Fortnite: Battle Royale Dev Tracker

What is Twitch Prime?
If you have an existing Amazon Prime membership, then you have Twitch Prime. As part of Twitch Prime you can unlock some awesome free loot as a subscriber.

How do I get it?
Head over to your Twitch account, go to your settings, hit the Twitch Prime tab and connect away! Or navigate to the Twitch Prime Page itself.

What’s this Twitch Prime / Fortnite Pack?
You can find out more info about the Fortnite Twitch Prime Packs ...

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Heya folks,

We’re always hammering away at building and working through ways to improve feel. Our new features (in v.3.0.0) allow you to both be in the heat of battle and still craft that clutch set of stairs!

Turbo Building
“Turbo Building” allows you to hold down primary fire and continuously place the selected building piece (Toggled in the Game options). Now you can “paint” building pieces into the world quickly. This will be very useful for defensively building walls around you and sprinting up ramps while building them simultaneously.

Automatic Material Swapping
“Auto Change Materials” will switch to another material when your current supply runs dry (this can be toggled in the Game options). In addition to “Turbo Building” this makes the building process fast and simple. It also allows for quick defensive structures from flanking with less input and worry about running out of a particula...

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Heya folks,

With Season 2 coming to a close later this week, we’re here to answer your questions!

Battle Pass

New to the Battle Pass? It’s a way to get exclusive loot by playing Fortnite. Then earn or buy tiers to unlock even more rewards!

When you buy the Season 3 Battle Pass, you’ll instantly unlock a batch of great in-game rewards including the new Mission Specialist Outfit! As you play during the season, you unlock a series of reward tiers. The more you play, the more you unlock.

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Service Stability Issues

We were not able to stay ahead of our continued growth and multiple of our backend services have been struggling under load the last several weeks (e.g. friends functionality and general login service). And we also shipped v2.3.0 with significant bugs.

We don’t consider either acceptable. We have changed our release plans & processes to help improve quality of client builds, and scrambled people to make traction on backend scalability by any means possible.

Ongoing Optimizations

When you play some Battle Royale, we want the time from when you’re in the lobby to when you’re in the action to be as short as possible. We’re continuing to work on load time improvements to help with that. You want a smoother in-game experience, and we agree!

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Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent players last Sunday… and that didn’t come without issues!  This blog post aims to share technical details about the challenges of rapidly scaling a game and its online services far beyond our wildest growth expectations.

Also, Epic Games needs YOU!  If you have domain expertise to solve problems like these, and you’d like to contribute to Fortnite and other efforts, join Epic in Seattle, North Carolina, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, UK, Stockholm, Seoul, or elsewhere!  Please shoot us an email at [email protected]... Read more

Hey everyone,

I wanted to take some time to talk about the upcoming limited time mode Shooting Test #1.

Late last year we outlined some of our goals with Battle Royale’s combat and weapon accuracy (you can read that blog post here). Back then, we stated two goals for our combat:

• Goal #1 – Pistol sniping at long range should not be possible.
• Goal #2 – Our weapons should have characteristics that encourage a wide range of engagements based on: distance to target, target type, ammo availability, etc.

One of our favorite thi...

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Excited for the new map update this week? Get a dev perspective with some of the Fortnite team!

David Spalinski, Lead Level Designer:

Since the initial release of Battle Royale in September we’ve been keeping an eye on opportunities to improve and add to the map. We had some initial predictions about what would make it better for you, but chose to take the time to watch, listen, and play with the community to learn about various things we couldn’t have known at the onset. We’ve taken that knowledge and built it into this update, which represents a major iteration on the Battle Royale map.

One of the primary things we identified needed improvement was the density of the points of interests (POIs...

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Heya folks,

We have a brand new feature for NVIDIA owners coming in that will allow you to quickly share those hype Fortnite Battle Royale plays. NVIDIA ShadowPlay Highlights is supported for all PC gamers using GeForce GTX 650 and above graphics cards.

Introducing, ShadowPlay Highlights from NVIDIA! No longer will your friends have to “take your word” when you tell them about that mountain sliding snipe headshot. ShadowPlay will save plays automatically by default. You are also able to manually configure which plays get saved to customize it to fit your style.

More info on ShadowPlay features can be found ...

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Fortnite friends,

It’s time for the first Battle Royale update of the year! This update is planned to go live on Jan. 2 at 8am (13:00 GMT). Show off your stealthy skills in the new Sneaky Silencer Limited Time Mode, (Jan. 5 - Jan. 8) featuring the new Silenced Pistol.

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Silenced Pistol

• Can be found as Epic and Legendary rarity.
• Can be found in treasure chests, supply drops or as floor loot.

Sneaky Silencers

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Happy Holidays!

Get in the holiday spirit with another Battle Royale update, incoming Dec. 23, 11:00am Eastern Time (16:00 GMT) . Throw a party with the Boogie bomb and rocket ride to victory all in the new Limited Time Mode, High Explosives. The High Explosives LTM is available Dec. 28 to Jan. 2.

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Boogie Bomb

• Thrown like a normal grenade, but this explosion is dazzling.
  • Any players inside the blast radius are forced to dance.
  • When boogie dancing, you are prevented from building, firing weapons, or using items.
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Fortnite Fans!

Prepare yourselves for a Battle Royale update incoming Dec. 19, 8am ET (13:00 GMT). We’re improving trap usability and introducing the Small Shield Potion for the survivor on the go.

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Small Shield Potion

• Grants 25 Shield, to a maximum of 50.
• Drops in stacks of 3 with a stack limit of 10.
• Uncommon rarity.
• Can be found in floor loot, treasure chests, and supply drops.
• Consumed in 2 seconds.
• Cannot be consumed while moving.

Trap Usability Update

• The Spike Trap, Wall Zapper, and Ceiling Zapper have been combined into a single “Damage Trap.”
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Heya folks,

 

The Battle Pass marks the beginning of Season 2 cosmetic offerings in Fortnite Battle Royale.   The Season Store is retiring with the release of the Battle Pass, so get the Season 1 items (S1 Glider, Banner) while they’re still available!

 

The v1.11 update launches our Battle Pass which includes a ton of items for you to earn while playing Battle Royale.

 

What’s the Battle Pass? The TL;DR is … buy the Battle Pass to get cosmetic loot now. Then play to level up your Battle Pass, unlocking up to 65+ rewards by the end of the season. (It typically takes 75 to 150 hours of play to get everything.) Watch the video for more info!

 

 

 

Play Battle Royale. Level up. Unlock Epic loot. Buy the Battle Pass to get cosmetic loot now. Then earn or buy even more rewards.

Creative Content Video Submission Tips

Hi there! Below is a set of quick hints and tips to help you understand what we’re looking for in a Creative Content submission video: (and what we aren’t)

Make sure your creation is in line with the Featured Island Guidelines. Please review the guidelines for featured islands before you create a video for your island. They are located here: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/featured-island-guidelines. If your island doesn’t meet the guidelines, please edit before creating your video.

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Heya folks,

We’ve been teasing you about a new mode all week and the time has come. Starting right now you can hop into our first limited-time mode … 50v50.  Two teams battle it out in the most epic Battle Royale action yet. See for yourself in the action below.  
 

But for how long? Great question!

The 50v50 playlist is available from Dec. 8 to through Dec. 17, so make sure to grab your friends and jump into the battle for a limited time.

How does it work?
Just load up Battle Royale and select the 50v50 playlist. You can jump into the mode solo or with up to three friends. Once the Battle Bus gets flying, you’ll see your squad on the map and communicate like a normal squad/duo match. You’ll also see green markers on the map and above the heads of the remaining 50-player team. The circle closes in. Last team standing wins.

Are there any special rules? 

• Friendly Fire Off (Bu...

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Hey Fortnite friends, 

This weekend it’s Fortnite Battle Royale meets Anaheim at PlayStation Experience 2017! We’ll be set up at Booth #A260 where four featured streamers will squad up with YOU, the community, to achieve Victory Royale. Throughout the day, we will be randomly choosing players from the crowd to take the stage and battle for Fortnite swag and prizes! If you can’t make it to PSX 2017, you can tune into our livestream at twitch.tv/fortnitegame, where we will be broadcasting the entirety of the event.  

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Playing With Friends

Duos and Squads are best when you can play with friends! We realize that our existing social features make it hard to make and/or find friends. We are working on making it easier to play again with people you had a great game with, make new friends, and import your friends lists from other social networks.

Certain regions don’t have the Duos playlist (we hear you Oceania!) and we continue to monitor population per platform and region. We are working on a system that is going to allow us to schedule Duos during popular hours so we can offer the mode while maintaining a good experience.

Team Killing

We dropped the ball on addressing team killing. We take action based on player reports, but the system isn’t straightforward to use, and doesn’t let you know whether we took action or not. This needs improvement. Last week we started casting a wider net to catch current and past team killers and issued numerous warning...

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Heya folks,

To celebrate Fortnite’s support of Xbox One X we are hosting a Battle Royale Plays contest, with a grand prize of three Xbox One Xs! 

The contest runs from Friday, Dec. 1 until Friday, Dec. 8 for all of you making those highlight reel-worthy plays! Send us your clips by 11:59 PM EST on Dec. 12 to be eligible.

After receiving all submissions, we will review them and announce the winners and runners-up in three different categories starting on Dec. 12. All entries must be submitted during the contest period. You can see the full rules here.

If you are selected as a winner in your respective category you will receive an Xbox One X! Runners Up in each c... Read more

Fortnite has grown quick, fast and in a hurry! We’re humbled and happy to welcome so many of you into Fortnite. The community started as a tiny seed of online testers, now with your help it has blossomed into so much more. You’ve had lots of great suggestions and feedback about Fortnite and we’re listening! 

Here’s what you’re saying about RNG:
 

"Everything is RNG gated including heroes you can play. When you finally do get something decent, RNG determines the bonus stats as well. So you have RNG (llamas) upon RNG (loot from llamas) upon RNG (bonus/random stats on loot)" - /u/Dustin1280

We are delivering features that ease that feeling and increase your reward choices. We've added more quests, more storm rewards for evolution ingredients and more activities that easily allow you to get what you want. And guess what, we want to do more!

Here’s what you can expect soon:

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Get ready to board the battle bus at DreamHack this winter (Dec 1-3). We’ll be travelling to Jonkoping, Sweden to host a series of Fortnite Battle Royale community competitions - so prepare to take down opponents, build your way to the top, and win awesome prizes!



At DreamHack, everyone with a BYOC seat will be eligible to join the solo or duo tournament. Qualified players from both days (Friday and Saturday) will be able to compete for a larger prize pool on Sunday. The tournament is PC only - with the option to connect controller instead of mouse and keyboard to play. There's no sign-up required: just join the ...

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