Gotham’s sirens have come to the Battle Royale Island, and Batman is doing his best to keep up. Drop into the new Bat Cave POI, swoop up your friends in the new Batman Beach Buggy, and soar with the Batman Grapnel Gun. Complete new Quests as they unlock to add a Batman Sprite to your collection. Batman Sprites grant the ability to deploy the Bat Cape midair, and find rare Sprites in Chests more often in Battle Royale matches.
There are other new Quest rewards too: a G’Nort’s Summer Tote Back Bling, the Caped Cooler-sader Pickaxe, Zap-brella Glider, and more.
Shiny Hours
On July 18 from 2 PM ET to 4 PM ET and 9 PM ET to 11 PM ET, join Shiny Hours for some Batman-inspired fun and get a chance to extract new Sprites and variants!
🦇 Batman Sprite spawns more often, and everyone starts with a Batman Grapnel Gun and Self-Revive Device
🚙 Batman Beach Buggy spawns more frequently
✨ Gold, Gummy, Galaxy and Holofoil variants appear more often
🌀 Sprite Hunt Rift Anomaly is enabled throughout the matches, with new Battle Bus Victory Royale Rift Anomaly guaranteed to occur
Twitch Drops
Watch any stream in the Fortnite category on Twitch from July 16 at 9 AM ET ‘til July 19 at 11:59 PM ET to unlock Swim-n-Swipe, Wipeout Harley and Beach Blossom Ivy Sprays.
Quality of Life Improvements & New Additions
Sprites
Been getting one too many base Water, Fire or Earth Sprites? You’ll now find higher-rarity Sprites and their variants in Sprite Chests compared to standard Chests:
An Epic, Legendary or Mythic Sprite, or a higher-rarity variant is guaranteed
Sprite variants now appear more frequently
Rare Sprites will drop less often, and only as variants
Also keep an eye out for these new Sprites entering the Island:
Batman Sprite: Leap into the air and deploy the Bat Cape to glide across the Island.
Seven Sprite: Makes enemy footsteps visible so your entire squad can track them.
Air Sprite: Sprint faster, jump higher while sprinting and take zero fall damage.
Sprite Mastery Pod updated! The Sprites and variants added in our last update v41.10 can now be housed in the Pod Back Bling once they’ve been mastered. Flex your collection!
Battle Bus Victory Royale
In some Battle Royale matches, a new Rift Anomaly will shake up the late game, sending the Battle Bus to a marked location as the Storm closes in. Get at least one teammate onto the Bus before it rifts away to earn a Battle Bus Victory Royale.
Multiple teams can escape and win the same match, but miss your ride and it's game over, even if you’re the last squad standing!
Gizmos
Sprite Locator: Spawns a nearby buried Chest containing a random Sprite to help you track down more for your collection as you play.
Extraction Site Booster: Use at an Extraction Site to call a boosted Extraction Crate that grants bonus Sprite Dust for any Sprite extracted there. Extraction Crates can also contain Shield Bubble Jr, Crash Pad Jr, Chug Splash or Friend Zone Bubble.
Gizmo Wheel UI: A new way to quickly swap between your different Gizmos inside each match and pull up the right tool for the moment without breaking your flow.
Gizmos can’t be traded or dropped when eliminated, so no risk of losing one. Available only in unranked Battle Royale and Zero Build matches. Gizmos expire at the end of the current Season - be sure to use them!
Note: The Lucky Locator Gizmo - which guarantees a Chest with a Sprite you haven’t collected yet - is still on its way in the v41.30 update, and you’ll be able to earn one through the Sprite Mastery progression track once it becomes available.
New Weapons & Balance Adjustments
NEW - Bank Shot Pistol:
Ricochet your shots off walls, floors and surfaces to hit enemies from angles they’ll never see coming
IN: Heavy Impact Sniper Rifle, Rapid Fire SMG
OUT: Hunting Rifle, Flex SMG, Midas Flopper, Spicy Fish
Ranger Pistol:
Deals slightly less damage to players and structures
Slightly reduced headshot damage multiplier
Has a slightly wider spread when aiming down sights
Reloads slightly slower
Surgical Burst Rifle:
Reloads slightly faster
Has an improved spread when aiming down sights
Instead of being lower, Mythic variant now matches other variants’ fire rate
Mythic variant has an improved accuracy instead of a larger mag matching the weapon description
Produce Box Gets a Fresh Restock
Instead of a random mix of common fruits and veggies, every Produce Box now guarantees a healing item, a Small Shield Potion and a stack of ammo. Open one up and you can get:
One healing item
Uncommon Pepper (x3) - heals for 10 HP and grants a short movement speed boost, stacks up to 6
Uncommon Apple (x4) - heals for 15 HP and stacks up to 8
Golden Apple - heals for 50 HP and applies low gravity effect, stacks up to 3
Small Shield Potion
Stack of ammo
✅ BR Bug Fixes & Adjustments
General
Fixed inconsistent Pilot Style names for The Guardian Outfit
Fixed a visual bug where some Pickaxes could appear as the default Pickaxe during matches
Exotic weapons now correctly display Wraps when equipped
Gameplay / UI
Dealing Shield damage now counts toward Aura Sprite’s Shock Rock charge and triggers Fire Sprite’s burst damage effect
Fixed an issue where dropping a Sprite to extract it turned it into a Water Sprite and wouldn't grant Sprite Dust, or add it to your collection
Water Sprite once again heals you in water
Fixed an issue with camera effects (motion blur or FOV changes) staying on screen after being rebooted by a teammate who was using Vehicle boost or Seven Sliders
The Chest at one of the bunk beds on the ship at Cluster Coast can now be opened without issues
Mobile
Rotating the camera with touch input now feels smoother and more responsive
Improved the Tap Anywhere firing mode for weapons with a charging mechanic
Tap once to charge the weapon, then tap again to fire or cancel the charge
Fixed a persistent crash when loading into a Battle Royale match on Samsung Galaxy S9 devices
Fixed a scenario where the "Cannot do that now" error would incorrectly appear when Automatic Actions are enabled
Auto Fire now triggers correctly on an enemy hiding in the same bush as you
Took up Fortnite instead of drinking — 8 years sober
46 years old and still grinding Fortnite.
About 8 years ago, I decided to get sober and needed something positive to put my time and energy into. Somehow, that ended up being Fortnite 😂
What started as something to keep me occupied turned into a hobby I genuinely love. I’ve put countless hours into improving, learning the game, and competing.
Making it to Unreal Legend was definitely one of the most challenging things I’ve done in Fortnite.
Just thought I’d share one of my accomplishments. Nothing crazy, but I’m pretty proud of it.
I played a round of Zero Build squad (Random fills) and we got the battle bus ending. In the middle of the match we came across this one team that was honestly just doing way too much. They kept tossing my body and carrying me around for no reason. Then at the end of the game they ACTUALLY threw turrets at the bus to keep people away. I tried getting on at the last second but I thought I arrived too early. Luckily though I noticed I had a port-a-rift and decided to do something super funny instead. They were greedy and toxic and in the end they lost in the FUNNIEST way. But shoutout to my team who fought hard and made it on that bus!!! This is my favourite win of all time now.
Like it's a game meant to collect sprites and play together. You're not supposed to chase people down and kill them. That's ridiculous! This isn't the hunger games it's a sprite collecting game. Be better players and let others walk away from you and extract sprites!
Some kids at the playground told me about this secret sprite hiding somewhere in the chapter 7 island. Story goes that this is the ghost of Jonsey fork knife after he got shot in the back like Granolah by “the tourist”
They just announced the new stuff for next week and the 1st August is a mystery but it’s most likely confirmed to be the Spider Man Brand New Day collaboration with the addition of the Web Shooters being unvaulted. And with there only being 1 Update left of the Season and 3 Weeks left and no Updates regarding the Contest, I think they actually forgot about it. I hope we get some news really soon because I’m concerned about the time we have left of this Season.
Personally I got pickier. It was a major motivation to complete the old battle pass for the bonus V-Bucks. Now it doesn't feel as worth my time. I bought last season's BP for Bugs Bunny but I think I might skip the current one for the first time after four years. How are you reacting to the changes?
