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General

General

• Next Phase of Crossplay Improvements on Console
  • You can now add, remove, and manage Epic Friends from the main menu.
  • You can now send, receive, and respond to crossplay Party Invites.
  • Party Finder now includes Epic Friends on other platforms.
• Enabled toggling of full screen mode with Alt + Enter on PC, and Option + Enter on Mac.
• Increased the brightness and visibility of ammo boxes.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a rare bug where players could be launched up in the air after colliding with the world in tight spaces.
• Fixed the edit mode UI appearing over non-player built structures in some cases.
• Fixed other players not appearing to move smoothly while jumping.
• Fixed some keys on non-QWERTY keyboards becoming unbound after restarting.
• Fixed the Video Settings screen not updating properly after full screen mode is toggled.

Battle Royale

Weapon + Items

• Guided Missile added.
  • Stats:
    • Damage to Players: Epic - 105; Legendary - 110
    • Damage to Environment: 1000
    • Lifetime: 18 seconds
    • Time Between Shots: 3.13 seconds
    • Rocket Speed: 1300 units/second
    • Rocket Health: 100
  • Take direct control of the missile after it's fired.
  • Once you take on the missile's point-of-view, you're unable to move your character.
  • Disconnect from the missile at any time, in which the missile will continue its trajectory.
  • Moves slightly slower than a regular rocket but does the same damage.
  • Epic and Legendary rarity.
  • Uses Rocket ammo.
  • Found in Treasure Chests + Supply Drops.
• Adjusted rarity colors on Shotguns to more closely represent their effectiveness.
  NOTE: Characteristics (such as weapon damage, drop chances) are completely unchanged.
  • Tactical Shotguns are now Common/Uncommon/Rare (was Uncommon/Rare/Epic).
  • Pump Shotguns are now Uncommon/Rare (was Common/Uncommon).
• The Egg Launcher has been added as a seasonal item that replaces the Grenade Launcher (only a cosmetic change).
• Increased Launch Pad drop rate by 25%.

Battle Royale

Bug Fixes

• Issues with the Boogie Bomb are fixed and this item is now re-enabled.
• Fixed an issue which caused spike traps to trigger when a player stands on top of the wall the trap is attached to.
• Fixed an issue which prevented players from entering ADS mode upon landing when they hold the aim button while jumping.
• Fixed an issue which caused the Hunting Rifle to fire inaccurately when crouched or at close range.
• The Remote Explosives detonator is now correctly removed from your inventory if another player destroys your placed explosives and you have no more in your inventory.
• Fixed a bug where players could remain in sprint while using the Remote Explosive detonator but not play the detonator animation.

Gameplay

• Limited Time Mode: Sniper Shootout v2
  • Hunting Rifle and Crossbow added.
  • Revolver removed.
  • Downed state is disabled. Downed players are immediately eliminated.
  • Legendary weapons can only be found in Supply Drops.
  • Epic weapons can only be found in Treasure Chests.
  • Heavy Ammo Drop Quantities:
    • Floor: 6
    • Chest: 6
    • Ammo Box: 12
    • Supply Drop: 18
    • Llama: 90
• Rearranged the order in which pieces fall off of player built structures as they are damaged.
• Increased the number of loot spawns on the warmup island.
• Removed 30 FPS mode from Xbox One and PS4.
  • In v3.4 we made some significant GPU optimizations which improved visual quality, including resolution in 60 FPS mode, and we now feel there is very little reason to play at 30 FPS. - Developer Comment

Bug Fixes

• Fixed opened treasure chests sometimes appearing as unopened when viewed from very far distances.
• Fixed an issue which caused revived players to become stuck in an invalid state if a building piece was placed between the two players in the middle of the revive.
• Bullseyes will no longer appear after the challenge has been completed.
• Fixed an issue that caused other player's headgear to appear to float above their heads.
• Fixed a rare issue that caused players to lose their ability to control their character after jumping from the bus.
• Fixed an issue that caused bushes and other environment objects to pop in and out of view at medium range

Battle Royale

Mobile

Mobile

• Added 'Unsupported Device' message at startup for certain devices. That message is:
  "We're sorry. Fortnite requires a device with 2GB of memory to run. Fortnite works with: iPhone SE, 6S, 6S Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 8, 8 Plus, X; iPad Mini 4, Air 2, 2017, Pro."
• Added new game data download system, which will allow us to make much smaller updates in the future.
  • When you start up this new version of Fortnite, it will start downloading all the game data, which will be the full size (around 1.8GB).
• Antialiasing (4x MSAA) is now enabled on all supported devices.
• Whispers and Party Text Chat are now enabled on mobile.
• Added a quick tutorial for 'Tap to Swing' which appears upon first startup.
• Added a message informing players that jailbroken devices are not supported.
• Auto-opening of doors is now based on input instead of your player's current speed.

Bug Fixes

• Continuously attacking with the Harvesting Tool is now more consistent when double tapping and holding the right side of screen.
• The left fire button is now more reliable and responsive.
• Opening treasure chests now feels more responsive.
• Fixed various inconsistencies with tap to shoot, making it more accurate.
• Fixed the minimap blocking movement and look input.
• Fixed an issue which caused misfiring when single tapping the screen and interacting with the HUD.
• Fixed some issues causing Tap, Tap + Hold actions to not register.
• Fixed longer than expected loading times on iPhone X.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when tapping the Epic Friends list rapidly.
• Fixed Impulse Grenade effects not being visible enough on Low settings.
• Turbo Building and Automatic Material Swapping settings now save correctly.
• Weapon and consumables dropped can no longer be auto-picked up by the dropping player.

Save the World

Gameplay

• Combat Pro is now an available control scheme option (more details here).
• Sprinting no longer costs Energy.
• Dying & resurrection no longer reduces the durability of your equipped weapons.
• Container search speed has been increased.
• Players no longer take fall damage on the Hoverboard when landing on a Speed Boost Pad.
• Crafting Ingredients stack limit increased from 99 to 200.
  • Existing items will not automatically restack.
  • You can condense stacks by dropping and picking up items or transferring between backpack and storage.
• Increased Trap stack limit from 20 to 200.

Mission + Systems

• New Spring it On! Questline - 'The Three Husketeers'
  • The grand finale of Spring it On! is here, bringing huge explosions, epic Mini-Boss fights, and the Miss Bunny Penny legendary Constructor questline reward!
  • Special Spring-themed Trojan Bunny mission.
  • Fight three Storm Mini-Bosses in one fight - find the best strategy to defeat the evil trio!
• The first Upgrade Llama purchase is now free. All players who have already completed the Loot Llamas tutorial will also receive a free Upgrade Llama.
  • This change was made to address the issue where some players were unable to progress through the Loot Llamas tutorial if they spent V-Bucks to make a Battle Royale purchase before completing the tutorial.
• Upgrade Llamas and other activities can now provide players with 'Deep Choices'.
  NOTE: This only applies to normal Llamas, not event Llamas.
  • A deep choice event will allow players a second choice after they make their first choice from a card.
  • Epic and Legendary rarity cards of these types now regularly have deep choices:
    • Ranged Weapon Schematic, Melee Weapon Schematic, Trap Schematic, Hero.
• Doubled appearance rate of the Troll Stash Llama.
  • Troll Stash now guarantees at least one Epic schematic, one Legendary schematic, and one Epic or Legendary survivor (of any type).
• Increased amount of Evolution Materials awarded from mission completion:
  • Location where material is introduced: +10%
    • (Example) Drops of Rain in Stonewood.
  • One location later: +25%
  • Two locations later: +50%
  • Three locations later: +100%
    • Drops of Rain in Twine Peaks
  • Mission alerts have been adjusted to keep them in line with these new values
• All missions in the game will now award some amount of XP across all Commander Levels.
  • Missions can no longer turn 'grey.'
  • Missions that would have previously appeared 'grey' to a player will now appear 'green.'
    • Thus, players will now never encounter a mission that ceases to award XP altogether as you play down-level.
  • XP rewards have been made more generous when playing down-level.
    • At their lowest rate, players will receive 30% of their normal XP rewards.
• Mission Alerts
  • Increased number of Firecracker Tickets received by completing Group Mission Alerts from 60-150 to 100-240 (scaled based on zone difficulty).
    • Going forward, events that feature Mutant Storm and Mini-Boss Mission Alerts will reward 100-240 tickets as well.
  • Refocused Mini-Boss Mission Alerts towards Transform Keys and high-rarity items.
    • Greatly increased the chance for Transform Keys to appear.
    • Massively increased chance for higher rarity items to appear.
      • (Example) In Twine Peaks, Legendary Transform Keys have a 15% chance to be chosen as an alert reward, up from a 1% chance.
    • Slightly increased V-bucks on Mini-Boss Mission Alerts.
    • Increased Mini Llamas awarded from 1 to 2 in Plankerton and higher.
    • Moderately reduced the chance for Mini-Boss Mission Alerts to choose evolution materials as the extra reward (those are increased on Mutant Storms instead).
    • Reduced the chance for Mini-Boss Mission Alerts to choose XP as the extra reward.
    • Removed crafting ingredients from the reward list.
    • Removed various items that were too low-rarity for their area.
      • (Example) No Rare Survivors in Twine Peaks.
• Canny Valley and Twine Peaks Mission Reward Boost.
  • Survivor/Hero/Schematic XP
    • Canny: Starts at +8.4% and increases with difficulty to a maximum of +25%.
    • Twine: Starts at +25%, increases with difficulty to a maximum of +39%
• Refined resource piles like of piles of wood, metal beams, etc. now properly scale the amount of wood/stone/metal they drop based on their size.
• Corrected an issue which could cause players to be able to use triangle walls that were inverted from the pattern that Build-the-Radar displays as required.
• Fixed an issue where some traps weren't granting score when activated.
• Jump Pads, Defender Post, and Boost Pad world drops now drop in later zones.
• Fixed issue with Wall Launcher Trap not triggering when a tier 3 wooden floor was placed next to it.
• Fixed spelling error in the Creature Features Quest description.
• Survivor on top of the vehicle is invulnerable once again, until the vehicle is destroyed.
• Fixed gate missions awarding the participation badge twice on mission failure.

Weapons + Items

• Remote Explosives have been added! Go and blow something up… remotely.
  • Use fire to place an explosive, alt-fire to detonate all the ones you have placed.
  • They can blow up structures (aside from the ones your team has built) in addition to enemies.
    NOTE: They cannot hurt objectives.
  • They can also detonate when they take damage from weapons.
  • These are found in the world, and do not persist past the end of the mission.
• Reduced the chance of the following weapon perks being rolled to about 30% of what it was before:
  • Damage vs Affliction
  • Damage vs Slowed/Snared
  • Damage vs Stun/Knockback/Stagger
  • Critical Damage vs Affliction.
• Boost Pad crafting cost should now be comparable to other Movement Pads.
• Defenders have had some balance adjustments:
  • Melee & Ranged Critical Chance Perks increased from 9% to 15%.
  • Melee & Ranged Critical Damage Perks increased from 24% to 54%.
  • Ranged Clip Size Perk increased from 20% to 30%.
  • Ammo Save Size Perk increased from 12% to 23%.
  • Defender Health,Shield & Shield Regen increased from 20% to 24%.
  • Melee Weapon Damage perk increased from 10% to 12%.
  • Specific Weapon Damage perks increased from 12% to 15% including:
    • Assault , Pistols, Shotguns, Snipers, Axes, Hammers, Clubs , Scythes, Spears, Swords.
• Significantly increased Defenders' accuracy and standardized Defender firing rates for all ranged weapons.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected an issue which could cause the Flame Grill trap to deal less damage than intended at higher evolutions.
• Added a potential fix for the issue with floating Ceiling Electric Traps.
  • The trap will be slightly lower than the surface of the ceiling it is placed on and the camera will again collide with the trap.

Heroes

• Rabbit Raider Jonesy, Legendary reskin of the Soldier's Raider subclass, has been added to the Event Store.
• Miss Bunny Penny, Legendary reskin of the Constructor's Plasma Specialist subclass, can be acquired by completing the Spring It On! Questline.
• 'Mantis Leap's' Energy Cost has been reduced from 50 to 20.
• As part of removing the Energy requirement for sprint, we have removed the 'Phasic Energy' perk. Outlanders with 'Phasic Energy' have had that perk replaced with a different 'Phase Shift' Perk.
  • Phase Scout Jess's level 12 perk, 'Phasic Energy', has been replaced with 'Phase Shield'.
    • 'Phase Shield': 'Phase Shift' forces the shield to regenerate for 4 seconds. Your shield will regenerate even if you continue to take damage, but it will only regenerate at 20% of the regular rate.
  • Shamrock Outlander's level 15 perk, 'Phasic Energy', has been replaced with 'Phase Runner'.
    • 'Phase Runner' increases movement speed by 25% for 4 seconds after using 'Phase Shift'.
• Improved the functionality of the 'Recycling' Perk:
  • 'Recycling' will now take into account the level of the buildings near BASE.
  • Level 1 buildings are worth 1 building piece.
  • Level 2 buildings are worth 3 building pieces.
  • Level 3 buildings are worth 6 building pieces.
  • 'Recycling' now requires 3 building pieces of the same material (reduced from 5) to generate 1 of the appropriate resource.
  • 'Hyperthreading' now improves 'Recycling' to only need 2 building pieces of the same material (reduced from 3) to generate 1 of the appropriate resource.
• Hat and Backpack are now added to the Shamrock Reclaimer.
  • Hat is added at star level 2.
  • Backpack is added at star level 3.

Bug Fixes

• Corrected an issue which could cause Corrosive Blade's damage to cap at 10,000. This damage is now scaling as intended.
• Corrected an issue which could cause the 'Corrosion' tactical perk's damage to cap at 10,000. This damage is now scaling as intended.
• Corrected an issue which could cause the 'Boomstick!' perk of 'Goin' Commando!' to have incorrect effects. Energy effects should now always cover the gun as intended.
• Fixed an issue that caused Ninja's 'Throwing Stars' to not do damage at close range.
• Fixed a crash when viewing the 5-star Epic and Legendary versions of the following heroes:
  • Commando Ramirez.
  • Guardian Penny.
  • Bluestreak Assassin Ken.
  • Trailblazer A.C.
  • Trailblazer Jess.
• Fixed an issue that gave the Rare version of the Lunar Constructor and Outlander heroes level 25 and 30 perks.
• Fixed issue causing the vulnerability icon from 'Debilitating Shots' to reappear on enemies that no longer have the effect.
• Fixed an issue with the 'Hammer Critical Chance' perk for Constructors not working with the Dragon's Fist hammer.
• Epic Sarah Claus now has the correct 'Medical Fumes' perk at level 12 instead of 'Dragon Daze'.
• Fixed an issue with 'Tail of the Dragon' dealing less damage on the first instance of damage.
• Fixed issue with the 'Recycling perk' of the Constructor's BASE, where it could reward Wood, even when there were no Wood pieces in range of BASE.
• Fixed an issue where the maximum amount of resources collected per minute was not being displayed in the 'Recycling' perk's tooltip.
• The following issues with 'Smoke Bomb' have been addressed:
  • Smoke Bomb now correctly spawns in the location that it explodes instead of on the player's location.
  • The projectile no longer adds player velocity while being thrown.
  • Smoke screen effects only happen to players when they are within the AOE volume.
• Removed window buttons from Defender Post's Ammo Count panel.
• Changed Skill tree tooltip in the bonus section of Supply Drop, the text should read "Contains at least 1" instead of "Get extra 1".

UI

• Updated animations on the main tabs.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when adding friends after a match.
• Fixed an issue that caused Hero stats in the 'All Stats Page' to appear as 0%.
• Improved controller navigation for the skill description panel on the Skill Tree.
• Corrected an issue which could cause the rarity color displayed on the 15% Trap Damage perk to be gold instead of blue.
• Removed 'more' action from backpack and storage screens. This option wasn't available on gamepad and hasn't been designed for these screens.
• Fixed some cases where stackable items might not be added to the largest available partial stack.