Epic Games has released a new Fortnite patch and it’s live now. Epic calls this the Fortnite v12.40 patch, with console gamers seeing this as Fortnite update 2.67. Same as before, we’ve rounded up the bugs this patch has fixed as well as what’s in it that Epic hasn’t officially announced.
Fortnite update 2.67 (v12.40) fixes and new content:
General:
Controllers may not vibrate when the player takes damage.
Description
Players using a controller may not experience any vibration feedback when taking damage.
Platforms
Xbox One, PS4, PC, Switch
Discussion
Reddit
Midas’ Golden Touch does not change items gold.
Description
Midas’ bonus ‘Golden Touch’ ability to turn weapons gold doesn’t work when first picking something up.
Instead, dropping and re-equipping the weapon will turn it gold.
Platforms
All
Workaround
Dropping the weapon and picking it up again will give it the Gold Touch wrap quality.
Discussion
Reddit
Battle Royale:
Grenade temporarily disabled.
Description
Update
Following our next game update, the Grenade will remain disabled in competitive playlists to maintain loot pool consistency for the duration of this season’s FNCS.
Description
Due to an issue, the Grenade has been temporarily disabled.
We’ll provide an update when the Grenade has been re-enabled.
Unable to interact with Ollie, preventing completion of Skye’s Adventure Challenge.
Description
Players may be unable to interact with Ollie, preventing them from completing their Skye’s Adventure Challenge.
Platforms
All
Workaround
Allowing Ollie to fully land without blocking it when it jumps should allow players to interact with it and complete their Challenge.
Discussion
Reddit
“Pull a player or Henchman with a Harpoon Gun” Challenge not working with Henchmen.
Description
Skye’s “Pull a player or Henchman with a Harpoon Gun” Challenge may not work with Henchmen.
Platforms
All
Workaround
As we work to address this issue, the Challenge can still be completed by pulling a player with a Harpoon Gun.
Visualized Audio pulses icons instead of being solid.
Description
Description
Visualize SFX Audio will pulse the direction of audio sources instead of showing them consistently. (Audio appears from the correct direction and source.)
Platforms
All
New content via datamining:
Fortnite dataminers are here to save the day! Here are the new skins and more found within the new data rolled out!
https://twitter.com/FortTory/status/1250307967150215170
https://twitter.com/FortTory/status/1250307967150215170
Don’t forget, the stuff mentioned above are via datamined info, and as such, there’s no guarantee that everything will be available or be made available by Epic Games ASAP. That said, at least you know what’s in store.
Source for fixes: Epic Game (Trello)
