Epic Games Plans to Fix Fortnite Guided Missiles, Peeking & Weapon Swapping

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Epic Games has detailed changes coming to the Fortnite guided missile, peeking, and weapon swapping. Confirmed Fortnite developer “EpicEricSW” posted the following details on the game’s official subreddit.

Fortnite Future Updates:

We’ve seen a lot of productive discussions recently and want to provide clarity around the recent changes!

Peeking 

In v3.4, we identified an unintended behavior with shooting that affected a small number of players. However, when implementing a fix in v3.5, we unintentionally introduced a bug around peeking over structures and edges. The result of this issue is that you would accidentally end up shooting your own structures. We will be rolling back this change in v3.5.2 this week, and we’ll be taking a little more time to evaluate how we fix the original issue.

Weapon Swapping  

We recently introduced weapon equip times. This change was geared towards balancing quick switching between different weapons with low rate of fire (effectively bypassing the drawbacks that make these weapons fair).  
After reviewing your feedback, we’ll be making a number of changes in a hotfix later today:  

  • Snipers and Crossbows do not benefit as much from quick switching, so we’ll be reverting the equip time changes for those weapons.
  • We will be keeping the delay for the remaining weapons with the new behavior – Shotguns, Revolver, Hand Cannon, and Rocket Launcher. Note: All other weapons do not have equip times.
  • Weapon equip animations will be improved in a future update. These are unfortunately somewhat misleading – it’s possible to fire sooner than the gun appears ready, so they feel more sluggish than they really are. You may notice this on a few weapons.

These two changes are an iterative step in taking another look at our weapon swapping and improving it for the long run. Please share your feedback as we continue to work on these changes.

Guided Missile  

We’ve gotten a lot of feedback around the Guided Missile, in particular concerns over fairness and strength of the weapon. We share your concerns, so we’ve put the Guided Missile into the vault while we figure out the next steps for its future.

In other Fortnite news, the game’s April Fool’s Day event was subtle yet fun, there’s a Boogie Down contest that rewards players with their own custom in-game emote, and Epic Games is considering adding a Gun Game mode.

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Kasper Bergmann
5 years ago

Hmm Personally I never had much issue with the guided, But the new weapon swap delay has been a big issue for me. I guess we will see if these adjustments will make it more tolerable. But I would have preferred they would have just removed it. And then work some more on it in the back or on some test server, or find another solution.

Kasper Bergmann
Kasper Bergmann
5 years ago

Hmm Personally I never had much issue with the guided, But the new weapon swap delay has been a big issue for me. I guess we will see if these adjustments will make it more tolerable. But I would have preferred they would have just removed it. And then work some more on it in the back or on some test server, or find another solution.

Kasper Bergmann
Kasper Bergmann
5 years ago

Hmm Personally I never had much issue with the guided, But the new weapon swap delay has been a big issue for me. I guess we will see if these adjustments will make it more tolerable. But I would have preferred they would have just removed it. And then work some more on it in the back or on some test server, or find another solution.

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