Fortnite: Battle Royale Dev Tracker

Heya folks,

In our v1.8 patch we introduce customizations, that means you can adjust your banner, harvest tool (pickaxe etc.), character or glider and choose the way you load in! The patch will also include our initial step into progression and what it looks like in Fortnite Battle Royale, as well as adding an in-game item shop.

Please let me earn rewards from playing!

Our first stab at progression will become in the form of daily challenges you can complete to raise your Season account level and earn rewards. You will also receive a banner flair to customize your banner at each level up until 49, at which point you can prestige your Season level.
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Welcome Fortnite fans to our biggest (and eeriest) patch yet with creepy new content for both Save the World and Battle Royale players. Plus big new customization features for Battle Royale!

Fortnitemares Update

Celebrated by all Fortnite players, the Fortnitemares update introduces all kinds of new terrifically terrifying Halloween content on Oct 26th.

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Heya Folks,

We’re kicking off the spookiest time of the year in a big way with our Fortnitemares Event, which comes with a brand new zone - Hexsylvania. Get lost in the deep levels of the catacombs, the endless halls of flickering candles or the thick fog creeping across the map!

Horde Bash will be departing on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 4:00 a.m. EDT. If you haven’t challenged the horde yet, try your hand and maybe grab one of the unique Scavenger Heroes!

What will Hexsylvania bring?

In addition to a spooky lobby background you’ll find:

• ~25 Story Quests
• Spooky Creatures
  • Pumpkin Head Husk
  • Vampire Taker
• Spooky Llama
  • Buy it with candy! :D
• Eight new themed Heroes all getting into the Hexsylvanian spirit! 
  • Each Class/Gender
• New Weapons
  • Pumpkin Launcher (How else will you defeat ...

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Fortnite community,

In our effort to provide a better player experience new servers have just launched for Brazil and Asia. We are excited to take one more step forward in strengthening our global community and providing a better experience for all players around the globe, one region at a time!

Get ready to drop into the arena solo or with a squad. The duos playlist will be disabled at first, but will be re-enabled once we are confident we can provide a great experience for all players.

Both Brazil and Asia servers will support PS4 and PC at launch. 

Players will automatically connect to the regions with the lowest ping, but you can still manually select a server region. Please follow the steps below if you would like to change your matchmaking region.

• Navigate to the Main Menu in the top right corner of the screen.
• Select Settings.
• Select the Game tab.
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The release of 1.7.2 brings quality-of-life improvements for both Save the World and Battle Royale players. What’s more, numerous bugs, issues and Xbox One crashes have been smoothed out alongside an update to Storm Zones.

Battle Royale - Voice Chat

We have enabled voice chat on PC only and will follow with console support in the near future. Ironing out some final bugs and getting it ready for you!

Save the World - Storm Zone Update

Save the World players will have the opportunity to battle through many more Storm Zones with the release of 1.7.2. The number of possible Mutant Storm spawns has greatly increased in each region, meaning more challenges, more monsters, and more loot!

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Heya Fort Fam,

In this update, we will be adding Leaderboards and Team Voice Chat. Let’s talk about leaderboards first, because who doesn’t like a little bragging. 

Leaderboards

We will be providing a variety of categories to start, and plan to add more in the future:

• Wins
• Top 10 Finishes (and variants for duo, squad)
• Top 25 Finishes (and variants for duo, squad)

There will be two different leaderboards:  

A weekly rotating one where you can track your progress against other Battle Bus riders. 



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The Battle Bus is heading to Long Beach, CA for the annual TwitchCon event (Oct. 20-22) and we’re dropping plenty of supplies for the whole squad. The Epic Games team will be there showcasing Fortnite Battle Royale and providing a ton of information on future features for streamers. TwitchCon attendees who stop by the booth to play a round of Fortnite Battle Royale will also get free, FNBR swag!

If you’re a Twitch streamer interested in learning more about how Epic Games works with broadcasters, stop by the booth to chat! We’ll also be moderating and participating in a panel at TwitchCon specifically geared toward helping streamers work with game developers. Information below:

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Thanks for all your support, it’s been a crazy two weeks since we launched on September 26th :-)

We’ve picked up steam on the development side and have strike teams working on the below features and improvements:

Gameplay

• Team communication incl. voice chat!
• General squads / duo polish
• Ongoing shooting and balance tweaks
• Map POI (points of interest) and loot density improvements
• Spectating improvements
• Inventory improvements
• Quality of life bug fixes

Controller

• Alternate configurations
• Controller revamp
• Input latency improvements on console
• Aim assist improvements

UI

• 10’ console experience of HUD
• “Invite system” polish
• MOTD system improvements
• QOL features for streamers and content creators (hiding...

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The release of 1.7.1 improves overall game stability and adds quality-of-life improvements for both Save the World and Battle Royale players. In addition, we have re-enabled support for DirectX 10 hardware. This should also improve performance for low-spec PC players.

What are we doing about cheaters?

In this release, we’ve added a report button in-game which will allow players to swiftly report cheaters. What’s more, we released a blog last week detailing our current and future anti-cheat plans. Check it out here.

BattlEye has been added to our existing anti-...

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