Fortnite’s v42.40 replace is out now, and it is the final huge drop earlier than Chapter 7 Season 4 wraps up on October 31. It provides two ultimate Sprites for the season, six new Loot Hacks and a Saturday Power Hours occasion constructed round Freddy’s Nightmare glove. Here is what’s modified.
Two final Sprites for the season
The headline additions are a pair of Sprites. The Honey Sprite is the winner of Epic’s neighborhood Design A Sprite contest. Land ranged injury whereas carrying it and there’s a probability a swarm of bees spawns the place your shot hit.
The second new Sprite ties into the horror movie Obsession, a part of this yr’s Fortnitemares lineup. Epic’s notes checklist it because the One Want Willow Sprite. It is constructed for stealing: eradicate an enemy and it pulls their outfitted Sprites out so that you can seize. It additionally knocks close by enemies again while you take injury. The catch is that eradicating it marks you on the map, so dropping it mid-fight offers away your place.
Sprite Mastery additionally will get its ultimate web page. It provides Quack Sprites, which give bonus Sprite XP to each Sprite you carry each time they degree up, plus a new type for the Pixel Polli outfit.
Loot pool shake-up
Six new Loot Hacks are in: Thorne’s Vampiric Blade, Finger Weapons, the Gatekeeper Shotgun, the Looking Rifle, Slap Splash and all Sprite variants. Heading into the vault are Midas’ Masterpiece (the Rift Anomaly), the Witch Broom pocket merchandise and 4 Match Overrides: Tremendous Shot, Huge Growth, Motion Hero and Therapeutic Overdrive.
There’s one steadiness tweak value noting. The Sweeper Shotgun now fires barely quicker. Epic did not share actual numbers.
Power Hours: Trick or Deal with Sprites
Clear a while on Saturday, October 17. Power Hours runs twice: from 2 PM ET (6 PM UTC), then once more from 9 PM ET (1 AM UTC Sunday). Throughout every spherical:
- Everybody drops in already holding Freddy’s Nightmare, which boosts motion pace.
- The Trick or Deal with Sprite variant spawns extra usually.
- Chests can drop 1-Up Tokens and Moveable Extractors.
High quality-of-life modifications
Just a few smaller fixes will matter day after day. Now you can type your Locker by Most Used, Final Used or Least Used. A brand new Like-for-Like Weapon Upgrades choice swaps you to a higher-rarity model of a weapon you are already carrying, so long as Auto Choose Up Weapons is on. A redesigned Uncover display can be rolling out steadily, so not everybody will see it immediately.
Epic additionally mounted a checklist of bugs, together with sprint-while-strafing points, Weak Factors on destructible objects on Nintendo Change 2, and an unreachable Cheat Code at Golden Grove in Zero Construct.
Fortnitemares rolls on
Retailers report new Fortnitemares quests that reward the Jack-A-Nape outfit, plus new Kado Thorne quests. FRVR additionally stories a free Cuddlz Again Bling for finishing 10 “Security in Numbers” quests on creator-made islands.
Different crossovers named by dataminers, together with Hazbin Lodge, Slender Man, Beetlejuice and The Purge, haven’t got confirmed dates from Epic but. Deal with them as anticipated, not assured. The identical goes for the enormous pirate chest east of Sunken Shores. Leakers are studying it as an early One Piece tease, however Epic hasn’t confirmed a collab.
With simply over two weeks left within the season, v42.40 is the final probability to complete your Sprite assortment. Seize the Honey Sprite and save Saturday night for Power Hours.