New Fortnite: Battle Royale Patch Addresses Weapon Accuracy

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Fortnite: Battle Royale has only been free-to-play for a couple days now but there have already been many complaints regarding the accuracy of the guns. If you haven’t noticed, the bullets don’t really go where you’re aiming unless you’re at point blank range. A mid to long-range battle can end up being very frustrating by both sides since the bullets aren’t hitting.

Epic Games is rolling out a patch later today to fix these issues by boosting the accuracy of several weapons significantly. On top of that, we have boosts to the different tiers of weapons making the higher tiers even better than the lower ones. Finally, we have optimal accuracy being achieved by crouching. There are couple of Xbox One and PS4 related issues that have been fixed as well.

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Expect release 1.6.4 to arrive today at 2:00pm EDT. We anticipate downtime. Players will need to close Fortnite to initiate the update.

12:14 pm · 29 Sep 2017

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The patch started rolling out at 2 p.m. ET and there’s no exact time for when the game will be back online. You’ll probably know when it hits since you’ll start landing shots with more consistency.

Supply Drops and Duos are coming next week and we can expect Leaderboards (stats?) to follow the next week.

You can check out the full list of changes for patch 1.6.4 below:

BATTLE ROYALE

• Balance
  • Adjustments to Assault Rifle.
    • White
      • Increased maximum accuracy by 10%.
      • Increased minimum accuracy by 22%.
      • Increased reload rate by 10%.
    • Green
      • Increased maximum accuracy by 8%.
      • Increased minimum accuracy by 20%.
      • Increased reload rate by 8%.
    • Blue
      • Increased maximum accuracy by 5%.
      • Increased minimum accuracy by 17%.
      • Increased reload rate by 5%.
    • Purple
      • Increased maximum accuracy by 3%.
      • Increased minimum accuracy by 14%.
      • Increased reload rate by 3%.
    • Orange
      • Increased minimum accuracy by 11%.
  • Optimal accuracy is achieved by aiming while crouching without movement.
• Polish and Bug Fixing
  • Fixed an issue that caused a party to be unjoinable after the Host had left it.
  • Fixed issues with players joining lobbies.
  • Fixed a couple of server crashes.

PS4 ONLY

• Fixed an issue that caused login failure after completing the login queue.

XBOX ONLY

• Fixed a frequent rendering thread crash that was seen on Xbox.