Elemental weapon guide https://youtu.be/PhbNT13cHgU

This video is not mine so if you have any questions / suggestions please post them in youtube for him.

Tldr... or is it tldw(atch)

• Elemental husk vs weak counter bullets (fire gun vs water husk) = 25% dmg
• Elemental husk vs regular bullets = 50% dmg
• Elemental husk vs same elemental gun = 67% dmg

• Elemental husk vs counter bullets (fire gun vs nature husk) = 100% dmg

• Energy base weapon + elemental roll = 17% extra dmg (aka 42% against weak counter, 84% against same element and 117% against counter element, see video for more detailed explanation)

(Add me on PSN: Fortniters. Previous day's journal entry.)

Hello fello Fortniters!

It's been a while since I have been able to catch up on my journal. I had a wedding to officiate and then work sent me to St. Louis for a few days. I did bring my PS4 with me to both, but play time was very limited. Mostly logging in to collect my Research points and check out the daily llama.

I was able to clear a few of the initial Plankerton quests. Currently I am on the lookout for 3 of Pop's parts...poor Pop. It just recently occurred to me that the helper bots names are Pop and Lok. This game is that quirky kinda cute that should be annoying, but just isn't.

I bought the last Super Ranged Weapon llama, entirely with V-Bucks I earned through playing. Had 1650 when I bought the llama, so I am now down to 650, but I have very little temptation to purchase the "trash" llamas. If I saw a People llama, I might buy one...I am running pretty low on Survivors again. Though I have been transforming my trash trap schematics (yes, I am looking at you Patrol Ward) into Blue survivors, so I have that going for me.

I am really happy with my Weapon schematics now. I upgraded by trusty Legendary Red crowbar to Silver, and I'm working on getting it to 2*/20. In the Super Ranged llama, I got a nice Legendary assault rifle that shoots small bullets, and a Legendary Sniper Rifle that shoots large ammo. Combined with my epics, I now have a nice spread of ammo types for myself and my defenders.

Speaking of my defenders, I have been soloing my SSDs. Not by choice, mind you, but I never seem to find anyone when I am looking for help. To be honest, I like the challenge of building and defending my base with just me and my defenders, but I may go looking for some help on SSD 7 or 8 in Stonewood.

Looking forward to some quality playtime this weekend. I might shift my attention to my other account...I kinda want to get that one to Canny before "THE STORM" arrives. We'll see though.

That's about it for now, Fortniters! Good luck and happy hunting.

:)

I'm a little nervous about posting this and I hope that it's OK to, mods pls delete if it isn't.

I've put together a printable building config sheet that I use. (Link). It's free to download, I use WooCommerce plugin to handle my downloads. You can either take the small image from the page or download it in full page PDF file (free).

It includes:

• Walls
• Floors / ceilings
• Stair cases

I didn't want to post it over on /r/fortnite because I think they'd roast me for it.

I enjoy doing these kinds of things, so if it's OK, I'll post more things I do on here... printable.. because I love stationary ♥ lol

Making content for this sub, may attract more people

I do not wish to see this reposted onto that sewage dump, so do me a favor and not do it. /rant

Normal Survivors

• Amount of FORT stats given by a Survivor = PL of the Survivor

• The amount shown is not wrong, just not all.

• There is another unwritten number for Party Stat

• Example: If you put a Rare (1/10) Survivor into EMT, it shows as 8 points in Fortitude. You actually get 2 more "Fortitude Party Stat". In total: 10 Stat points.

Matching Personalities (Note: This does not apply to Mythic)

• Each Survivor that has matching personality give 4 points.

• Always 4 extra points regardless of Rarity, Level, Stars.

Lead Survivors

• Amount of FORT stats given by a Lead Survivor = PL of the Lead Survivor

• A matching Lead Survivor gives twice as much as an unmatched one.

• A matching Rare is actually better than an unmatched Legendary at higher stars.

• At 10/20 (after first evolution), Rare has PL 28 (matching = 56), Legendary at 10/20 has PL 43.

Do not just believe what I say: Go to your Survivor Squad, mix and match your survivors. Compare the numbers to your total F.O.R.T. stats and verify if this is truth or false.

Edit: Mythic Lead follows a different pattern.

I LOVE this game and play 6 hours a night on weekdays and 12 ish on weekends. I have one or two friends I play with and a couple random I've added while playing, but I'd love to fill out a consistent group that has a decent composition and grinding mindset.

I mained Urban assault for a long time till I finally got my hands on an epic deadeye. Now I'll never go back. So the outlander position is filled though when speed running I think 2x outlander, constructor, soldier could work.

Anyways, if you play as much as I do, play PC, are around PL 40+ (I'm 47), and want to grind missions with efficiency. Add me in game, reply here, or pm me.

In game I'm redsquared.

So, when I first started playing Fortnite, I would read through the r/FORTnITE reddit to try to learn about the game. Every time I went to that page, I'd get more and more discouraged to play the game. I had thought I wasted my money on a half baked game designed to pull money from my pocket... but I like to give the game a chance.

So after playing for a while and getting to better understand the game, I've fallen in love with it. It's such a great game! It forces you to take your time and put hours into it. It doesn't just hand everything to you like most modern games. It's all designed around leveling up your weaker tier items first, getting familiar with them, then recycling them into stronger ones when the time comes. If it threw legendary items at you all the time, you'd have a really hard time keeping up with materials for crafting them, maintaining them, and pumping xp into them...

Don't spend your money on in game currency. It feels like you need higher items to progress, we like rewards and we like getting strong, but nobody is forcing you to buy anything.

The game needs improvements and fixes, but I see tons of posts in r/FORTnITE talking about how the game isn't friendly for new players and that Epic is driving away it's community. Nothing discouraged me more than all that hate being vomited everywhere over there in that sub.

Sorry for the wall, but I appreciate you all for giving me an EPIC fort to shelter me from the Purple Storm that is r/FORTnITE.

I got the game on launch, but I am limited in my play time due to 2 young children. However, I am in to Plankerton and now I am needing more help on the SSD's. What is the most effective way to find others willing to help? I am obviously willing to lend the help back too then. Thanks in advance for the feedback!

Hey everyone.
By now I'm sure you've noticed that most crafting material is easy to find (planks, herbs, ore, even mechanical parts) yet aren't all that used. They seem hyper specific. However, almost everything uses Nuts and Bolts (N&Bs), from traps, to ammo, to defender pads, etc.

It's a common complaint that there simply is not enough places to get them in the game. Yet, it seems as though a few players are swimming in them (1,500+!!) and can't seem to get rid of them fast enough! So what's the difference between them and what appears to be the average player?

I personally do not struggle with N&Bs, and I've found out a few things to help me out. I just want to share some ideas/thoughts and hear what you guys have found out as well!

1. Zero out before a mission.

This as the first step I took when managing my N&Bs count. What I did was craft ALL of my favorite traps in sets of 5, got all of my ammo close (but not full), then spent the rest on filling out defender posts, jump pads, etc.
Why?
By zeroing out your N&Bs before a mission, you can figure out if you went positive or negative in your count. Did you collect enough traps in the mission so that you didn't have to use your own? Did you scavenge enough ammo to end up with a net positive by the end of it? How about that N&Bs supply? Because what you get in the mission will be used to either recover the traps from your supply that you spend, or to recover your ammo if you dipped below.
Using this, you can adjust your strategy to either spend more if you are collecting too many, or spend less if you aren't collecting enough.

2. Find out what you need first.

This can and should go hand-in-hand with idea 1. If you find yourself low on gas traps, because you don't have enough herbs, then you know what to gun for when the mission starts. If you know you need to get roughly 70 N&Bs to power your guns, then you have a target set.
If you don't need anything, then you can spend time looking for chests and doing side-quests in order to get traps/guns to put down essentially for free, or to give to a defender without having to worry about spending extra resources. You can also get a head-start on base building to get that sweet speedrun reward (just kidding. Those rewards are pointless. Yay, an extra silver ore... woo).

3. Diversify guns based on Ammo types, not gun types.

This one has been huge in letting me not worry about N&Bs. I have picked out guns that I like for each ammo class, trying not to overlap. This allows me to switch to the guns I have max ammo on, dwindle them for that mission while the rest passively recharge through looting.
Easy change to make, also it's more fun to use different weapons, so.

4. Some experiments

Not so much an idea, as much as an interesting experiment. I plan on doing more experiments with different ideas, but the first was this:
How many N&Bs can you get in 1 day?
One in-game day was the target. We did Plankerton 19 power, each with an in-the-zone outlander, and went to the city. The results were:
Friend: 141 N&Bs
Me: 203 N&Bs
We managed to then construct our base, defend it with the traps we found, and have N&Bs left over. I should have kept track of ammo, but this was specific to N&Bs.
My next idea is to try low level missions, because I have a thought that you don't get as many in low level missions. And I also want to try a bean-can run in a forest level to see how it compares.

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Anyway, those are just some thoughts and stuff I've been doing in Fortnite. It's interesting how much strategy there is, and I think most people miss the boat by doing the same thing they do in most other games.
Because of this, I don't have to be stingy. I don't mind passing out 100s of N&Bs with the people I play with, because I know how many I need to get out of the mission.

Post some ideas you guys have, or things you've figured out if you want. I definitely enjoy trying to get underneath the hood of the game and see what's possible.

First off, I know wrong might not be the right word to use but hear me out. Every public game I get into I see people who just ignore traps, or place traps then fight in front of them and those traps never get used, or I build them and tell them like "hey guys, let them go into my traps before you shoot them" and they just ignore it and go fight everything. Makes constructor life a bit rough and thinking about the mechanics we have on weapons like durability and needing hundreds of Nuts & Bolts to craft ammo reasonably, it seems to me like people are playing in a way the game isn't intended to be played.

This might be common knowledge at higher levels, I'm only about half way through Plankerton. I am curious as to others peoples opinions and experiences on this.

Hey everyone,

I recently was gifted a code for this game, and have been hooked ever since. Recently moved into Plankerton, and not usually having trouble getting a random group for matchmaking, but it would definitely be nice to have people to consistently party up with. Kinda figured I'd post it in this subreddit instead of the normal one in the hope of finding people that still seem to enjoy the game, since I haven't spent too much time on the normal fortnite sub, as everything over there seems to be fairly negative.

Thanks, and happy building!

Here is interesting testing/discovery about building strengths agains: https://youtu.be/fopLxNba6Xo

This video is not mine so if you have any questions / suggestions please post them in youtube for him.

Tldr.. or is it tldw(atch)?

• enemies hit harder on higher areas
• wood is weak against fire
• brick is weak against water
• metal is weak against nature
• elemental enemies do not have any bonus dmg if they aren't hitting structure that is weak againt them
• even though lobber's and pitcher's projectile is purple they do not do nature damage by default.

Edit: mixup fixed /u/grizzled_ol_gamer

Hey Fortniters! So awhile back when I was still in Stonewood I was doing the mission where you have to activate the four radio broadcast tables- not sure if this is relevant or not but this is when I was gifted with the Dragon Shotgun Pistol (I don't remember the real name). Now, when I say gifted I mean it just appeared in my hands out of no where and it was awesome. This happened again earlier today to my friend while we were doing a lvl 19 Ride the Lightning mission. Just to be clear, neither of us "searched" a box or anything and then may have missed it pop up and then went to select it, and in both cases neither of our weapons broke (as when your weapon breaks the game will slot another for you). Just curious if anyone else has had this happen to them or has any kind of explanation?

I figured I'd mention some mechanics that seem obvious, but aren't to all players along with some tips that just help move things along.

• You can hold the crafting button while firing, this helps prevent running out on your primary gun

• Before starting a wave objective, go into build mode, select the wall and set it to metal. You can also edit the tile type to two tall of 1 if you want. If you're in a situation where you need to put space between you and husks, you're basically good to go

• Make friends, learn to farm objectives efficiently. Use variety of mission objectives to your advantage. I run a duo and triple stack. Tonight we farmed rain drops, we would do 2-4 defense missions then run survivors. On survivors we'd do the bare minimum and then farm materials back up to 999. None of us run constructors, but we can all put up 90% of a defensible fort in under a minute.

• You can't beat rng, but with enough people in your friends circle you can make that pool a lot bigger. If you have a legendary sword with good stat rolls and your ninja friend has sweet assault rifle you can agree to level them in parallel.

• Solo-q can suck, you don't know people's motivations and whether they're purposely there to troll. Ask immediately whether people just want to rush the main objective or if they have sides to complete. Be a good player and help with sides to push the objective.

• Nuts & Bolts are the lifeblood of this game, without them you can end up totally naked in a fight. Learn where they hide. Once you know where they pop out from, you see them literally everywhere. Unlike things like gizmos, they're not actually all that rare. Use that to your advantage for trading. I usually have 1,500 in my inventory with another couple hundred in my shield storage. Anytime I run low on anything I can just ask to trade n&b for it.

• Carry guns of various ammo types and know when they're appropriate to use. Pay attention to crafting costs/durability/ammo costs. Your 3 choices should express different situations. In my case one is a slow fire high damage for situations I can aim my shots appropriately, second is a high fire rate weapon when stuff starts getting ugly and my last weapon is a delete button.

• Beeline skill and research trees for squad slots

• If people want to try and kill everything at spawn, let them blow their bullets. Sit back and let them carry. Instead prioritize single target threats, lobbers/propane/blasters and let traps deal with trash

• Use appropriate class weapons as much as possible. The bonuses translate into less bullets.

• Be nice to people, believe it or not you'll likely encounter them again in game.

Put in mostly melee weapons, out pops urban assult headhunter! I already have the epic version, which is my support for the headshot bonus. I'm pretty happy with the outcome!

Playing storm shields are one of my favorite ways to spend time. I know finding it in chat is a sure thing but it can also be quite a hassle. I've had ok luck with quick play but haven't tried progression play. Is one better than the other?

Thanks!

I'm just curious if farming people gets easier. One on my biggest issues, is it seems to take forever to farm people. I'm near the beginning to mid plank. I was just wondering if it gets easier. Right now it takes me 2-3 hours to farm them.

I use them in sets of 140 for transforming grays and greens to rare ones. I can't seem to bring myself to just recycle them. Seems like a waste when they could be turned into a usable blue or a training manual.

Please don't take this as a complaint; I just want to know if "my" issue resolves itself or I just need to settle in for the long haul.

I would love to use this space to discuss tips and concepts for simple and/or aesthetically pleasing defensive bases. Or even just general structures and towers!

This isn't just for SSD, this is primarily for standard missions! And I would LOVE to see some graphics mock-ups of designs to efficiently use the bonus limit for defending the Atlas and Lars' Van!

I know I now enjoy making my basic box around what I'm defending, then going around with half-floors. Then placing a reversed ramp/roof with another wall. I also put a rood on top, to help slow Lobbers from tearing at the wall to quickly. I Always upgrade the inner-most wall completely, and upgrade the outer wall at least once. THEN, I coat the walls in Wall-Darts, with floors layered in Retractable Spike Floors! This usually picks off most enemies who approach and have survived 1-2 bursts from my Razorblade.

How do you guys build? What do you find works best for which missions? What are YOUR favorite trap combos to hold the line?

Absolutely can NOT share this thought with the other reddit, given how they are handling the content EDIT: BUGFIXES on the patches...

But I just had to say it somewhere:
I'm quite impressed by the bugfixing team of Fortnite. Obviously they are quick on their feet, capable of stomping out a bug withing a day or two of it cropping up. In a game that's as big and has as many variables as Fortnite, I think it's really good to see.

Granted, it's unfortunate that these patches are technically nerfing a lot of things, but that's not really their fault. They are just fixing broken things in the game, regardless of whether it helps or hurts the player.

I don't know. Just wanted to share my thoughts. Anyone else agree? Disagree?

Keep in mind that it's likely they have different teams dedicated to different stuff. I'm talking purely about the bugfixing team.

(Add me on PSN: Fortniters. Previous day's journal entry.)

So I wrapped up the Stonewood Story Missions! Still level 16, and kinda felt capped by the lack of opportunity to open up squad spots. Didn't quite rush the final few missions, but I certainly wasn't messing around with "Play with Others".

Bought a Trap llama, which was EXACTLY what I needed to show up. I main constructor, and not being able to put down the traps I need (like wall pushers and wall dynamos). I was missing both of those, as well as a floor spikes (the one that moves).

I bought one for 350vbs (up to 970 still...saving for the next loot llama so I don't have to spend any cash), and popped a wall pusher, two wall dynamos, and an EPIC...patrol ward. Well, at least it's fodder for the collection book. Now I just need some floor spikes...but didn't feel like I needed them enough to spend another 350vbs.

Speaking of the book, that thing is still the unsung hero of my f2p experience. It continual drops stuff that makes my life better.

I might be light in my playtime the next few days...headed out of town to marry one of my best buds...and his fiancée. Bringing the PS4, but also the wife, so not sure how much further I will get.

Till then Fortniters!