Fortnite: Save the World Dev Tracker

Hi folks,

 
In response to several threads around low-level players joining high-level mission alerts we turned off the ability for alerts to be played in zones that you haven’t unlocked yet in v3.5. We do not currently have the functionality to do anything beyond a simple on/off switch (we can’t restrict access to the alert by Power Level, for example), but we’ve seen your immediate feedback, so as a short-term fix we are reverting this change in Canny Valley and Twine Peaks. We’re aiming to get this out April 12th at 4AM ET.

 
We’re going to look at the rate of progression through Canny/Twine and make some adjustments, to try and better align progression through them with your power level. Keep an eye out for updates, and let us know your thoughts on the changes.

 
Thank you,  
Jason

We switched the team setting on the Survivor car so it's considered a friendly building. Only the pickaxe will be able to damage it.

Welcome to the first part of a new series of "Design Chats” where we present some of the upcoming changes we're planning to make to the game, and explain our thinking behind them.
 
One of the ongoing initiatives of our Design team is to make the world of Fortnite feel more immersive and natural. An upcoming change in v3.5 to support this initiative is to rework how weapons interact with the environment.
 
In Save the World your pickaxe is the only weapon that does decent damage to the world around you, with other melee weapons doing minimal damage, and ranged weapons (including explosives) doing nothing at all. We think this feels really strange, especially for a world where nearly everything around you can be destroyed, and have been considering changing it for some time.

The primary reason guns and explosives don't damage the world already is because we didn't want players in the heat of combat having to worry about missing a shot and blowing up part...

Unrelated, but related:

A fire... at a SEA PARKS???!? IT'S THE WEIRDEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD

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Hey there,

I'm sorry to read you're experiencing this. I'd like to help you. Please update me in a DM with your case number, display name/psn id/gamertag and email connected to your Epic games account.

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Thanks so much for sticking with us.

It's absolutely intended for folks here and what you're mentioning is something we talked about before shooting the video. We know until some of those things mentioned are addressed that you'll continue to tell us important. We want to make sure you know they are important to us, even though some of those things (perk reroll, AFK, Global Chat) are bigger pieces of work that will likely take some time.

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Hey RubenVDBr,

I'm terribly sorry to read about this. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I've gotten a hold of your case number and will further investigate. Please feel free to send me a DM if you have any other questions at the moment as well.

Kind regards,

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Hey Bryce_lol,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I've gone ahead and responded to your case, so keep a look out for it. I am more than happy to further assist you in making this right.

Kind regards,

We promised to provide a follow up revolving around the changes we made with update 3.2. Let’s talk about how we are going to make this right.

Dragon Weapons

The change we made to dragon weapons led to a lot of cases where weapons received a sub-optimal combination of perks. While these perks may have had higher rarity, they performed worse in practice. To make this right we’ll be granting a new schematic of any changed dragon weapon so that they match their original state, with their original perks, at the level they were at prior to the 3.2 update. You should get the new copy even if you’ve already recycled or otherwise disposed of your schematic after update 3.2. Additionally, we’ll be leaving the current version of the schematic in your Armory too, in case you prefer the new version.

We’ll update with a precise timeline on the restoration soon, but it should be this week. We’re currently in the process of deter...