3.3 Patch Notes

Top o’ the mornin!
The battle is really BOOM-ing with Battle Royale’s latest weapon… Remote Explosives! Save the World’s Spring it On! event sees the addition of a new, lucky questline and gains a new Hero who’s as green as a four-leafed clover.
One more thing… Fortnite Battle Royale is coming to Mobile! We couldn’t be more excited to bring the game you all love to your hand-held devices. Head to fortnite.com/mobile for more details.

#### Remote Explosives (Battle Royale)

Topple fortresses at the click of a button.

#### Supply Llama (Battle Royale)

Find loot in the most unexpected of places. The Supply Llama has joined the battle.

#### Luck of the Storm Questline (Save the World)

Uncover treacherous treasures, track mythical creatures, and brave springtime shenanigans in ‘Luck of the Storm’!

#### Shamrock Reclaimer Outlander (Save the World)

Charge your abilities by defeating enemies and be the lucky charm we’ve always needed!

### General

* Wondering what’s happening with Fortnite? Find real-time info via the Epic Games Status Page here.

#### Bug Fixes

* Improved server performance and reduced bandwidth usage when players are jumping.
* Korean, Japanese, and Chinese languages will display properly in the UI when changing languages while playing the game.

### Known Issues

* Wanting to track the top community issues? Head over to our snazzy new Fortnite | Community Issues Trello board here.

## Battle Royale

### Fortnite Battle Royale announced for Mobile!

* Click here to sign-up for the Invite Event on iOS.

### Weapons + Items

* Tactical Shotgun rarity demoted from Uncommon, Rare and Epic to Common, Uncommon and Rare.
* Supply Llama added.
	+ Extremely rare - only 3 created per match.
	+ Location is chosen at random.
	+ Opened like a treasure chest. Contains:
		- 500 Wood, Stone, Metal.
		- 10 stacks of each ammo type.
		- 3 Traps and consumables.
* Remote Explosives added.
	+ Rare rarity.
	+ Found in Supply Llamas, Treasure Chests, Floor Loot or Supply Drops.
	+ Stacks of 4 (Max of 10).
* Smoke Grenade has been vaulted.

#### Bug Fixes

* Updated the ‘No Scope Hunting Rifle’ name to simply be ‘Hunting Rifle’.
* Fixed missing environmental impact FX on Hunting Rifle projectiles.

### Gameplay

* Limited Time Mode: Blitz
* NOTE: This mode will be enabled on 3/19.
	+ Blitz has much shorter storm times resulting in faster & more intense matches!
		- Maximum match length is 15 minutes.
	+ The match will start with the storm circle already closing in over the island.
	+ Adjustments to loot availability:
		- Increased chances of treasure chests spawning from 50-70% to 80-90%.
		- Increased chances of ammo boxes spawning from 65-80% to 85-95%.
		- Floor Loot spawns nearly 100% of the time.
		- Supply Drop spawn interval lessened from 180s (+/- 30s) to 80s (+/- 20s).
		- Supply Drop descent time shortened from 60s to 30s.
		- Launchpad spawn likelihood greatly increased.
	+ Harvesting resources doubled.
	+ Resources found in loot increased from 30 to 100.
* Treasure chest health increased from 200 to 500.
* Ammo box health increased from 120 to 250.

#### Bug Fixes

* Fixed an issue causing the unintentional rotation of stairs.
* Fixed an issue causing an eliminated player’s collision to stick around temporarily, making it difficult to pick-up their dropped items.

### UI

#### Bug Fixes

* Fixed the News window not displaying once you select Battle Royale.
* Fixed a bug that sometimes made characters appear with the wrong orientation when previewing items in the front end menu.

### Art/Animation

* Updated the circular bullet impact FX so that they help indicate the direction the shot came from.

### Audio

#### Bug Fixes

* Fixed gunshot sound stuttering that would occur when firing an automatic weapon at low ammo counts.
* Fixed issue that caused gunfire and other sounds to play at louder volume than usual.

### Performance

* Optimized shield effects on players to improve overall frame rate.

## Save the World

This patch includes a reversion of the Critical Chance re-balance done in the v3.2 update, and a pass to fix bugs and balance problems with the stat caps.

### Gameplay

* Next chapter of Spring it On! unlocks - ‘Luck of the Storm’.
	+ Battle lucky Husks, uncover treacherous treasures, track mythical spokescreatures, and brave springtime storm shenanigans!
	+ Quest rewards include an Epic Leprechaun Survivor + your choice of one of three Legendary St. Patrick’s themed Heroes:
		- Luck Demolisher Wildcat
		- Highland Warrior Wildcat
		- Battle Hound Jonesy
* Rebalanced Stat Caps.
	+ Party shared F.O.R.T. stat caps have been reverted to their old balance relative to the personal F.O.R.T. stat caps.
		- One high-level friend can share enough F.O.R.T. stats to boost your duo to the 4-player balance point, if they are far enough above your level.
	+ F.O.R.T. stat caps in Stonewood have been reverted to the end-of-zone threshold.
	+ F.O.R.T. stat caps have increased across the other three locations.
		- They begin being offset upwards in mid-Plankerton, and this offset increases at higher difficulties.
		- These caps are now at or above the caps present at launch:
			* In the top 2 difficulties of Plankerton.
			* In the top 3 difficulties of Canny Valley.
			* In the top 4 difficulties of Twine Peaks.
	+ Weapon level caps have been increased to match character level caps.
		- Increased starting cap from 12 to 20.
		- Caps increase in increments of 10 until they reach 50.
	+ The points where Weapon and Character level caps increase has been moved a few difficulties earlier.
* Set base Weapon Skill to 50 for all heroes.
	+ This allows low-level players to effectively use high-level guns while playing in high-level areas.
	+ As a result of this change the Weapon Skill skill tree nodes no longer function. We will replace or remove these nodes in a future patch.

#### Bug Fixes

* Stat caps for Storm Shield Defenses were lower than intended and have been raised to their intended levels (equivalent to end-of-zone missions).

### Weapons + Items

* Critical Chance weapon and trap perks increased from ~~11.5% / 16.5% / 21%~~ to **14% / 21% / 28%**.
	+ This reverts the change made to Critical Chance in the v3.2 patch.

### Heroes

* Shamrock Reclaimer Outlander is available in the Event Store.

#### Bug Fixes

* The Outlander subclass Flash now unlocks Loot Llama at level 1 and ‘Phase Shift’ at level 2.
* Fixed issue stopping Flash Eagle Eye and Flash A.C.'s abilities and traps from scaling with Tech.
* Fixed issue stopping Flash Eagle Eye and Flash A.C. from interacting with Fragments at level 1.
* The Speed Boost Pad no longer grants Utility for every activation.

### Audio

* Added sound for adding item to storage locker.
* Added sounds for clicking items in the Collection Book.