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Fortnite: Battle Royale |OT| 100 Players on Epic Battlegrounds
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https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/...50955-v2-3-0-social-issues-downtime-make-good
We told you we appreciate your patience with some of the issues we've had after releasing V.2.3.0, and we meant it. In recognition of that patience, we are going to be providing some goodies to both StW and BR players. Want specifics? Find out below:
Battle Royale:
20 Battle Stars toward your Battle Pass progression
Save the World:
1600 Seasonal Gold you can use in the Event Store
You can expect to receive this compensation sometime after Patch V.2.4.0 releases.
We told you we appreciate your patience with some of the issues we've had after releasing V.2.3.0, and we meant it. In recognition of that patience, we are going to be providing some goodies to both StW and BR players. Want specifics? Find out below:
Battle Royale:
20 Battle Stars toward your Battle Pass progression
Save the World:
1600 Seasonal Gold you can use in the Event Store
You can expect to receive this compensation sometime after Patch V.2.4.0 releases.
Solid compensation, IMO. I was 18 days away from Battle Pass completion and now I'm 16. Helps me out a bit!
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What a bullshit compensation.
We STILL can't use the friend bonus for over 5 days now (at least on PS4), it is still broken, which means it hugely affects the leveling progress and more important, the battle pass for that people have paid for.
Which is crazy cause when you have 3 high level friends, it's around 100% extra EP that you are missing out every single round, which is around 33% of all EP combined that you would get every single round (normal 100%, your 70-110% extra EP and the missing around 100% friend EP), How is nobody complaining about this? It slows down leveling and Battle Pass leveling massively.
Why is nobody talking about this? This is worse than the 2 days downtime. I just don't get it.
We STILL can't use the friend bonus for over 5 days now (at least on PS4), it is still broken, which means it hugely affects the leveling progress and more important, the battle pass for that people have paid for.
Which is crazy cause when you have 3 high level friends, it's around 100% extra EP that you are missing out every single round, which is around 33% of all EP combined that you would get every single round (normal 100%, your 70-110% extra EP and the missing around 100% friend EP), How is nobody complaining about this? It slows down leveling and Battle Pass leveling massively.
Why is nobody talking about this? This is worse than the 2 days downtime. I just don't get it.
The BP you get from levels is pretty tiny compared to completing challenges.
It would also be really hard to compensate those people without overcompensating the solo players. So...... *shrug*
It's better than nothing.
It would also be really hard to compensate those people without overcompensating the solo players. So...... *shrug*
It's better than nothing.
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Its seems tiny, but like I said, it's 100% EP (or XP you know what I mean) Bonus every single round that you don't get. And every 5 Level ups you get 5 Stars, every 10, you get 10 Stars, one whole BP rank.
The biggest problem here for me is not even the compensation, it's more like that this problem is still there, not fixed and not one single person other than me ever talked about this, so who knows when this gets fixed, does Epic even know? If this is around for another week, the BP is anything else than "tiny" that you are missing out here.
Yeah well, I paid for my Battle Pass and with normal daily missions, I will reach around level 65 or 66 and I need this leveling bonus to get the last reward, so it's not just a "It's a F2P game and fine" here, like I said, the problem is still there and that sucks.
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Those are two different issues really, this is just compensation for the server downtime which 4 challenges worth of stars towards completion feels very fair. The lack of friend bonus Xp is certainly a bother, but the stars gained through levels are fairly minor especially at this point for anyone nearing completion of the battle pass which is likely why you don't hear many making a fuss. A frustration, sure, but their compensation feels adequate for the reasons they are giving them out. They did also say there are more updates to come on this subject within that thread.
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That was your specific comment. My response was directly to that.
I can understand the frustration for the Friend % XP issue, but like the poster above said, they are two different issues.
Well that's certainly a take I wasn't expecting for a simple character select.
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Yes, I agree here, was maybe a little bit too harsh in that sentence, 2 BP ranks for 2 days is kinda fair, I agree. With all the Sony problems after that and the login issues at the same time (which was an EPIC problem again), I hoped we would get 5 ranks, but 2 seems not too bad yes.
A few years ago I wouldn't have thought about this at all, but nowadays I really can appreciate any form of diversity, especially when enforced on people.
Isn't it 50 gold for 10 vbucks in the seasonal store? If so, that's like 320 vbucks too. I think the compensation is more than fair. The servers were out for like a day, not a week.
The V-Bucks were only there for the Winter event store, since its ended it just more basic rewards i believe. Its 80 gold off getting a legendary hero though, so really not too shabby.
Oh, I don't mess with the PvE stuff. I just went and did a few things when I needed some vbucks a couple weeks back so I didn't have to put in a full $10.
2 free BP levels seems fine to me...
End of the day though...
- I have everything I wanted from the BP
- I am on track to finish the BP easily even without the 2 free levels
...so whatever reward they did/did not give is kinda irrelevant for me. I only wanted the Sparkle skin and the floss dance and I finally got that Sparkle skin yesterday... The Black Knight+AC/DC axe are just bonuses to me that I might not even use.. We'll see.
End of the day though...
- I have everything I wanted from the BP
- I am on track to finish the BP easily even without the 2 free levels
...so whatever reward they did/did not give is kinda irrelevant for me. I only wanted the Sparkle skin and the floss dance and I finally got that Sparkle skin yesterday... The Black Knight+AC/DC axe are just bonuses to me that I might not even use.. We'll see.
Do sniper rifle eliminations in the new mode not count towards the challenge? I went in and got one quick kill, died, and saw I still needed to do the challenge.
Oh man, just did squads with randoms (needed to get a Top 6 finish for battle pass and no friends were on). I went to the top left of the map, two teammates went to tilted towers, and the other guy went somewhere else. The two teammates died immediately, and the solo guy died a few minutes later (though he did get a few kills beforehand). The solo guy didn't quit to the lobby though, so I wondered if he had the same daily challenge (there were still 40 people left when he died).
So the entire game I don't come across anyone (I parachuted into that area between the junkyard and anarchy acres.
It gets down to the final 10 people, I'm sneaking around pretty sure I've completed my top 6 challenge by now, and suddenly come across 2 HUGE forts on either side of the river near anarchy. I'm just watching it all from a bush.
The circle starts shrinking, so I run up to the base of one of the closer big fort, build walls around it, then tunnel in from the bottom. The guys above are too busy sniping to notice me.
I burrow from below, pop up, and kill all 3 of them with a bazooka. In the madness, 3 others have died as well.
The next circle starts closing, and someone rushes me with their own rocket launcher. I take them out without taking a hit. Final 3.
I build up high with all the wood I've gotten from the final guys, and notice a small brick fort by the river. Throw some rockets at it, five seconds later I've killed the final two.
It wasn't technically a solo squad run since I did have teammates (two of which who died immediately, and one who took out a couple guys earlier in the game), but killing 6 of the final 9 at the end was a rush!
So the entire game I don't come across anyone (I parachuted into that area between the junkyard and anarchy acres.
It gets down to the final 10 people, I'm sneaking around pretty sure I've completed my top 6 challenge by now, and suddenly come across 2 HUGE forts on either side of the river near anarchy. I'm just watching it all from a bush.
The circle starts shrinking, so I run up to the base of one of the closer big fort, build walls around it, then tunnel in from the bottom. The guys above are too busy sniping to notice me.
I burrow from below, pop up, and kill all 3 of them with a bazooka. In the madness, 3 others have died as well.
The next circle starts closing, and someone rushes me with their own rocket launcher. I take them out without taking a hit. Final 3.
I build up high with all the wood I've gotten from the final guys, and notice a small brick fort by the river. Throw some rockets at it, five seconds later I've killed the final two.
It wasn't technically a solo squad run since I did have teammates (two of which who died immediately, and one who took out a couple guys earlier in the game), but killing 6 of the final 9 at the end was a rush!
When I get a game where there's no rubber banding, I play so much better have a great time. But when there is rubber banding, the game gets near unplayable and I always get that "can't build" bug. It's kinda turning me off the game. Especially since I've experienced the build bug as far back as December with no fix in sight.
They did say in a Reddit post its a top priority and they are hopeful for a fix for 2.4.0 this Thursday, but can't guarantee it, seems like its causing them quite a bit of trouble. Might not be too terrible an idea to just take a more relaxed attitude towards the game until a fix does roll out, just logging in to complete challenge if you need them for the BP. Its what i've been doing lately, though not due to any frustrations, just personal time commitments.
Luckily I'm all wrapped up with the battle pass and don't really need to complete challenges.
The competitive gamer in me wants to only play in games where I have no rubber banding, but I also hate getting losses and a hit to my KD when I leave lobbies (before the match even starts) because I get a game that's laggy. IMO you should only get a loss once you're on the bus.
The competitive gamer in me wants to only play in games where I have no rubber banding, but I also hate getting losses and a hit to my KD when I leave lobbies (before the match even starts) because I get a game that's laggy. IMO you should only get a loss once you're on the bus.
Man, I hope the party issues get sorted out. I had a daily challenge needing five top 12 in squads and playing with randoms is the fucking worst.
I did manage to get my first solo squad win which was amazing but it would have been nice to be able to play with friends tonight. *sigh*
I did manage to get my first solo squad win which was amazing but it would have been nice to be able to play with friends tonight. *sigh*
Top 12 in squads is achievable by just surviving as long as the first circle coming in. Just hide in a bush.
Is the XP bug related to the Play with a Friend challenge being borked?
The Place Top 12 in Squads challenge should really just be renamed Land in a tree and go make dinner.
The Place Top 12 in Squads challenge should really just be renamed Land in a tree and go make dinner.
True. I just despise playing that way. I guess if I want to finish the challenge I'll suck it up.
I tried to abandon the squad challenges when possible, but the game seems to throw them at you far more often than any other.
I wonder if you can stack completed challenges and roll them into next season before collecting the rewards.
I wonder if you can stack completed challenges and roll them into next season before collecting the rewards.
A while back it was a meme on Reddit to spread the idea to gullible people that the Blue M16 was better so they would leave Scars lying around. Can't believe people are still buying into that.
No mention at all of the building bug in this update.
When will I be able to get into firefights and have full confidence it will build a wall instead of one of the other shapes, at random?
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/v-2-4-0-patch-notes
When will I be able to get into firefights and have full confidence it will build a wall instead of one of the other shapes, at random?
https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/v-2-4-0-patch-notes
That's disappointing. It's probably my #1 gripe with the game atm.
Speaking of long standing bugs, does anyone else get the glitch where you cannot close a door on PS4?
I saw some posts about it on the subreddit from a couple of months ago, but no one seems to be talking about it anymore. It feels like it happens to me once per game. I like to close doors on two story houses so I can get a heads up while exploring the attic/2nd story or holding up there while applying bandages/shields.
I saw some posts about it on the subreddit from a couple of months ago, but no one seems to be talking about it anymore. It feels like it happens to me once per game. I like to close doors on two story houses so I can get a heads up while exploring the attic/2nd story or holding up there while applying bandages/shields.
Yes, like you it is very sporadic, but it still happens often enough to be problematic.
I get it every now and then, only in early game in heavily populated areas. Seems like it might be a server overload issue?
They did say on Reddit they are working really hard at it and already released one hot fix that reduced it occurring, but have yet to be able to fix it. Hopefully it'll just require a hot fix to fix fully, and we'll see it roll out really soon.
Nah. Just prefer the M16 and even the green burst over the scars. You're doing a good job reaching tho lol.
I also prefer the green tactical shotgun over the blue tactical shotgun. They're just so much more common. Those rarer guns are just a pain :P
They literally mention it at the beginning and end...? :D
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