This week we’re overtly discussing vital bugs discovered over the weekend, new options, and our upcoming competitive-focused AMA.
Weekend Issues
Last week, we found a vital challenge the place gamers may turn out to be caught in a automobile and unable to exit. We made the selection to take away the basis of the problem by disabling all autos, quite than electing to play by way of the Finals even with the bug. We felt that it was extra truthful to take away all autos to make sure gamers weren’t penalized for one thing exterior of their management through the Finals.
Due to a vital challenge with gamers getting caught inside autos, we will probably be disabling all autos in Arena and Fortnite World Cup Online Opens by way of this weekend. We plan on re-enabling autos within the Tournament and Arena playlists subsequent week after our repair is applied within the v9.10 replace.
We additionally found a number of audio points the place, in sure conditions, gun-fire was ducking constructing sounds, and participant touchdown sound might be silenced if gamers landed at a sure velocity. Thanks to a bug report and replay recordsdata offered by CouRage, these audio bugs have been triaged and also will be mounted within the upcoming 9.10 launch alongside different audio enhancements.
For perception into our present monitoring of high group points, head on over to our public Trello board here.
Disconnecting Duos Update
In last week’s communication blog, we spoke to the disconnecting duo challenge skilled by a small variety of duo groups within the Fortnite World Cup Online Open. For this weekend, we’ve modified the game logic of how disconnecting duos work.
In Week 6, gamers who’ve their duo disconnect whereas loading into the pre-match island will be capable to go away the match with out penalty previous to the Battle Bus launching. Once the Bus launches, the staff can have the match rely to determine if the solo remaining participant decides to remain.
For future duo event weekends, we’re working so as to add in game messaging to make this resolution crystal clear. We hope to have this applied in a future replace by the following duos weekend.
Upcoming Balance Adjustments
It’s vital that we do higher transferring ahead when explaining intent for numerous adjustments inside Battle Royale. Starting with the v9.01 patch notes, we’re working to offer further context after we make important game adjustments.
This week, we made adjustments to the Drum Gun, Baller, Compact SMG, and Slipstreams. Hop into the patch notes for some perception into these changes.
Hold to Swap
We initially added this characteristic to assist enhance early game looting, making it simpler to get weapons & objects within the slots that you just wished. We’ve mounted some bugs and iterated on this characteristic since its launch, however acknowledge that some gamers could not need it enabled in any respect.
With an upcoming launch, we’ll be making “Hold to Swap” a settings possibility, supplying you with the selection.
Performance
This previous Season 9 launch revealed a number of efficiency regressions on Console, Switch and Mobile. Since then, we’ve been conducting inner investigations to be able to decide root causes and iterative adjustments we will make in every subsequent launch.
In the v9.01 launch on Wednesday we included a number of preliminary fixes comparable to enhancing degree streaming for all platforms. Level streaming accelerates in-game degree loading and ends in blurry geometry being displayed much less.
Through our work in progress for our subsequent replace (v9.10) and past, we’re persevering with efficiency efforts to enhance degree streaming on all platforms.
AMA
In addition to our weekly communications, we will probably be holding an AMA within the subsequent few weeks on the Fortnite Competitive subreddit. This AMA will probably be particularly targeted round questions relating to aggressive Fortnite. We will share the time and date as we finalize the main points.
