Patch Notes for Fortnite v8.01 - Buried Treasure, Bottle Rockets vaulted, and more

What’s New?

Buried Treasure
Follow the map to uncover hidden loot across the island! Find the X that marks the spot and get to digging.

Gameplay

• Increased the angle at which you can slide down terrain without taking damage from 65 degrees to 75 degrees.

Limited Time Mode: Slide Duos

Summary
Ice blocks on everyone's feet, infinite ammo Grapplers in everyone's inventory - a recipe for a slippery good time!

Mode Details

• Friction greatly lowered.
• Max run speed greatly raised.
• Falling damage removed.
• Infinite ammo Grapplers added to everyone's inventory.

Weapons + Items

• Buried Treasure
  • It’s a map that is used to track down buried chests on the map.
    • Chests contain a trove of legendary loot.
    • X marks the spot! The chest must be dug up using a pickaxe.
  • There is a limit of one map held at a time.
  • Legendary Rarity.
  • Can be found from Floor Loot and Chests.
• Reduced Infantry Rifle availability
  • Reduced the chance of receiving an Infantry Rifle from Chests from 14.41% to 13.39%
  • Reduced the chance of receiving an Infantry Rifle from Floor Loot from 2.41% to 2.24%
• Reduced Clinger availability
  • Reduced the chance of receiving Clinger’s from Chests from 9.42% to 5.52%
  • Reduced the chance of receiving Clinger’s from Floor Loot from 1.27% to 1.02%
• Vaulted
  • Bottle Rockets

Events

• New Tournament: Gauntlet Solo Test Event & Gauntlet Duo Test Event
  • We are running a new type of tournament as a test of several format updates.
  • Extended Hours: This event consists of a single session which lasts until March 9th 00:00 GMT.
    • Due to the extended hours for this event, Duo players will each have their own score that remains when changing partners.
    • Note: Due to the playlist featuring matchmaking based on your score, the quality or availability of matches may differ at certain times of day.
  • Updated Scoring:
    • Match Limit: None
    • Bus Fare: -2 Points
      • Each match played will reduce your score by two points in the form of a ‘Bus Fare’ at the start of the match.
      • Tournament scores cannot go into the negatives - at the end of a match, if a player has a negative score for the tournament then their score will be reset to zero points.
    • Victory Royale: +3 Points (+10 Total)
    • 2nd - 5th: +2 Points (+7 Total)
    • 6th - 10th: +2 Points (+5 Total)
    • 11th - 25th: +3 Points (+3 Total)
    • Each Elimination: +1 Point
  • Matchmaking:
    • Players are still matchmade against opponents with similar point totals.
    • Matchmaking will wait for up to 8 minutes before creating a match with the closest players available.
    • Matchmaking will search in a considerably wider points range after 4 minutes of searching.
  • At the conclusion of the Gauntlet Test Event, the Top 5% of players based on their final score will unlock the ‘Gauntlet Finals’ tournament.
• New Tournament: Gauntlet Solo Finals & Gauntlet Duo Finals
  • Scheduled 3-hour event, check tournament in-game for your local time.
    • Note: NA East and NA West are now separate for scheduled tournaments, and no longer share a leaderboard. 
  • Scoring:
    • Match Limit: 10 Games
    • Victory Royale: +3 Points (+10 Total)
    • 2nd - 5th: +2 Points (+7 Total)
    • 6th - 10th: +2 Points (+5 Total)
    • 11th - 25th: +3 Points (+3 Total)
    • Each Elimination: +1 Point
  • Top 3000 players in each server region will advance to Round 2 on Sunday during same time block.

Audio

• Improvement to the standard AR sound so that it's not overbearing on the shooter.
• The sound made when a player destroys a structure is now louder when instigated by enemies.
• Footstep audio blends in the above/below layers, rather than binarily switching between them.
• Footstep occlusion traces from the head of enemies when they're above or below.
• Reduced the volume of the Season 8 Victory Umbrella.
• The Season 8 Victory Umbrella now uses the correct sound on Mobile/Switch.

Mobile

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue when pressing the fire button with 2 fingers causes fire action to continuously loop.