Fortnite update 2.4.0, or 1.40 on PS4, has finally arrived after a short delay. With slight tweaks to building mechanics, new quest types for Save The World and a new gun for Battle Royale, there’s a lot for all players in the community to enjoy. The updated patch notes are fairly similar to the old ones, but there are a few key changes.
UNIVERSAL FIXES
- Fixes for long queue times
BATTLE ROYALE NEW FEATURES
- Minigun weapon: found in Chests and Supply Drops, fires nearly as fast as an SMG and uses light ammo.
- “Controller Auto Run” option lets players disable Auto Run as necessary
- 3D Resolution option lets PC and Mac users set a resolution for the world without impacting interface
- Spectator count now in HUD UI. You can turn it off too.
SAVE THE WORLD NEW FEATURES
- Cozy Campfire added. It heals players in its radius.
- Context-sensitive menus give you new ways to interact. Schematics and people can be directly added to Collection Book.
- Expedition Types include People Runs and Trap Runs. These are new ways to get people and Traps.
- Rewards have a lower power cost
- Removed Double Llama, Fiver Llama, Six Pack Llama and Niner Llama from rotation
- Rebalanced ranged weapon ammo
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BATTLE ROYALE BUG FIXES
Weapons
- Suppressed pistol: Reduced rare drop rate by 20 percent and reduced legendary drop by 33 percent
Gameplay
- Fixed a few landscape areas that were barely below floor height before
- Players can now shoot through the Soccer goal.
General
- Fixed a client crash that would get triggered by an audio cue
- Fixed an issue preventing players from unmuting other players in the lobby screen
- Fixed an issue causing an incorrect character model to display on the lobby screen
- Fixed an issue causing entire walls to highlight when looking at a door
Performance
- Fixed client hitching which could occur when the Chug Jug was found in game
- Made engine performance improvements to how we process collision overlap events
- Reduced network bandwidth usage when players are walking, and when they are standing still
UI
- Removed an unnecessary button prompt on the left side of the news widget
- Added a border highlight around item shop tiles when selecting them on consoles
- Fixed an issue allowing the old trap picker radial menu to open. This radial menu is no longer used for selecting traps.
- Fixed an issue causing weapon icons to not display properly on the hotbar in some cases
- Fixed a few spots on the map and minimap that were rendered as black spots
- Fixed the floor under the hero not showing up when previewing emotes in the locker or item shop
- Fixed emotes being offset if they were viewed in succession
Art/Animation
- Optimized the colored rarity effect on weapons and items to improve overall performance
- Corrected the drinking speed animation for the 15-second Chug Jug item
Audio
- Improved spatialization of loot chest audio by increasing the audio volume if you’re aiming at them
- Removed the static audio from living room televisions
- Fixed a directional audio issue when another player switches to a shotgun
- Removed footstep audio from dance emotes
World
- Fixed the missing collision on a window asset in Tilted Towers
- Fixed the landscape appearing jagged at medium-range distances
- Fixed flickering artifacts that are sometimes seen on the rivers while riding the Battle Bus
- Fixed an issue causing two items to spawn in the same location near Lonely Lodge
- Fixed some seams in the terrain south of Anarchy Acres
- Disabled the collision on the vines in Moisty Mire
Other Fixed Issues
- Incorrect building piece can be highlighted when quickly entering build mode and swapping building pieces.
- Mac clients are unable to see sniper or scoped AR scope reticle.
- Using Cozy Campfire in the pre-game lobby appears to give full shields above player health bar after exiting bus.
- In-game team player names aren't appearing while spectating.
- PS4 Resolution is significantly lower than it has been in the past.
SAVE THE WORLD BUG FIXES
Heroes
- The Anti-Material Charge hitbox will more reliably hit enemies in front of the Outlander on startup.
- Fixed the healing visual effects not properly being removed when a player is healed from BASE M.D.
Missions
- Husks from encampments will no longer spawn under the terrain.
UI
- Fixed problems working with the in-zone transfer UI for severely overflowed Storm Shield storage
- Updated the frag grenade tooltip to reflect the recent changes to Keep Out and Cluster Bomb
- Update the Cardio Feedback perk tooltip to properly display the base healing amount of 15 instead of 13
- Fixed many incorrect tooltips
Other Fixed Issues
- Legendary Hero Transformation Key has Defender Key image and description.
- Hero and Defender art does not show when inspecting them from the armory.
This update arrives amidst a rocky few weeks for the Fortnite community. After extended downtime following last week’s 2.3.0 update, this one was also plagued by similar issues and network frustrations. Performance has been so poor that Epic opted to give players some free currency as compensation.
As good as it is to see the Minigun finally coming to Fortnite, it arrives with a bittersweet reveal for fans. While deploying the patch, Epic also announced via a reddit post that the planned Save The World Valentine’s Day and Spring On events will be delayed by two weeks. The Valentine’s Day update, update 2.5.0, is now expected to release Feb. 14. While not specifically mentioned in the post, we imagine upcoming Battle Royale tweaks might be impacted by the delay as well.
Fortnite update 2.4.0 should be available now across PS4, Xbox One and PC.
What do you think of the Minigun now that you’ve had time to use it? Are you OK with the upcoming Fortnite patch delays? Tell us in the comments section!
