Fortnite Holiday Event Now Live, Full Patch Notes Here

It’s the holiday season – time to kick butt and pwn noobs, all with a Santa hat and that equipped holiday cheer. The latest Fortnite update is now live and comes with it a few hero and weapon changes, as well as the anticipated holiday event! For the popular online shooter, here’s what you have to look forward to with the latest patch:

Highlights

• Season 2 of Battle Royale begins Dec. 14!
  • Season store is replaced with the Season 2 Battle Pass.
• Get in the Holday Spirit!
  • The update includes the limited-time Snowball Grenade Launcher, a festive Battle Bus, and other gifts waiting for you around the island.
• Express Yourself!
  • Emotes and emoticons can be earned as rewards via the Battle Pass or can be purchased in the Shop.
  • Equip up to 6 and trigger them in game with B (keyboard) or Down on the D-Pad (controller).

Gameplay

• Compete in solos or with friends to complete the two new Daily Quests.
  • Top 50 Solo
  • Top 12 Squad
• Updated a few Daily Quests:
  • “Search Chests” changed from 5 to 7
  • “Search Ammo Boxes” changed from 10 to 7
  • “Pistol Eliminations” changed from 3 to 2
  • Anyone already on these quests with have their progress reset.
• Added support for 21:9 displays and any other ultrawide resolutions.
• Added animations for sliding down cliff sides.
• Added animations to turn head to reticle while sprinting diagonally.
• The “Combat Pro” controller configuration will now be the default configuration for new players.
  • No change has been made to existing users.
• Soccer and Basketballs now have smoother movement. How long can you keep the ball in play?

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused actual damage dealt to not match up with damage numbers on screen.
  • Floating damage numbers would sometimes be one digit higher than the actual damage dealt due to rounding issues.
• Chests no longer appear unopened at a distance when they have already been looted.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from picking up items that overlapped looted chests and ammo crates.
• Build mode blueprints are now hidden after using a Launch Pad and while DBNO.
• Fixed an issue that prevented players from taking fall damage if they had 1HP remaining.
• Fixed a broken animation that occurred while switching between certain equipped items.
• Fixed the Renegade Raider outfit’s head so it doesn’t clip through the helmet anymore.
• Character models now animate properly when rotating in place.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to “search” items like bushes and furniture, causing them to wiggle and play an audio cue.
  • These types of items are now only searchable in the Save the World co-op mode.
• Reduced aim assist prioritizing DBNO players.

Weapons

• When throwing grenades, a short trajectory will now be visible that previews the arc the grenade will follow.
• Renamed some weapons for consistency.
  • “Assault Rifle (Scope)” is now “Assault Rifle with Scope”.
  • “Assault Rifle (Burst)” is now “Burst Assault Rifle”.
  • “Submachine Gun (Suppressor)” is now “Suppressed Submachine Gun”.
• Legendary assault rifle drop rate decreased by 25% in floor loot and chests. Drop rate from Supply Drops will be unchanged.
• Reduced pump shotgun shot queueing time.
  • Reduced from 0.4 to 0.2 seconds. (It is now the same as all other weapons.)
  • This will reduce the chance that players will misfire the weapon.
• Updated the icon for the standard grenade.

Bug Fixes

• Removed controller aim assist slow while scoped.
  • This will make it easier to use sniper rifles with a controller.
• Pump Shotgun now correctly queues shots the same as all other weapons, reducing chances of an accidental extra shot being fired.
• Sniper rifle projectiles no longer pass through other players under non-ideal network conditions.
• Hit impacts from a sniper rifle play on the correct location of the enemy player now.
• Fixed an issue that allowed bullets to pass through player built pyramid structures.
• Fixed issue causing smoke beams to not play when weapons were fired.

UI

• Improved the game mode selection flow and UI.
  • This should make it much easier to select a game mode with a controller.
• When opening your inventory, the mouse cursor will now always appear in the center of the screen on PC and Mac.
• The Code of Conduct is now displayed directly in the game UI, rather than opening an external page.
• The Inspect button for Battle Royale Daily Challenges has been moved to the bottom bar.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the “Push to Talk” binding from being removed when selecting the “Reset to Default” button in the Save the World settings.
• Using the “Report Player” option in Duo or Squad will now auto-fill with the name of the player that eliminated you instead of your teammates name.
• Fixed some missing localized text in various languages.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the “Daily Challenges” scroll bar from working with a controller.
• Improved visibility of the number of players remaining on each team in 50v50 mode.
• Fixed an issue that caused some options in the settings menu to disappear when the player was eliminated while the setting menu was open.
• Fixed an issue that caused player’s health and shield bars to appear empty on the victory screen.

Audio

• Improved the audio cue that plays when hitting the generators found in the world.
  • Previously, it was playing similar audio to the ceiling/wall traps.

Bug Fixes

• Clap audio is now adjusted by the SFX slider in the audio settings.
• Fixed an issue that caused players to hear bullet whiz-by audio that was not heard by the person they were spectating.
• Dance emote music no longer continues to play for others when the dance is cancelled.

Performance

• Various optimizations to interactive objects such as doors to improve overall frame rate.
• Minor frame rate improvements by optimizing weapons.
• Eliminated many hitches which could happen the first time you encountered a player’s skin or weapon in a match.
• Fixed an issue with particles that caused hitching as the time of day changes.
• Improved server performance by optimizing how physics is updated.
• Fixed performance issues with ladybug ambient particles in the world.
• Fixed an issue with the storm safe zones that could cause poor server performance.
• Greatly reduced CPU usage of in-game party and chat systems.
• Fixed an issue with the memory allocator on XB1 and PC which caused degraded CPU performance
• Improved CPU rendering performance on Xbox One and PS4
• Xbox One X scalability tweaks to improve CPU performance under heavy load

Match Stats

• “View Match Results” is now bound to V by default.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing the total XP earned on the Match Stats screen to be inaccurate.
• Traps now add to the “assists” and “damage dealt” stats.
• Fixed an issue that incorrectly gave an assist credit to a player for simply hitting another player with a pickaxe before being eliminated.
• “Total Headshots” is now equal to the number of headshots achieved instead of the amount of headshot damage that the player dealt.
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Damage Taken” stat to be less than 100 after being eliminated.
• Shots fired during the warm-up zone no longer affect the player’s “Accuracy” stat.
• Fixed an issue that incorrectly awarded the “First Kill” XP bonus to every player that got an elimination during the match.
• Projectile weapons will now add to the “Accuracy”, “Hits”, and “Critical Hits” stats.

Social

• Added the ability to invite players to your party through Discord on PC.
• Added full voice chat support to Mac.
• Enabled Twitch login support for Battle Royale.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing players from connecting to the “Friends Only” leaderboards.
• Fixed a crash related to the voice chat feature

HOLIDAY EVENT:

The Fortnite Guide to Holiday Survival is here!

• Holiday Survival Event
  • Help Ray bring the holiday spirit to everyone in the husk-ridden world in this new event questline.
  • Earn an avalanche of Snowflake Tickets by participating in the event.
  • Players will receive Mission Alert updates for the duration of the holiday event!
  • Holiday Survival Llamas are available for purchase (1000 Snowflake Tickets.)
  • Be on the lookout for secret holiday-themed activities!
• With the end of the Mutant Storms event, every 1,000 unspent Storm Tickets will be converted to a storm llama that will be available in their loot tab. All other unspent tickets will be lost after this event is over.
• Mini-Boss
  • These are super-tough versions of the Husk, Husky, and Smasher that have up to four randomized gameplay modifiers attached.
  • Mini-Bosses can appear in many different mission types, indicated by new Mini-Boss Mission Alerts that appear on the theater map.
    • These new Mission Alerts reward event tickets and up to 10 can be completed each day.
    • Note that while Mutant Storms are also present on the map to provide evolution materials, these do not reward event tickets.
  • Mini-Bosses will also appear in the updated Survival mode, detailed below.
  • There is a new repeatable quest that gives Seasonal Gold each time you manage to take out a Mini-Boss in a successful mission.
  • Look for this feature to expand in the future!
• Survive the Storm
  • We have listened to player feedback and present to you the improved Survive the Storm mode:
    • New Winter survival map, with festive trees, snow and a mountain vista.
    • Players now have the ability to skip the day by voting.
    • There are now two versions of Survival: 3-day and 7-day.
      • No voting to extend, just show up prepared to fight!
    • New generators
      • Vindertech upgraded the traditional generators. They are more resilient but cannot be fixed in the field.
      • Generator placement spots differ from game to game.
    • New enemies
      • Expect a Mini-Boss to drop in the fight on days 3 and 7.
    • Adjusted and rebalanced difficulty, resourcing and rewards.
  • 3-day and 7-day Survival Mission Alerts award Snowflake Tickets (scaled by difficulty.)
  • 3-day Survival Mission Alerts
    • Every day, the first three missions grant bonus loot.
  • 7-day Survival Mission Alerts
    • Every day your first mission win grants bonus loot.
  • Snowflake Tickets can continue to be earned during Survival Mode after the Mission Alert quota has been reached but at a much smaller rate.
  • Grab yourself a stocking stuffer! Holiday Survival Banners can be earned by completing Survive the Storm event quests.

Holiday Heroes

• Four new hero builds are in town for the holiday event.
• Sarah Claus: Alchemist – Gradually regenerates health through melee combat while wearing down enemies with corrosion.
• Blitzen BASE Kyle: Warden – Heals himself during melee combat, has Hardware weapon boosts, and has a BASE that regenerates the health of allies who stand inside it.
• Snow Stalker Jonesy: Demolisher – Specializes in fighting crowds of enemies with explosive shells and grenades that regenerate more quickly in combat.
• Fragment Flurry Jess: Reclaimer – Fragment specialist with an energy beam equipped TEDDY who can charge their abilities by defeating enemies in combat.
• In addition to finding these heroes in Holiday Survival Llamas:
  • Legendary Sarah Claus is available in the Event Store.
  • Epic Jonesy, Epic Jess, and Legendary Kyle are available via quests.

Wintery Weapons

• Ralphie’s Revenge – A low-damage sniper rifle with a MASSIVE headshot multiplier. Remember to wear eye protection!
  • Available in the Event Store.
• Frostbite – A wintery sniper rifle that deals Water damage and gets a damage bonus after headshot streaks.
  • Earned by completing Survival mission quests.
• Snowball Launcher – Fires snowballs that damage and snare groups of enemies.
  • Winter storyline quest reward.

• In addition to that, we’re also introducing the Vacuum Tube Weapon Set!
  • These electrified weapons use energy cell ammo and deal Nature damage.
  • Sniper Rifle – Fires a long-range high-damage continuous beam of lightning.
  • Auto Pistol – A shorter-range lightning beam pistol.
  • Revolver – Fires powerful zaps of lightning that damage and stun foes.
  • Assault Rifle – A semi-auto rifle with a good amount of impact that stuns enemies.
  • Shotgun – Discharges 3 quick short-range bursts of lightning.
  • Axe, Sword, and Spear – Heavy electrified melee weapons that stun enemies rather than knocking them back.
  • Ball Lightning Launcher – Fires 3 balls of lightning that damage and stun enemies in a large radius.
  • All of these weapons are available in the Holiday Survival Llama.
• Hero Rarity Upgrades
  • Hero upgrading allows you to upgrade your Hero cards to higher rarities!
    • Players may notice an outfit change when upgrading Hero rarities.
  • A new type of resource called “Flux” is used to upgrade the rarity of heroes. It can be purchased from the Event Store.

Event Store

All-new store with items available to purchase using in-game currency! This store has two sections:

• The Event section has items available for the current major event!
• The Weekly section has new items to check out every week.
• These items can be purchased with new currencies: Seasonal Gold and Daily Coins.
• Seasonal Gold can be earned by playing any mission. Drop rate scales with difficulty.
• Daily Coins are earned by completing Daily Quests

GAMEPLAY

Access Your Backpack and Storage before loading into the world!

• Players can now view and interact with their Backpack and Storm Shield Storage via the Armory screen before entering the world!
• Use the Backpack screen to equip weapons and recycle world items.
• Use the Storage screen to transfer items between backpack and storage.
• No more guessing where those quest rewards landed – new item notifications will lead you to them.
• Crafting in the frontend backpack is coming soon!
• You can now complete up to four Mutant Storms per day for rewards.
• The Collection Book now offers rewards up to level 350.
• Removed the following mission daily quests from the daily rotation (if you are already on this mission you will still be able to complete it):
  • A Little Van That Could.
  • Gate Crasher.
  • Data Retrieval.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the Save the World tutorial after playing a match of Battle Royale

HEROES

• Raider Nomad – A new shotgun focused soldier hero. Get to level 100 in the collection book to unlock him.

Outlander Fragments

• Outlanders now start with the ability to hold one Charge Fragment, down from two.
• However, both TEDDY and Shock Tower now increase this Fragment capacity by one.
• As a result Outlanders with one Fragment ability have the same capacity as before (two) while Outlanders with both TEDDY and Shock Tower can carry one extra (three).

Hero Rarity

• The 2-Star Hero Evolution nodes (located in the Tier 1 skill tree page) have been updated to also include Hero Upgrades for that class. For example:
  • The ‘Unlock 2-Star Constructor Evolution’ node has now become the ‘Unlock 2-Star Constructor Evolution & Constructor Promotions’ node.
  • If you already owned one of these nodes, then you have also been granted the ability to promote that class of hero.
• Added Tutorial Quest for upgrading a Hero’s rarity.
  • Granted after the Supply Run Quest in Stonewood has been completed.

Balance Changes

• Rucksack soldier perk now grants two extra Frag Grenades, down from three.

Bug Fixes

• ‘Adjustable Choke’ support bonus now properly modifies critical rate with shotguns.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Goin’ Commando ability to scale with both Tech and Offense. It now only scales with Tech.

Missions

• Quest Items now drop from props or enemies no matter who destroys them.
• Storm Chest duration timer now starts when the first enemy spawns, this is fairer as it sometimes takes a couple of seconds to spawn enemies.
• Drone Salvage mission now gives 15 more seconds to reach the site and build defenses before it crashes.
• Drone Salvage mission now gives tiered mechanical crafting ingredients in addition to its previous rewards.

Bug Fixes

• Added missing daily discovery quest updates to some parks and parking lots.
• Fixed an issue where survivors wouldn’t spawn on Building the Relay missions.
• Fixed an issue where The Storm Chest wouldn’t complete correctly when only one Mist Monster spawned and was eliminated.

UI

• Characters in pregame and postgame lobbies now have a floor to stand on. No more floating!
• New Hero View Screen where you can spin your selected hero 360 degrees.
• Changed the text on the multi-Upgrade-Llama purchase options to clarify that the Llamas do not have a higher chance to upgrade than a normal Upgrade Llama does.

Bug Fixes

• Stat comparisons have been updated to display Build Cost reductions as a positive rather than a negative.
• When a crafting action fails, the crafting queue is cleared and the ingredient list is immediately refreshed to show refunded resources.
• Fixed an issue where the remaining amount of llamas wasn’t being shown to the player on the loot tab screen.
• The Proximity Mine node description now shows “explosion radius” instead of “detonation radius”.
• Fixed rift icons not showing up on the main map until they appeared on the mini-map.
• Reduced auto-scrolling of the schematics list during crafting.
• Fixed the Goin’ Commando weapon showing up in inventory during use.

Audio

• New suppressed pistol sounds.
• Transformer zap sound updated to use new electrical sounds.

Performance

• Removed unnecessary collision work on the server to improve server performance.
• Reduced number of objects updating each frame to improve performance.

General

• Added support for 21:9 displays and any other ultrawide resolutions.

Read more at https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/12/13/read-the-fortnite-update-1-11-patch-notes/#Z0YoeEtAyXyjriPG.99

Read more at https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2017/12/13/read-the-fortnite-update-1-11-patch-notes/#Z0YoeEtAyXyjriPG.99