Epic Games latest Fortnite patch is bringing plenty of additions and balances to both Battle Royale and Save the World today.
Battle Royale players can look forward to a new trap item, the return of the floating island, and some cool prison-themed prefabs to get creative with. While Save the World players have a cool new weapon to use as they work through the mode’s latest weekly quest.
Let’s break it down the full patch notes:
Fortnite Battle Royale
Floating Island
The Floating Island is back, and it brought the Motel with it. Two past locations return at once!
Though separated from the land below, it can be accessed via its low-gravity vortex.
Zapper Trap
This item is a thrown consumable and occupies an inventory slot.
On impact, the thrown object deploys a damaging trap on both sides of a building piece
Upon impacting terrain, it automatically builds a wall and then deploys a damaging trap on both sides of the wall.
The traps shock enemy players who are within a tile of their face.
Damage: 50
The traps have a 1-second deploy time before they can be triggered.
When triggered, the traps have a 0.5-second delay before firing.
After the traps have fired, they have a cooldown of 2 seconds before they can be triggered again.
- Epic Rarity.
- Found from Floor Loot, Chests, Vending Machines, Supply Drops, and Llamas.
- Drops in stacks of 2.
- Max stack size: 4.
Check out the Zapper Trapper trailer below:
Gameplay Tweaks
- Removed the overheat sound from the Minigun.
This was to address an issue in which the overheat sound would play longer than intended and/or incorrectly represent the overheat value.
From hotfix on August 28 - Made changes to Turbo Building. The details of these changes can be found in our blog post.
- Resolved an issue in which the names of POIs would not appear on the map.
- Resolved an issue with the B.R.U.T.E.’s air stomp.
Fortnite Creative Mode Notes
Prison Prefab
Perfect for jailbreak games and more with the new Prison Prefab.
Flush Factory Prefab
They make toilets here. Now you can bring the toilet making business to you.
Summary
- Added 2 New Prefabs
- Prison
- Flush Factory
- Added 3 New Galleries
- Prison Gallery
- Flush Factory Gallery
- General Props Gallery C
Bug Fixes
- Unmanned vehicles will again trigger damage traps.
- A large shadow no longer appears while in fly mode.
- Resolved an issue in which featured portals would not respect certain settings on certain devices.
- The Music sequencer will play for both the client and server.
- Vehicles will spawn on game start instead of in the warm-up portion.
Fortnite Save the World
Crackshot Hits the Road, Part II!
This week, help Crackshot make his way to the Radio Station again to broadcast his Song of the Summer. Load up the van and gather your group because it’s time to Hit the Road with a new weekly quest!
Hot Mix Pistol
Turn the husks into a hot mess with the Hot Mix Pistol! Available in the Weekly Store
Fires a pair of Sonic Blasts that pierce enemies. This Hot Mix will really get your feet moving!
Available in the Weekly Store from Wednesday, September 4 at 8 PM ET, until Wednesday, September 11 at 8 PM ET.
General
- Improved stability on Xbox One, iOS, PC, and Mac.
Other recent Fortnite gameplay tweaks include Epic’s recent reversal on the Turbo Build nerf.
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