Hey folks,
We’ve seen continued questions regarding the current process for Competitive payments. We recognize that we failed at making the current process as easy to navigate and understand as it should be. We’re going to fix this and would like to update you on future improvements we’re making to the overall process. For those players who are still experiencing issues, we’re working to be more proactive in collecting any incomplete or incorrect information that we need to process payments.

Payment Process Improvements (COMING SOON)

Our primary areas of focus for improvements to the Competitive Payment process include: (i) providing players with status updates, via email, on a regular basis; (ii) creating a more intuitive landing page and payment flow that allows players to more easily track the status of their payments; and (iii) enabling players to more easily make changes to their information. Find more details on the upcoming changes below:

• We will...

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Hey folks,
Over the last several seasons you’ve noticed and reported cosmetic bugs that have slipped through the cracks. Thanks to this, we’ve been able to escalate and triage these issues so we can work towards fixing them. We want to let you know that we are actively working on addressing known issues that we’ve found internally, and the ones you’ve brought to our attention online.

Known Issues

Wilde Outfit - Backblings appear to be floating - Fixed in v9.30
Cloud Strike ... Read more

Where we droppin’?

The Battle Bus is en-route to E3 2019 in downtown Los Angeles and the whole squad is coming. Drop by the Fortnite booth #601 in the South Hall of the LA Convention Center or snag a prime seat for the Summer Block Party event featuring your favorite Fortnite creators and celebrities.

Find us on the E3 show floor in the South Hall of the LA Convention Center at booth #601 from June 11 - 13. Play popular Creative games with friends at the Time Trials, Arcade and Player vs  Player stations. There are new games to play every day... don’t miss out! And there’s plenty to explore at the booth, including free snacks to munch on and the chance to win amazing prizes. Bring th...

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Show off your moves in the Downtown Drop LTM by Jordan featuring Creative artists NotNellaf & Tollmolia. Launch off massive jumps, grind down city streets and collect coins to win! #FortniteXJumpman

Score big when you cop the Hang Time Bundle. Get the Grind Outfit, Clutch Outfit, and a challenge pack unique to the set.

All players will have the chance to jump into The Downtown Drop LTM and complete free challenges to unlock the Back Board Back Bling and its additional nine ...

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Hey folks! 

This week we’re openly discussing critical bugs found over the weekend, new features, and our upcoming competitive-focused AMA. 
 

Weekend Issues

Last week, we discovered a critical issue where players could become stuck in a vehicle and unable to exit. We made the choice to remove the root of the issue by disabling all vehicles, rather than electing to play through the Finals even with the bug. We felt that it was more fair to remove all vehicles to ensure players weren’t penalized for something outside of their control during the Finals.

Due to a critical issue with players getting stuck inside vehicles, we will be disabling all vehicles in Arena and Fortnite World Cup Online Opens through this weekend.  We plan on re-enabling... Read more

Tick Tock, Mr. Wick.
 
The High Table has opened a new contract. It’s up to you to collect the bounty. Stay alive and collect gold tokens by eliminating the other bounty hunters. The first one to fulfill the order wins, but be careful how far ahead you get, as you will become a target for everyone else.
 
 
Pop into the Wick’s Bounty LTM now and complete challenges to earn free rewards including the Gold Token Back Bling, One Shot Glider, Boogeyman Wrap, and bonus XP before the event ends. If you’re curious about the LTM specifics you can head over to our patch notes for a full description. 
 
 
Everyone wants Wick - now you can get him. Drop by the shop and get the John Wick Set, which includes the J... Read more

Schedule update!
On both days:
Doors open - 2pm PT
Fan Festival opens - 2pm PT
Show starts - 4:30pm PT
Show ends - approx 7:30pm PT

Introducing the Fortnite Summer Block Party - a two-day event at the Forum in Inglewood, California celebrating the Fortnite community along with some of your favorite creators and celebrities, like Ninja, Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco, Dillon Francis, Cray and Jordan Fisher.

On Saturday, June 15, watch celebrities and your favorite streamers battle it out in the first ever Creative tournament! Eight teams of four will be fighting for fame on a new player-made game, designed specially for this event.

On Sunday, June 16, the Fortnite Celebrity Pro-Am returns! Find out which team will tak... Read more

Heya folks,

With the launch of Season 9 in Fortnite we’re excited to announce that we will be supporting the Arabic language throughout Fortnite. That means no matter where you choose to drop in Battle Royale, what mission you choose in Save the World, or how you plan to build in Creative you’ll have the ability to experience it in Arabic. Our Player Support team will be fully prepared to assist in Arabic with account or Fortnite related issues. We’ll be listening too - if you have feedback to share our Arabic social media channels will be coming online around this period as well. 

What about Middle East Servers?

This is an area we’re focused on finding a solution as well, and we hear your calls for dedicated Middle East server support. We’re still a few months from having services come online and hope to provide a more meaningful update on server support before then. In the meantime, we’re still trying to provide any additional improvements we... Read more

Battle Royale

The volcano has erupted and forever changed some long lasting locations - from the ashes, Neo Tilted rises. Grab the squad to explore the bright lights of new attractions like Peely’s Banana Stand and Nugget Hut. Catch a ride and quickly traverse areas by flying in and out of the new Slipstream wind transportation system. Use the new Air Vents to quickly navigate from building to building. Take a glide over to the new Mega Mall to do some shopping before the storm hits. The future is yours in Season 9!

A new season also means a brand new Battle Pass. Over 100 new exclusive rewards are ready for you to unlock, and it still costs the same 950 V-bucks. This season, you’ll get the Sentinel Outfit and Rox progressive Outfit instantly when you purchase the Battle Pa...

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Hey all,

We’re chatting this week about the recently unvaulted Drum Gun, the concept of LTMs in the tournament playlist, and want to weigh in on the discussion around, “What happens when my Duo partner disconnects?” Let’s jump in.
 

Drum Gun

This past weekend during the Unvaulting event, the community at large chose to bring back the Drum Gun from the Vault. The gun was immediately added to loot tables in all modes within Fortnite (including Arena) except the ongoing Tournament playlist for the weekend. 

You can expect to see the Drum Gun in this weekend’s Tournament playlist. In the v9.00 update today we’ve adjusted the spawn rate of the Drum Gun to be more in line with other similar items. We will be closely monitoring feedback over the Season launch to determine any next steps.
 

LTMs as Tournaments

After our Fortnite World Cup Online Opens conclude, we’re exploring adding additional fun, new ways to compete. In the weeks leading up ... Read more

Hey everyone!

In v8.50 we made some adjustments to the top end of Twine Peaks and we’ve been keeping a close watch on the discussions regarding these changes. We definitely understand the need that top end players have for things like higher-end crafting materials and, more importantly, Epic and Legendary PERKUP.

Because of this, we’ll be making the following changes in v9.0:

Twine Peaks

We are currently evaluating the distribution of XP versus Perk and Evolution Materials to determine if a greater change to XP is necessary. In the short term, we’re increasing the frequency of all rewards in high-end Twine Peaks missions with the exception of XP rewards, to allow these other reward types to appear more often.

Reorganization of Twine Peaks:

• Twine Peaks missions will now follow a more linear path which offers greater readability than the existing “pie-chart” structure.
• We’re adding more missions to each region of Twi...

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Hey folks,
We wanted to give everyone a heads up that the Account Merge feature will be coming to an end on May 6, two days before Season 9 begins.

You still have time to head over to the link above and merge any eligible accounts before it's gone.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Note: Any "In Progress" Account Merge requests will still be completed as long as they're submitted prior to May 6.

There are several key principles that drive Fortnite development. First, we aim to provide a fun game that’s inclusive of all players, and provides everyone with a real chance of winning through any combination of skill, strategy, and good fortune. Second, we aim to evolve the game rapidly to keep the experience fresh. Finally, we aim to provide great entertainment.

Fortnite competitive play relies on a unique balancing act: maintaining a solid and balanced experience for competitive players, while being essentially the same Fortnite played by hundreds of millions of players. After all, those players are the audience for Fortnite competition, and their engagement is key to the growing opportunities for competitive players.

This creates special challenges for addressing the needs of different groups of players. We closely follow the dialog in the Fortnite competitive community, but haven’t been as active participants in the discussion as we ought to be. So, we’ll b... Read more

Attention Fortnite Community:

Thanos and his Chitauri are invading the Fortnite Battle Royale island searching for the six Infinity Stones. It’s up to you to acquire the Avengers: Endgame items scattered throughout the map, and take the fight to him.

During the Fortnite Endgame LTM, you’ll be able to complete challenges to acquire free rewards like Sprays, Banners and the Avengers Quinjet Glider.

Pop by the store and you’ll be able to buy the first of two Marvel sets: the Black Widow Outfit plus Widow’s Pack, Widow’s Bite Pickaxe and Widow’s Pirouette Emote! The second Outfit set arrives early next week…;)

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Hey everyone!

 

As mentioned in our most recent [Save the World roadmap], we’ll be making some adjustments to the top end of Twine Peaks in v8.50. We’ve been keeping an eye on the discussions regarding the lack of more difficult content and agree that it’s time to make some changes.

 

We’ll be adding five new levels of difficulty to the top end of Twine Peaks to give higher level players a bit more of a challenge. These missions will have a maximum base power level of 128 and will scale up with 4x missions and Mission Alerts, just like missions do now. Our goal with this change is to start introducing harder content into Save the World while also preparing you for the battles yet to come.

 

With harder difficulty comes better loot! In general, players will find that these new missions will favor tier-5 materials, such as Sunbeam and Brightcore,  more and more as they...

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Hey folks,

We released the v8.40.1 client update today, April 19 at 6AM ET(1000 UTC) to fix some issues that appeared after releasing the v8.40 update. You can find full details below on all the fixes included in this client update.

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Battle Royale
Fixed the following issues:

• Players were incorrectly being shown that they were being dropped to a lower Division in Arena.
  • This was a visual-only issue, players were not actually being moved to a lower Division and the correct Division for each player is now displayed in-game.
• Blackheart’s beard was growing uncontrollably in the Deep Fried Food Fight LTM and would cover most of a player’s screen. He has visited a barber and his beard is back to its previous glory.
• Bushes were not appearing in any game modes after playing a match in the Air Royale LTM.
• Nameplate and...

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Our team continuously monitors competitive play in all regions and will take action against unfair play if necessary. After each tournament, all players (including the winners) are carefully vetted by multiple teams and analytical processes to verify fair play according to the rules of the tournament, the Fortnite Code of Conduct, and the Fortnite End User License Agreement.

 

Tournament Integrity Actions

Anyone found to be breaking the rules will be disqualified and penalized.  Penalties may include a warning, a temporary competitive ban (duration will be determined by Epic), removal from competitive play permanently, or a permanent ban from Fortnite.  Penalties may be escalated if an account has received prior penalties in tournaments.

 

World Cup Online Ope...

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Hey Fortnite Fans,

If you haven’t already heard, the Fortnite World Cup Online Qualifiers kicked off on April 13 and concludes with the Fortnite World Cup Finals in New York City from July 26 - 28. The Fortnite World Cup is part of our $100,000,000 commitment towards competitive play in 2019, but that prize p...

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Fortnite World Cup Creative Competitions

Official Rules
 

No purchase necessary to enter or win.

The Fortnite World Cup Creative Competitions (the "Contest") is subject to these Fortnite World Cup Creative Competitions Official Rules (these “Official Rules”), which are binding and final on matters relating to the Contest, except as expressly stated otherwise.  The Contest is sponsored by Epic Games, Inc., 620 Crossroads Blvd., Cary, North Carolina 27518 (the “Sponsor”).  The Contest is not sponsored, endorsed, or ad... Read more

Hey folks,

We released the v8.30.2 client update today, April 12 at 6AM ET(1000 UTC) to fix some issues that appeared after releasing the v8.30 update. You can find full details below on all the fixes included in this client update.

Battle Royale

• <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Fixed an issue that was causing matchmaking errors when attempting to join a party without a direct invite from the party leader.
• Fixed an issue where players would not respawn at the Reboot Van if it was being used by two players at the same time and one player stopped interacting with it during the channel time.

Creative

• <!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Fixed an issue where players were unable to jump if they joined a game in progress and there were spawn pads in the game.
• Fixed an issue where players were not invu...

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