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Fortnite Battle Royal – Everything You Need to Know

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The current fortnite map

The Details

 Weaponless players airdrop from a “Battle Bus” that crosses the game’s map players will jump out of the bus pick up weapons and fight to be the last one standing and get a victory royal. This game is for one to play alone, in a duo, or in a squad, usually consisting of three or four players. At the start of the match, you are spawned onto a small island off of the main island, this is not the actual game, it is just like a waiting room for 100 players to join. After all of the players join, there is a ten-second countdown till you are teleported to the battle bus which flies over the island and you can jump out of the battle bus and skydive towards the larger island. After landing you pick up weapons (They are guns), and shoot people with the guns until they are eliminated (It is not gory at all, and when you lose all hp you don’t die a drone appears and sucks you into oblivion!!!!). Each player starts with 100 health and once you get into the game you can get up to 100 shields which is another health bar, allowing you to get 200 health. Getting shot will deplete this before the real health bar. If you are damaged but you survive there is a way to regenerate health using bandages and med kits. 

The Amount of People That Play

 Epic confirmed that in 2020, there were over 350 registered players on Fortnite. In 2021, the number of users had risen to more than 400 million and over 350 million in 2022. For 2023, these figures have not yet been released, but are expected to follow the theme and break more records by pushing to over 500 million, when revealed in 2024.

Weapons and Their Descriptions

Common is the least powerful version of any weapon its stats will be the lowest, next is uncommon being a little better than common, after that is rare being the middle rarity is is better than common and uncommon, next is epic being better than common and uncommon, and rare, then we have  legendary This is the second most powerful version having much better damage, fire rate, and other stats than common and uncommon, and rare, and epic. Finally we have mythic! The most powerful rarity having the best stats.   

These are the new guns and items released in season 5 episode 1 and there stats

P.S. these are the stats of the common versions except for ballistic shield, grapple blade, EMP stealth camo, 

  • Ranger Pistol-A small gun that fires multiple bullets in a row, with little ammo that does around 15 damage body shot, 
  • Reaper Sniper Rifle-snipers are high damage slow shooting weapons: DPS 55.65-damage 105-mag size 3-fire rate 0.53 
  • Hyper SMG-SMG/sub machine guns are fast shooting medium damage weapons dps 192 – reload speed 1.8 secs-mag size 30. 
  • Thunder Burst SMG-dps 159.12 – damage 24 – fire rate 6.63 – mag size 24 – reload time 2.47s
  • Striker AR- dps 186.3  – damage 23  – fire rate 8.1 – mag size 25 – reload time 3.52
  • Nemesis AR- dps 145  – damage 29 – fire rate 5 – mag size 28 – reload time 2.25
  • enforce AR- dps 126.4 – damage 32 – fire rate 3.95 – mag size 25 – reload time 2.42
  • Frenzy Auto Shotgun- dps 152.5 – damage 61 – fire rate 2.5 – mag size 8 – reload time 5.17
  • Hammer Pump Shotgun- dps 72.1 – damage 103 – fire rate 0.7 – mag size 6 – reload time 4.6
  • Ballistic Shield – the ballistic shield is an epic pistol with a shield that can block bullets. This allows you to block bullets and shoot bullets at the same time. – dps 125.4 – damage 19 – fire rate 6.6 – mag size 15 – reload time 1.8
  • Grapple Blade – damage Body Damage. 10 (Grapple Hook) 40 (Blade Slash) 60 (Blade Mid-air Slash) – 
  • EMP Stealth Camo (Mythic hiding Item) – the Fortnite EMP Stealth Camo is a Mythic item, it can be used to go invisible for a amount of time. If your invisibility field happens to get broken and you are revealed, then the EMP Stealth Camo will go on cooldown for 30 seconds. Once this cooldown is over, you can freely reactivate the gadget and turn invisible again.
  • Cardboard Box (Mythic hiding Item)
  • Flowberry Fizz (Consumable/heal) this is a big beer bottle sort of thing that you can use to heal anyone in a about 2 meter radius, it will both heal you and give you a jump boost allowing for high easy movement. movement
  • Cluster Clinger (Throwable Explosive) this is an explosive that you throw at people it will stick to them and then shoot out 3 explosives each doing 30 damage.

The Bosses 

There are 5 bosses on the map that have an insane amount of health, and if you eliminate them you get a mythic weapon, and a medallion. The medallions regenerate your shield to 50 health and in each of the boss locations there is a vault openable by the medallions. These vaults contain mythic chests which drop very powerful weapons.

Valeria-drops a mythic hyper smg-located at reckless railways.

Oscar-drops a mythic frenzy auto shotgun-located at lavish lair.

Montague-drops a mythic nemesis AR-located at grand glacier.

Nisha-drops a mythic striker AR-located at fencing fields.

Peter Griffin-drops a mythic hammer pump shotgun-located at snooty steppes.

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  • Nick WiederFeb 26, 2024 at 2:03 pm

    thank you so much for the guide, I am not very great at Fortnite and this very much helped me out.