Brace Yourself for a More Epic Fortnite
Epic Games is exactly the kind of developer you want when you’re all about the holidays. Today, they announced a Halloween-themed update for both modes of Fortnite. We’re talking about really getting into the ghoul spirit with new skins and enemies. It’s the huge “Fornitemares Update.”
For PvE, players who own the game can explore a new area known as Hexylvania. This portion of “Save the World” will offer new zombies to eliminate, new weapons to eliminate with, and new rewards.”
Where Battle Royale players are concerned, Epic is finally adding leaderboards. Thus, you’ll have the burden of proof when you perform terribly, or that permanent record of your awesome skills. Furthermore, if you like more cosmetics rewards, there will be more of that alongside quality-of-life improvements.They’re available to peruse in the Patch 1.8 Update, the highlights of which you can find below.
Fortnitemares Update Patch 1.8
BATTLE ROYALE – ITEM SHOP & LOCKER
Explore a new and unique array of outfits, gliders, and pickaxes in the item shop. Use V-bucks to purchase cosmetics in the store!
Players can customize their character’s appearance, choose their banner and equip any purchased cosmetics in the Locker.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Introducing “Slurp Juice,” a regeneration potion that grants 1 health and 1 shield per second for 25 seconds.
- You can now customize your character, banner, and equip any cosmetics in the new Locker menu.
- Settings have been reset for all players.
- This is a side effect of the setting changes we made in this update.
- We will work on improving this process for future updates.
- Voice chat comes to Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
- Players will now auto-pickup ammo, building resources, and traps.
- New graphics are visible to players who are caught outside the Storm safe zone, and the storm wall visuals have been updated.
- New Halloween skins are on sale in the newly implemented store, and will only be available until 11/4.
- Use V-bucks to purchase items from the store.
- Character Skins
- Skull Trooper
- Ghoul Trooper
- Weapon Skins
- Reaper Skin – Pickaxe
- The new “Combat Pro” controller config is aimed at keeping the user’s thumbs on the sticks as much as possible so they can make fast weapon swaps and build quickly.
SLURP JUICE
Slurp Juice is a regeneration potion that grants one health and one shield per second for 25 seconds. Slurp Juice can heal players all the way up to 100 health. These can be found in the same locations as other consumables and you can stack up to two of them.
Fortnite is available now for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The Battle Royale mode is also available and free to download on any platform. To view the gigantic list of patch notes for update 1.8, you can visit the official website. Big changes are coming, so be sure to check back for more of the latest as they come our way.
Happy gaming.
SOURCE: Press Release