FORTNITE v3.1.0 Patch Notes: Jetpack Delayed, Lucky Landing Location And Hunting Rifle Added, And More

Save the World

GAMEPLAY

• Spring it On! continues, adding new questline ‘Brave Beginnings’.

  • Many of us have already given up on our new year's resolutions, but Val has not. Join the brave survivor on her mission to join in the battle against the storm as a defender.

• We have added new group missions to all theaters. Currently the mission is ‘Fight the Storm’ with encounters designed for 4 players.

  • These missions allow 4 extra Defenders to be used.

  • Rewards for group missions should be roughly double, except for Spring It On! Gold (the latter remains unchanged).

• Impulse Grenade has been added.

  • Blast enemies into the air and off cliffs!

  • Use these to bounce yourself or your friends up to hard-to-reach places!

  • These are temporary power-ups that will be removed from the backpack at the end of the mission.

• DragonFire shotgun is now available in the Weekly Store!

  • Shoots a cone of fiery death, damaging all husks in the area.

  • Heavy auto-shotgun, with a slower rate of fire and smaller magazine size.

• Damage of Dragon’s Roar assault rifle increased by 20%.

• Voting has been added to the BluGlo Difficulty Pylon.

  • After inserting enough BluGlo for a difficulty bump, the voting window will appear.

  • Teams of 2 or 3 players will require 2 ‘Yes’ votes to increase difficulty. Teams of 4 will require at least 3 ‘Yes’ votes.

  • If vote passes, the team can vote to increase the difficulty again immediately.

  • If the vote fails, a 45 second anti-spam timeout is put into effect before another vote can be taken. The deposited BluGlo will be returned to the player who initiated the vote.

  • Voting is not required in missions with only one player.

• Training Manuals, Trap Designs, and Weapon Designs used to evolve a schematic or person are now refunded when they are recycled/retired.

  • This refund is in addition to the 1/4/9 currently returned when you recycle or retire a Rare/Epic/Legendary item.

• Changed ‘Crit Damage versus Afflicted targets’ weapon modifier from 30%/45%/60% to 45%/67.5%/90%.

Bug Fixes

• Dragon Rocket Launcher no longer roll magazine size perks.

• Rocket/Grenade Launchers will no longer roll headshot perks. They are also now able to roll rare durability perks.

• Wooden Wall Spike Traps have had their Reload Speed perks removed and replaced with valid perks.

• Wall and Floor Launcher Traps have had their Damage, Critical Chance and Critical Damage perks removed and replaced with valid perks.

• Fixed an issue that allowed players to damage Lars’ van during the timed encounters.

• Fixed small boxes of fireworks that drop red envelopes from being destroyed by Husky Propane Tank.

• Disable Play Now button for ‘Want to Build a Hoverboard?’ Quest since the Quest is fairly dependent on players traveling to the right zone type (i.e., City zones).

• We have temporarily disabled the Difficulty Pylon in Deliver the Bomb missions to address issues with blocking track placement.

• Players that play in maps much lower than their current level will have their party stats clamped. We will continue rebalancing stat clamping to make sure parties of mixed levels find the content appropriately challenging.

HEROES

• [Rework]  ‘I.F.F. Coding’ perk

  • Plasma Pulse kills cause the Constructor's shield to regenerate at 15% of its normal rate for 2 seconds. Consecutive ‘Plasma Pulse’ kills refresh the duration.

• [Rework]  Soldier’s Berserker Subclass

  • ‘In a Pinch’ has been removed as the level 12 perk and replaced with ‘Up Close and Personal’.

  • ‘Kneecapper’ has replaced ‘Up Close and Personal’ as the Berserker's level 30 perk.

  • The Soldier Perk ‘Up Close and Personal’ has been reworked:

    • Warcry applies 3 stacks of Debilitating Shots to nearby enemies.

• Removed kill reset timer in ‘Fragment Generation’ perk and changed tooltips to represent the change.

• ‘Fragment Generation’ perk kill counter no longer resets after 15 seconds.

• ‘Phase Shift’ now continues some of its momentum when used in the air.

• ‘Goin' Commando!!!’'s base damage has been increased from 13 to 25 damage.

  • ‘Goin' Commando!!!’ is no longer flagged as a Ranged Weapon and does not benefit from ‘Debilitating Shots’.

• ‘Crescent Kick’ can now be used in the air.

• Renamed Raider Nomad to Raider Raptor.

Bug Fixes

• ‘Dragon Daze’ tactical perk now properly shows visual FX when triggered.

• Fixed an issue that allowed survivors to be carried with Constructors ‘Bull Rush’ ability.

• Fixed pitch angle for TEDDY's arm guns when aiming at enemies.

• Fixed an issue where the pickaxe would become unresponsive if players requeued actions mid swing.

• Fixed an issue that caused the Soldier's ‘Shockwave’ damage to be delayed.

• The Outlander’s ‘Shock Tower’ now correctly displays its lightning visual FX when attacking.

UI

• Can cycle through survivor squads without backing out.

• Can clear out all members in a survivor squad from a single action.

• Added keybinds to pop-up context menus.

Bug Fixes

• ‘Dragon Daze’ tactical perk no longer specifies Ninja.

• Fixed an issue that caused Recycling node 2 and 3 in the skill tree to not display Collection Book upgrades under bonuses.

• Fixed issue where pinning the Cruise Control Quest didn't show the Ride the Hoverboard objective on the HUD when not completed.

• Schematic recycling and evolution is now temporarily blocked while the item is in the crafting queue.

AUDIO

Bug Fixes

• Fixed audio volumes of mission rewards music.

• Removed music event from Supply Drop.

• Fixed the issue with music abruptly switching and sounding too loud.

  • Added a second mix to alternate between the intro being more victorious and the other, which is more subdued.

• Fixed dialog attenuating sound FX and also not being played through the Voice slider.

• Fixed the loud music transition to mission rewards.

• Fixed the bonus success music event so that the high frequencies are less pronounced.

• Fixed the combat/score music periodically starting/stopping.

• Fixed the loot tab restarting the music every time you switched to it.

• Fixed the loot tab music getting stuck on.