Will crit rating factor in a weapons base critical chance when calculating actual critical chance?
Crit Rating is converted into a Crit Chance buff, which is then added to the base critical chance of the weapon. This makes the Crit Rating + Crit Damage perk combination best when placed on a weapon with high base crit values.
Thanks for the update much appreciated. A quick question so will a new weapon have a chance to get both crit chance AND crit rating? Or is crit chance disappearing?
A new weapon will still have its inherent Crit Chance, but the perks on the weapon will all be Crit Rating. Only legacy weapons will have the old Crit Chance perks.
With the addition of the Perk Recombobulator in update 4.2 (which you can read about HERE) you are going to gain the ability to upgrade your perks to grant larger bonuses, pick what perks are on your favorite weapons, and choose combinations that synergize well with each other and the weapon that they are applied to. When using Perks built around our current numbers in the new system, we quickly found that the combination of top-level Crit Chance and Crit Damage Perks significantly overpowered all other combinations, and the Recombobulator allows you to easily put those perks together. We want players to choose perks that synergize with a particular weapon or playstyle, rather than having only one correct perk choice for all weapons.
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During the “Guide to Holiday Survival” event we added the Event Store and introduced a new currency called Seasonal Gold, to give you a way to directly acquire items. At the start of the “Spring It On!” event we reset everyone’s gold to 0 to keep the amount of currency from growing to unsustainable levels over time. This allows us to avoid inflating the prices of the more desirable store items, keeping them from becoming out of reach of all but the most hardcore players.
Starting with our 4.0 Update and going forward we’re going to try something different, and we wanted to give you all a heads up about it now so you can plan accordingly. Instead of resetting gold at the start of each season, we’re going to implement a cap of 5000 gold. If you reach this cap (or are above the cap when it first goes into effect) you will cease to earn additional gold until you spend enough to drop below the cap. This is timed with the start of the ne...
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In our post last week we talked about some upcoming changes that were coming to Canny Valley and Twine Peaks in v3.6. After hearing your feedback we’ve decided to hold these changes for the time being. We plan to implement an improved version of them at a later date, and are investigating adding power level restrictions to address the concerns raised about low-level players in high-level missions. We’ll keep you guys in the loop as our plans evolve.
Jason
Senior Systems Designer
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Welcome to another Design Chat! These are a series of posts where we discuss upcoming changes to the game and explain the reasoning behind them.
In update v3.5 we responded to feedback around low-level players getting up into high-level areas. We did this by locking out Miniboss Mission Alerts on missions that you had not yet unlocked through the quest progression. Many Canny/Twine players have their power level and quest progression fall out of sync, typically resulting in a power level far higher than the missions they have access to. The Mission Alerts provided these players with an avenue to play higher-difficulty content and earn better rewards.
We believe the underlying issue here is the number of quests and missions required to unlock a new difficulty in those zones. In an effort to improve mission unlocking in Canny Valley and Twine Peaks, we are implementing the following changes to the quests in these locations in update 3.6:
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
I'm worried about the case where a survivor is on top of a car. When I throw a grenade to kill the mobs around the car, will that destroy the car as well? Not good!
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...
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A fire... at a SEA PARKS???!? IT'S THE WEIRDEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD
I am going through this right now with these guys. Somebody got access to my account and upgraded it. Why? Not sure. I stopped playing Fortnite some months back, but I did go on and change my password. Tried emailing Epic, got an email back saying the email is not monitored and to go to a website, there is no option for undoing this error on the website, so I try and call, get zero options for help there, and told to leave a message, no call back. Now am disputing it through my bank. Just been a huge cluster****.
Hey jmurf67,
I'd like to help investigate your case. At your convenience, can you please update me with your case number, display name/psn id/gamerag and Epic games email?
Thank you!
The day after I decided to buy the game I immediately got hacked and they spent $160 on my credit card. I messaged support about it after getting control of my account and removing my card from it. I'm not even playing the game until this is resolved for fear of compromising my refund in some way.
I'm still waiting on an update as to whether I'll be refunded. If Epic can't refund me (and soon), I'm just going to do a chargeback and not play the game ever again.
I don't understand how stuff like this can happen, I used steam, battle.net and origin for 10 years and nothing like this has ever happened to me.
I want to play the game and I willingly paid for it, but I refuse to put up with fraudulent charges if that's par for the course.
Hi necroneous,
I understand your concerns. I'd like to help you look into this. Can you please send me a DM with your case number, display name/psn id/gamertag and email that is linked to your Epic games account?
Keep me posted,
I don't even play Fortnite, I have only played BR a handful of times with friends, I can 100% guarentee that my purchase of a $150 russian collections edition of the single player game was not my purchase or "buyers remorse" ontop of that, I am getting emails daily that my Fortnite account has been locked due to too many failed sign in attempts. I changed my password AND enabled 2FA after this happened and people are still trying to access my account and causing problems with it. It has now been over a week and I still have not had an answer from Epic games about this and am getting extremely fed up. I don't want to go to my bank if I don't have to as a charge back will probably cause my account to get permanently banned/closed but at the end of the day I would rather lose my account that I spent 10 bucks on than lose $150 dollars on something I will never touch. This is ridiculous.
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.
Thanks!
It's hard not to get excited for these changes/updates. I'm really looking forward to the future of Save the World.
Thanks so much for sticking with us.
I guess this really isn’t aimed at the subreddit since this is all the stuff we’ve been hearing.
I would appreciate that if a topic is brought up we get solid info instead of just “we know and we’re talking about it”. That really doesn’t give us players any info, so might as well not even bring it up.
Like imagine if you owed a friend some money and you randomly call him up to say “hey, I know I owe you money still. Okay, bye”.
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 insta1234,
I'm sorry to read about the frustrations. I'd like to look into these issues for you. Can you please send me a DM with your case number(s), email that is linked to your Epic games account and display name/psn id/gamertag?
Thank you!
Hello, it seems like you only respond to top posts about cases, and would be thankful if you could take a look at my cases sometime, I have been waiting a really long time, and have been essentially scammed $99.99 from Epic.
Hi InfamousEternal,
I'd like to look further into your issue. Please go ahead and send me a DM with your case number, display name/gt/psn id and Epic games email.
Thanks!
Please help me! I sent in two support tickets for a refund and never received any case numbers for the first two, then I decided to submit a third one for ALL my purchases ($600~ USD) and then all of a sudden I was given an automated email with a case number two days ago. There is still no response from support and any updates I email back just get me the same automated response and nothing else. I want nothing more than to be out of your hair ASAP.
Edit: I don't know how to do chargebacks via PayPal or my bank yet, but I'd like to save that as my final option.
Hey kmvii,
I understand your frustrations. Please update me via a DM with your display name/psn id/gt and email that is linked to your Epic games account so that I can look further into this issue.
Thanks!
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,
Hey Chicagobatmandriver,
I'd like to look into your case further. Can you please update me in a DM with your case number, display name/PSN ID/gamertag and email that is linked to your Epic games account?
Thank you!
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