Epic Games has released Fortnite update 1.000.089 today and this is for the v23.40 patch. Read on for what’s new in the Fortnite February 14 patch notes.
Fortnite Update 1.000.091 Patch Notes | Fortnite v23.40 Patch Notes:
Update: The official patch notes have been added!
As expected, Epic hasn’t released the full patch notes just yet, though that should change within the day.
NEW EXOTIC WEAPONS
Cold Blooded has sealed away impressive weaponry, but the weapons’ locations are no secret. Heist them from Cold Blooded Vaults, accessible with Vault Keycards dropped from defeated Cold Blooded Bosses. Defeating these Bosses won’t end your opposition, however, as there’ll still be committed Cold Blooded members guarding the vaults.
Once you’ve taken down all the Cold Blooded in your path, take the Exotics ready for extraction:
HEISTED BREACHER SHOTGUN
Shoot your way out of a standoff! This Exotic Shotgun is perfect for destroying walls and cover.
HEISTED EXPLOSIVE ASSAULT RIFLE
Aim down sights for a red hot impact — this Exotic Assault Rifle fires explosive projectiles.
HEISTED ACCELERANT SHOTGUN
Practice makes perfect. The movement speed and fire rate of this Exotic Shotgun increases as you damage enemies with it.
HEISTED RUN ‘N’ GUN SMG
Make a break for it! This Exotic SMG infuses you with Slap then self-reloads while you’re sprinting.
HEISTED BLINK MAG SMG
They’ll blink and they’ll miss you. This Exotic SMG temporarily gives you the Zero Point Dash ability after reloading.
Breaking into vaults isn’t the only way to get your hands on these Exotic weapons, but it’s by far the most felonious.
RETURNING FOR THE ROBBERY
Back in Battle Royale during Fortnite Most Wanted, make a move for these returning weapons:
- Hand Cannon
- Dual Pistols
- Heavy Sniper
- Hop Rock Dualies
- Suppressed Pistol
- Boom Sniper Rifle
Note: Motorboats, Bows, and Bow-related Reality Augments will be excluded from Battle Royale/Zero Build for the duration of Fortnite Most Wanted.
THINGS HEAT UP MORE
Thought you could commit crimes without gaining notoriety?
In Fortnite Most Wanted, opening vaults and eliminating opponents will raise your “Heat” Level in a match — trackable by flame icons in your HUD. When you have any amount of Heat, Cold Blooded members will become more hostile, you’ll become visible to other players on the minimap, and you’ll be more visible to other players in the environment.
Becoming notorious isn’t necessarily negative. In fact, you may want to raise your Heat Level, since each Heat Level comes with benefits:
🔥 Eliminated opponents drop more Bars.
🔥🔥 Your movement speed increases by 15%, and you’ll regenerate up to 100 Health out of combat.
🔥🔥🔥 Your movement speed increases by 20%, and you’ll regenerate up to 100 Health and 50 Shield out of combat.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 Your movement speed increases by 25%, and you’ll regenerate up to 100 Health and 100 Shield out of combat.
Use these benefits to help your heist go off without a hitch.
GET ROLLING WITH NEW REALITY AUGMENTS
Pulling off a caper is no cakewalk, so you’ll want to take advantage of the Reality Augments that’ve made their debut in v23.40. (No unlocking required!)
EXOTIC GRAB BAG
Receive a random Heisted Exotic weapon. (This Reality Augment will remain until downtime for v23.50.)
SNIPER SURPLUS
Your Sniper Rifles will have 1 extra ammo in their magazine. (This Reality Augment will remain until downtime for v23.50.)
KEYMASTER
Grants two Keys for opening Holo-Chests. (Tip: During Fortnite Most Wanted, Exotic Holo-Chests contain a Heisted Exotic!)
LAST SHOTS
The last two bullets of your Pistols’ magazines deal bonus damage.
CRIME PAYS
Any crew can score a big payday — but few become infamous. Completing Most Wanted Quests will raise your “Infamy,” which will unlock in-game rewards like the Cash Stash Back Bling, The Vault Guardian Pickaxe, and the Gold Blooded Ace Outfit. Keep track of your Infamy and remaining rewards by navigating to the Cold Blooded logo tab in the Lobby. (All Fortnite Most Wanted rewards can be obtained without purchase.)
The Most Wanted Quests are separated into five sets that will become progressively available: “Intel & Recon,” “Going In Loud,” “Going In Quiet,” “Cracking the Vault,” and “Clean Getaway.” Completing most of the Quests in one set will unlock the next set as well as a Cold Blooded Medallion.
Collect all five Cold Blooded Medallions to unlock the progressive Solid Skull Back Bling. After unlocking it, evolve the Back Bling by completing its Solid Skull Quests. These Quests, completable until the end of Chapter 4 Season 1, will have you racking up elims.
SECURE YOUR SPOT ON THE MOST WANTED LIST
Participate in the Most Wanted Leaderboards Challenge for the opportunity to earn even more rewards. How to climb the leaderboards? Crack open as many Cold Blooded Vaults as you can after the leaderboards go live! Learn more about the Most Wanted Leaderboards Challenge — and the rewards you can earn — from the Most Wanted Leaderboards Challenge Official Rules.
The Most Wanted Leaderboards Challenge website launches on February 16 ET.
All in-game rewards that can be earned from the Most Wanted Leaderboards Challenge: the GG Flamed Emoticon, Live to Ride Spray, Retro Rivals Wrap, and Clean Getaway Loading Screen.
MORE IN V23.40: INTRODUCING THE NA-CENTRAL SERVER REGION
Today we’re excited to launch the Fortnite NA-Central server region (“matchmaking region”). We’re thrilled to provide lower latency for many players residing in Mexico and the Central United States! For more information on this new server region, check out our NA-Central server region blog post.
HARDWARE IDENTIFIERS UPDATE
Starting in the v23.40 update, players who use tools that hide or alter their device’s hardware identifiers may receive an in-game warning and be removed from the match. Failure to remove these hardware alterations, or additional attempts to bypass these restrictions, may result in an account action up to and including a permanent ban from Fortnite. For more information, please see fn.gg/HardwareIdentifiers.
We will continue to evaluate tools that alter computer hardware identifiers that avoid, or are intended to avoid, a hardware ban, which is not allowed.
COMPETITIVE NOTES
- FNCS Major 1 continues to take place over v23.40! Check the Compete tab in-game for more information.
- Fortnite Most Wanted’s Heisted Exotic weapons, returning weapons, and Heat are not included in competitive playlists.
- The Exotic Grab Bag and Sniper Surplus Reality Augments are not included in competitive playlists.
MAJOR BUG FIXES
- Fixed the issue that caused us to disable the Shadow Striker Reality Augment. This Reality Augment is now re-enabled.
You can check out the changes to Creative and Save a World right here.
Fortnite v23.40 Datamined Content:
Here are the datamined content straight from reliable miners:
The Slurp Juice will be unvaulted tomorrow. Thanks @PerPrip for letting me know! pic.twitter.com/WKGGAAkOwi
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 6, 2023
New Most Wanted Event & Cosmetics:
"Set of challenges that allow you to increase your INFAMY and earn COLD BLOODED MEDALLIONS. Completing quests will grant you INFAMY, and will advance you along the reward track, unlocking cosmetics at certain intervals. runs till 02/28/2023" pic.twitter.com/GGKhso8udS
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
Looks like the "Most Wanted" update drops tonight. Reminder that it has a "Reduce Heat" thing which you spend you spend gold on, kinda like Lester on GTA 5.
So far we have 2 teasers, this poster below and this text: "Prepare to break open the vault." pic.twitter.com/kGSB03CYud
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 13, 2023
This "Gold Blooded" skin is free. And there will be new Exotic weapons! pic.twitter.com/srsjPj8dc8
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
New Lobby! pic.twitter.com/ilSc04gYx9
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
New Galaxy Knight Level Up Quest Pack (via @FNBRintel) pic.twitter.com/ACAihIwD5I
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
New Loading Screens! pic.twitter.com/hSnt0NOeOG
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
New Marvel & Star Wars Bundles! pic.twitter.com/PCItTAEXtU
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
Some New Skins! pic.twitter.com/qSVygyzIaw
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
New Free "Most Wanted" Umbrella! pic.twitter.com/VDxPC8d2bm
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
All new Shop Images! pic.twitter.com/mlPtPu948t
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
All New Augments! pic.twitter.com/SXd0NYOwnz
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
You can increase your Wanted Level for 500 gold and you can also reduce it for 500 gold!
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
New "Axion Sentiel" Skin InGame! pic.twitter.com/mdIKarR9ai
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
STW Pack & FNCS Skins InGame! pic.twitter.com/UBh1HOXWv1
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
UNVAULTED WEAPONS
– P90
– Double Pistol
– Heavy Pistol (Deagle)
– Heavy Sniper
– Boom Sniper Exotic
– Hop Rock Dualies Exotic pic.twitter.com/EWLhrX5xV9— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
Fortnite reserved an itemshop banner for an upcoming collab, and they also added a new "Captain America" set.
MAYBE we get Sam Wilson!? pic.twitter.com/EDqrHyCEIk
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
There's some upcoming thing called "Biome Events", no other info about it rn except the name, but it might be similar to the weather thing we had last chapter. pic.twitter.com/btI7ed6qfZ
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
– Blink Mag SMG: Grants Zero Point Dash for a few seconds after reloading
— HYPEX (@HYPEX) February 14, 2023
Same as always, we’ll update the article with the proper patch notes as it’s released, and we’ll also update it with the datamined content as more are found. Once it’s done, we’ll post an “Update” on the article headline to reflect that changes have been made and finalized.
Update: Post has been updated with official patch notes and datamined content.
Source: Epic Games