Fortnite Update 7.10 Patch Notes Brings New Items And Features To The Battle Royale And Save The World Modes

BATTLE ROYALE PATCH NOTES

WEAPONS + ITEMS

• Heavy Assault Rifle Changes:
  • Reduced the effectiveness of the Heavy Assault Rifle while not aiming down sights; aiming down sight gameplay remains roughly the same
    • Increased ADS accuracy bonus by 10%
    • Increased accuracy while standing still by 10%
    • Reduced vertical recoil by 6%
    • Base accuracy reduced by 30%
    • Reduced accuracy while jumping and falling by 60%
• Improved Balloon controls
  • While in the air, Balloons can be released by pressing the ‘Crouch’ keybind(formerly the ‘Jump’ keybind).
  • Players can again use Alt-Fire to release a Balloon when the Balloon item is selected.
• For modes it’s available in, the height at which glider redeploy is available has been decreased from 1000 units to 576 units.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players were able to pick up live Dynamite through structures.

GAMEPLAY

• Ground vehicles now slide on icy surfaces.
• Eliminations from “no-scoping” enemies with Sniper Rifles now shows up in the elimination feed.
• Sticking a landing on all 4 wheels with a vehicle will no longer damage the player inside.
• It’s now easier to pick up items dropped near a Mounted Turret.
• Stormwings now take 50% more damage from hitting objects.
  • Boosting now reduces the damage taken from impacts by 50%, previously boosting prevented all impact damage.
• Damage done to players that are in a Stormwing when it’s shot down has been increased from 25 to 50
  • Damage is dealt directly to health.
• Stormwings will now take more damage from destroying structures by running through them.

Bug Fixes

• Holding a movement key while confirming an edit will no longer force the player to continue moving in the direction of the key they were holding.
• Mounted Turrets will no longer be briefly teleported under the map and then returned to their original location.
• Various Zipline fixes
  • Zipline animations no longer briefly play every time a player jumps after building underneath a Zipline.
  • Players should retain proper momentum when latching onto a Zipline. This will fix the issue where it appears a player is “jittery/rubberbanding” or receives a perceived speed boost immediately after latching onto the Zipline.
  • Players will no longer lose the ability to sprint if they emote while on a Zipline.
  • Fixed an issue that caused players to become detached from the Zipline right after seeing the animation above their head.
  • The Zipline pulley will no longer remain in the world after eliminating a player while they were riding on it.
  • Fixed an issue where players would get flung across the map.
  • Added sounds and effects when a ziplining player smashes through structures.
  • Improved attach collision around Ziplines.
• Fixed regressions with the “Auto Pick Up Weapons” option

EVENTS

• Added additional dates for Explorer Pop-Up Cups and Friday Night Fortnite
• Explorer Pop-Up Cups
  • Resource caps adjusted from 700/500/300 to 500/500/500 for wood/stone/metal.
  • Resource gains on eliminations adjusted from 100/50/50 to 50/50/50 for wood/stone/metal.
  • We’re continuing to make adjustments on these values in an attempt to find a healthy balance, please let us know your feedback!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where Traps were not granting elimination rewards in Explorer Pop-Up Cup.

PLAYGROUND

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that would prevent time trial Challenges from recording player completion times.
• Players should no longer see an occasional “Please Wait” message that blocks them from starting Challenge games in Playgrounds.

PERFORMANCE

• GPU performance improvements when view distances are far. This should improve resolution on consoles and in some cases, frame rate.
• Minor improvements were made to performance for emote music playback.
• Addressed movement corrections sometimes are seen when players jump
• Improved the performance of some gliders

AUDIO

• Improved winter biome ambient audio.
• Reduced the volume of Quad Crasher boost sounds.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Victory Royale sound effects being different on mobile/Switch.

UI

• Players can now preview loading screen cosmetics in the  front end by pushing the key bound to the “preview” action “Full Screen”
• Added a vehicle health bar above the player shield bar.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where a short snippet of the currently equipped Music item could be heard when previewing a different Music item
• Fixed an occasional crash when viewing event tiles on the consoles.

ART + ANIMATION

• Zenith has his own idle animation in the lobby.
• Lynx has her own idle animation in the lobby.
• Phone It In now plays for 15 seconds in the lobby
• Dab for days with the new emoting power of the Infinite Dab in the lobby!
  • Lasts 10 hours.

MOBILE

• UI buttons updated.
  • Made the HUD settings tab visible for mobile players.
  • Updated icons to be more visible in snow.
  • Moved the Exit Vehicle button to a new location
• 60 FPS option enabled for iPad Pro – second generation (10.5” & 12.9”) (select inside Settings).
• Enabled support for Snapdragon 710 chipsets (such as; Samsung A8S, Xiaomi Mi 8SE, Nokia 8.1, Oppo R17 Pro).
• Enabled support for Snapdragon 670 chipsets (such as Oppo R17, Vivo Z3).
• Enabled support for Samsung A9.

Bug Fixes

• Added a warning when Accessibility settings for Zoom are enabled, which interfere with tapping the screen and cause missing actions.
  • This caused players to experience unresponsive interactions

CREATIVE MODE PATCH NOTES

• Added 4 new Winter Islands –
  • Selectable from the player Rift on the starter island
• Players now have 2 total “The Block” Islands instead of 1.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed multiple issues with Island Rift Portals not behaving as expected.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Featured Island Rift Portals not functioning when more than 8 players joined a server.
• Fixed player animation issues occurring after the “Reset Island” feature is used.
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to build above the height limit, causing them to become stuck.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a visiting player to lose the ability to select a Rift location if they leave and return to a host’s server.
• Fixed issues with editing structures and placing Traps on other player’s Islands.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Switch players to be removed from a server when one or more players max out their available Island memory

GAMEPLAY

• Added new “Glider Redeploy” Island setting.
  • Controls whether players can glide after falling.
  • Default: On

Bug Fixes

• Explosives are no longer able to destroy structures when the “Building Damage in Game” setting is turned off.
• Fixed players not sprinting after being in Fly Mode when both the “Auto Sprint” and “Toggle Sprint” settings were enabled.
• Fixed an issue that would prevent a player’s health and shields from resetting when starting a game in Creative Mode.
• Fixed an issue that could cause “Building Damage in Game” and “Block Building in Game” knobs to not function correctly.
• Fixed issue that could sometimes cause repaired structures to revert back to their previously damaged state when a player leaves and comes back to their island.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when selecting “My Island” from the in-game menus immediately after being eliminated.
• Fixed players being spawned over the water when entering an Island in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where players would be unable to jump after falling through the world.

CREATIVE TOOLS + PHONEBUG FIXES

• Fixed issues where props could pass through the foundation structure of The Block Island.
• Fixed rotated props becoming attached to the phone at strange angles when you interact with them.
• Fixed props being unexpectedly dropped after carrying them far distances.

PREFABS

• Added 6 Winter Village prefabs.
• Added Holiday prop packs.
• Added new cube colors to the Cube Gallery prefab.
• Added logs and stumps to the Nature Gallery.
• Added Winter Nature Gallery.
• Added additional ramps and floors to the Obstacle Gallery.

Bug Fixes

• The “Peg Hop” prefab no longer spawns with a blocked staircase that requires players to destroy/build around it.

DEVICES

• New Devices added:
  • Gunner – Stands and shoots at any player within a 2 tile radius.
    • Choose between Pistol, Shotgun, Assault Rifle, or Rocket Launcher.
• Added new options to Player Spawners:
  • Added an option to hide the Player Spawner during Game.
  • Added an option to prioritize which Player Spawn to use when there are multiple to choose from.
  • Modified Island Start option to allow spawning for both Island and Game.
• New Item Spawner settings:
  • Added an option to hide the Item Spawner during Game.
  • Added an option to customize the rate that items are spawned.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed players being unable to access Item Spawner options.
• Fixed a visual issue that occurred if a player picked up a new trap while another was equipped.
  • This issue would cause the UI to update with the new trap but would place the original trap instead.
• Fixed a visual issue causing the Ice Block to appear in-game as the Cozy Campfire model when looted from a chest.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Grappler was not respecting the Infinite Ammo Island Setting.
• Fixed an issue with player created chests would spawn on top of a structure above the player rather than in front of the player.
• Fixed issues with players not being able to loot chests on another player’s island while in Game.
• Fixed chests and Llamas being openable even if you didn’t have edit permission on another player’s island.

SOCIAL

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that could prevent players from joining the party of a Switch player in an active Creative server.

PERFORMANCE

• Initial loading improvements.
• Optimized performance when players throw Playset Grenades.
• Optimized networking memory usage.

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