Fortnite: 'v9.30 Patch Notes'

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☆ NintendObs Weekly – Monday, June 17, 2019 – Sunday, June 23, 2019.

Fortnite

V9.30 PATCH NOTES

BATTLE ROYALE

WHAT’S NEW?

Chug Splash

Refresh yourself and allies with this tasty new beverage.

LIMITED TIME MODE ROTATION

Sniper Shootout Duos

Sniper rifles only. May the best aim win!

Trios

Classic Battle Royale with Three-Person squads.

Solid Gold Squads

Fight to the finish using Legendary weapons.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Chug Splash

On impact, this thrown item splashes liquid in a small area. All players within the splash radius will be instantly granted 20 Health/Shield.

Grants health unless you are full health, in which case it will grant Shield.

Chug Splash can heal allies, enemies, and can extend the duration of the ‘knocked’ state for knocked players.

Rare variant.

Drops in stacks of 2.

Max stack size: 6.

Can be found from Floor Loot, Chests, Vending Machines, Supply Drops, and Llamas.

Shotgun Swap Delay Removed

Shotgun cooldowns now only apply when the player is carrying multiple shotguns, regardless of Shotgun type.

This is a Quality of Life change to prevent the swap delay system from interfering with players who do not have multiple shotguns in their inventory. As with all changes, we’ll be keeping a close eye on this and make adjustments if necessary.

Reduced the Combat Shotgun’s long-range effectiveness

Reduced damage at medium distances by 10%

2.44 tiles to 4.88 tiles

Reduced damage at long distances by 20%

4.88 tiles to 9.76 tiles

The Combat Shotgun’s accuracy uniquely enables players to hit shots from longer distances compared to other shotguns. However, the damage at those longer ranges was a little higher than desired..

Vaulted

Boom Bow

Dual Pistols

Dynamite

These Vaults are primarily targeted at adjusting the availability of explosives, putting them more in line with where we think they should be.

Removed the ability to ride Proximity Grenade Launcher projectiles.

Due to the faster speed of this projectile, it was causing problems with level streaming. You can still ride rockets launched from Rocket Launchers.

Added short delay to start damaging players from Storm Flip on entry, to mimic normal Storm gameplay.

Added Storm Flip to Audio Visualizer when it is activated.

Toys no longer will show up in the elimination feed on Starter Island.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Players could shoot immediately after using a Rift to Go.

Supply Drones would sometimes spawn underground in areas with water.

Adjusted the area of around the Reboot Van that players cannot build to prevent the placement of floors and traps under the Van.

The Proximity Grenade Launcher was auto reloading while aiming down sights.

This fix makes it consistent with Snipers and will reload once unscoping or after next attempt to fire.

Adjusted the timing for the effects of consumables to help situations where players would switch away from the consumable before it finished activating.

Reboot Cards will no longer fall to the ground. They will remain where they spawn.

Reboot Cards were remaining available on the map even after the timer had expired.

Campfires could block explosion damage at specific angles.

The Shadow Bomb double jump ability could be activated while under the effect of a Boogie Bomb.

Boogie Bomb effects would continue playing on players while they were skydiving.

Empty Shadow Bombs could not be discarded correctly if eliminated while the effect was active while in respawn game modes.

Players that had a Rift to Go used on them at the same time they were being rebooted would sometimes not be put into the skydiving state.

Storm Flip would deal incorrect damage if two were overlapped on each other.

Storm Flip was able to stop a Supply Drop from falling.

Weapons were showing while using emotes while on a Driftboard.

GAMEPLAY

Made the “Hold to Swap” feature an option. This defaults as OFF.

With the option OFF, pickup is now back on the initial button press instead of button release. This should result in more responsive pickup behavior.

Made the Fortbyte Pressure Plate Puzzle NW of The Block easier to complete.

Once unlocked the Fortbyte will be available for up to 15 seconds.

Parking all vehicles on the pedestals will trigger them, except the Hoverboard.

Slipstreams now fade out the visual effects and play audio cues to warn that they are shutting off before the collision and forces are disabled, to give players more advance warning.

Added Storm Flip color switch effects, depending on Storm intersection points.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Skydiving from the bus toward a slipstream was not auto-deploying gliders at the correct height.

Storm Surge was not activating in Phase 8?

Player health could be improperly rounded when receiving damage.

The health bar for structures could disappear when hitting a wall and swapping to build mode.

Lava was dealing damage to players too quickly.

PERFORMANCE

Rendering optimizations on player built walls to help end-game situations with thousands of building pieces.

Added general optimizations for audio visual indicators.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Resolved an issue causing poor performance in the lobby on Mac when in a large party.

AUDIO

Improvements to Grenade Launcher and Grenade fuse sounds

Added a close-range fuse loop that is attenuated based on damage radius.

Sound ramps up as the projectile get close to exploding. If you hear this you’re going to take damage unless you block the explosion.

Lowered the volume of vehicles in a Slipstream that doesn’t have a driver/passenger.

Increase the range for the enemy 1×1 pickaxe impact sound from 1 tile to 1.5 tiles.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Fixed an issue with audio device hot-swapping when switching between outputs.

One-shot sounds could re-trigger when walking into audio range.

This was most noticeable with harvesting, explosion, and gunshot sounds.

The Victory Royale sound no longer gets affected by the slow motion effect when a match is won.

The Combat Shotgun had the wrong fire sounds on Mobile/Switch.

The Baller suction sounds were playing 2d if someone piloted a baller that you’d previously dismounted.

Sounds for consumables would not play if approaching a player while they were already using them.

Footstep audio for the “Take the Elf” emote wasn’t playing.

UI

Hiding the vehicle health bar that appears above a vehicle if you are the player operating it to avoid two vehicle health bars from being displayed.

The vehicle health bar that appears above a players health and shield will remain in the HUD.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

The direction-to-safety vector lines were not appearing properly on the map when in game modes where respawn was enabled.

REPLAY

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Scrubbing a replay could cause the unique font color on Golden points of interest to disappear.

MOBILE

Increased the size of the auto-pickup radius for items.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Graphical Improvements:

Lava textures were not appearing properly in the Floor of Lava Limited Time Mode on Android.

Resolved HLOD issues that were occurring at Loot Lake on Mobile.

Fixed the Quinjet Glider deploy animation on the Google Pixel 2.

The collar of the Instinct Outfit was clipping into the hood.

The Fiend Wrap and Turbulent Wraps were not displaying properly on certain Mobile devices.

The icon for the Wonder Outfit was displaying as pixels.

The FPS counter was not being properly displayed in-game when enabled.

While the map was opened, pressing anywhere outside of it was making that press count as if it was the joystick.

The Cycle Weapons HUD Layouts weren’t visible after jumping from the Battle Bus

Fixed an issue where the “Require Access to Contacts” prompts was appearing for Mobile players.

Sound effects and music were not playing properly on the Moto Z2Force and HTC U11 devices.

Reloading a Shotgun was being impeded when Tap Anywhere was active.

Player character models weren’t appearing after returning to the Lobby from the Item Shop.

The Controller UI was appearing on screens even when a controller wasn’t connected.

CREATIVE

WHAT’S NEW?

Prop-O-Matic

Hide in plain sight… Transform into a prop and conceal yourself from opponents. Use this tool and new game settings to create your own Prop Hunt game!

New Islands

Build on two all-new islands! The Wasteland and Caldera Island are available now.

Lighting + Fog

Shadow your world in fog or bring brightness to it with new settings.

ISLANDS

Added the Wasteland Island.

Added the Caldera Island.

Added new Game Settings for configuring outdoor Lighting and Fog.

Light Brightness: Controls the intensity of outdoor lighting from the sun or moon.

Default: Uses the light brightness from the current time of day.

0% – 100%: Sets a specific fixed light brightness. 0% is very dark, and 100% is very bright.

Light Color: Controls the color of light from the sun or moon.

Default: Uses the light color from the current time of day.

White, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan: Sets a specific color for the lighting.

Fog Thickness: Controls the density of fog on the island.

Default: Uses the fog settings from the current time of day.

0% – 100%: Sets a specific fog thickness. 0% turns off the fog, and 100% will pull the fog in very close to the camera!

Fog Color: Controls the color of the island’s overall fog.

Default: Uses the fog color from the current time of day.

Black, White, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan: Sets a specific color for the fog.

Note that lighting and fog graphics can look different depending on the platform.

GAMEPLAY

Added a new setting “Building Can Destroy Environment” in the Game Settings.

Yes: When players build during gameplay, certain props may be destroyed when built upon. This is the default setting.

No: Props are never destroyed when players build on top over them during gameplay.

Added a new “Delete” option for “Keep Items When Eliminated” in the Game Settings.

By default, players will drop their inventory items when eliminated.

When Delete is selected, inventory items will be removed from the game when the player is eliminated, and the player will respawn with default items.

Added new settings to apply damage to players when they hit something.

Damage Self On Hit Amount: How much damage to apply to the attacking player when they hit a target.

0 – 999 (Default: 0)

Damage Self Requires Non-Zero Damage: Sets whether at least one point of damage is required before the attacking player will also be damaged.

Yes, No (Default: Yes)

Damage Self Target Filter: Optionally restricts self-damage to only apply to certain types of characters.

Non-Players, Players, All (Default: All)

Damage Self Weapon Filter: Optionally restricts self-damage to only apply when specific classes of weapons are used.

Pickaxe Only, Ranged Only, Melee Only, All (Default: All)

These settings can also be overridden for specific teams using the “Team Settings & Inventory” device.

Added effects when respawning, as well as a golden flash effect to indicate how when a player is invincible after respawn.

Added a new option in the Game Settings to “Allow Manual Respawning”

Yes, No (Default: Yes)

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

The Max Initial Team Size setting was not being enforced in some cases.

Players were spawning without their starting inventory.

A networking issue would occur with physics collision that was causing “jump fatigue” issues with certain props.

Explosive Device sound effects could be muted while the match start cue was playing.

Sound cues at the end and beginning of Rounds was not properly triggering.

The Capture Item Spawner was not displaying the related item name during interactions in the Activity Feed.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

Added the Prop-o-Matic

Transform into a prop to hide from your opponents! You can aim at nearby props and trigger the Prop-o-Matic to possess the appearance of the desired object.

For best results, use with props found in the following galleries:

Outdoor Residential Prop Gallery

Indoor Residential Prop Gallery

Container Prop Gallery

When transformed, you can taunt other players by whistling.

Lock your location to stand completely still and blend in.

You can rotate the camera without rotating your prop when locked.

Note, you cannot transform into walls, structural elements, devices, or traps.

Added UI that displays during games to indicate the number of players hiding.

The UI element tracks the number of people with a Prop-o-Matic in their inventory.

The UI element is displayed automatically if someone starts a game with a Prop-o-Matic in their inventory.

Added UI to indicate the duration of time between the “ping” sound effect when hiding as a prop.

This UI element and the audio cue is only active while players with Prop-o-Matics are actively hiding as a prop.

Flag item locations, when dropped or being carried, are now indicated on the minimap.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

A player’s health would drop to 50/100 after respawning in a game if the Infinity Blade was equipped.

The angle of the Stormwing camera would not change when switching between seats.

The time to equip a Sneaky Snowman was not matching the time displayed on the HUD, which is 3.5 seconds.

CREATIVE TOOLS + PHONE

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

The hover-over highlight was not appearing on certain props and building tiles.

Objects that were being held with the Phone were being saved outside the Island’s boundary.

The Phone would not delete objects that were touching the boundary of the Island.

Objects highlighted in red would paste when using multi-select.

PREFABS & GALLERIES

Added the Mega Mall Prefab

Added 2 new Galleries:

Mega Mall Gallery

Mega Mall Prop Gallery

Added the Clocktower Trim and Ship It Trim to Neo Tilted Gallery A.

Added the Peely Walls to Neo Tilted Gallery B.

Added the tree in Mega Mall to the Nature Tree Gallery.

Added the bush in Mega Mall to the Nature Shrub Gallery.

Added the Volcano Throne and Red Dragon Egg to the Castle Prop Gallery.

Added Lava Bubbles Particle to the Particles Gallery.

Added Geyser Rocks to the Volcanic Rock Gallery.

Added Tent Color Variations to the Military Props Gallery.

Renamed the Challenge Gallery to the Collectible Gallery.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Placing the Lab Tunnel would destroy other props near it.

The size of the preview volume for the Block Party Prop Gallery was not properly fitting in the gallery.

The rug and sports poster from the No Collision Gallery was not showing up on Mobile platforms.

The Arctic Base Hangar Door would delete itself when copied and pasted.

The Basic Storm Controller would not glow green when marked for multi-select.

DEVICES

Added new settings to Beacons.

Enabled: Controls when the Beacon will be shown.

Enabled (default) – On

Disabled – Off

Warm-Up Only – Appears during the warm-up phase

Gameplay Only – Appears when the game is active

Beacon Style: Selects the visual style of the beacon.

Beacon (default)

Badge Style

Both

Hide HUD Icon At: Sets how far away the beacon’s icon will appear on the players Heads Up Display. (Badge Style only)

2M, 5M, 10M, 15M, 20M, 30M, 50M, 100M, 150M, 200M, 250M, 500M (Default: 20M)

HUD Icon Identifier: Allows a specific alphabet letter to be displayed on the HUD Icon (Badge Style only)

None, A, B, C, D, W, X, Y, Z (Default: None)

Requires Line of Sight: Controls whether the HUD Icon is only visible when in plain sight. If disabled, the badge will be visible on the HUD even when visibility is obstructed.

Yes, No (Default: Yes)

Friendly Team: Controls whether this beacon appears as Friendly or Hostile for a given team.

All Hostile, All Neutral, All Friendly, Any, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 (Default: All Neutral)

Team Visibility: Limits visibility of this beacon to only certain teams (both Beacon and Badge).

All Hostile, All Neutral, All Friendly, Any, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 (Default: Any)

Enable When Receiving From: Shows the beacon when the specified channel is triggered, using the Trigger device.

Disable When Receiving From: Hides the beacon when the specified channel is triggered, using the Trigger device.

Added new settings to Particle props:

Enabled: Controls when the particles will be visible.

Enabled, Warm-Up Only, Gameplay Only, Disabled (Default: Enabled)

Enable When Receiving From: Shows the particle when the specified channel is triggered.

Disable When Receiving From: Hides the particle when the specified channel is triggered.

Added new settings to the Objective Device:

Added an additional health option, “Invulnerable”. When this is set, only triggers or an Explosive Device with the ‘Damage Indestructible Buildings’ option enabled can harm the device.

Added “Warning Notification Threshold” setting, controlling the remaining health percentage at which a damage warning notification will be shown.

None, 35%, 50%, 75% (Default: None)

Added “Critical Notification Threshold” setting, controlling the remaining health percentage at which a critical damage notification will be shown.

None, 5%, 10%, 25% (Default: None)

Added “Show Destroy Messages” setting. If enabled, show elimination feed messages when the objective is destroyed.

On, Off (Default: Off)

Added a new setting to Capture Item Spawner device.

Added “Show Capture Messages” setting. If enabled, show elimination feed messages whenever the capture item changes states (Captured, Taken, Dropped, etc).

On, Off (Default: On)

Added new settings to Player Spawn device:

Adding “Enabled during Phase” option. (Disabled, Enabled, Warm-Up Only, Gameplay Only. Default: Enabled).

Allows you to designate if a Player Spawn pad is active between gameplay and pre-game phases.

Color of Pad now changes to red when the Spawn is disabled (either manually disabled or no valid team).

Enable When Receiving From: Allows the use of this spawn device when the specified channel is triggered.

Disable When Receiving From: Disallows use of this spawn device when the specified channel is triggered.

Renamed the Air Vent Device to Air Vent Gallery, because it now contains multiple props.

Added the Geyser to the Air Vent Gallery.

The Geyser is a natural spring that launches players high up into the air and allows gliders to be activated.

Added new settings to Air Vent device:

Enabled: (Disabled, Enabled, Warm-up Only, Gameplay Only. Default: Gameplay Only)

Knockup Force: None, Low, Medium, High, Very High, Super High, Mega High (Default: Medium)

Added Gust Range: How far from the device the gust reaches (3m-15m in 1m increment adjustments. Default: 3m).

Min Knockup Percentage: 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100% (Default, 100%). How much knock up is applied if you step into the gust at maximum range.

Enable When Receiving From: Enables the vent force when the specified channel is triggered.

Disable When Receiving From: Disables the vent force when the specified channel is triggered.

Activate when Receiving From a Channel: Provides a 1-second gust before switching off. Useful to use as a trap.

Added new settings to the Explosive Device:

Adding New Health Option: Indestructible.

Adding additional values to Proximity Range (1/8th Tile, 1/4 Tile).

Health Bar Style. Switches between the default health bar, an objective style health bar, and an objective style health bar that only shows up when the barrel is damaged. (Default, Badge Style, Badge Style Damaged. Default: Default).

Hide HUD Icon At: Distance at which the icon is displayed, in meters (Badge Style Only)

2m, 5m, 10m, 15m, 20m, 30m, 50m, 100m, 150m, 200m, 250m, 500m. (Default: 20).

HUD Icon Identifier: Displays a letter to show on the HUD Icon (Badge Style Only)

None, A, B, C, D, W, X, Y, Z. Default: None

Requires Line of Sight: Whether the HUD Icon only shows when you are within line of sight. (Badge Style Only).

Yes, No. Default: Yes.

Added new setting to Team Settings & Inventory device.

Initial Team Size Ratio: This allows you to set team size ratios. For example, if Team 1 has a Team Size Ratio of 3 and Team 2 has a Team Size Ratio of 1, then Team 1 will have three times as many players as Team 2.

Don’t Override, 1 – 10 (Default: Don’t Override)

Added new settings to Player Checkpoint Device:

Added Enabled on Game Start: Whether or not the checkpoint will mark your save when you run over it

Enabled, Disabled (Default: Enabled)

Added Enable When Receiving From: Enable the checkpoint when receiving on this channel

Added Disable When Receiving From: Disable the checkpoint when receiving on this channel

Added When Activated for First Time Transmit On: The first time this checkpoint is activated we will transmit on this channel

Added When Activated for First Time Per Player Transmit On: The first time this checkpoint is activated for each player we will transmit on this channel

Added new settings to Item Spawner device:

Added new option to Time before first spawn: Instant, spawns the item at the start of the game

Added Enabled on game Start: Whether or not the item spawner will begin spawning items at the beginning of the game

Enabled, Disabled (Default: Enabled)

Added Enable When Receiving From: Begins spawning items from the item spawner when receiving on this channel

Added Disable When Receiving From: Destroys the item on the spawner and stops the spawner from spawning items when receiving on this channel

Added Spawn Item When Receiving From: Spawns the next item in the item spawner if there is not already an item on the item spawner when receiving on this channel

Added Cycle To Next Item When Receiving From: Destroys the current item on the item spawner and then spawns the next item on the item spawner when receiving on this channel

Added new settings to Creature Spawner device:

Enabled On Game Start: Whether the spawner will actively spawn at the start of a game or not.

Enabled, Warm-Up Only, Gameplay Only, Disabled (Default: Enabled)

Enable When Receiving From: Enable the spawner when receiving on this channel

Disable When Receiving From: Disable the spawner when receiving on this channel

Added new settings to Billboard device:

Enabled: Whether text will show during the specified game state or not.

Set Text Visible When Receiving From: Show billboard text when receiving on this channel

Set Text Hidden When Receiving From: Hide billboard text when receiving on this channel

Renamed the Collectible Gallery option, Only Visible to Collecting Team, to Visible to Opposing Team.

Never, Always, or Until Fully Collected (Default: Never)

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

The Hover Platform was preventing players from building through it in some cases.

Fixed various issues with the Billboard and how text wrapped between lines.

Reverted to the original font.

The Item Spawner where Respawn Time of 3s would not be saved correctly.

Fixed an issue where the Barrier device would not scale visually based on changes made in the customization options.

The Flag was not appearing on the map or minimap.

The Storm was not appearing on the map or minimap.

Creative servers were ending when a game was completed after a Storm has finished closing.

The Flag despawn, pickup, and throw sound effects were projected from the Capture Area rather than where the actions took place.

Players were immune to Storm damage when the “Starting Circle” was set to 10 on the Basic Storm Controller device.

The Storm from the Basic Storm Controller was missing a timer when active during a game.

The Flag ambient flapping audio was too loud.

The ambient audio for the Basic Storm Controller would stop playing after a game.

The texture on the Color Changing Tile was stretching when placed vertically.

UI + SOCIAL

End of round and end of game flow has changed.

Added time dilation when the round and/or game finishes to break up gameplay before showing winners.

Winner screens now show before all scoreboards.

Round Winners are shown if the game has multiple rounds

Displaying Round numbers instead of team names

Game Winners are shown at the end of the game

Made it clearer if the player is on the winning team

Scoreboards are shown afterward.

Round scores are shown if the game has multiple rounds

Timer shows time till next round or time till game scores are displayed

Game scores are shown at the end of the game

“Eliminations to Win” was changed to “Eliminations to End”

“Creature Eliminations to Win” was changed to “Creature Eliminations to End”

“Objectives to Win” was changed to “Objectives to End”

“Collect Items to Win” was changed to “Collect Items to End”

“Score to Win” was changed to “Score to End”

“Scoreboard Stat” 1-4 has been renamed to “Scoreboard Tiebreaker” 1-4.

“Scoreboard Stat 5” has been removed from the UI Settings in My Island.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

Changed the help text for the Allow Manual Respawning game setting to be easier to understand.

Changed the Scoreboard settings help text to explain how the win condition for the round works.

Fixed settings for the Creature Spawner being called “True” or “False” instead of “Enabled” and “Disabled”.

Players could potentially get duplicate widgets during games.

Island description text could overlap the rift waypoint if the description was too long.

The Chest tab in the Creative Inventory was not displaying the number of stored items.

Source: Epic Games.