Season 5 of Fortnite Battle Royale just started today and comes with many new features. So that you know what has changed in the title of epic Games, we have decided to create this article in which we review all the news of Season 5 of Fortnite Battle Royale in its different sections.
But first, we want to highlight some elements such as the arrival of the All Terrain Cart to Battle Royale mode and the appearance of Cracks in the same way, they can be crossed to "take a little trip". Without further ado we are going with the most outstanding news of this new Season of Fortnite BR.
Fortnite Battle Royale improvements
Weapons and objects
- Added a counter on the shotgun reticle to indicate how many pellets hit.
- Shotguns dispersion pattern has been changed to be consistent with no random variations.
- A new shotgun can no longer be used after firing another shot for a short period of time.
- Hunting Rifle Aiming Assist has been reduced.
- The silenced SMG damage reduction per ranged has been changed.
Gameplay
- Added the new All Terrain Cart: Has room for the whole squad, can accelerate after skidding, the roof acts as a trampoline and the rear passengers can help jump over obstacles.
- Added new places to the map: Desert, Ostentatious Oasis, Sybarite Society and new nameless places.
- The center of storm circles 7, 8, and 9 can go in a random direction.
- Progressive Challenges are no longer restricted to one season. They can be completed at the desired rate.
- Progressive challenges are completed by earning a fixed amount of XP and are not dependent on season level.
- The weekly challenges are divided into two sections: Free y Battle Pass.
- Downed players have a lower degree of collision.
- Using a gesture interrupts the sprint.
- XP is earned by reviving companions in 50v50 modes y teams of 20 to three times per game.
- The weapon's reticle slowly disappears when reloading, running out of ammo, or changing weapons.
- The player's camera hovers out of the water when walking through lakes.
- Various bug fixes.
- New sound settings and new effects added.
- Interface improvements.
Save the World improvements
- Blockbuster is over and the event begins!Road trip! Blockbuster tickets have been converted into a Blockbuster flame for every 500 units, rounding up to one additional flame for the remaining tickets (below 500).
- The Persistent Weekly Store has been updated to offer ADVANTAGED !, ADVANTAGED! rare and ADVANTAGED! rare.
- Starting July 17, Save the World will be on sale at Xbox One, PS4 y PC for a limited time. Limited Edition Super Deluxe Founders Packs will return for the duration of the sale.
- Return Challenge the Horde.
- Hero abilities have been rebalanced.
- Weapon added Knocking Hammer.
- Added the set of flintlock weapons.
- The parameters of some weapons have been readjusted.
- Energy damage effectiveness against Elemental Husks increased from 67% to 75%.
- Base sprint speed increased from 365 to 410. Sprint speed remains intact.
- Players can now move while downed.
- Downed VFX adjusted for clarity.
- Now the missions Trololó y Revenge of the trolls They only require smashing 1 troll to complete.
- Missions can be repeated Danger in the Mist, They just wanna see the world burn, Forces of nature y Death over Wet to get advantageous resources.
- Improvements in the interface, sound and animations.
General improvements
- The invitation can be accepted directly when the "Group Invitation" message appears on the screen, without having to open the group finder.
- The news section has been adjusted to avoid having to scroll.
- Loading times and patch sizes have been reduced by updating consoles to use less shader storage.
- Fixed a bug that caused the push to talk setting to not work properly.
If you have been curious about everything this season offers, here is a list with the cosmetic improvements, detailed.
New Fortnite Season 5 Skins
As we anticipate, the Fortnite season 5 theme It will be time travel, that's why we find skins that correspond to medieval-style warriors, cowboys from the Wild West, and some crazy things like the shark costume (we don't know if it will be because of the Katy Perry video). Here you can check all the new skins of season 5 of Fortnite.
New backpacks
On this occasion, the available backpacks correspond to two different types of cape -which fit with the medieval and Nordic skins that we have already talked about- and a tactical backpack in desert color. The Fortnite Battle Royale Season 5 It will also allow us to equip ourselves with a shark fin (another of the player aspects that has impacted us the most), a unicorn-shaped float and a penguin-shaped mohila. If you want to know more, here we tell you all about the new backpacks of season 5 of Fortnite.
New Fortnite season 5 map
And thanks to the folks at @TwoEpicBuddies, we already know what the Fortnite season 5 map. Although this is expected to be the final state; Right now, the state of desertification is less advanced than what is seen in the following link.
New parachutes in Fortnite
La Fortnite Battle Royale Season 5 He has also brought with him new parachutes with which to look cooler than anyone while we fall to the battlefield and thanks to the Twitter user TwoEpicBuddies we can bring you an image of his designs. So you can see that, once again, they are very cool and that now we can launch ourselves on the battle island holding a Viking ship, remember that a Viking ax was the protagonist of one of the promotionals of Season 5, or a motorboat. Almost nothing!
New sports minigames
epic Games has decided to also introduce new sports minigames in this fifth season of Fortnite Battle Rotale, allowing us to practice basketball, golf and volleyball. Again, thanks to Twitter user TwoEpicBuddies we can take a look at the design of the basketballs, golf and volleyballs from Fortnite Battle Royale. Of course, we still do not know exactly how these sports are practiced in the title but, if Epic Games follows the same path as when it introduced soccer fields in the game, it is more than likely that they will end up starring in a weekly challenge of this Season 2017.
New Fortnite Season 5 Loading Screens
The Loading Screen of Week 1 show some of the exclusive skins of this season 5 of Fortnite, and surely one of the elements that will most revolutionize the style of play: the golf cart, which opens the ban on the use of vehicles in the Epic game.
The second image (which corresponds to week 2 of the season) also shows a golf ball, which will be one of the sports that we can practice in this new stage of Fortnite.
And now that you know what the new features of the title are introduced with the new update, don't forget to keep an eye on our Fortnite Battle Royale Guide because in it we are going to tell you how to complete all the challenges of Season 5.
