The volcano has erupted, forever changing some of the most famous locations on the map. There are new areas to explore, new goodies to acquire, and a brand new battle pass. All of this can only mean one thing: Fortnite Season 9 starts today.
One of the new features sure to catch your eye from the get-go is the new transportation system. Called Slipstreams, these circular contraptions will have you whizzing around the map using wind power.
You'll also find new areas to explore, such as Neo Tilted (because of course Tilted is fine and well) and Mega Mall. Fortnite's getting all futuristic.
There have also been the usual changes to the game's weapon lineup. You'll find a new Combat Shotgun, a semi-automatic gun which holds 10 shells, adjustments for some of the weapons you've come to know, and several which have been vaulted. Removed from the game, for now, are the Clingers, Buried Treasure, Pump Shotgun, Poison Dart Trap, Scoped Revolver, Suppressed Assault Rifle, Thermal Assault Rifle, and Balloons.
You'll also find several bug fixes and improvements (full patch notes can be viewed here) as well as an intriguing addition called Fortbytes. There are 100 collectable computer chips to be found across the island, and collecting them all will unlock special rewards. You can see more about this in the new Battle Pass trailer below.
The patch notes also mention an improved frame rate on Nintendo Switch, particularly when large numbers of characters are onscreen.
Will you be dropping into Season 9 today? Let us know with a comment below.
[source epicgames.com]
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I'm excited. I leveled last season up to 100 at the last minute this morning, lots of fun.
I'm glad the hamster balls are still in too, they are hilarious The new tilted and retail look like a lot of fun as well.
Ooo, sounds fun. Last season didn’t really hold my interest as much, but I did earn enough bucks to pay for the next pass.
See y’all on the battle bus!
Never played fortnite and I have no plan to change this, but I have to admit those events, seasons and world change seem really cool.
fortnite just's got really sad......
@Rafke the community was all ‘get rid of planes’ when they added so much to the game. Epic should have gone the other way and added choppers, tanks and a rip-off of the warthog from Halo.
aaahh yuussss, my beloved fortnite just got more interesting. can't get enough of the game, I just wish it performed a bit better on the switch
But... But... The balloons. How am I supposed to deliver sweet sweet death from above!?
Also, the first few days of a new season always wrecks the Switch. Going to hold off a few days so I can land in an area that's not just unrendered polygons
Even though I got the last season for free, I only played like twice. Maybe I need to jump back in. I like the new skins for this battle pass.
Sick new Battle Pass, earned enough V-Bucks to get it. Funny thing is, I predicted basically every change before the volcano event so um yeah...
Also, we though it was good when Tilted got destroyed by Volcano, well now Pump's gone
Actually the FPS and texture loading is the worst it's ever been. They've actually posted on Reddit now to say they're looking to fix it but the patch notes are lying. This happens every time they say they've made an improvement.
Usually handheld is pretty stable while docked it usually pretty bad but both have completely tanked performance wise. I love Fortnite but played 3 games before I had to stop because it was so awdul
@Peterjr1 are you talking about the annoying textures not loading and you bounce everywhere until they load. I've uninstalled it and tried installing it on my switch its self to try fix it and its not helped it one bit. its a joke it came into the game the last couple of weeks
i am still landing into a sea of jagged pixels and missing textures, since they are just iterating on the same framework dunno how that can happen. Would be nice for them to stop adding glitz and reinforce the main gameplay loop. This season is really off to me.
Went back playing Fortnite because of Endgame
@SonOfVon ya I feel the same. I'd wish they would implement the ability to adjust some settings. Like shadows for example. I would turn them off if the option was there and helped performance.
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