Fortnite v9.00 Patch Notes

What’s New?

Season 9 – Battle Pass
New Season, new Battle Pass. 100 ranges, over 100 new rewards. Available in-game proper now for 950 V-Bucks. Find out extra info on this Season’s Battle Pass here.

Slipstreams
Get round areas rapidly with the brand new Slipstream wind transportation system.

New Locations
Explore new factors of curiosity that emerged from the destruction of the Volcano like Neo Tilted and Mega Mall.

Weapons + Items

• Added Combat Shotgun
  • Semi-Automatic
    • Holds 10 Shells.
    • Fires 9 pellets per shot for 73 / 77 / 81 base harm.
    • Tight unfold and quick hearth fee.
    • Headshot multiplier of 1.70x.
    • Reloads 2 shells at a time.
  • Available in Rare, Epic, and Legendary variants.
  • Available from Floor, Chests, Supply Drops, and Vending Machines
• Adjusted Tactical Shotgun harm
  • Base harm elevated from 66/70/74 to 71/75/79
• Reduced Drum Gun availability from 16.732% to 7.155%
• Reduced Boom Bow availability from 1.292% to .755%
• Unvaulted Grenades
• Vaulted Clingers
• Vaulted Buried Treasure
• Vaulted Pump Shotgun
• Vaulted Poison Dart Trap
• Vaulted Scoped Revolver
• Vaulted Suppressed Assault Rifle
• Vaulted Thermal Assault Rifle
• Vaulted Balloons

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Turbo constructing after gliding now works accurately.
• The stink bomb harm audio and results weren’t enjoying in case you broken your self.
• Fixed the Shadow bomb sometimes not making the participant invisible on the Xbox One the primary time it is used.
• Misplacement of Launch Pads in mid-air has been resolved.
• Pirate Cannon digicam points because of community latency have been resolved.
• The Reboot Card deposit sound results not play in replay mode whereas the Van is on Cooldown.
• The Reboot Van card sound results will not be heard when a squadmate disconnects.

Gameplay

• Slipstreams
  • These tunnels of wind passively carry gamers down the stream.
    • Players can transfer quicker and alter path when actively attempting to maneuver down the Stream.
    • Use directional enter to achieve additional velocity. Experiment with coming up and down for greater speeds.
  • Players are launched when exiting the tube primarily based on their motion pace and exit angle.
  • Projectiles and Vehicles also can enter the Slipstream.
• Air Vents
  • The highly effective gusts of air from these environmental gadgets can launch gamers quick distances and grant immunity to fall harm.
• Fortbytes
  • Fortbytes are a sequence of 100 collectible pc chips obtainable to Battle Pass house owners. As you acquire Fortbytes, you’ll decrypt a mysterious picture. Collect all of them to unlock rewards and uncover the secrets and techniques of Season 9.
  • On the primary day of Season 9, there are 18 Fortbytes obtainable to seek out. At least 1 new Fortbyte can be unlocked every day. Check the Challenges Tab for detailed info on which Fortbytes are at the moment obtainable and when the others unlock.
  • Fortbytes can’t be collected after Season 9 ends.
• Disconnected gamers will keep on this planet for 60 seconds. They nonetheless take harm and rely for elimination factors.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Resolved a difficulty with the UI exhibiting well being good points incorrectly if the participant canceled the consumable near completion time.
• PS4 controller lighting not at all times matching your pin colour when in Squads.
• Players not in a position to make use of Hold to Swap in the event that they beforehand picked an merchandise up usually
• Adjusted turbo constructing to be extra forgiving below poor community circumstances
• Fixed instances of jittery motion below sure circumstances.

Limited Time Mode Rotation:

Trios

Classic Battle Royale with Three-Person Squads.

Solid Gold

Fight to the end utilizing Legendary weapons!

One Shot

Low Gravity. Every participant has 50 well being. Sniper weapons are the one weapon, Bandages are the one therapeutic merchandise. Jump excessive and purpose effectively!

Events

• Players who’ve already certified to be within the World Cup can be marked with a World Cup badge on the occasion leaderboards
• Leaderboards now have a button to type games by the variety of prime leaderboard gamers in them. This will assist determine essentially the most vital energetic games from a leaderboard standing view.
• The in-game HUD now has totally different icons for factors for Arena matches and weekend match matches.

Performance

• Improved body fee on Nintendo Switch, significantly when massive numbers of characters are onscreen.
• Addressed some instances of invisible characters after skydiving.

Audio

• Better tactical audio when inside player-built buildings:
  • Enemy Pickaxe affect inside ~one constructing tile radius has new, louder sound.
  • Wallbreak by enemy shut/behind participant a lot clearer/louder.
• Explosion audio improvements- shorter, greater dynamic vary sounds that can make explosion audio clearer and punchier.

UI

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• “Swap” textual content showing within the pickup UI will not seem when selecting up extra sources than the participant can carry.
• The preliminary storm warning timer was incorrectly exhibiting as 0.
• Spectators and replay watchers can now report customers.
• Fixed get together invitations not exhibiting up within the UI if the person logged out and again in once more.

What’s New?

Neo Tilted
Build your personal imagined model of Neo Tilted utilizing futuristic prefabs units and gallery choices!

Hover Platform
Hover platforms permit for sky-high development and are nice for platforming!

Creature Manager
Customize creatures’ well being, harm and rating for superior games!

Islands

• Added Meadow Island – a 105×105 tiles flat, grass island.
• Updated the look of the Creative and Playground’s hubs.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Grass materials on islands not turns into darker as they get nearer to the water.

Gameplay

• Added Team Rotation choice which causes gamers to rotate between groups.
  • Disabled, Every Round, Every Other Round.
  • Use in assault / defend games to present gamers an opportunity to play on both sides.
• Added new Flight choices to Game Settings
  • Player Flight Sprint – Sets whether or not gamers are allowed to dash in games the place flight is enabled.
  • Flight Speed – Sets the pace at which gamers will fly in games the place flight is enabled.
• Added “Allow Out of Bounds” choice to Game Settings to maintain gamers from leaving the bounds of an island throughout games.
  • On, Off (Default: On)
• Added Resource Cap choice.
  • None, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 450, 500, 750, 999, 2000 (Default: 500)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed settings not being saved between Fortnite updates
• Game settings are not lacking from islands
• The Poison Dart Trap’s harm quantity will stay after firing.

Weapons + Items

• Added the Jewel (Crystal Llama) merchandise to the Consumables tab of the inventive stock.
  • Use it with the Item Spawner and Capture Area to create your personal heist.
• Combat Shotgun
  • Semi Automatic
    • Holds 10 Shells.
    • Fires 9 pellets per shot for 73 / 77 / 81 base harm.
    • Tight unfold and quick hearth fee.
    • Headshot multiplier of 1.70x.
    • Reloads 2 shells at a time.
  • Available in Rare, Epic, and Legendary variants.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Players not stay invisible after being eradicated whereas within the Shadow Bomb impact. Shadow Bomb has been readded.

Creative Tools + Phone

• You can now “sprint” whereas flying to maneuver rather more rapidly.
  • Simply maintain down the common dash button to fly quicker.
• Added the power to alter base Flight Speed
  • Choose between 0.5x, 1.0x, 1.5x, 2.0x, and three.0x speeds. (Default 1.0x)
  • To change speeds whereas flying:
    • On keyboard, press the C button
    • On controllers, press D-Pad Down.
    • (Mobile controls can be added quickly, with a completely revised management scheme for toggling choices!)
• Increased the Multi-Select restrict on selectable objects from 20 to 100.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Building tiles can not be pasted into the air utilizing Multi-Select after they weren’t structurally supported.
• Multi-Select not shows the Rotate or Drops assist textual content when shifting objects that had been snapped to the grid.
• Rotation is not reset on Bananas, Peppers and Mushrooms when pasting them.
• All chosen objects are not cleared when trying to Multi-Select greater than the utmost restrict.
• Objects are not offset from the constructing grid when putting an odd variety of tile items with Multi-Select.
• Using Multi-Select on an object exterior of the island not permits grid objects to be resized.

Prefabs & Galleries

• Added 6 new Neo Tilted Prefabs.
• Added Three new Neo Tilted Building Galleries.
• Added a Neo Tilted Prop Gallery.
• Added a Neo Tilted Car Gallery.
• Added a Neo Tilted Hologram Gallery.
• Added Neo Tilted Sidewalks to Street Gallery B.
• Added the Neo Tilted Tree to the Nature Tree Gallery.
• Added the Neo Tilted Flowers to the Nature Jungle Gallery.
• Added extra props to General Props Gallery B.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Grass not clips by means of the Pizza Pete Prop.
• Trash piles in General Props Gallery A are not invisible for cell customers.
• “Elec Cruisin’” and Elec Groove” tracks are not lacking from the Radio machine within the Visualizer Gallery.

What’s New?

Wargames
Introducing Wargames! Take half in new and distinctive Stormshield mission Simulations to place your expertise to the take a look at!

Tales of Beyond
Lok claims to have met a wierd customer not like anybody or something Homebase has ever seen. Join the hunt to seek out Lok’s monster in Tales of Beyond!

Garridan
Go Constructor on the Husks with Garridan! Comes geared up with a model new Constructor potential… batteries not included.

Missions + Systems

• Introducing: Wargames!
  • Revisit your Storm Shield bases and take a look at your defenses towards some damaging and difficult simulations. Simulations will exist in all biomes and we’ll be including extra because the season progresses. The first 4 are:
    • Torn Apart – A twister is wreaking havoc in your fort! This simulation causes destruction to your buildings, flinging gamers and enemies into the air.
    • Hot Spots – Volcanic ruptures plague this simulation as lava swimming pools sprout from the bottom, damaging buildings, and changing enemies into the Fire factor.
    • Denied – During the course of this simulation, an increasing number of anomaly rifts seem across the protection level. Standing too shut to those hazards will sap your power and your well being!
    • Safety Zone – With the primary Storm Shield down, you’ll have to depend on transportable defend mills. Stay inside certainly one of these protecting bubbles or really feel the results of the Storm. Enemies will prioritize destroying the defend mills first so maintain them protected!
  • Each simulation requires the gamers to defend their base for seven minutes. A random amplifier is then chosen to defend for an additional seven minutes.
    • Collect “Time Cheats” that seem across the atmosphere to cut back the wave timer.
  • Wargames ramps up the problem by requiring one other participant to revive you when your well being is depleted. If everybody goes down you’ll fail the Wargame, so in case you are enjoying solo you’ll solely have one life to finish the simulation.
  • If the simulations aren’t difficult sufficient, apply certainly one of 9 new problem modifiers for some bonus rewards. These challenges embrace:
    • Rolling Fog – A heavy fog obstructs your sights and enemies gained’t seem in your mini-map.
    • Close Quarters – Enemy spawn areas seem a lot nearer to your base.
    • Husk Swarm – Only Husks seem on this problem, however they’re at a a lot greater energy stage.
    • No Building Zone – No constructing, no repairs, and no pickaxe.
    • Heavy Explosives – Huskies explode when eradicated. Eliminate them earlier than they get too shut!
    • Trapped Out – All of your traps are disabled and none could be positioned on this problem.
    • Full Time – Time Cheats don’t seem on this simulation problem.
    • Surprise – The Wargames simulation is randomized and can swap to a distinct one within the second wave.
    • Head Games – Damaged enemies have to be completed off with a headshot!
  • The Wargames problem and rewards are primarily based on the account stage of the bottom participant in a celebration and is averaged with public gamers that help in your mission. This is to make sure that there may be at all times a problem in any Storm Shield location.
  • Wargames steps up the problem as extra gamers be a part of the mission, by growing the enemy rely and enemy energy stage.
• Wargames Event Quests!
  • Wargames are kicked off with the Wargames Boot Camp quests! These quests will assist gamers uncover all the facets of enjoying Wargames whereas providing some good rewards within the course of. Learning could be enjoyable!
  • Each Wargames simulation sort presents a one-time completion quest which rewards Event Tickets and a novel banner reward to point out off your accomplishment.
  • Every Wargames problem has a one-time completion quest which rewards Event Tickets.
  • Repeatable quests can be found for finishing each Wargames simulations and challenges.
• Wargames Daily Challenge Quests
  • Every day brings new challenges for Wargames and your Storm Shields, requiring you to finish a Simulation / Challenge mixture in a particular zone.
  • As you progress and unlock new zones within the game, you’ll unlock a Wargames Daily Challenge slot related to that zone for a complete of Four per day.
  • Completing these will grant rewards equivalent to Event Tickets and Gold!
• Storm Shield Quality of Life Updates
  • When you begin a Storm Shield Defense or Wargames mission, your fort’s structure is saved. After the present Storm Shield mission concludes, your fort is restored to the saved state. This consists of all buildings, and traps (sturdiness) positioned earlier than you begin the mission. Any buildings or traps which are positioned after the mission begins can be cleared after the mission ends.
• Community Lookout
  • Enter your Storm Shield in any Zone to hitch the Community Lookout program!
  • Help different gamers defend their Storm Shields or soar into the brand new Wargames Missions as a change of surroundings. This up to date match-making system prioritizes Storm Shield mission sorts.
  • Similar to Play with Others, these match-making choices supply 20% bonus XP.
• Before beginning a Storm Shield Defense or Wargames mission, gamers can now choose to “Wait for Assistance”, requiring not less than one different public participant to hitch earlier than beginning the mission.
• Re-organized Twine Peaks:
  • Twine Peaks missions now comply with a linear path, for higher readability than the beforehand current construction.
  • Added missions to every area of Twine Peaks to introduce extra mission selection, and to offer extra mission-loot-rolling alternatives for gamers.
  • Added not less than one extra group mission per problem stage.
• Reduced the frequency of XP rewards in high-end Twine Peaks missions, to permit different reward sorts to seem extra typically.
• Reduced atmosphere well being scaling in high-end Twine Peaks to not overtake pickaxe harm scaling.
  • Target Practice!
  • A brand new secondary exercise of skeet capturing is obtainable in missions. How many clay pigeons are you able to shoot down!
• The Beta Storms have moved on for now, search for them to return sooner or later.
• Mission Alert scheduling and quotas have been simplified.
  • Mission Alerts now seem on the map as soon as per day, on the identical time every day (Midnight UTC).
    • Missions themselves additionally refresh on the identical timer.
  • Mission Alerts not have a rolling 24 hour quota. Instead, every alert seen on the map could be accomplished one time per day.
  • Mission Alerts that you’ve already accomplished at this time could have a verify mark seem subsequent to them, indicating that the mission alert is not going to grant any bonus rewards till it refreshes the next day.
• Weekly Quests
  • A quest to finish 10 Mission Alerts can be granted to gamers as soon as per week.
  • Upon completion it is possible for you to to pick out a reward – a big quantity of both Event Tickets, Gold, or Perk Materials.
  • The quest’s problem necessities and reward portions will scale up, dependent in your Storm Shield development.
  • If the week ends whereas your weekly quest is partially full, the search progress will carry over to the subsequent week (moderately than restarting with a brand new quest).

Bug Fixes

• Ensured {that a} Mega Alert seems on every group mission.

UI

• Added navigation arrows to decide on between a number of occasions within the occasion callout interface on the Quests tab.
• Re-enabled and made updates to the X-Ray Llama selection packs. The UI has been up to date in order that card pack selections are extra seen on the proven X-Ray gadgets.
• Updated the ‘All Stats’ display screen to replace stats when crew members change.
• Updated ‘All Stats’ display screen to focus on crew improved stats in blue, to match textual content of the get together members display screen.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the difficulty that induced blurry schematic pictures to seem within the retailer.
• Fixed being unable to hover on or work together with gadgets when utilizing a mouse on PS4
• The Yes/No vote standing of the final participant who voted on an goal will now correctly seem within the mission vote dialog.
• Players can not slot an upgraded merchandise within the assortment e-book if the unique schematic is unable to be recycled. This would initially create an error message when trying to overslot an merchandise and prevents distinctive schematics, just like the Bowler, from being destroyed.
• Items inspected from the Collection Book Item picker can now be upgraded and favorited.
• The Mini Map will now accurately show necessary mission info after closing the large map.
• Menu textual content will not quickly change sizes when the participant hovers over the menu buttons.