay matches throughout tournaments by choosing a participant on the leaderboards.
    • Note: Match should have been working for 10 minutes for stay replay to be obtainable.
  • Added the power to view a particular match by game session ID utilizing the “View Streaming Replay” button within the Replay Browser.
• Arena & Tournaments will now document profile stats to Solo/Duo/Squad classes reasonably than as an LTM.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Players in Arena had been incorrectly seeing themselves demoted to a decrease division after dropping Hype.
  • This was strictly a visible challenge and all Hype values and division unlocks are as soon as once more being displayed accurately.
• Tournament posters in-game had been incorrectly exhibiting sure occasions as beginning in ‘2 Days’.
• Tournament posters and the Arena Panel weren’t loading correctly on cellular gadgets.

Performance

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Resolved a trigger of great hitching throughout skydiving. and through late game fight.

Art + Animation

• We’ve added a novel animation for petting the canine and different Pets.

Audio

• Added Sound Visualizer with out Spatialization (panning) of sounds in-game.
  • By introducing this mode, if you’re a hearing-impaired participant, then you’ll now be capable to play the game with audio and the visualizer turned on concurrently!
  • Drop in and provides us your suggestions about these adjustments both in-game or on our social channels to assist us proceed to make enhancements for the longer term!

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Various gameplay sounds (gunshots, strolling, reloading) will not retrigger at incorrect/random instances.
  • This was inflicting “ghost” sounds to be heard when nothing was inflicting the precise sound impact.
• Fixed a problem that might trigger sure issues to not have looping audio when they need to.

What’s New?

Game Rounds
Play a spherical! New game settings at the moment are obtainable, akin to the power so as to add rounds! Find out extra within the Gameplay part beneath.

Phase Mode
Phase mode permits you to toggle collision with objects and the world On & Off. When you’re in Phase mode you possibly can move freely by means of all terrain and convey objects with you.

Pirate Ship Prefab
Avast, ye mateys! Become the captain of your very personal Pirate Ship! Imagine and create your personal Pirate Cove utilizing this new prefab.

Islands

• Added two new featured Island portals to the Creative and Playground Hub.
• Reduced participant Island portals from Eight to six within the Creative Hub.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Material assets weren’t being reset when returning to the Hub.
• Infinite materials assets weren’t being toggled correctly when Island permissions modified.

Gameplay

• New Rounds game settings
  • You can now add rounds to any game.
  • Everything can be reset to the unique pre-game state when beginning a brand new spherical.
  • Each spherical makes use of the tip game Score and Winner show settings to announce a winner, and in addition shows a spherical scoreboard.
  • The variety of wins per crew or participant is displayed on the scoreboard.
    • In the longer term, we can be including an total winner for the game show.
  • The Total Rounds setting units the variety of rounds from 1 to 100.
• Updated choices for Eliminations, Creature Eliminations, Objectives to Win, and Collect Items to:
  • Win to be Off, 1-10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 200, 500, or 1000.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Players may trigger injury to one another after a game had ended.
• Games had been taking unexpectedly lengthy instances to start out on Islands with Creative Spawners.
• Lobby music would play on a steady loop after profitable a game.
• Players in a celebration that was set to “Sit Out” would go into the game if the get together chief joined a game in progress.

Creative Tools + Phone

• Added Phase mode:
  • While flying, now you can activate Phase mode to move by means of objects and terrain!
  • Phasing might be very helpful for rapidly navigating your Island whereas modifying.
  • To activate or deactivate Phase mode:
    • On the keyboard, press the N key(this may be reassigned in Settings).
    • On controllers, maintain down the Left Thumbstick.
    • On cellular gadgets, you possibly can assign a brand new Phase button to your HUD which lets you toggle Phase.
• Your Phase setting can be remembered, so that you’ll proceed to part after you cease and begin flying.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fruit consumable couldn’t be chosen by the Phone.
• Some props or tiles may vanish when copying close by objects after Multi-Selecting them.
• Player construct partitions could possibly be scaled and rotated if chosen alongside one other object utilizing Multi-Select.
• Prop orientation would change unexpectedly when Grid Snap was toggled.

Prefabs

• Added the Pirate Ship Prefab.
• Added the Pirate Ship Gallery.
• Added six Pirate Cove Prefabs.
• Added the Pirate Cove Gallery and Pirate Cove Prop Gallery.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• The metallic trash can in General Props Gallery B was prevented from being reduce or copied.
• The draw distance for the trash bag has been improved, permitting them to be seen from additional away.
• Roof items from the Military Base Set had been turning inexperienced after being positioned with Multi-Select.
• The pillars within the Ice Castle Set couldn’t be positioned after being rotated on a modified axis.
• Canceling a reduce of the rings from the Rings Gallery would trigger that ring to be unaffected by the Phone.
• The Ice Castle Balcony was unable to be positioned accurately.

What’s New?

Cottontail Eagle Eye
Bounce into battle and drop eggs on the Husks with this new Legendary Outlander.

Bowler
More cannons? No downside! Launch bouncing cannonballs at these Smashers with this returning launcher.

Missions + Systems

• Twine Peaks tweaks!
  • Missions have been added to the highest finish of Twine Peaks with larger difficulties, and higher rewards.
    • Hero, Schematic, and Survivor XP
    • Higher Gold rewards
    • Better world loot
    • Better supplies (Brightcore / Sunbeam)
      • These are the primary steps we’re taking in including tougher content material to Save the World.
• Beta Storm Resupply returns!
  • New main objectives have been added:
    • Harvest sufficient rocks earlier than the timer runs out!
    • Collect 10 Supply Crates!
  • The Collect Mushrooms and/or Barrels at the moment are bonus targets reasonably than most important targets.
  • The smallest secure space circle radius has been elevated to permit for safer harvesting.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed a problem that induced mushrooms in Plankerton to not rely in the direction of the Resupply mission goal.

UI

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Mac gamers will not get kicked again to the map display when making an attempt to affix a foyer.
  • We just lately fastened this challenge for different gamers previous to the discharge of v8.50.
• Extra loading screens had been showing when leaving the foyer.
• The foyer “manage player” affirmation display was exhibiting an incorrect banner and energy stage.
• Descriptions for schematic rewards weren’t exhibiting when considered within the mission rewards part on the map.
• Some Schematic/Heroes had textual content and numbers reduce off their descriptions.
• Armory slot gadgets had been exhibiting unrelated tabs when previewing it from the store.
• The Launch button would seem enabled however can be unusable when making an attempt to launch an SSD mission.
• Collection Book Hero rewards weren’t displaying correctly after claiming a random Hero reward.
• Collection Book completion pages weren’t updating when unslotting gadgets or including new gadgets to a web page.
• The wooden harvesting UI was getting caught on participant screens when rejoining a mission or re-enabling the HUD.
• Players becoming a member of a game in progress wouldn’t seem within the crew checklist HUD.
• Player energy ranges had been showing as “1” as an alternative of the proper energy stage.
• Updated tooltip assault pace stats for melee weapon schematics.

Performance

• Made enhancements to gameplay modifiers to assist with efficiency points.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Players had been hitching whereas transferring by means of/interacting with the menus.

Heroes

• Introducing Cottontail Eagle Eye, a brand new Legendary Outlander!
  • Standard Perk: Un-eggs-pected Departure
    • Phase Shift leaves Three egg bombs, which deal 18 base injury to close by enemies.
  • Commander Perk: Un-eggs-pected Departure+
    • Phase Shift leaves Three egg bombs, which deal 45 base injury to close by enemies.
  • Available within the Event Store on April 25 at Eight PM Eastern Time.
• The Legendary Constructor Miss Bunny Penny Returns!
  • Standard Perk: Plasma Overdrive
    • Decreases Plasma Pulse Energy Cost by 38%.
  • Commander Perk: Plasma Overdrive+
    • Decreases Plasma Pulse Energy Cost by 75%.
  • Available within the Event Store on April 25 at Eight PM Eastern Time.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• The Escape Artist+ tooltip was displaying an incorrect period.
• The Critical Blast+ and Sure Shot+ tooltips had been displaying incorrect values.