Fortnite fans,

Another week, another patch! This week’s update consists of bug fixes and some long-anticipated quality of life changes for Battle Royale. This will include an option to remove aim-assist on consoles, and more.

Chug Jug 

Low HP? No Shields? Enemies all around? Give yourself a fighting chance with the all-new Chug Jug! Find a safe place to Chug this Jug for 15 seconds and gain max Health + Shields.

PATCH NOTES

GAMEPLAY

• Added AutoRun!
  • Input defaults for PC are “=” and “NumLock”
  • Input defaults for controller is double-clicking the left stick.
• Added a setting to disable aim assist on consoles.
• Remapped weapon binds on AZERTY keyboards to the top row number keys.

• Wooden power poles no longer block building.
• Spike Traps found in Supply Drops will now stack with other Spike Traps found elsewhere.
• The Spike Trap’s effective range will now more accurately match the distance of the spike animation. The damage area was previously too large.
• Supply drops no longer hover above the ground after landing.
• Fixed an issue which prevented the Shield Potion and Slurp Juice visual effects from playing when the player is already shielded.
• Fixed an issue that made Cozy Campfires appear to be active after they have expired.
• Fixed an issue which caused collision of eliminated players to persist for too long.
• Fixed an issue which allowed players to hide inside of supply drops if the supply drop landed on a crouched player.
• Fixed an issue which allowed players to pass through walls as they edited them.
• Optimized the speed at which players can cycle building pieces under poor network conditions.
• Fixed an issue which caused dropped items to fall off the edge of the map and spawn near a living player.
• Kicking a basketball through a soccer net no longer counts as a goal. Soccer balls still count.

WEAPONS

• Improved the accuracy of grenade arcs.
• Fixed an issue which allowed players to switch between two scoped weapons without leaving the scoped view.
• Player’s weapons will no longer disappear for a short time after the effects of the Boogie Bomb wear off.
• Reduced the delay between throwing a grenade and switching to another weapon.

GENERAL

• Shadowplay Highlights now records player knockdowns (DBNO).
• Quitting a match early will no longer award stat or challenge progress. Progress will only be awarded when a player leaves after they are eliminated or have won.

• Players can no longer purchase the Battle Pass x10 Tier bundle when at or above Battle Pass tier 65.
  • We fixed this on January 19th and affected players have been compensated.
• Fixed an issue which allowed items in the locker to rotate on the wrong axis while spinning them.
• Fixed an issue which caused the client to lock up after ALT-TABing on PC.
• While spectating, players will now be returned to scoped view when the spectated player switches between scoped weapons, instead of being pulled into third-person view.
• Brick building effects have been fixed.
• Players can now mute party members from the lobby screen.
• Players banned from voice chat can no longer use it on the lobby screen.

UI

• Added Auto Decline Friend Requests as a new option for PC players to the Social Widget.
  • When enabled, friend requests will be auto-declined. Enabling this option will decline all pending friend requests.

• Friend and Party invite notifications will now correctly appear for Battle Royale players that have never played Save the World.
• You no longer open the fullscreen map while spectating a player with report menu up,
  • This issue only occurred if a player was using the “Combat Pro” controller config.
• The radial emote menu will no longer persist after the warm-up phase if left open.
• Characters pose no longer resets after opening the news widget.
• The ping value displayed in the Net Debug Stats UI is now more accurate. It will appear higher than before for all players.

AUDIO

• Lowered volume of bus music and the sound played when jumping out of the bus.
• Lowered volume of wind sounds played during skydiving and gliding.
• Lowered the volume of gunfire, footsteps, and impacts during warmup phase.
• Removed the “Caw” sound layer from the Death Valley pickaxe.
• Removed some layers from the new pickaxe sounds that could be mistaken for bullet whiz-bys

• Music from dance emotes will no longer overlap.
• Loot chest audio is no longer hushed by pickaxe impact sounds.

WORLD

• Added more loot spawns to Haunted Hills.

• Fixed missing collision on junkyard crane.
• Fixed two areas where players could hide under the terrain by the edge of the river.
• Fixed a section of the Moisty Mire water that did not slow players down.
• Fixed a mine cart in Shifty Shafts that could not be destroyed.
• Fixed an issue causing the soccer stadium to sometimes not load in properly.
• Fixed a seam in the terrain near Flush Factory that allowed players to see through the map.
• Added collision to pillars in Haunted Hills so players can no longer hide inside them.
• Scoring a goal in the Soccer stadium will now show proper visual effects.