Hello Fortnite fans!

Jump from the Battle Bus, open your favorite Glider, and land in Hall 8.1 at this year’s gamescom, where there’s an extra special Fornite experience waiting for you. Alongside numerous Fornite-themed activities, you’ll be entertained by talented community members on our show stage, and maybe you’ll even get to meet your favorite streamers and YouTubers shooting new videos in our content creator village!

HandOfBlood and Trymacs will be with you all week, hosting our stage program in their own unique way. We will release more details on this in the coming days.

We’re looking forward to 5 days of Fortnite with you at gamescom 2018!

WEEK 5 FORMAT

KING PIN

Teams will be ranked on a Contest Leaderboard based on their current points. Victory Royales and Eliminations in this competition will be scored to determine placement, score, and multipliers during the event. The top 20 players at the end of the 8 games will be awarded. In the case of a tie, players will be scored on a tiebreaker system. You can also check the top players here.
 

Teams will be ranked on the Leaderboard based on the following scoring system:

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We’re excited to announce the Fortnite Beta on Android is launching this week. Players with Samsung Galaxy devices are the first to be invited starting today.  The Android Beta will begin opening for other devices* over the next few days.

*Currently supported on the following Samsung Devices:

• Samsung Galaxy: S7 / S7 Edge , S8 / S8+, S9 / S9+, Note 8, Note 9, Tab S3, Tab S4

Purchasers of the new Samsung Note 9 or Galaxy Tab S4 will get access to the new Galaxy outfit.

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Heya folks,

We’ve seen various discussions about SMGs, building material changes, and general weapon vs structure interaction. We agree that weapons should have a unique purpose and that building should feel great as well as show off your tactical skills in the heat of battle. Your feedback in combination with internal testing has shown that previous changes in these areas were not achieving the goals we had set out for. The new changes are aimed at allowing for strengths and weaknesses between the SMGs, shotguns and structures during close range combat.

Here are the changes that are now live:

Building Changes

By increasing initial wall health values based on material type, material strength should feel more intuitive when making decisions
 

• Wood wall initial HP increased from 80 to 90
• Stone wall initial HP increased from 80 to 100
• Metal wall initial HP increased f...

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Heya folks, test

We recently stood up our Playground LTM on June 27th, at about 4 AM EDT. Following this, we experienced an overload of our matchmaking service which caused both the default modes and Playground to fall over.  We worked to get the service to where it needed to be, and were finally able to roll out the mode on the evening of July 2nd.

What happened?
Our matchmaking is built on something called the Matchmaking Service (MMS), which is responsible for facilitating the “handshake” between players looking to join a match and an available dedicated server open to host that match.  Each node in the matchmaking cluster keeps a large list of open dedicated servers that it can work with, randomly distributed by region to keep a roughly proportional amount of free servers for each.  Players that connect to MMS request a server for their region, MMS assigns that player to a node, and the node picks a free server for the requested region fr... Read more

WEEK 4 FORMAT

HOLD THE THRONE

The first player to reach 8 points is the winner. Victory Royales, Top Placements, and Eliminations in this competition will be scored to determine placement at the end of the event. The top 20 players at the end of the Summer Skirmish will be awarded. In the case of a tie, players will be scored on a tiebreaker system. You can also check the top players here.

Victory Royale: +2 Points
Second Place: +1 Point
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WEEK 4 FORMAT

HOLD THE THRONE

The first player to reach 8 points is the winner. Victory Royales, Top Placements, and Eliminations in this competition will be scored to determine placement at the end of the event. The top 20 players at the end of the Summer Skirmish will be awarded. In the case of a tie, players will be scored on a tiebreaker system. You can also check the top players here.

Victory Royale: +2 Points
Second Place: +1 Point
Th...

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