With Fortnite Season 8’s pirate theme, buried treasure seems like the only logic step! With the latest update now live for the free-to-play battle royale game, players can now begin their hunt for special loot beginning today when tracking down that illusive X marks the spot.
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“Follow the map to uncover hidden loot across the island,” boasts Epic Games in their latest update. “Find the X that marks the spot and get to digging.” The team also made a few other key changes to the items and weapons in the game, which you can see in the patch notes below:
- Buried Treasure
- It’s a map that is used to track down buried chests on the map.
- Chests contain a trove of legendary loot.
- X marks the spot! The chest must be dug up using a pickaxe.
- There is a limit of one map held at a time.
- Legendary Rarity.
- Can be found from Floor Loot and Chests.
- It’s a map that is used to track down buried chests on the map.
- Reduced Infantry Rifle availability
- Reduced the chance of receiving an Infantry Rifle from Chests from 14.41% to 13.39%
- Reduced the chance of receiving an Infantry Rifle from Floor Loot from 2.41% to 2.24%
- Reduced Clinger availability
- Reduced the chance of receiving Clinger’s from Chests from 9.42% to 5.52%
- Reduced the chance of receiving Clinger’s from Floor Loot from 1.27% to 1.02%
- Vaulted
- Bottle Rockets
Other tweaks and changes include:
- Improvement to the standard AR sound so that it’s not overbearing on the shooter.
- The sound made when a player destroys a structure is now louder when instigated by enemies.
- Footstep audio blends in the above/below layers, rather than binarily switching between them.
- Footstep occlusion traces from the head of enemies when they’re above or below.
- Reduced the volume of the Season 8 Victory Umbrella.
- The Season 8 Victory Umbrella now uses the correct sound on Mobile/Switch.
Creative
- Give your island even more personality using sprays! The limit of 3 per island is a thing of the past.
- Sprays are now saved! Use your sprays to decorate.
- Removed the 3 spray limit, now each spray has a small cost on the memory thermometer.
- Fixed issue where Nintendo Switch Consoles can Desync with 16 players on a Creative Server.
- Added the Drum Gun
- Added the Tactical Submachine Gun
- Added All New Elemental Cube Gallery – beginning with 4 variations of water.
- Added new Bridge and Girder Galleries in a variety of colors.
- Added new Obstacle Course Galleries in a variety of colors.
- Added new Visualizer Gallery XL – now you can go big with your music!
- Billboard Device will now update immediately when changes are made.
- Billboard Device will no longer be able to bypass the Language Filter.
- Player Spawn Pads will no longer be removed when destroying the supporting floor tile.
Save the World
- Fixed hero loadout information sometimes showing placeholder data.
- Fixed the collection book unslot button being unavailable if you have a free unslot but do not have enough currency to unslot like you would regularly. It never charged currency for free slots, but would not be accessible without having enough currency.
- Corrected an issue which caused Bulletstorm Jonesy’s abilities to be unlocked in the incorrect order. He should now gain Warcry at 1 star, Goin’ Commando at 2 stars, and Frag Grenade at 3 stars as intended.
- Corrected an issue which reset the cooldown of Mantis Leap mid-air during certain weapon interactions.
- Staying airborne for minutes at time is fun, however,this was an unintended interaction. We want to make sure we’re responsible about how we implement vertical gameplay and after seeing such a strong positive response we’ll be looking for more ways to introduce this type of gameplay in the future.
- Fixed an issue where Keen Eyes created collision with some enemies
- Fixed wall sometimes being built when using mouse to pick a trap from the trap picker.
- When motion blur is turned on for consoles that support it (Xbox One X or the Playstation 4 Pro), it will now properly take effect.
The latest update is now live on all platforms!
