Fortnite’s new Marvel-dominated season kicked off with a bang on Friday, flooding the island with all kinds of Marvel goodies like numerous weapons impressed by Battle Machine’s skills, Captain America’s vibranium defend, and Physician Doom’s gauntlets. Two of the items–Cap’s Protect and Battle Machine’s Arsenal, significantly when used together with the brand new hover jets–were overly tough to struggle in opposition to, which instantly led to a brand new meta by which you both had these objects, otherwise you have been killed by somebody who did.
Now, simply 5 days into the brand new season, Epic Video games has launched a number of nerfs to Captain America’s Protect and Battle Machine’s Arsenal.
Hey everybody! We’ve made some stability changes to Absolute Doom, please see what’s modified under:
🎯 Sovereign Shotgun goals down sights extra shortly and fires sooner whereas doing so.
🥏 Captain America’s Protect does barely much less injury, would require extra accuracy to ‘hone’… pic.twitter.com/bQzGUb8OXX— Fortnite Standing (@FortniteStatus) August 20, 2024
Captain America’s Protect will now break far more simply (by half, from 500 injury right down to 250, in response to dataminer FNAssist), its throw assault now does 50 injury as a substitute of 60, and it is going to be harder to get it to hone in on an enemy at mid-range.
Battle Machine’s Arsenal, in the meantime, now does somewhat bit much less injury to buildings, and takes twice as lengthy to reload–both by way of the time it takes for the automated reload to start, and in how lengthy it would take the rockets to totally reload after it begins doing so. There aren’t any adjustments to the Hover Jets.
These nerfs needs to be fairly efficient. For one factor, you need to be capable to reliably empty your weapon into Captain America’s Protect and anticipate it to really do something–the defend had made common weapons impractical in most late-game conditions due to how a lot injury it might take in.
As an apart, FNAssist additionally notes that drop charges for this stuff have additionally been nerfed considerably. All of Battle Machine’s objects will now drop half as typically from Avengers chests in addition to common blue chests, and the drop likelihood for Captain America’s Protect is now considerably decrease from each supply.
Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 4, dubbed Absolute Doom, launched on Friday with a battle move stuffed with Marvel characters and associated cosmetics–including two Marvelizations of Fortnite characters Peely and Jonesy. The objects on this battle move are the primary in Fortnite’s historical past to not be completely unique to the pass–they’ll be accessible for the merchandise retailers beginning 18 months after the season ends on November 2.