Fortnite: Battle Royale Dev Tracker

DPad Left should be bound to 'repeat last emote' on PS4 and XB1 in "Old School", "Quick Builder", and "Combat Pro" layouts. That button was already taken in "Builder Pro" so it's not available there for now.

Cheers, Michael Noland

One more point to add about the damage falloff:

The new falloff values apply to environmental damage as well, meaning SMGs are now less effective at destroying structures as range increases. This helps further position SMGs as close-range weapons and keeps them from edging into engagement ranges where rifles should be the most effective option.

Again, we'll be keeping a close eye on SMG performance to make sure they hit the goal of being a good option for close-quarters combat without over-performing in other areas.

This is awesome! So excited to see all the crazy things that people do with toys + playground :)

FYI you can bind a key to any of the the 6 default emote slots from the locker, and another key bind is available for 'repeat last emote' (this one is available in some of the controller configs too, currently on left dpad, but it might move in the future).

Cheers, Michael Noland

Update: Remote Explosives are ready to be re-enabled after a bug fix and an adjustment to their explosion radius. The damage radius is now a unified 520 units, whereas in previous patches it was 600 units for structures and 400 units for players.

To be clear, this change represents a reduction in the structure damage radius of Remote Explosives.

But that's not the only change in the works! We've been hearing the community feedback that availability of this item is too high. To address this, we’ve been considering a reduction to drop count and max stack size, and even the rate at which they drop in the world. Look for possible changes in the near future. In the meantime, please let us know what you think once you've had a chance to try out their new reduced effectiveness.

Hey man,

Yeah, this was the worst case scenario of this bug. The steeper the slope, the bigger the issue.

This should be much, much improved with these changes!

-nick

Hey guys, let's talk about "Ghost Peeking".

When crouching up-hill, you can sometimes fire over cover without actually being seen by your target.

Here, I've enabled some developer debug to show what's happening:

(gif) Ghost Peeking with developer debug

The yellow line is a trace from the center of your camera. The green line is supposed to be the bullet trace.

Side view

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Hi everyone,

This change to the Remote Explosives' structure destruction radius is unintended.

What happened? Before this patch went out, we made a last-minute change to the item in order to properly attribute fall damage that was indirectly caused by Remote Explosives. In the process, we inadvertently unified the player damage radius (400 units) and the structure damage radius (600 units) to use the smaller of the two.

Our plan: We're currently testing a new value for this unified destruction radius that meets more in the middle. I'll report back with the exact number once it has been deployed.

The reasoning behind it: It does make sense for the explosion to use the same radius for both players and structures, but our goal is that one charge should be able to destroy the wall it's attached to and the wall on the opposite side of the building grid. That means the explosion radius needs to increase from the value that's currently live.

You'll...

Hey Everyone, this is a case of poor wording on our part. Sorry about the confusion. What this means is that compared to most other weapons, the SMG carries a lower accuracy penalty when moving.  The goal is that this gun should support a run-and-gun playstyle.

This one slipped between the cracks. It's been fixed for the next patch. Thanks!

Thanks for the report, we've already changed the ATK binds for a future build to resolve this.

Cheers, Michael Noland

Sorry about that. This is a bug but will take a client patch to address; it will be fixed in a future build.

https://trello.com/c/aZoW6vK1

Mouse+keyboard users can work around it by left-clicking on the X and then right-clicking twice on something else, but I'm not aware of a similar workaround for controller users.

Cheers, Michael Noland

Thanks! We've really been working hard to make improvements on this front. The Playground LTM was a really nice stress test, heh - I heard it was kind of popular or something. (kappa)

Something doesn't sound right. If you had already played on an Xbox with that account, you should have not been able to play with that account on your cousin's PS4. Send me a PM with your account name if you were playing on an Xbox and you were able to use it to play on the PS4 - that sounds like an unintentional bug if so.

If you exit your match, you will load into a new match with a new one hour time limit the next time you queue up.

The time limit is there so we don't completely run out of servers.

I'm pretty sure he doesn't even know he's a cat. He's a pretty horrible one: falls off the bed/couch all the time and lands on his back, can't be left alone for more than a day, has to be taken on a walk every day or else he goes crazy, etc.
(He's a pretty great dog, though.)

Wild. Like for Playgrounds.

I can't wait to see what you guys make. We all worked crazy hard to make this happen. <3

(My cat was nowhere near my laptop this time, so I'm assuming that's why everything went smoothly.)

Thanks for the heads up /u/IlliniChiefKeef and /u/ecxtts_

The game should be playable again in a future build :)

Cheers, Michael Noland

We totally get it. This one really bummed me out so I wanted to drop by and share how disappointed I am that we’re not all in Playgrounds right now. It sucks for you to wait and it sucks for us to have to tell you there will be a wait. You all care so much about Fortnite and we want to get this right for you.

We share your disappointment. I’m so sorry we let you down. We know how excited everyone is for this LTM and we wanted so badly to get it into your hands before the weekend. We’ll do everything we can to get it live and stable.