Fortnite Battle Royale adds guided missile launcher
Ride the Redeemer
Epic Games today add to Fortnite Battle Royale a weapon I associate with the studio more than any other: a guided missile launcher. Find one of these and you'll be flying missiles around through a first-person camera like it's Unreal Tournament all over again. Heck, given that it's possible to ride rockets in Fortnite, I do hope you can also taxi pals around on top of rockets - a bit like ye olde Strangelove mod. Today's update also delivers lag improvements and the revamped return of the Sniper Shootout event mode.
The new guided missile launcher, as you'd expect, fires missiles you can take direct control of, flying to where you want to explode. Your Fortniter stands stock still so probably don't do it out in the open, though you can also abandon control at any time to have it fly straight on. The launcher is found with Epic and Legendary rarity in chests and supply drops.
My personal hope is that someone will figure out how to have two players riding atop each other's rockets, each flying the other around. I would like to see this.
As for Sniper Shootout v2, the limited event mode is returning with the revolver removed and hunting rifle and crossbow added. For a mode meant to be about sniping, revolvers did muck things up a bit.
Other stuff... netcode improvements mean all players get updates every tick, rather than 50 on one and 50 on the other, and other improvements mean the start of matches should be less laggy too. Epic say they've improved framerates when loads of players are nearby, and fixed the frame hitching when you get new certain cosmetics for the first time. The Boogie Bomb is re-enabled now a bug which let people carry stacks of weapons with it is fixed. Oh and, to celebrate Easter, the grenade launcher is now blasting out eggs.
See the v3.4 patch notes for the full scoop.
Over in Fortnite: Save The World, the crafty game that started all this, it sounds like Epic are removing some nuisances. Sprinting no longer costs energy, crafting stacks are up from 99 to 200, trap stacks from 20 to 200, searching containers is quicker, dying and resurrecting no longer reduce weapon durability... less nuisance. It has a special Easter event too.
Fortnite Battle Royale is free-to-play through Epic's client. Fortnite: Save The World still costs money while it's in early access.
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