What's New?

Sneaky Snowman
Is that snowman closer than it was a second ago? Sneak around the map and surprise enemies in a frosty new way.

The Block - Omega Pyramid
The Block is now a Pyramid! Drop into this massive structure created by Directingpete to discover the secrets it holds inside.  

Limited Time Mode: Sniper Shootout

Summary
In this limited time mode, players will do battle using scoped weapons only. May the best aim win!

What's New?

• Suppressed Sniper Rifles have been added.
• Legendary Scoped Pistols have been added to Supply Drops.

Mode Details

• Floor Loot spawners reduced by 50%
• Reviving "Down But Not Out" teammates in Duos & Squads is deactivated - be careful peeking!
• Profile Stats (K/D & Wins) are tracked in this mode

Weapons + Items

• Sneaky Snowman
  • Use Primary Fire to throw a projectile that creates a destructible snowman.
  • Use Secondary Fire to wear the Sneaky Snowman.
  • Sneaky Snowman has 100 Health and acts as a shield when worn by a player.
  • Sneaky Snowman is destroyed when its Health reaches zero or when the player wearing the snowman swaps to a different item or building mode.
    • This means that a player wearing a Sneaky Snowman cannot build or use other items. Movement of all types is allowed.
  • Available in Common variant.
  • Can be found from Floor Loot, Chests, and Supply Llamas.
  • Drops in stacks of 5.
  • Max stack size of 10.
• Swapped the drop chance of Shield Potions and Small Shield Potions.
  • Shield Potion
    • Reduced drop chance from Floor Loot from 16.53% to 13.22%.
    • Reduced drop chance from Chests from 14.26% to 9.51%.
  • Small Shield Potion
    • Increased drop chance from Floor Loot from 13.22% to 16.53%.
    • Increased drop chance from Chests from 9.51% to 14.26%.
• Vaulted the following items:
  • Quad Rocket Launcher
  • Port-A-fortress
  • Grappler
• Reduced the drop chance of Gliders.
  • Reduced drop chance from Chests from 11.89% to 4.43%.
• Reduced the drop chance of Balloons.​​​​​​​
  • Reduced drop chance from Chests from 7.58% to 3.24%.
• Reduced the spawn chance of Quad Crashers from 100% to 50%.
• Reduced the spawn chance of X-4 Stormwings from 80% to 50%.

Performance

• Fixed an issue where building would cause a major drop in FPS.

Events

• Added additional dates for Explorer Pop-Up Cup.
  • Updated additional materials gained on elimination to now drop with the eliminated player, rather than being granted immediately.

What's New?

What's New?

Frostnite Weekly Challenge 4 - Cold Chaos
Focus your fire! Enemies gain modifiers when attacked, so work as a team and defeat the threat to unlock the banner and the Guardian's Will Sword. 
Lynx Kassandra
A new Hero arrives! Fast on her feet with catlike reflexes, unlock her in the Event Store for a limited time.

Missions + Systems

• Weekly Frostnite Challenge 4: Cold Chaos
  • Enemies gain modifiers when damaged. Focus your attacks for maximum efficiency.
    • Enemies receive a certain combination of mutators per wave: Quickened, Enraged, Exploding Deathburst, Frenzied Deathburst, and Smoke Screens.
    • Survive for 30 minutes (three times)  to collect the Week 4 Challenge Banner.
    • Survive for 30 minutes to collect the Medieval Sword.
  • Available on January 23 at 7 PM ET.

Heroes

• Lynx Kassandra
  • Mythic variant of the Fleetfoot subclass.
  • Available on the Event Store from January 23 at 7 PM ET.
    • Note: Lynx Kassandra will be unique when the new Hero Loadout launches.

Weapons + Items

• Guardian's Will Sword
  • Rewarded for completing the week 4 Frostnite Weekly Challenge.
  • A large sword with high damage and moderate impact.
  • Leap Attack
    • A Heavy attack that jumps to the targeted foe and damages nearby enemies.

Audio

• Improved Low Health state audio mix so that gameplay sounds aren’t ducked as severely.
• Updated Lefty/Right weapon equip/unequip sounds.
• Updated Decoy deploy and physics sounds.

Known Issues

Want to track the top community issues? Head over to our Fortnite | Community Issues Trello board here.