Fortnite SEASON 4 is finally here: New Trailer and Patch Notes revealed!

Epic Games have announced that Season 4 of Fortnite is here and playable right now!

Fortnite Battle Royale is a FREE 100 Player PvP mode where players are dropped onto an island and must survive using a variety of weapons and through collecting materials. You can play by yourself or with friends in a duo or squad. The last player or team standing wins!

(Battle Royale is a part of the main Fortnite game (the main mode is called Save The World). This ‘Save the World’ mode is still in development and early access to it can be purchased. However, Battle Royale mode can be downloaded and played for free)

Battle Royale:

Here is the synopsis for Battle Royale Season 4 by Epic Games:

Season 4 is starting off with a BANG. Shards of a massive comet have crashed into the map altering the landscape. Discover gravity-defying Hop Rocks and find new ways to play. Jump in and witness the aftermath of the impact while you level up your Battle Pass and earn all new loot. The Season 4 Battle Pass is here sporting 100 tiers of awesome new rewards, including new cosmetic items, emotes and Sprays.

Various locations on the map have been hit by comets. The main comet seems to have hit Dusty Depot (in Battle Royale mode). At each impact crater players will find weird, glowing alien looking rocks. Once a player consumes these, you temporarily gain the ability to do super jumps! These are a lot of fun and add a whole new style of gravity defying gameplay to Battle Royale!

Check out the new trailer for Season 4:

Save the World:

Save the World mode also has a brand new questline:

Start a movie marathon in Save the World’s latest questline, Blockbuster! Part 1 starts with Five quests and one Landmark Mission. Ray has gone missing and no one knows where she is. With the help of Spitfire and Lok, investigate the comet and gear up to recruit a team of superheroes. Find Ray and bring her back home!

PATCH NOTES – Battle Royale

Check out some of the patch notes for Battle Royale:

PATCH NOTES – Save The World Mode

Here are the Patch Notes for Fortnite Save the World mode:

Gameplay

• Loot Drops!
  • When enemies are killed they have a chance to drop loot on the ground.
    • This chance is increased for patrolling enemies and the packs of enemies found scattered throughout the world.
  • Enemies can drop building materials, crafting ingredients, and ammunition.
  • Larger/tougher enemies drop more items and better crafting ingredients.
    • The tier of crafting ingredients increases with Mission Difficulty, as does the chance of finding rare crafting ingredients like Active Powercells.
  • Mini-Bosses drop a new item type called a Cache.
    • Schematic Caches come in three rarities (Rare, Epic, Legendary) and contain a single ranged or melee weapon schematic. The likelihood of getting an Epic or Legendary cache increases at higher mission difficulties.
    • Evolution Material Caches contain storm evolution materials (Pure Drop of Rain, Storm Shard, etc). These scale up with the difficulty of the mission.
    • A Mini-Boss will drop one cache (of the same type) for every player who participated in the elimination (dealt damage to the boss, or was close to it when it was eliminated).
  • Certain high-rarity treasure chests found in the world can also drop Caches.
  • Caches are opened at the end of the mission.
• Survivor health has been increased by 40% to allow more time for players to rescue them from tough situations.
• The Teleporter Gadget has been refactored in an effort to improve its fun and usability!
• New default behavior:
  • The base range of the Teleporter has been increased to 20 tiles.
  • Teleporter now has no cooldown when activated!
  • In order to accommodate the usability of no cooldown, the Teleporter no longer teleports Enemies.
  • Teleporter now will not activate if it’s in a location that it could not normally be placed on. You’ll still be able to move it, however.
  • Teleporter now has an “arm” time when it’s placed or moved before it becomes active. The default arm time is 5.5 seconds.
  • Teleporter now has a default “pick up” use time of 2.5 seconds.
• As part of the improvements to Teleporter, we’ve adjusted the upgrades it has!
  • Upgrade 1 now allows the Teleporter to transport friendly projectiles!
    • Projectiles will exit from the Teleporter based on the direction you set when you place it.
    • Yes, this means you can throw rockets and grenades through it – try things out!
  • Upgrade 2 now reduces the pickup time of the Teleporter to .5 seconds.
  • Upgrade 3 now reduces the arm time of the Teleporter when it is placed to 1.5 seconds.
  • Upgrade 4 now increases the range of the Teleporter by 10 tiles.
  • Upgrade 5 now allows Enemy projectiles to go through the Teleporter!
    • This means Husk Bones, and Lobber Grenades, and others – try a Teleporter on roofs you want to defend!
• Hover Bot Turret has been improved as well:
  • New default behavior
    • Recharge time reduced from 240 seconds to 150 seconds.
    • Default duration reduced to 20 seconds.
    • No longer fires projectiles – now shoots hitscan shots.
    • Increased default ‘Rate of Fire’ from 1.33 shots per second to 6 shots per second.
    • Base damage reduced from 20 to 15.
  • Upgrades have been adjusted:
    • Duration increase remains +10 seconds, which makes the final duration 30 seconds.
    • We corrected an issue with the range upgrade which was preventing it from working properly. The default range is still 4 tiles, but is increased to 8 with this upgrade.
    • The ‘Rate of Fire’ Upgrade now increases the rate of fire to 10 shots per second.
• The default action of keyboard button ‘B’ is now Emote, with keyboard button ‘V’ bound to bring up Team Chat. You can now cycle between Team Chat, Emotes, and Notes, regardless of which button you pushed to summon the picker.
  • (PS4: L1/R1, XB1: LB/RB, PC: Mouse Wheel)

Bug Fixes

• Corrected an issue which was causing Corn to be unsearchable. It is once again searchable, and will drop the Bacon you crave 🥓.
• Corrected an issue which prevented C4 from being thrown during Sprint. It will now activate and interrupt Sprint as expected.
• Corrected an issue which was preventing the Helium Shotgun projectiles from moving properly through all parts of the world.

Heroes

• [New] Mythic Solder “Raven” – Subclass: Nevermore
  • Description – Shadowy figure who screeches deafening War Cries before eliminating prey with his dual wielded pistols.
  • New Ability
    • Lefty and Righty – Deploy dual pistols and light up your enemies!
  • New Perks
    • ‘Dual Debilitation’ – Lefty and Righty applies Debilitating Shots.
    • ‘Where’s Lefty’ – Eliminating enemies with pistols reduces the cooldown of Lefty and Righty by 1 second.
    • ‘Bang and Pow’ – Dealing damage with Lefty and Righty causes an explosion that deals Energy Damage in a .5 tile radius.
  • New Tactical Perk
    • ‘Explosive Rounds’ – Tactical variant of the Explosive Rounds Perk.
• [New] 8 “Shadow Ops” Heroes
  • Soldier – New Subclass: Double Agent featuring New Characters Vaughn and Evelynn
    • Description – Soldier that wields dual pistol with ease, creating an explosive outcome.
    • Utilizes the newly added ability and associated perks:
      • ‘Lefty and Righty’
      • ‘Dual Debilitation’
      • ‘Where’s Lefty’
      • ‘Bang and Pow’
    • New Tactical Perk
      • ‘Cluster Bomb’ – Tactical variant of the ‘Cluster Bomb’ dealing half the damage of its non-tactical counterpart.
  • Ninja – New Subclass: Piercing Lotus featuring characters Edge and Luna
    • Description – Skilled spear warrior that makes a point to poison enemies with waves of shuriken before striking them down.
    • New Perks
      • ‘Pointy Fury’ – Increases spear combo attack efficiency by 150%.
      • ‘Poking Holes’ – The Ninja deals 28% more damage with spears to afflicted targets.
      • ‘Fan of Stars’ – The Ninja throws 2 additional throwing stars. All throwing stars are thrown instantly in a spreading arc.
    • New Support Perk
      • ‘Heaviest Attacks’ – Increases melee heavy attack damage by 10/20/30%
  • Outlander – New Subclass: Shock Gunner featuring characters Grizzly and Buzz
    • Description – Weaves in and out of enemies stunning them and finishing them off with close ranged weapons.
    • New Perks
      • ‘Pump It Up’ – Increases shotgun rate of fire by 35%.
      • ‘In and Outlander’ – Eliminating 3 enemies within 10 seconds after using Phase Shift will refund the Phase Shift charge.
      • ‘Shocking Embrace’ – Increases the duration of Shock Tower by 3 seconds if placed with a Charge Fragment.
      • ‘Run And Stun’ – Passing through enemies with Phase Shift applies a 3 seconds stun.
    • New Tactical Perk
      • ‘Shocking Embrace’ – Increases the duration of Shock Tower by 3 seconds if placed with a Charge Fragment.
  • Constructor – New Subclass: Demolitionist featuring Penny and Bull
    • Description – Explosives expert who corrals enemies with Decoy before finishing them with a hail of missiles.
    • New Perks
      • ‘Faster Explosions’ – Increases explosive weapon reload speed by 35%
      • ‘Enduring Machine’ –  Your weapons take 60% less durability damage while on tiles affected by BASE.
• Hero Abilities that lock the character’s movement can no longer be interrupted by knockback. The following abilities have been adjusted to use this new behaviour:
  • ‘Phase Shift’
  • ‘Shockwave’
  • ‘Bullrush’
  • ‘Dragonslash’
  • ‘Anti-Material Charge’
• We’ve changed how Energy-Reducing perks work in some cases in order to prevent them from reducing costs of activations to 0.
  • We now have perks which improve “Energy Efficiency” of certain actions (such as heavy attacks with melee weapons).
  • Energy Efficiency is expressed in a percentage format i.e. “Improves Energy Efficiency of Combo Attacks by 150%”.
  • The value represents the expected extra usage of the ability once the perk has been acquired.
  • Implementation has changed from a multiplier on cost to a divisor on cost.
    • I.e. – a 60% cost reduction on a 50 energy cost is analogous to a 150% increase in usage over 100 stamina.
• Outlander
  • ‘Phase Shift’ now passes through enemies by default.
  • ‘Phase Shift’ now inherits more forward velocity when used mid-air.
• Constructor
  • Adjustments to the ‘Decoy’ Ability :
    • Base duration reduced from 12 seconds to 7 seconds.
    • ‘Decoy’ can no longer be destroyed and will always last the full duration.
    • Reduced the duration increase of ‘Going and Going’ from 3 seconds to 2 seconds.
    • ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ Has been removed from these Subclasses:
      Controller, Sentinel, and Riot Control.
      • Controller now has ‘Decoy Stun’ Instead of ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’.
      • Sentinel now has ‘Grease the Wheels’ instead of ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’.
      • Riot Control now has ‘Going and Going’ instead of ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’.
• Ninja
  • Changed ‘Easy Sword’ from “Reduces sword combo attack energy cost by 60%.” to “Increases sword combo attack efficiency by 150%.”
  • Changed ‘Easier Sword’ from “Improves the energy cost reduction of ‘Easy Sword’ by another 20%.” to “Improves the energy efficiency of ‘Easy Sword’ by another 150%.”
  • ‘Shadow Stance’ now triggers off of all melee kills, not just edged weapons.
  • ‘Scythe To Meet You’s’ snare duration has been increased to 2 seconds from 1 second.
  • The sound effects for ‘Crescent Kick’ have been updated.
• Soldier
  • ‘Explosive Rounds’ timer no longer resets after 15 seconds without a kill.
  • ‘Goin’ Commando!!!’ now enters into a slight zoom when pressing the Targeting Input.

Bug Fixes

• ‘Shockwave’ no longer causes the Soldier to collide with enemies. This should prevent the “crowd surfing” behaviour seen when using ‘Shockwave’ on tightly packed groups of enemies.
• Fixed an issue with BASE’s tooltip showing incorrect segment extensions with Heavy BASE Kyle.
• Fixed an issue with ‘Overclocked’ Trap’s tooltip showing an incorrect value for decreased reload rate. The tooltip now reads correctly at 20%.
• Corrected an issue which was causing the Soldier Perk ‘Start Up’ to display incorrect values.
• Corrected a tooltip issue with certain perks that were not showing their Support or Tactical Bonuses:
  • ‘Sure Shot’
  • ‘Hit’em While They’re Down’
  • ‘Tough Traps’
  • ‘Bullet Bonanza’
  • ‘Vigorous Strikes’

Missions + Systems

• Blockbuster Event – Part 1: Origin Story
  • There are reports of a strange new husk lurking about harassing survivors and Ray has disappeared! Find out what has happened in the aftermath of the comet crash in this brand new questline.
  • Blockbuster Tickets can be found inside Upgrade and Daily Llamas, and earned by completing quests and defeating Miniboss mission alerts.
  • Blockbuster Llama is available in the Loot Tab
    • Contains at least one Epic Quality or Higher Military Weapon or ShadowOps Hero.
    • Costs 500 Blockbuster Tickets.
  • Completing the first week of quests rewards a choice of one Legendary Ranged Weapon (Bald Eagle, Silenced Specter, or Crossbow)
  • Repeatable Quest to kill a miniboss that awards 50 Gold
• Loot Llama Price Reduction!
  • V-Buck prices on several of the Loot Llamas have been reduced!
    • Upgrade Llama: 100 to 50
    • Weapon Llama: 350 to 200
    • Ranged Weapon Llama: 350 to 200
    • Melee Weapon Llama: 350 to 200
    • People Llama: 350 to 200
    • It’s a Trap Llama: 350 to 200
  • Bundles containing multiple Llamas have been reduced in price as well.
  • Players who have purchased these Llamas in the past will receive an equivalent value in free Troll Stash Llamas they can redeem in the Loot tab.
• Each stack of 1000 Storm Tickets will be converted into Neon Llamas.
  • Anyone who had at least one Storm Ticket will receive a Llama.
• Mini Llamas now drop 30 to 50 Gold, and drop an additional item if they become Silver.
• Gold no longer resets each season.
  • Seasonal Gold has been renamed to Gold as a result.
  • Gold caps at 5000. Gold above this cap will not be lost, but you will stop earning Gold until you have spent enough to drop below the cap.
• Mission Alerts:
  • Miniboss Mission Alerts are more common during this event and award between 50 and 120 Blockbuster Tickets, scaled based on difficulty.
    • These tickets are granted in addition to their normal rewards (schematics, transform keys, etc)
    • Quota: 10 per day.
  • Mutant Storm Mission Alerts have returned to normal levels and no longer reward event tickets.
    • Quota: 3 per day.
• The Upgraded Outlanders Mission Modifier no longer increases fragment capacity due to the recent change greatly increasing base fragment capacity. The Modifier still increases Outlander Ability Damage.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed reward chest having low resolution textures at the end of mission.
• Fixed crafting recipes for Neon Weapons to be correct for energy weapons.
• The chance for Impulse Grenades and Remote Explosive World Drops has been returned to normal (should now be equal to the M80).
• Harvest and collect quest items now drop no matter how the quest item was destroyed. Previously, players would have to make the destroying blow with their harvesting pickaxe. This now works the same way as Daily Destroy.

Weapons + Items

• Added the Military weapons set, available via Blockbuster Llamas:
  • Whisper 45: Silenced semi-auto pistol
  • Specter: Fully-automatic submachine gun with high rate of fire.
    • Epic and Legendary versions have a silencer.
  • Ground Pounder: Fast-firing and accurate semi-auto shotgun.
  • Crossbow: Sniper weapon that fires a projectile with no damage falloff.
  • Bald Eagle: Slow-firing heavy pistol with great damage and knockback.
    • Increased the damage and impact of the Bald Eagle by 30%.
• The following scoped sniper rifles no longer have damage fall off. Additionally, their range has been increased from 20 Tiles to 50 Tiles.
  • Auto Sniper Rifle
  • Extinguisher
  • Exterminator
  • Deathwing
  • Scoped Bullseye
  • Scoped Deadeye
  • One Shot
  • Heartbreaker
  • Hydraulic Sniper Rifle
  • Tsunami
  • Scavenger Sniper Rifle
  • Sunsetter
  • Scoped Wasp
  • Scoped Dragonfly
  • Burst Sniper
  • Triple Tap
  • Neon Sniper Rifle
  • Vindertech Sniper Rifle
  • Vindertech Jolter
  • Frostbite
• The following non-scoped sniper rifles range increased from 13 Tiles to 20 tiles:
  • Hunting Rifle
  • Lil’Bee
  • Stinger
  • Wasp
  • Dragonfly
  • Ralphie’s Revenge

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the +30% Weapon Damage when aiming down sights alteration was increasing Weapon Damage by 75%. The alteration now increases Weapon Damage by the correct amount.
• Added missing drop sound effects to many spear weapons.
• Fixed the evolution skill requirements for the Krypton Sword to use the correct skills; evolving the weapons now requires the Sword and Spear skill and not the Axe and Scythe Skill.
• All shotguns should now damage non-friendly environmental objects.
• Bald Eagle icon updated to be distinct from the Falcon pistol.

UI

• Purchasing multiple Llamas in the Loot tab now show the total cost.
• Adjusted the layout of Daily Reward items to include the item name.
• Weapon tooltips now show headshot damage.

Bug Fixes

• Reduced the rating number displayed for Group Missions at the victory screen and on the Objective tab in the menu.
  • This now matches the recommended rating of the mission rather than enemy level.
• Fixed a problem on the end-of-mission victory screen where the drone appears twice to beam players back to Homebase.
• Fixed an issue where the displayed Homebase Power Level was visually capped at level 132 when players’ actual power levels were higher.
• Leveling Up or Evolving something now says “Please Wait” instead of just disabling the button and appearing unresponsive.
• Recycle mode resulting materials panel can now be scrolled with a controller.
• Recycling Details modal dialog can now be scrolled if necessary.
• Fixed a case where the top menu bar would become unresponsive on PC.

Audio

• Volume decrease on the Exploration and Combat music to help the overall mix.

Source: Epic Games