Fortnite Update v4.5 Patch Notes

Limited Time Mode

Playground

Sum­ma­ry
Play­ground is a low-pres­sure envi­ron­ment where friends can let their cre­ativ­i­ty run wild. Build mas­sive struc­tures. Prac­tice with the weapons and items. Fight against your friends. Have fun!

Mode Details

• You’ll have one hour to cre­ate, play and train as you wish. Hop in and try out ver­sion 1 of Playground!
• Drop into the Bat­tle Royale map with a squad of friends for an hour
• Friend­ly Fire is on 
• Play­ers respawn on elim­i­na­tion unless downed by the storm
• The storm does­n’t start clos­ing in for 55m, and takes 5 min­utes to close in
• Resources gath­ered grant 10x the nor­mal rate.
• 100 Lla­mas will be spawned on the map
• Chests & Ammo Box­es spawn 100% of the time

Final Fight of Team 12

Sum­ma­ry
Make it to the final cir­cle and then fight for the Vic­to­ry Royale!

Mode Details

• Final Fight plays sim­i­lar to stan­dard Bat­tle Royale, but instead of the storm cir­cles clos­ing all the way in, they stop part way through the match. 
• When the cir­cles have fin­ished clos­ing in, the Final Count­down timer will begin.
• The remain­ing teams will bat­tle it out until the timer expires.
• The team with the most play­ers remain­ing at the end of the timer wins!
• In the event of a tie, the two (or more) teams tied for the lead win the match.

Weapons + Items

• Dual Pis­tols Added 
  • Avail­able in Epic and Leg­endary variants. 
    • 41–43 base damage.
  • Uses Medi­um Ammo.
  • Shoots both pis­tols with one pull of the trigger.
  • Can be found from floor loot, chests, and Sup­ply Drops.
  • Does not use first shot accuracy.
• Sig­nif­i­cant jumps that are land­ed with the Shop­ping Cart now appear in the elim­i­na­tion feed (height, dis­tance, and time).
• Weapon dam­age to struc­tures now cor­rect­ly scales with rarity.
• Shot­gun dam­age to struc­tures has been reduced by 50% for Pump Shot­gun, and 25% for both Tac­ti­cal Shot­gun and Heavy Shotgun.
• Explo­sions now dam­age all struc­tures with­in range, whether or not they are vis­i­ble from the explo­sion center.
• We’re mak­ing the fol­low­ing changes to fur­ther solid­i­fy the iden­ti­ties and strengths of Tac­ti­cal and Silenced SMGs. 
  • Tac­ti­cal SMG 
    • Removed first shot accuracy.
    • Increased base accu­ra­cy by 25%.
    • Low­ered the sprint­ing accu­ra­cy penal­ty by 15%.
    • Low­ered the ADS bonus by 10 %.
    • Increased dam­age by +2.
  • Silenced SMG
    • Increased base accu­ra­cy by 10%.
    • Increased ADS accu­ra­cy bonus by 20%.
    • Increased dam­age by +2.
• Shot­gun ammo now drops in stacks of 4 instead of 5.
• Grenade Launch­er visu­als have been tem­porar­i­ly changed to shoot fire­works instead. This is a cos­met­ic change only.

Bug Fix­es

• Boo­gie Bomb explo­sions are no longer blocked by vehicles.
• Ther­mal Scoped Rifle will now con­sis­tent­ly exhib­it intend­ed accu­ra­cy while in scoped in. 
• Clingers can no longer stick to play­ers through the ceil­ing or floor.
• Spike traps placed on a ceil­ing no longer dam­age play­ers on the floor above.
• The Ther­mal Scoped Rifle no longer high­lights opened chests.
• Weapons will no longer appear to fire while switch­ing weapons under cer­tain net­work conditions.

Gameplay

• Progress for elim­i­na­tion quests will now be grant­ed if you down an ene­my with the required weapon rather than need­ing to actu­al­ly elim­i­nate them with it.
• In Build Mode, walls will now try to build at a clos­er loca­tion when place­ment is blocked due to lack of struc­tur­al sup­port. Stairs, Floors, and Roofs are not affected.
• Auto-open doors no longer func­tions while in the Down-But-Not-Out state.
• Pick­ax­es will no longer hit the Shop­ping Cart if you are rid­ing as the passenger.
• Play­ers in the Down-But-Not-Out state can no longer enter Shop­ping Carts.
• Improve­ments made to the auto pick­up weapons fea­ture to bet­ter han­dle pick­ing up large groups of weapons.

Bug Fix­es

• Items dropped in water now stay above the water’s surface.
• Exces­sive fall dam­age is no longer applied when under cer­tain net­work conditions.
• Sup­ply Drop crates no longer briefly per­sist in the world after being opened if it was shot down.
• Smoothed out the loca­tion of all soc­cer balls and bas­ket­balls while under vary­ing net­work conditions.
• Play­ers are no longer able to hit build­ing weak spots through oth­er buildings.
• Hav­ing the Sprint Can­cels Reload­ing set­ting turned on will no longer pre­vent play­ers from auto-reload­ing their weapon after sprinting.
• Fixed an issue that applied a con­stant force to play­ers if they were hit by a Shop­ping Cart.
• Doors that are inter­act­ed with mul­ti­ple times rapid­ly no longer get out of sync with their state on the server.
• Fixed an issue where if a play­er was using a con­sum­able and then exchanged it for a dif­fer­ent pick­up, it would select the pick­axe instead of the new item.
• Chests no longer cre­ate invalid pick­ups, such as a 2x Chug Jug instead of 2 indi­vid­ual Chug Jug pickups. 
  • This cre­at­ed an issue that caused play­ers to be unable to pick up build­ing materials.
• Play­ers are now award­ed an elim­i­na­tion if the oppos­ing play­er bounced off ter­rain and took fall dam­age before tak­ing enough dam­age to be eliminated.
• Fixed a small num­ber of accounts that had incor­rect Week 5 Challenges.
• Mush­rooms no longer spawn on trees in Moisty Mire.
• Fixed an issue that pre­vent­ed the abil­i­ty to open chests by pre­emp­tive­ly hold­ing the inter­act but­ton while approach­ing the chest.
• Fixed a gap in the ter­rain that was caused by the sport­ing goods store in Greasy Grove being slight­ly moved by accident.

Performance

• Improved per­for­mance of sky­div­ing on all plat­forms (espe­cial­ly Switch), by reduc­ing ren­der­ing relat­ed CPU hitches
• Fixed a source of hitch­ing on Xbox one. In rare instances, this was caus­ing up to 2‑second hitch­es for some players
• Improved fram­er­ate around swing-sets by adjust­ing physics.
• Improved per­for­mance by doing less work when play­ers are mov­ing out­side of your view.
• Improved per­for­mance for mov­ing ammo and weapon pickups.
• Improved play­er move­ment updates in large team games. This should make the move­ment of oth­er play­ers appear smoother.
• Fixed sky­div­ing rings tick­ing the entire match.

Audio

• Changes to ene­my build­ing audio (friend­ly build­ing audio remains the same). 
  • Increased vol­ume of ene­my build­ing audio.
  • Increased range of ene­my build­ing audio by 2 build­ing tiles.
• Added vari­a­tion to water foot­steps on mobile and Nin­ten­do Switch platforms.
• Re-bal­anced bass con­tent for sur­round sound mix.

Bug Fix­es

• Real­lowed the first few mil­lisec­onds of audio to play if an emote is trig­gered while jumping.
• Sus­pen­sion audio on cars is no longer spammed when jump­ing or slid­ing off of them.
• Shop­ping Carts no longer spam their col­li­sion audio if flipped upside down.
• Fixed issue that caused doors to play an open and a close sound when opened.
• Fixed the slowed audio for the Step it Up emote.

UI

• The switch seat icon is now hid­den when you can’t switch seats.
• The min­imap now draws the whole map and bus paths instead of noth­ing when on the Starter Island.
• Exist­ing map mark­ers are removed when land­ing after jump­ing from the Bat­tle Bus to reduce map clutter.
• Cus­tom voice chat out­put devices can be select­ed on PC.
• Removed dam­age num­bers from Shop­ping Carts and added a health bar.
• HUD Elim­i­na­tion and Down-But-Not-Out noti­fi­ca­tions have received updat­ed animations.

Bug Fix­es

• Dam­age num­bers no longer over­lap if dam­age is done to both shield and health.
• Object stacks no longer appear as 0 ammo when looted.
• Map mark­er icons now prop­er­ly appear even while on the Starter Island.
• Fixed an issue where some­times map mark­ers would­n’t be removed when press­ing right click and mov­ing the mouse slightly.
• Fixed an issue where the play­er was unable to drop or split an item after drop­ping a full stack of items.

Art + Animation

• The cape on the Bat­tle­hound* Out­fit is now avail­able as Back Bling.
• Added capes to the Ven­tu­ra* and Ven­tu­ri­on* Outfits.
• *Any­one who pur­chased these Out­fits has been grant­ed the Back Bling to be used on any oth­er Outfit.
• A pil­lar of light will now appear at the loca­tion where friend­ly map mark­ers are placed.

Bug Fix­es

• Visu­al effects for the Ora­cle Axe Pick­axe and Omi­nous Orb Back Bling now appear cor­rect­ly on consoles.
• Back Bling no longer appears in low detail while spec­tat­ing players.

Replay System

• Removed ProAm replays from the Replay Browser.
• Replay Brows­er entries will now scroll if text does­n’t fit.

Bug Fix­es

• The Replay Brows­er no longer los­es gamepad focus if chat win­dow is opened.

Spectating

Bug Fix­es

• The shield bar no longer incor­rect­ly fills and emp­ties when switch­ing between play­ers in spec­ta­tor mode.
• Storm effects no longer get stuck on play­ers that were in the Storm while being spec­tat­ed even after leav­ing the Storm or after switch­ing to a new player.

Mobile

• Added set­tings on mobile for low pow­er mode and scalability.
• Improved touch inter­ac­tion log­ic to be more con­sis­tent and reliable.
• Touch rota­tion sen­si­tiv­i­ty in the lock­er has been reset.

 Bug Fix­es

• Vibra­tion set­ting no longer resets to the wrong val­ue on mobile devices.
• Fixed a bug where low­er end mobile devices weren’t dis­play­ing the whole island while on the bus.
• Vol­ume on mobile devices will no longer occa­sion­al­ly become muted.

Missions + Systems

• Block­buster Part 4: The Finale is now available! 
  • Com­plete the quest­line and choose a Shad­ow Ops hero.
• Heroes, Trap Schemat­ics, and Weapon Schemat­ics can now be acquired direct­ly from the Col­lec­tion Book through Recruit­ment and Research. 
  • Select the item you wish to cre­ate in the Col­lec­tion Book. This can be an item you do not have yet, or one that you have already collected.
  • If the item can be cre­at­ed a Recruit or Research but­ton will appear.
  • Event Items, Sur­vivors, and Defend­ers CANNOT be obtained using this feature.
  • This costs Flux, and either Train­ing Man­u­als, Weapon Designs, or Trap Designs.
  • The result­ing item will be lev­el 1, and schemat­ics will have ran­dom­ized perks.
• Items can now be unslot­ted from the Col­lec­tion Book at a cost of 20 V‑Bucks.
  • This will return the same item that you slot­ted, with the same lev­el and perks.
  • This will remove the Col­lec­tion Book XP that the item had grant­ed, but will not reduce the lev­el of your Col­lec­tion Book or change what rewards you have earned. 
  • This XP debt will have to be paid back before you can con­tin­ue to advance the Col­lec­tion Book’s level.
• Adding new quest called Inde­pen­dence Day to grant play­ers two Fourth of July themed Sol­diers. Part of Block­buster Part 4. 
  • Stars and Stripes Jonesy*.
  • Stars and Stripes Headhunter*.
• *Hats and Back­packs will not be in this patch but will be released in an upcom­ing patch. Play­ers that own these heroes will auto­mat­i­cal­ly get cor­re­spond­ing hats and back­packs once released, at the appro­pri­ate and usu­al evo­lu­tion levels.
• Changed the way reward rolls work on Group Mis­sions so that play­ers get a larg­er amount of a sin­gle resource: 
  • These mis­sions would reward Gold, plus a stan­dard amount of 4 dif­fer­ent resource types.
  • They now reward Gold plus 4x the usu­al amount of a sin­gle resource type.
  • This allows play­ers to bet­ter tar­get spe­cif­ic resources they are try­ing to acquire.
  • For mis­sions reward­ing RE-Perk and Perk-UP, the rewards can still be split between mul­ti­ple types of Perk Recom­bob­u­la­tor resources.
• Increased the chance for Mini Lla­mas to upgrade.

Bug Fix­es

• Fixed an issue where all 2‑star Evo­lu­tion Skill Nodes were required in order to upgrade the rar­i­ty of schemat­ics. You now only require the node that match­es the item type.

Heroes

• Stars and Stripes Soldiers 
  • Stars and Stripes Jonesy — Leg­endary Survivalist
  • Stars and Stripes Head­hunter — Leg­endary Survivalist 
  • These can be acquired by com­plet­ing the new Inde­pen­dence Day side quest.

Bug Fix­es

• Play­ers will no longer stop mov­ing mid air if they use Cres­cent Kick after using a Play­er Jump Pad Trap.
• Bull Rush no longer abrupt­ly stops when falling down ledges.

Weapons + Items

• Bob­cat Assault Rifle added to the Week­ly Store. 
  • Avail­able Wednes­day, June 27 at 8 PM EST until Wednes­day, July 4 at 8 PM EST.
  • Fast fir­ing weapon with excel­lent dam­age out­put and mag­a­zine size, but low­er range than most assault weapons. 
  • Main­tains most of its accu­ra­cy while mov­ing and fir­ing from the hip, excelling at close range mobile skirmishes.
• Cozy Camp­fire now heals through walls, as long as the play­er is with­in its range.
• Increased max­i­mum ammo lim­it for Light Bul­lets, Medi­um Bul­lets, and Shells & Slugs. 
  • Light from 5000 to 6000
  • Medi­um from 3000 to 4000
  • Shells from 1000 to 1200
• Added sev­er­al schemat­ic perks, allow­ing for more cre­ative stack­ing of cer­tain perks: 
  • For Melee Weapons, we added Life Leech and Fire Rate to the first and third perk slots respec­tive­ly, and Heavy Attack Sta­mi­na Cost Reduc­tion to the sec­ond slot.
  • For Ranged Weapons, we added Reload Speed and Mag­a­zine Size to the first and third slots, respectively.
• Increased Lifesteal Perk effec­tive­ness by 50%.
• Increased the effec­tive­ness of pis­tols that fire explo­sive projectiles: 
  • Fire­crack­er, Lib­er­a­tor, and Free­dom’s Herald 
    • +52% Dam­age, +79% Envi­ron­ment Dam­age, +50% Impact.
  • Tiny Instru­ment of Death 
    • +44% Dam­age, +126% Impact.
  • Zap­per and Zap Zapp 
    • +90% Dam­age, +433% Envi­ron­ment Dam­age, +310% Impact.
• Reduced in-air fuse time of the grenade launch­er from 8 sec­onds to 2.75 seconds.

Bug Fix­es

• Increased the envi­ron­ment dam­age dealt by Remote Explo­sives so it can reli­ably destroy walls at high­er dif­fi­cul­ty levels.
• It is no longer pos­si­ble for Floor Spikes or Flame Grill traps to hit ene­mies through floor pieces above the trap.
• Fixed issue where ice formed by the Freeze Trap was block­ing dam­age to enemies.
• The Floor Spike Traps giv­en in the tuto­r­i­al are now able to be placed on ramps.
• Fixed crosshairs expand­ing when aim­ing down sights with Rock­et Launchers.
• Replaced the head­shot-based perks from the Zap Zapp Pis­tol Schemat­ic with more rel­e­vant dam­age perks. 
  • Head­shot Dam­age was replaced with Damage.
  • Head­shot Explo­sion was replaced with Snare On Hit.
  • Head­shot Streak Dam­age Bonus was replaced with Affliction.
• Fixed the Whis­per .45 not prop­er­ly dis­play­ing a min­imap icon when dropped.

Gameplay

• Intro­duc­ing a new ene­my, the Super Shielder! 
  • The Super Shield­er attach­es to oth­er ene­mies like reg­u­lar Shield­ers, but extends it’s shield much fur­ther, pro­tect­ing all ene­mies inside the bubble.
  • This shield also pro­tects the Super Shield­er itself!
  • Stand­ing inside the shield lets you attack ene­mies inside it with­out penalty.
• Imple­ment­ed Builder Pro con­troller scheme for Save the World. 
  • This con­trol lay­out match­es the Builder Pro scheme from Bat­tle Royale.
  • Using gad­gets and abil­i­ties work the same way as the Com­bat Pro con­trol scheme (which is the same in Com­bat mode as the Builder Pro scheme).
• Auto-open doors game option now affects doors in Save The World.
• Changed loot drops for spe­cial­ized grenade items (Impulse Grenades, Port-A-Fort, etc) so that new play­ers won’t encounter these items dur­ing the tutorial. 
  • Most of these items will begin drop­ping halfway through Stonewood.
  • Port-A-Fort will become avail­able toward the end of Stonewood.
  • M80 and Bot­tle Rock­et remain unchanged, and can still drop dur­ing the start of the game.

Bug Fix­es

• Build quick­bar remains focused after enter­ing menu and re-assign­ing weapons while in build mode.
• The Tele­porter can no longer be placed under Lars’ Van in Ride the Light­ning mission.
• Fixed bug when can­celling a gad­get or hero abil­i­ty by press­ing Tog­gle Har­vest Tool or Next/Previous Weapon. 
  • In each case pre­vi­ous­ly, the but­ton would act as though the gadget/ability in ques­tion were not select­ed. For exam­ple, if you had your Pick­axe select­ed and brought out the TEDDY place­ment tool, press­ing the Tog­gle Har­vest­ing Tool but­ton would switch the play­er to their last select­ed weapon rather than their pick­axe. Now it will switch you to the pickaxe.

UI

• HUD Scal­ing option now also applies to the Save the World HUD.
• Play­ers can select each node on the quest maps to see details and rewards.
• Removed Copy to Clip­board button(s) in the Options menu on consoles.

Bug Fix­es

• Fixed an issue where the gamepad map­ping screen showed the wrong map­pings for a num­ber of con­trols on the left side of the con­troller for Com­bat Pro.
• Dam­age num­bers are once again vis­i­ble when hit­ting destruc­tible objects.
• Fixed a prob­lem where stor­age trans­fer was pre­vent­ed from fill­ing unused space due to a bug with M80s and Bot­tle Rockets.
• Exit­ing and rejoin­ing glob­al chat room no longer occurs after chang­ing cer­tain game options.
• Fixed an issue allow­ing non-leader par­ty mem­bers to select a mis­sion on PC.
• Fixed an issue with the Mis­sion Select menu when switch­ing between key­board and mouse or gamepad inputs.
• Head­shot Dam­age now cor­rect­ly updates when updat­ing the perk in the Recombobulator.
• Fixed quest announce­ments not prop­er­ly clear­ing after updating.
• The Play Now but­ton for the Jack of All Trades quest has been dis­abled because the but­ton was send­ing play­ers to zone types where the quest objec­tive isn’t like­ly to spawn.

Art + Animation

• Cloth­ing cos­met­ics now prop­er­ly sim­u­late in the lobby.

Performance

Bug Fix­es

• Opti­mized Hov­er Tur­ret laten­cy dur­ing combat.

Audio

Bug Fix­es

• Updat­ed SEE-bot launch ani­ma­tion sounds.
• Audio impact sounds now prop­er­ly play for Ele­men­tal Husks.

Source: Epic