Finally, the new Fortnite update, v7.20 which brings numerous improvements, as well as new content to the game. And we say '' finally '' because Christmas has been long by not receiving any major Fortnite update, just some minor patches with new content in the form of weapons and a few basic adjustments in some parameters of the game.
However, it is time to return to action, since the 14 Days of Fortnite mode has just ended and Epic Games has just published the Fortnite 7.20 Patch Notes. It is, as the different leaks and rumors pointed out, a patch that not only adds content, but also improves several parameters of the game that needed a twist.
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As always, before going on to reel off what are the What's New in Fortnite Patch 7.20, We also anticipate that some new features have appeared that have not even been mentioned in the Epic notes, such as a new sphere or floating snowball that could be linked to a new event that will start soon or the new skins and objects that will arrive at the store..
We remind you that we have a complete guide that will help you improve both in the base game and in any of the modes it includes, as well as in the new updates and challenges.
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That said, let's see what is new about Fortnite patch 7.20, which arrives in the game today and will be fully operational over the next few hours.
What's New in Fortnite Battle Royale Patch 7.20
The most important news of Fortnite 7.20 come to the Battle Royale mode. This is the one that is allowing Fortnite to be a money machine for Epic, and it is clear that in the first big update of the year, it was going to be the most '' spoiled '' mode.
One of the biggest novelties in Fortnite 7.20 is the Scoped Revolver, a revolver that fires very precise shots at a considerable distance causing a great amount of damage.
Another novelty is a new glider. Well, it's not new at all, as it's about '' Redeploying the glider '', this time back as an object.
In addition to the new weapons, we have a limited time game mode called '' Single Shot '''. This is a mode in which each player has 50 health points and the gravity is low. Sniper rifles are the only weapon and we can only heal ourselves with bandages. With one shot we will be dead (if they aim well).
Next, we leave you all the news of Fortnite Battle Royale with patch 7.20:
Weapons and objects
- Scoped Revolver Available in epic and legendary rarity variations. Fire medium ammo. Deals 42/44 damage per shot. Available from Floor Loot, Chests, Supply Drops, and Vending Machines.
- Glider added, an item that allows you to redeploy the glider. This item will take up one inventory slot and can be found in normal loot sources.
- Machine gun adjustments Added an overheat mechanic. Overheating will take place after approximately 6 seconds of continuous fire. Reload time decreased by 37%. Minigun sound updated.
- Made rarity color adjustments Decreased rarity of balloons from Epic to Rare. Stink Bomb rarity lowered from Epic to Rare. Scope Assault Rifle rarity decreased from Rare / Epic to Uncommon / Rare.
- The following projectile-using weapons will now have the same projectile trajectory as the Heavy Sniper Rifle: Bolt-Action Sniper Rifle Silenced Sniper Rifle Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle Hunting Rifle
- Weapon First Shot Accuracy now works when feet are frozen and while on the zip line.
- Reduced the size of the center point of the reticle on riflescopes. This will mitigate situations where they appear to be on target but still miss the shot.
- Adjustments in the frequency of the appearance of traps.
- Fixed a bug that could cause them to lose the ability to switch weapons if they fired an Anchor while crashing a vehicle or interacting with an object while traveling.
- Fixed a bug that caused his ability to fire to lag after discarding an Anchor.
- Removed the ability to use an anchor or be boosted by one while in a vehicle due to the ability for players to move fast enough to cause network issues.
- Fixed balloons not being popped by explosions.
- Fixed a bug that caused a strange size or progress on dynamite when picking it up and throwing it again.
- When a player dies from being knocked out of life in the APNF state, the elimination distance is calculated from the original location where he was knocked down and not from the distance where he was completely eliminated.
- Fixed a bug that could cause scoped rifles to be fully accurate earlier than expected.
- Fixed a bug that caused the center point of the crosshairs when using the scope to not align with the center point without using the scope.
- Players who are using emotes on the starting island will no longer continue to use them after jumping off the battle bus.
- Hang gliders and umbrellas will no longer appear sideways or misaligned after jumping from the Battle Bus.
- Fixed a bug that caused the ability to re-throw dynamite to be canceled when switching weapons or being a passenger in a vehicle.
- Players will no longer receive credit for a "no-scoped" elimination in the elimination news if they use scopes to eliminate a player.
Gameplay
- Zipline improvements. Added the ability to change direction via the player's movement input button. They just have to move in the direction they want while moving down the zip line, no jumping required. Instead of moving at full speed when getting on the zip line, players will now accelerate over time to reach full speed. We re-enabled the destruction effects when navigating the zip line.
- We add a third decimal place to the mouse and control sensitivity to give more specific values.
- To help in situations where the walls are built almost underground, we added a feature that will build an additional piece for free on top of that piece. This will happen when the wall piece shows less than 30% above the ground.
- Control Sensitivity The change in build sensitivity is also applied in edit mode.
- Editing will no longer interrupt shots or pickax movements.
- Corn stalks will no longer block shots.
- Editing a structure will now start without waiting for a response from the server. This should get rid of ghost shots before editing and make it a smoother experience. Confirming the edit will still require data to be sent to the server and will be affected by high ping or low server performance.
- Vehicle hit damage to a player will now respect the shield instead of being applied directly to the player's health.
- When a plane explodes for any reason, it will now deal damage to both passengers and pilots. This damage will no longer ignore the shield.
- Infinite dab is even more infinite ... Dab for 11 hours instead of 10 in the room.
- Adjusted the art content of the map to more accurately represent player and marker positions.
- Object textures used in gestures will now be broadcast earlier, so scoring and other gestures using objects will have less chance of using a low resolution texture.
- X-4 Stormcatcher passengers will now have the same Hold to Exit feature as pilots.
- Fixed instances where the Redeploy Glider feature would not trigger when exiting a Storm Hunter.
- Fixed grenade throwing animations not playing until the end when watching other players throw a grenade.
- Fixed the duration of the preview of many gestures in the room to hear the entire music track.
- Completing the daily challenge "Play a game with a friend" now correctly counts towards other missions that require completing daily challenges.
- Fixed players being unable to destroy the Boombox from certain distances.
- Fixed several bugs on zip lines. Players will no longer be thrown across the map or enter incorrect animation states. Added a cooldown to ensure that jump replay does not allow players with minor net problems to get through the zip line collision. The zip line magnet will no longer remain on players' heads. Players will no longer fall when colliding with enemy structures. Players will no longer get off the zip line at steep angles when in poor netting conditions.
- Fixed a bug where players would sometimes get 2 cases of on-hit damage when hit by the X-4 Stormwing.
- Damage figures when firing mounted turrets are now properly displayed as vehicle damage instead of player damage.
Events
- We updated the tournament system significantly to support upcoming features. We will be running a series of small-scale test events as we test these updates with more players. We will run several waves of testing until we are sure of the new features. At that point, we will be running regular tournaments again for all players.
- For now, old tournaments will be removed from the Events tab on Switch and mobile devices. The data for those tournaments has been saved and will return to those platforms in a future release.
- Players will be automatically eliminated from the game after 60 seconds as spectators after being eliminated.
Sound
- Fixed shield damage sound being heard when shooting or taking hits from teammates.
- The music of the gliders with music can now be heard in the room preview.
- X-4 Storm Hunter volume decreased.
- We lowered the volume on the boombox.
- Added a unique bounce sound for Dynamite.
- Fixed music clipping on Switch and mobile platforms.
- Fixed an incorrect sound loop from the Quad Shredder enhancer on mobile and Switch.
- Fixed missing firing sounds on the Medium Range Scope Assault Rifle.
- Fixed high ambient sound in the winter biome on mobile and Switch.
User interface
- Updated ammo icons in inventory to look more realistic.
- Observed player building resources are now visible.
- We prevented pickup interaction pop-up messages from appearing on the HUD while in a vehicle, as this option is disabled while in a vehicle.
- We fixed the error messages that appear when a friend request fails.
- We prevented special preview actions (Play Again, Change Model, Full Screen, etc., displayed when viewing a cosmetic item) after opening and closing the chat window.
- Fixed a red background appearing when the chat window was opened when enabling the "full screen" preview of a loading screen cosmetic content.
- We prevented the wrong loading screens from sometimes appearing instead of the selected loading screen by activating the "full screen" preview.
Social
- Battle Royale players can now accept group invites from Save the World players and join ongoing matches.
Art and animation
- Both Lynx and Cenit now have custom waiting poses in the room.
- The size of the Red Knight Shield and Raven's Retro Backpack from the Frozen Legends Pack now correspond to their original versions.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Certain Death outfit from being reactive in-game.
- We improved the quality of the Golf Clap gesture on mobile devices and Switch.
Reps
- Fixed some replay loading issues that could cause a loading screen to appear when not needed.
Mobile devices
Error correction
- Fixed a bug that caused users to aim down their sights when exiting vehicles.
- Fixed turbo build when bonus build buttons are held down.
- Fixed an issue where the Add Friend button for other party members could not be clicked on the main menu on mobile devices.
- We add the HUD button. This HUD button is displayed when entering the game settings as a separate section to enable or disable certain aspects of the HUD.
Creative mode
Did you think there would be no news for Creative Mode? Epic has introduced a new theme, the farm. In addition, a new island called '' Arctic Island '' arrives so that we can unleash our imagination in a new environment.
These are all the news of the Fortnite Creative Mode:
Islands
- Frosty fortress. A new selectable arctic island that already has structures built. This island is ready to play right away!
- Island previews are now displayed over highlighted islands in the creative hub.
- Fixed a bug that caused island portals to not appear when those islands contained many copies of certain types of building parts or items.
- Fixed a bug that resulted in players being able to exit their island with the phone tool when inside pre-made structures.
- Fixed an issue where players were able to grab items from an island and bring them to the Creative Hub.
- Fixed a bug that caused traps to remain floating in the air when the support wall was removed.
Gameplay
- Added a new "Last Standing" option to allow creators to specify if they want the game to end when only one player or team remains.
- Added a new "Appearances" option to allow players to specify how many times a player can appear.
- Added a new "Player Flight" option to allow players to fly during games or when the phone is not available.
- Added a new "Jump Exhaustion" option to enable or disable jump height penalties that would normally apply to fast successive jumps.
- Added new gravity options: high and very high
- When traps are equipped from the Creative inventory, the new trap will be selected on your Quick Bar.
- Fixed players being unable to load Creative due to a network error. The first load may take additional time while the server fixes the loading issues with the player's island.
- Fixed vehicles dealing damage to structures when the world was indestructible or when players did not have permission to edit.
- Fixed building animations getting stuck when moving with the phone in full animation.
- Fixed a bug that caused life bars to display more often than expected when a player was building walls.
- Fixed a bug that caused squares to appear red during matches.
- Fixed a bug that caused multiple camera blurs to occur at the beginning and end of the game.
Creative tools and phone
- Turbo build added to Creative mode. They can now hold down the "Place" button to add building pieces and objects without interruption while moving and aiming. They have to enable "Turbo Build" in the game settings to use this feature.
- Added Turbo Elimination. Now holding down the "Delete" button will destroy building pieces and objects without interruption. Added a new "Turbo Kill in Creative" option to the game settings. This is enabled by default.
- We added a new effect when using Grid Snap to help visualize placement.
- Fixed the phone being able to edit or delete objects even without having island edit permission.
- Fixed a bug that could cause other walls to disappear when copying a wall using the phone.
- Fixed a bug that caused the phone to remain available after a player exited the island while inside a newly placed pre-build.
- Fixed a bug that caused the "Submissions" UI to not display the correct value.
- Fixed a bug that caused the phone hologram to get stuck in a place in the world after pasting an item with deliveries enabled.
- Fixed an issue where after rotating certain walls when moving on the grid, those walls would not allow traps to be placed on them.
Perfabricated
- Added 6 Farm Prefabs and Farm Galleries
- Added 3 Ice Cliff Galleries
- We added a large cube gallery
Devices
- Added random spawn options in the item spawn generator: "Random" allows items from the spawn list to spawn in random order. "No repeats" makes objects appear in random order and will not repeat any objects until everything in the list has appeared once. This is only distinguished from "Random" if the "Object reappearance" option is enabled.
- Renamed the device "gunner" to "sentry".
- We added new options to the Sentinel. Added health and shield options. We added respawn options. Added attack range and precision options. We added targeting style, line of sight, and proximity options. Added an adaptive aiming option to determine if the sentry's aim improves over time or not. Added a visualization to attack range when players are on the sentry plate.
- New device elimination zone. Allows the player to place an adjustable zone that will eliminate players who come into contact with it during the game.
- The item generator now includes additional ammo for spawned weapons.
- Fixed an issue where traps were not being destroyed or triggered correctly.
- Fixed a bug that caused metal and wood floor pieces to be cut through the item generator.
- Object builder fixes.
- Fixed a bug that caused the player's startup devices to float after a minigame ended.
- Player spawn generator fixes!
Weapons and objects
- We add the two pistols. Available in variations of rare and epic rarity. They deal 41/43 base damage. They use medium ammo. Both guns will fire when the button is pressed. It does not use first-shot accuracy.
- Glider added, an item that allows you to redeploy the glider.
Equipment
- Fixed being unable to build on opposing team structures when editing a Creative Island. However, it is still not possible while in a game in progress.
User interface
- Added a message to the HUD showing how to start the game on an island when on a shared or featured island.
- We fixed the "memory used" label not appearing centered in the memory budget indicator.
- Fixed creative inventory sometimes showing prefabs, even if you didn't have permission to edit.
Performance
- Decreased the time it takes to load Creative mode and switch between islands. In the next updates we will have more improvements.
- Improved the performance of minigame generators.
- Improved performance and memory usage by sacrificing more items that are too far from the player.
- We fixed lags in the display of descriptions text.
MOBILE DEVICES
- Fixed button visibility in Creative mode when in vehicles.
New content Save the World from Fortnite
In addition to content for the Battle Royale mode, we also have news for Save the World, the mode for up to four players in which we must resist waves of the undead while protecting a specific point.
One of the novelties is Mindless Christmas, a new Christmas wave in which we must eliminate enemies to ... unlock even more enemies!
Another new feature is Ice King and Ice Queen, unlocked by completing this week's Mindless Christmas Challenge.
In addition, these are the other news and improvements of Save the World:
Missions and systems
- Mindless Christmas Weekly Challenge 3: New Christmas Wave Wave of enemies bring a huge horde of the same enemy type. Players must eliminate a specific number of enemies of that type to advance to the next wave. It will be available on January 16 at 7:00 pm ET.
- Mission rewards for Mindless Christmas Weekly Challenge 3 include: Challenge Banner 3 Outsider Ice Queen Snowflake Tickets
- The 14 Days of Fortnite event ended and the missions are no longer available.
- Added a new level 128 Power Zone in Mindless Christmas for more advanced players. This area will be available to players who have reached the end of Twisted Peaks. Get a new banner as a reward for completing all 30 Waves of Mindless Christmas in a level 128 Power Zone!
- Increased XP, Gold, and Mindless Christmas Ticket rewards, especially in later waves, to better incentivize longer survival times.
- Changed key rewards and schematics have been replaced by buff buff and buff swap in the higher difficulty areas of Mindless Christmas.
- Changed the Storm Shield Defense missions that unlock Mindless Christmas zones, so players should now see zones of a more appropriate level.
- Mission map adjustments. Quests are no longer locked after old side quests. They are now unlocked by missions in the main campaign. Story-specific key missions can no longer have mission alerts.
- Fixed an anomaly bug that prevented players joining a game in progress from collecting Shards.
- Fixed a bug in the Deliver the Bomb mission to allow players to build on top of the launcher.
- Players who join (or rejoin) a game late will now receive the benefits of active blue-blue towers.
- Fixed a bug where the Rift Stabilize gadget would not display the correct laser hit visual effect when it was destroyed.
- Removed the difficulty tower from the landmark mission Protect the servers.
- Resupply Base missions now have the ability to generate Elemental Storm and Mutant Storm mission alerts.
- Fixed the Play With Others customization option so players with a high power rating can use it.
User interface
- Players will see which items can be reset by activating the Manage Schematic and Manage Heroes option on the bottom bar of the screens.
- Added a confirmation dialog when removing an item from the collection book, which indicates to the player that the item was added to their inventory.
- Added an item to the HUD that shows the button to exit the vehicle while using the ROSIE turret
- Fixed an issue where certain menus were not unlocked in the main menu, preventing players from progressing through the story.
- Fixed a bug that caused the store summary buttons to not properly set its recycle or withdraw status.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent navigation on the map.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Research Point collection to be displayed when opening and closing the details panel on the Research screen.
- Updated the survivor squad management screen to hide squad cycle buttons when only one squad is unlocked.
- We deactivate the evolution confirmation button when scrolling over the evolution options that are deactivated.
- Banners on the end of the mission screen should display the correct icon and color for all players.
- Fixed the reticle and ammo count not updating after using Shadow Stance.
- Fixed an issue where the mission play button animation would trigger at the wrong times.
- The reference weapon icon no longer appears on the quick bar if a player drops or recycles a weapon while in the ROSIE turret
- In Mindless Christmas, we fixed the text formatting of the HUD wavelength targets.
- Players should no longer get stuck on the end screen when exiting a Storm Shield Defense mission mid-game.
Performance
- Updated the Rocket Launcher and Grenade Launcher VFX to be more eye-catching.
- Updated the effects of Mindless kills to be more eye-catching, and fixed a few bugs that were preventing the effects from displaying correctly.
- Improved the appearance of fog on Xbox One.
Heroes
- The Ice King will be available in the Event Store.
- The Ice Queen will be available as a reward from the Week 3 Mindless Christmas Challenge mission.
- Any hero who converted damage resistance buffs to armor buffs in the v7.10 update is eligible for an item reset. If they choose to reset a hero, he will return to level 1 and all XP and evolution materials invested in him will be refunded. Note that this reset option will be lost if new resources are invested in the hero or if the hero is assigned to the collection book.
- The Outsider's Flame Shard ability will fall at his feet when it has been destroyed.
Weapons and objects
- Eligible items (such as upgraded heroes and schematics) can be reset to level 1 from the inspection screen via the "Item Reset" feature.
- Players can get a full refund of all XP, evolution materials, and buff upgrades invested by recycling, retiring, or transforming an item that undergoes a significant balance or design change.
- Increased perk change rewards from the following sources: Mission Rewards: +67% Perk Provisions: +67% Mission Alerts: + 55%
- We lowered the costs of changing the benefit to change non-elemental benefits by 40%.
- Crafting the interface will now remove items from the lowest quantity stack first.
- We have enabled resets for the Underground shovel and for all weapons that have converted damage resistance buffs to armor buffs. This only applies to weapons that are above level 1 or have armor buffs above their default level as of v7.20.
- Fixed a bug that caused Unconditional Squire to have default static buffs.
- The Candy Corn LMG now has comments when firing.
- Fixed an issue where melee weapons would sometimes not deal damage on the first few attacks after equipping them.
- Fixed a bug where melee weapons would not deal damage when deployed and using their strong attack.
Gameplay
- Control sensitivity settings when building, sighting, and aiming separately are now shared between Save the World and Battle Royale.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Husks to not be visible while in Observer Mode in Frostnite.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused the player to lose control of the character if the character respawned when switching viewers in Mindless Christmas.
- Fixed areas that would appear blocked when another player joined the party while on the Map tab.
- We have added a spinner to the boxes in the area to indicate that the player is receiving or processing the power ranking of the newly joined party members.
- Fixed a bug that caused a semi-transparent red trap placement preview mesh to be displayed on the end of the mission screen if the player finished Mindless Christmas while in construction mode.
Enemies
- Removed the Christmas skins for Mindless, Bomber, Hefty Propane Tank, and Mindlessness.
- Made some improvements to the shell interactions with the Riot Brawl's shield: Remote explosives should now stick to the Riot Brawl's shield. Impulse Grenades will now explode immediately on impact with the Riot Brawl's shield. Crossbow arrows should now adhere to the Riot Brawl's shield.
- Fixed the Storm King's horns not showing broken, as they should, when a player joined a game late.
- Fixed the Storm King's horns from colliding after breaking.
- Copycats will no longer grant metal when hit with a pickaxe or Anti-Material Charge.
Art and animation
- Ray and Lars removed the Christmas decorations from the environment and the base.
- Fixed a bug that caused some car destruction visuals to not rotate properly, causing the car to jump to another location when destroyed.
Sound
- Added soccer ball sounds in Mindless Christmas.
- Added a harvest sound to the shield.
- Grenade explosion sounds updated.
- Added sounds when getting on and off the hovercraft.
- Fixed an issue where voices were not playing correctly on some Canny Valley exploration missions.
- Fixed music being muted on the Results screen when a Storm Shield Defense mission was not completed or failed.
- Fixed an issue where the music on the defeat screen would not play properly.
- Fixed a bug that caused the end of day score display to get stuck.
- Fixed a bug where the sound of the fire hydrant would not stop when destroyed.
- We add sound to the help menu.
- Fixed the sound when equipping the Vacuum Tube Rifle.
- Fixed an issue where scouting music would play when looking away from Lars' truck.
- Fixed a bug that caused the bonus sound to trigger more than once by mistake.
