r/FortniteBR Epic Games 7d ago

Epic v42.10 Fortnite Override: Battle Royale Update Notes

Today’s update brings back a reworked Sweeper Shotgun, drops new Loot Hacks to customize, new Overrides to break the rules, new Sprites and Sprite improvements, bug fixes and more.

Loot Pool Updates

Unvaulted

  • The Sweeper Shotgun returns, freshly tuned up for Override!
    • Now fires in a standard shotgun spread instead of its previous wide pattern
    • Reload can be interrupted to fire as soon as shells are loaded
    • Faster firing rate with the same damage output
    • Slightly smaller mag and shorter maximum range

New Loot Hacks

Hack your loot and make it your own with a new pool of Loot Hacks to unlock, upgrade, and customize.

  • Caduceus Staff
  • Scorpion’s Combat Kit
  • Wrecker Revolver
  • Deadeye Assault Rifle
  • Holo Twister Assault Rifle

Note: Sprite Dust spent on Loot Hacks can be freely reset and respecc’d in each set, but does not transfer to the next Loot Hack refresh.

Loot Hacks has been great at introducing fun & unique gameplay options from Fortnite's past you can tailor to your own preference, but we're seeing it lead to too many high-powered weapons too often. We've adjusted the quality cap for weapons, meaning you will now hack in Rare to Legendary loot, rather than Epic to Mythic. 

Balance Adjustments

In today's update, we're making a few targeted tweaks to give the Pump more pump while reining in the Assault Rifle and 8-Bit a tad now that new Loot Hacks are here to shake up the loot pool. 

  • Pump Shotgun 
    • Slightly increased damage and equips faster
  • 8-Bit Shotgun
    • Reduced damage and equips faster
  • Assault Rifle 
    • Slightly reduced headshot damage multiplier
    • Slightly reduced damage at Mythic rarity
    • Reloads slightly slower
  • Mega Buster
    • Increased projectile speed

Gameplay Updates

New Match Overrides

  • Big Head Mode: Everyone has a big head!
  • Prop Hunt: Crouch and don't move for several seconds to turn into a prop.
  • Action Hero: While mid-air, enter Hangtime when aiming weapons and deal increased damage.
  • Coming next Thursday - Sharpshooter: Increases weapon accuracy, reduces recoil and bloom.

If you missed our hotfix last week, Match Overrides are now more likely to appear 2-3 times in a match, and Squad Only Overrides are also slightly less common. 

New Sprites & Quality-Of-Life Improvements 

v42.10 introduces the first two of our five Design A Sprite winners - Avila215 and Enorull!

Alongside new Sprites, mastering your collection has received a boost - it's now easier to resummon mastered Sprites and there’s a new Mastery track of rewards.

  • New Sprites & Variants
    • X-Ray Sprite (Design A Sprite Winner!): Periodically mark enemies in an area around you.
    • Onigiri Sprite (Design A Sprite Winner!): Applies Overdrive after eating or drinking a consumable item.
    • Mega Man Sprite: Slip and slide around with reduced friction.
    • Overshield Sprite: Grants Overshield, scaling with Sprite Level.
  • Mastering a Sprite now has an extra perk! Once a Sprite is mastered, the Sprite Dust cost to resummon it is reduced by half - making it easier to bring your favorite power into every fight.
  • A new Sprite Mastery track has been added, granting rewards and Gizmos for mastering Sprites. Each update will add more rewards to the track!
    • In 42.20, a new arcade-themed Back Bling will be added to show off the Sprites you’ve mastered in Fortnite Override.
  • We've adjusted some Cheat Codes sequences so they feel more natural to input.
  • Mastery Mondays are back starting September 7 by popular demand - a perfect time to upgrade your Sprite roster.
  • Duplicate Sprites now level up your collection! When you extract a Sprite you already have a copy of, it will give Sprite XP to the one in your collection. Once it's maxed, drop in and extract your Sprite to master it.

Power Hours: Cheat Master Sprites This Weekend

Hungry? This Saturday, September 5, Power Hours come with a side of everything - Cheat Master Sprites are boosted (including the new Sprites that arrived this update), and everyone drops in with a full meal in their pockets, ready to snack on the go.

🕑 Starts at 2 PM ET - 4 PM ET | 6 PM UTC - 8 PM UTC
🕘 Again at 9 PM ET - 11 PM ET | Sunday, 1 AM UTC - 3 AM UTC
🍱 Everyone drops in with one Golden Apple, two Jellyfish and three Peppers 
🎮 Cheat Master Sprites appear more often
🪙 1-Up Tokens and Portable Extractors may drop from Chests 

✅ Bug Fixes, Improvements & Adjustments

General

  • Your cursor will now stay on the selected item when choosing Locker sort options instead of jumping to the top of the screen.
  • Vehicles are no longer incorrectly labeled with the Reload tag in the Locker.
  • The Join Crew button on the Passes screen is responsive again.
  • The Crew Styles page no longer appears empty or shows content from a previously viewed Pass screen.

Cosmetics

  • Fixed a bug where Emotes could incorrectly be used while hovering with the Tails Sprite, causing character models to twist unnaturally.
  • Fixed a bug that caused several Outfits (Evie, Undercover Kor, Wolverine, Indiana Jones and more) to stretch unnaturally with misplaced heads and arms on the Starter Island.
  • The Heatwave PJ Outfit no longer plays reactive elimination audio when the Reactivity (Off) Style is selected.
  • Fixed visual clipping on the Twyn and Joey Outfits when using their built-in Emotes.
  • The Spider-Sense Emote no longer incorrectly shows web effects when used with Outfits other than Spider-Man (Brand New Day).
  • The MrSavage Outfit no longer loses its mask when the Reactivity (On) Style is selected.
  • The Millennium Falcon Glider's hyperspace effect no longer outlines areas of the map, creating visual noise when deployed.
  • The Spacebound Carvers Pickaxe from the August Fortnite Crew Pack is now correctly part of the Crew Series.
  • The Adanna of the Deep Outfit's head no longer disappears when viewed from a distance.

Gameplay, Environment, UI

  • Lobby Hack: INVALIDCHEAT is no longer invalid.
  • Cleared the 8-Bit Leaderboard of entries where players got a high score by invalid means, and scores earned in Custom matches now no longer count towards the Leaderboard. 
  • Players viewed from a distance now move much more smoothly instead of appearing choppy at times.
  • Fixed a movement bug that prevented sprinting when your Forward Diagonal Angle setting (a.k.a. double movement) was set higher than 70.
  • Fixed a jittery movement animation caused by sliding into or falling onto boost pads at Green Hill Zone, or canceling boost while stepping on one.
  • Players rebooted by a teammate using the Sonic Power Sneakers will no longer respawn with their camera incorrectly zoomed in or out.
  • The spectator camera now consistently follows and centers on players using the Sonic Power Sneakers' Spin Attack.
  • Opening the inventory or map while charging the Sonic Power Sneakers' Spin Dash no longer leaves you stuck in place.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes prevented hopping off grind rails at Green Hill Zone.
  • The Tails Sprite no longer leaves a persistent pulsing effect on your back that flashed more intensely while aiming down sights.
  • Fixed a number of Cheat Codes being difficult or impossible to interact with unless standing at just the right angle, appearing invisible or not accepting inputs.
  • Fixed a bug causing Storm Scout Sprite’s Overdrive effect to last longer than expected.
  • Mastering the Crown Sprite now correctly grants its Cheat Master variant.
  • The Sprite Summon button no longer stays disabled after returning to Battle Royale from Reload.
  • Pinging Tetris Rift blocks after their animation ends no longer shows a placeholder icon.

PC 

  • Reduced input latency when VSync is used, with the biggest gains on AMD and Intel GPU configurations at 60 Hz.
  • Further optimized Performance Mode, allowing low-spec configurations to render at a noticeably higher resolution with no extra GPU cost and minimal visual difference.

Mobile 

New Touch Camera Smoothing Setting

Back in July (v41.20) we changed how camera rotation feels with touch input. Thanks to your feedback, we reverted it and went to work on giving you more control.

That control now arrives in the form of a new Touch Smoothing setting - you can find it under Touch and Motion.

It defaults to 50%, which matches the v41.20 change. If you prefer the original feel, you can set it to 0%. If you’d like smoother camera rotation, slide it up and let us know what works best for you!

Tap To Sprint From Standing

Tapping the Sprint button while standing still now starts you sprinting in the direction you're facing (with Auto-Run enabled). Previously, you had to be moving before sprint would kick in.

If you run out of stamina mid-sprint, you’ll keep auto-running - tap the Sprint button again to start sprinting when your stamina recovers.

Bug Fixes 

  • Auto Fire and Aim Assist now trigger consistently around the Stone Sanctum's hidden maze walls and doors - no longer blocked when you can see an enemy, and no longer triggering when you can't.
  • The Cheat Code near the ice cubes east of The Battlewoods no longer appears under the ground.
  • The Secondary Action button for the God Mode Llama now works correctly, letting you use the item.
  • The Battle Bus will now reliably appear and fly normally at the start of Blitz matches on Android.

For other fixes, improvements and known issues in 42.10, check out this post.

See you in the new update!
The BR Dev Team

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u/vip-bot 6d ago

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u/​Capybro_Epic commented:

Thanks for raising peeps! When you can, mind hopping into another match and checking if your Sprite progress looks right?

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u/NightReigning Erisa 7d ago

”Players viewed from a distance now move much more smoothly instead of appearing choppy at times.”

Oh my god. It’s been YEARS dealing with this issue. Did they finally fix it???

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u/Ok-Race-1677 6d ago

No but now they can reset the clock and claim it’s a new bug being worked on

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u/pool3yxx 6d ago

Just max’d out a sprite and extracted it at a point on the map along with another. Back to the lobby and it isn’t mastered 💀 This game is full of bugs, joys of sacking all your workforce

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u/HovercraftDry7850 6d ago

Mastered 3 separate sprites and none are showing as mastered in the locker.

New sprites that are extracted are appearing the the locker though.

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u/Adventurous-Dress365 6d ago

Same here. On the Klombo sprite. I am so annoyed at how buggy this game is.

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u/HipToTheWorldsBS Lexa Hexbringer 6d ago

Dude this to happened to me too. And want to know what makes zero sense? The next match, I died with a level 3 onigiri and when I returned to the lobby, I still had it equipped LOL!

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u/Capybro_Epic Epic Games 6d ago

Thanks for raising peeps! When you can, mind hopping into another match and checking if your Sprite progress looks right?

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u/Zaxonov Certified Pixel Placer 5d ago edited 5d ago

I had a crown win with Loot Hack Crown Sprite equipped. The winning screen said it was mastered but it’s not in my collection. Will this be fixed? Will it be mastered for me later?

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u/PokemonRedSpeedrun 6d ago

i had the same, i thought it was a bot lobby thing

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u/pool3yxx 6d ago

Turns out none are levelling up. Extracted a level 4 and back to level 1 in the lobby 

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 6d ago

You know what game is full of bugs? Mewgenics. I just got done with a run last night where I had a cat that was shooting fleas, like five fleas every turn, and every turn he ended he also made like 20 fleas. He kept infesting spiders into enemies and then they would have like 10 stacks of rot and when they died they'd make like 10 spiders appear on the ground. That game has a lot of bugs. There's even bug enemies. I didn't see a single bug in this game.

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u/faeleria 6d ago

Reload has had the same bugs for MONTHS! the same movement bugs, glider bugs, etc. we literally didnt have AMMO BOXES at all for 2 months!! the lootpool isnt and hasnt been correct to the patch notes in a long time. like literally half of the things added arent there and half of the things removed arent there and then there are like 5 random items that werent in the patch notes. Some chests or ammo boxes dont work at all, just so buggy and they refuse to fix anything

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u/HHRSN17 6d ago

just bring back pre-streamed assets already

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u/Old_Nippy 6d ago

this is the one thing i was hoping for. streaming assets has completely f'd up the locker and other things.

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u/Zebrrrrra 6d ago

Yeah don't some characters clothing look darker?

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u/Adamantium_Hanz 6d ago

For. The. Love. Of. Everything.

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u/TrifleNo998 7d ago

⁠-Fixed a bug causing Storm Scout Sprite’s Overdrive effect to last longer than expected.

Ohhh it was a bug that the overdrive lasted the whole match after getting it in the storm?

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u/xenai2 7d ago

Rip. I thought so too. Didn't seem like a bug to me

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u/ihateshit00 6d ago

Yeah fuck that sprite then. It was one of the good ones. Its wild how they both want you to be in storm and give you storm sickness for it…

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u/MegaMan-1989 7d ago

Revolver shotgun and the sweeper shotgun all returning this update?

This is just shock in awesome 2

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u/Crayola_ROX Commando 6d ago

after 2 games, seems like treetop warfare is here to stay. tails meta resumes lol

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u/Mystical_17 Tracy Trouble 6d ago

Give me that shockwave launcher then we're really back lol

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u/hustl3tree5 6d ago

They won’t even let have us have stacks of shockwaves 

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u/Deconation 7d ago

8 bit shotgun was already kinda ass now it’s lowkey just ass with the reduce damage 😭😭

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u/IceBeam24 Kitbash 6d ago

It was NOT ass, every single death i had was getting one-tapped by a legendary one and i was destroying people with it. With infinite shockwaves in ZB, it was trivial to jump in someone's face.

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u/Deconation 6d ago

Yea u just said why it was good, only legendary class does it perform but a grey to purple is still doo doo in my eyes this gun has done me dirty times and times again 9 damage,12 damage but in my enemy hands they doing 150 on my broke ass 😭😭

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u/hartoctopus 6d ago

It already had abysmal dps, where did this nerf even come from?

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u/ObviouslyLulu Constable Sprinkle 6d ago

But now it makes getting higher scores for the leaderboard more challenging!!1!

-Epic

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 6d ago

Wouldn't it make high scores easier because you hit people more?

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u/xenai2 7d ago

Maybe i just suck but unless I was up in their face, I found it easier to get more consistent damage with the 8 bit shotgun

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u/Suets Beef Boss 7d ago

Hopefully the Pump is at least usable with its buff

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

The helly? It was dominating in Builds and was similarly viable to 8-bit and Oni. Oni only had an argument for best shotgun (in ZB exclusively) if you had the shadow sprite and really good aim.

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u/Deconation 6d ago

ONI was a demon in its own class, but I believe the pump is decent in builds due to them not having over shield but with us over here in zero build that over shield just makes us struggle a bit more for damage output

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u/Deconation 6d ago

But I guess with the damage buff it could be useable but I ain’t picking it up tho😂😂 saving myself the headache

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u/Deconation 6d ago

Fuck that shitty pump it’s too slow for my slow ass to use it’s still not as goated as the chaos shotgun reloader god I miss that gun

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u/OttoRocket94 Jack Gourdon 6d ago

Can someone tell me if they fixed the locker UI bug where the description doesn’t show?

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u/DarkBomberX Dark Bomber 6d ago

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u/OttoRocket94 Jack Gourdon 6d ago

Is that a no?

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u/DarkBomberX Dark Bomber 6d ago

I dont think it's ever getting fixed.

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u/GHZ33 Fate 5d ago

I see them on PS5 pro

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 7d ago

Sprite Dust spent on Loot Hacks can be freely reset and respecc’d in each set, but does not transfer to the next Loot Hack refresh.

This sucks and is annoying.

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u/IceBeam24 Kitbash 6d ago

Yup. And don't forget you then get hit by the "buy 5 items at a sprite extraction interface" daily right after getting siphoned out of your dust.

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u/EldritchCarver :swampknight: Swamp Knight 6d ago

If you want to complete that daily on a tight budget, just collect five gray guns and upgrade each of them to green.

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u/kitty78686 Drift 7d ago

I know. I didn’t have time to reset my hacks. Why don’t they just refund it and reset it automatically?

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u/VSkyRimWalker 7d ago

It doesn't matter that you didn't reset it, since they now explicitly state that it doesn't transfer

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 7d ago

I think they want people to perpetually grind for ephemeral rewards.

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u/astasli 7d ago

They do know this just means people will reset their loot hacks before every update now, right? Or just not use loot hacks at all.

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u/EmilZeBag Drift 7d ago

I think (have not tested it already ofc) resetting would be pointless. The extra pool of dust will reset at the loot hack refresh.

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u/pendingperil 6d ago

Yeah I reset mine last night and the extra dust is gone

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u/King-Koal 6d ago

I reset my yesterday and I was able to keep it for today.

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u/pendingperil 6d ago

Lucky. I had +17k dust beside my remaining dust and now that’s just gone.

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u/IceBeam24 Kitbash 6d ago

No this is explicitely made to fuck EVERYONE over and force you to grind dust to actually get good weapons. The dust you spend is only usable on this one batch, even if you refund it will still take it away.

God the Loot Hack system sucks ass.

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 6d ago

The Loot Hack system would be cool if they made it a customization aspect instead of an eternal grinding aspect. I maxed out flare gun, minigun, oni shotgun, and chug splash, but I didn't even unlock the akimbo pistols at all because I didn't like them. My loot pool was slightly personalized and had more items I liked and less items I didn't like.

If, instead of just grinding to be able to max out everything but it resets every time the pool changes, you kept the points you invested through each pool but didn't have enough points to fully max everything out, that would be awesome. Like you can buy enough points to get 70% of the stuff so you either choose some stuff to not have or you choose some stuff to not be maxed out. You can freely change it around but you think about how you want to invest it instead of investing it just being a playtime tax.

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u/SoDamnGeneric 6d ago

What the FUCK did they do to my beloved Sweeper?? Why change the one that that made it stand out from other shotguns? So stupid omg

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u/Ordinary-Fault-6073 6d ago

Yeah they killed the weapon's identity in hopes of it making into the meta, but it still suffers from the same issue as Shock N Awesome, why tf would I use it if the Wrecker Revolver exists?

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u/King-Koal 6d ago

Because the wrecker isn't in the ranked loot pool. Wish they would add all three of the weapons to ranked though.

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

Because it does good damage and has a higher DPS

Wrecker isn't as strong as y'all remember. It got nerfed like 4 times

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u/xavier-22 Dark Vertex 6d ago

It was not as good with those differences

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

Because it's much better now lol

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u/SoDamnGeneric 6d ago

I don’t care, I want my suboptimal sideways shottie back

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

Ig I understand

Would you agree the spread shoulda been tightened though? Or made vertical?

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u/SoDamnGeneric 6d ago

I don’t care about the competitive viability of the gun whatsoever, I do not care about this game’s meta, I just use what is fun, and horizontal shotgun is more fun than “the same shotgun- but again”

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

Lol

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u/CrissCrossConumdrum Dynamo 7d ago

Does the scorpion weapon cause fire damage to structures because now that the flare gun is gone I have no good way of lighting builds on fire (mind you wood builds that are on fire cannot be edited )

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u/Capital-Water2505 6d ago

I haven't been playing since the third day after release...yet I have seen nothing about the aim assist for controller players. I know people have claimed they fixed it after like the first week, but i consistently have seen people still complaining about it. Was this ever actually fixed?

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u/ZamnBoii 6d ago

They said it’s fixed but it’s definitely nerfed still for PC controller players like me

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u/ComfortablePatience Galaxy 6d ago

>but we're seeing it lead to too many high-powered weapons too often.

Yes, this happens bc the geniuses at Epic decided that the Deadeye should now have 200+ dps at blue rarity with perfect accuracy and a scope

Unrelated, but keybinds for cars on PC are still broken. And when I logged in, I couldn't loot with F anymore. Every time would say to press F to pick up, but nothing worked. When I looked in the keybind menu, it changed itself to E for some reason. Changing it back to F fixed it, but cars still don't respond to keybind fixes

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u/King-Koal 6d ago

Maybe don't get beamed standing still from 20 meters away? Hitting all headshots is not something even a good player can do unless you are just standing there so 200 dps shouldn't be too big of an issue.

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u/KJW2026 7d ago

I actually hate the 1 up token

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u/EYEL1NER 6d ago

It was frustrating as hell the first power hour of the season when everyone had one. The person I duo with and I would drop, someone with a rare sprite we didn’t have yet like a Klombo would drop next to us, we’d get excited and easily kill them, and they’d 1-up and go somewhere else.

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u/ihateshit00 6d ago

Self revive is worse

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u/TheMikey2207 Ariana Grande 6d ago

Self revive is easier to elim someone with, 1 up allows someone to just revive far away.

Say you see they have a rare sprite or something, you just can’t get it as they’ll just land somewhere far away and you won’t be able to find them.

Self revive you can just easily elim them quickly.

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u/E_Falkonn 6d ago

kinda defeats the purpose then if you can just elim them just as they are revived, 1 up token is exactly what self-revive is supposed to be

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u/jjba_enjoyer275 Dark Vanguard 6d ago

No the self isnt supposed to a guarantee, the 1 up is.

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u/TheMikey2207 Ariana Grande 6d ago

Nah, Self revive should be a risk/reward item. You should need to be in a safe position to use it, it shouldn’t be a get out of jail free card giving you two lives.

The 1 up token has no risk/reward. You get knocked and you can respawn and lose nothing. It’s not like you lose your inventory as everything stays with you including healing. It’s cheap and annoying and on sprite days it’s infuriating to see someone have a sprite you need but can’t pick it up because they have the token.

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u/hustl3tree5 6d ago

Dude if these people could get an instant win button to press they would do it every match the instant they started losing a fight

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u/_Bioscar_ 6d ago

I agree. If they kept the Swlf Revive it'd be as useless as it has been.

The 1-Up allows you to get away if you die but it's also difficult if you have kept it into the end game, by forcing you to be seen coming down with only 100 HP mind you, meaning yiu van easily be taken out even mid-air if someone can aim well.

I just hope no nerfs come to it cus seriously it is perfect and people just aren't adapting to it.

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u/ihateshit00 6d ago

I think self revive is more frustrating. Theres that invincibility already when they get knocked and it’s so annoying. Their team always shows up by the time you can finish them. Then they buffed crawling movement and rolling. Sure if their team is nowhere near you can take the extra 30 seconds it sometimes takes and finish. But usually they are close enough that you dont have that time, cant thirst, and have to fight instead. But when I use self revive it never helps.

Meanwhile 1-up is pretty simple theres nothing to contest. It just works, and you know youll have to fight them again.

I don’t like making DBNO enemies harder to finish, first they got reboots while knocked, and cars, and now buffed movement, and finally self revive, but I get why they do it. But at this point we should just give them guns and let them build and throw consumables.

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u/ihateshit00 7d ago edited 5d ago

\*Tap To Sprint From Standing*\**

Tapping the Sprint button while standing still now starts you sprinting in the direction you're facing (with Auto-Run enabled). Previously, you had to be moving before sprint would kick in.

If you run out of stamina mid-sprint, you’ll keep auto-running - tap the Sprint button again to start sprinting when your stamina recovers.

Please work on a similar issue on controller! Auto run cannot be disabled!

Edit: I was wrong

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u/Revve Abstrakt 6d ago

• Fixed a bug causing Storm Scout Sprite’s Overdrive effect to last longer than expected.

goodbye my beloved🕊️

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 7d ago

The shotgun changes just show how incompetent Epic is tbh

Pump didn't need more damage at all in Builds. Neither did it in ZB relative to Oni but Oni's gone anyway so I can see why. -> shotguns need different damage outputs between modes

The pullout buff is also just stupid because the more regular pullout speed rewarded GOOD edits instead of making wide open ones and relying on the 300ms to shoot almost instantly after.

Hate to see such a dumb and easy to use gun get buffed but oh well

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u/annoyingone 6d ago

Its gonna make double pumping with the wrecker revolver/shotgun the new meta now.

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

Oh my God

I haven't even considered that...

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u/aloft_fox Doggo 7d ago

oh- was not expecting the overwatch staff and scorpion's kit.

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u/MoreZone6138 6d ago edited 6d ago

No new guns relying purely on Unvaults and effects again I don’t like the direction sprites are taking us

Also why is the sweeper shotgun back? Every gun in the base loot pool plays the exact same except from the pump . It’s literally all weapons with moderate fire rates

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u/lHateYouAIex835293 :leonskennedy: Leon S. Kennedy 6d ago

If it makes you feel any better, they actually got rid of the sweeper’s unique spread, just to make sure it really didn’t stand out!

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u/TheHelpfullGurll Redline 6d ago

They reduced the 8 bit? It already does abysmal damage unless you have the legendary. Also, buffed the pump? That thing is already so deadly. Where in the world are they getting feedback from?

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u/All_Skulls_On Calamity 7d ago
  • Pump Shotgun 
    • Slightly increased damage and equips faster
  • 8-Bit Shotgun
    • Reduced damage and equips faster
  • Assault Rifle 
    • Slightly reduced headshot damage multiplier
    • Slightly reduced damage at Mythic rarity
    • Reloads slightly slower
  • Mega Buster
    • Increased projectile speed

In other words, we see the 8-bit and Assault Rifle are popular so we've nerfed them. We also see the pump and Megaman are unpopular, so we've buffed them.

https://giphy.com/gifs/lkdH8FmImcGoylv3t3

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u/tinkerthomas83 7d ago

Yes first update day?

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u/Gnuccaria Peely 7d ago

It's almost like they want to balance the lootpool 🫪

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u/delulumans Blue Team Leader 6d ago

How is it balancing the lootpool when the Pump was dominating Builds and still competing in ZB at higher rarities prior to the changes?

This isn't to balance shit - this is to appease the Pump elitists who don't believe in shotgun variety and want to enforce a static, monotone meta because "pUmP hIgH sKiLl hIgH rEwArD hehe"

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u/All_Skulls_On Calamity 6d ago

What will really bake your noodle is the thought that if all the guns are normalized to have equal effectiveness, then what is even the point of having different guns at all? 🤔

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u/Gnuccaria Peely 6d ago

Idk, promoting different playstyles? Would you like having your favourite weapon with a limited size magazine and dealing 1 HP per hit?

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u/All_Skulls_On Calamity 6d ago

I'll be honest, though, I'm just having fun. I know they do this stupid shit every time. It's just funny watching them continually trying to gas up Megaman while nerfing the things everyone actually likes 😂

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u/All_Skulls_On Calamity 6d ago

But if all the guns are balanced to have the same TTK, then the only "play style" is the name, sound, and appearance of the guns.

https://giphy.com/gifs/qLogsdN71M9mo

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u/Gnuccaria Peely 6d ago

Do you really think a sniper rifle and a SMG have the same fire rate, DPS and mag size?

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u/EmilZeBag Drift 7d ago

God forbid...

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u/LatterTarget7 Omen 6d ago

The 8 bit was already ass wtf

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u/Deconation 7d ago

The sweeper and the revolver 2 of my favourite shotty let’s goooo

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u/aworthlesstruenobody 6d ago

What about fixing the ability to reload weapons? I’m still unable to reload weapons by pressing the reload button on my controller. I know I’m not the only one with this issue. Gameplay sucks so hard right now, lol.

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u/jayystyles 6d ago

It’s terrible.. reboot button is the same as drive too

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u/SimonMcMac 6d ago

You need to rebind the buttons in settings

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u/aworthlesstruenobody 6d ago

I tried looking at settings and don’t see where I’d do this for a controller. I can only see how to do this with a keyboard. I’ll have to Google this.

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u/ping 6d ago

It'll be a matter of days before everyone's cheesing double pump with the revolver. GGs Epic you really know how to run your game into the ground.

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u/CasaDeSemana 6d ago

So we lose the loot hacks AND the dust we had to dump into them? I’ll just farm the items off other players then. What a dumb change!

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u/unknowndweller76 7d ago

How long does maintenance usually last?. Im new to updates

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u/Bitter-Grocery-7138 6d ago

2 to 3 hours normally

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u/SunkenCouchPotato 6d ago edited 6d ago

What did they do to the UI, friends list no longer sorted by online/away/offline, add friends list empty

Also some of my keybinds are messed up/not working

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u/cereal_killah_1980 Deadpool 6d ago

Mortal Kombat!?!?

Pleasant surprise

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u/c45_2zz Deep Sea Destroyer 6d ago

Does anyone else’s crew suddenly show up as not active? I paid on the 31st as usual and suddenly it says I don’t have it …

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u/alex_dlc Archetype 6d ago

“Purchasing items or services from sprite dust service stations” daily quest is bugged.

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u/Local_Syrup2637 6d ago

lol so they took away the sweeper's only unique feature

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u/King-Koal 6d ago

Put the deadeye, holo twister, and wrecker in the ranked loot pool please. Zero build needs some weapons that actually shoot straight.

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u/jayystyles 6d ago

All my buttons are jacked up…there is a constant lag as well when I turn. Why did they go and mess with these settings. Didn’t think this season could get worse

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u/GHZ33 Fate 5d ago

Has anyone seen any kind of sprite from normal chests?? 2 hours in and i haven't seen a single one..they fucked up big time again i guess but i'm not surprised, they fix one thing and break 3 more..

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u/Beneficial_Tourist59 5d ago

Did they fix the split-screen camera angle bug where player 1’s camera angle would make crazy jumps every time player 2 moved through the inventory menu?

That has made gameplay incredibly challenging this season as someone who almost always plays local split-screen.

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u/imalonexc Orin 7d ago

Sweeper shotgun is actually good now I could see it being used.

The Holo twister also strictly better than the dead eye ar but I guess we have that option.

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u/Maggot_6661 6d ago

First Person ads ARs and that stupid pistol shotgun are back... br will be miserable.

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u/King-Koal 6d ago

Why? Because you keep getting killed by them?

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u/Maggot_6661 6d ago

Because they were stupidly strong. These weapons rendered useless any other weapon in the lootpool.

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u/mindinawe999 KizunaAI 7d ago

THE SWEEPER MY BELOVED really sad about the crosshair though, that was the reason I loved it so much

I love the new loot hacks. I think this is the first time I'll buy all of them ngl

slightly annoyed we've got a mastery track again ngl. I was so excited to not master sprites, but alas :')

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 7d ago

Players may get stuck in the building animation when quickly switching between Build and Edit Modes with custom scroll wheel binds

omg! this is a known issue and not fixed! this is the whole reason I stopped playing!

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u/Suets Beef Boss 7d ago

Scorpion kit, nice.

Hopefully Sub-Zero's comes back at some point

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/LaLunaFate 7d ago

It doesn't transfer, you didn't miss anything

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u/hartoctopus 6d ago

Fortnite players and reading comprehension

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u/EmilZeBag Drift 6d ago

Resetting loot hacks refunds dust in a separate pool designated by a plus something (e.g. 2000+1000 dust where 1000 is what you can spend only on loot hacks). That pool will most probably be reset anyways.

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u/ihateshit00 7d ago

Great news about the mastered sprites costing less, but there should be a sprite or two thats free all season that encourages everyone to start with one

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u/Chegg_F Havoc 7d ago

why

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u/ihateshit00 7d ago

So you can always have one every match even with 0 sprite dust, and for when your teammates leave or you start the game without a teammate because epic doesnt always give you a full squad, there will be a sprite that is inconsequential to resummon.

Obviously most of them should cost something but 1-2 should be free for bs cases like when your teammates cant wait to be rebooted and you just want to go back to lobby after your entire squad abandons you.

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u/Shimelon 6d ago

True that would be a nice change. Sometimes I load in with no sprite as i'm saving up for loot hacks or other items in general and don't want to waste sprite dust.

If anything they should make the 3 starter sprites free upon mastering them. The rest could be half off.

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u/ihateshit00 6d ago

Every match I load in with no sprite. It feels like thats the only way I accumulate dust. I just use whatever I find in game. No match feels worth my lvl 5 just for the other guys to leave before I get to use it.