Melee Weapon Designer / Melee Weapons

Creative mode now has swords and hammers! Uses the Melee Weapon Designer to customize melee weapons. Here are some examples of the customization options: Changing the amount of damage done, assigning a custom name, equipping special attacks, and deciding if the weapon affects player stats. Keep the following in mind:

• Each melee weapon designer device can spawn multiple weapons with the same customizations.
• When you change the options in the Melee Weapon Designer, all weapons spawned by the device adopt the changed options.
• If you want to create multiple weapons, each with different customizations, you must set up a Melee Weapon Designer for each of the different weapons.

Customize a melee weapon to your liking and use the melee weapon designer to spawn as many copies as you need, which you can then drop on other equipment.

IMPORTANT: Deleting a melee weapon designer device will reset all weapons spawned from that device to their default settings.

The Melee Weapon Designer introduces some complex new functionality to Fortnite’s Creative Mode, which is why it’s basically still in open beta. This means that even after our extensive testing, you’re still likely to encounter unexpected bugs when using the new systems. Please report any issues through the usual channels on the official Fortnite Creative Mode Discord server.

These issues are currently known:

• The Jump Attack: Push Away option does not push players as far away as it should.
• There is no setting for sprint attack energy consumption on the hammer.
• Weapons with the Secondary Action option set to “-” prevent the player from sprinting and jumping when the Secondary Action button is held down.

• Weapons that have the “Low Energy Multiplier” option set to 0% will continue to let the player attack even if they have no energy left.

• Once you have selected a weapon type in the Melee Weapon Designer, the device cannot switch to another weapon type. Instead, you must delete the device and place a new melee weapon designer.

• There is a push away option for all weapon attacks except sprint attacks.

• When players perform a charged attack, they sometimes enter a state where they cannot jump again until they have dodged once. The third strike of a simple combo attack with the hammer does no damage to buildings.

We are currently working on these issues, which should be fixed in the next updates. We are also interested in what you think of the new system overall and what features should be added to it.

Rainbow Royale

As part of the upcoming “Rainbow Royale” event, we’ve added a “Rainbow Royale” flag object to the “General Objects” Gallery A. We have many other great things planned for Rainbow Royale, so check out the Fortnite Creative Mode social media channels to learn more!

Memory display on all islands

The XL islands (extra-large islands) use a grid-based memory display. So anything you place in a grid square will only be charged to the memory budget of the grid squares that this square affects. This feature is now enabled on all islands! This should make it easier for you to balance your islands and take full advantage of the memory limit.

Immersive editing (in first-person perspective)

You can now switch to a first-person perspective when editing your island in Create mode. This gives you a bit more control when placing terrain, buildings, and equipment. The setting for immersive editing can be found in the Quick menuwhich you can open with the Options-button to open it.

As with the melee weapon designer device, this system is complex. Despite our extensive testing, immersive editing will likely still have a few bugs and rare issues that we haven’t found yet. So we consider this system to be a feature in open beta as well. You can lend us a hand by reporting any issues you notice while using the feature.

Team and player limit increased

Your islands can now have up to 60 players or teams!

Server total time notifications

We have changed the way server total time and server restart are handled. Previously, when you arrived on your island, there would be a storm countdown and the storm would eliminate you before a server restart. However, from now on, pop-up messages will appear telling you the remaining server time. Also, the server will automatically send all players on the island back to the Fortnite lobby when it restarts.

More updates

Finished object & gallery updates

• Four new Impostor ready-made objects and three new Impostor galleries were added:
  • Impostor Corridor
  • Small impostor corridor
  • Highjack Weapons Rooms
  • Highjack factory
  • Highjack Corridor Objects – Gallery
  • impostor weapons room objects – gallery
  • Impostor factory objects – gallery
• Four new Colossal Crops-finished objects were added:
  • Colossal Crops Gatehouse
  • Colossal Crops shelter house
  • Colossal Crops Forge
  • Colossal Crops Stable
• Two new Color Choice Galleries have been added to let you customize the colors of foliage objects and grass floors:
  • Color choice foliage – gallery
  • Grass ground color choice – gallery
• Colossal Crops-elements were added to the Boney Burbs-Galleries added and renamed as follows:
  • Prehistoric floors and stairs – gallery
  • Prehistoric walls and roofs – gallery
  • Prehistoric objects – gallery
• A tree growing on the side was added to the finished object Abandoned fortress and the “Abandoned Fortress Objects” Gallery added.

Updates for Create Mode Options

• The option Airspeed two new values were added in the quick menu: 0.1-fold and 10-fold.

Bug fixes

Finished object & gallery fixes

• Fixed a bug where one wall of The Fortress finished object was displaying the wrong texture.
• Fixed the preview area of the Street Gallery A and B.
• Fixed a problem with the resource material of the clock object from the “Boney Burbs Clock Tower” ready-made object and with the border element from the “Abandoned Fortress Walls” gallery.
• Fixed a symbol error with the brick door in the Doors gallery and with particles in the Waterfall gallery.
• Fixed a collision error of the mirror from the Tilted Towers Objects gallery.

Device bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where players could not complete multiple laps on foot via the race checkpoint.
• Fixed a bug where the object manipulator would stop working after lap 1 or between laps.
• Fixed a bug where level instances could not be selected via controller in the Levellader device.
• Fixed a bug where the timer on the HUD could appear delayed when using different duration settings on two timer devices.
• Fixed a bug where the guard spawn point had the wrong memory cost for all guard types.
• Fixed a bug where the wild animal spawn point did not appear after selecting it in the creative inventory.
• Fixed a bug where the values of the last five scoreboard columns were displayed incorrectly in the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to freeze when the player changed options in the Customize-Conquest item spawn point window scrolled.
• Fixed a bug that caused the option Zone size of the player counter could not be reset to the default value after changing this value.
• Fixed a bug where the wild animal spawn point could not be placed on personal creative mode islands.
• Fixed a bug where the damage range field did not affect classes.
• Fixed a bug where no warning appeared when resizing the level instance device.
• Fixed a bug where the item spawn point device only spawned the last registered item when the option Random spawn was enabled.
• Fixed a bug that could cause the Kugler’s grapple to trigger significant synchronization errors in certain situations.
• Fixed a bug where changes caused by the HUD control device persisted even after deleting the device.
• Fixed a bug where the message on a billboard device was partially hidden when setting a text size above 12.
• Fixed a bug that caused the options Assign when receiving and Remove on receipt of sometimes caused the tracker device HUD to remain on the screen and display duplicate entries.

Island bug fixes

• Fixed a bug where game settings were not saved on personal player islands.
• Fixed a bug that made it difficult for players to place traps on Survival Island floors.
• Fixed a bug where multiple traps could only be placed on floors in Creative Mode when looking up.

Gameplay bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused a player who was being interrogated to animate incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug where input icons did not appear when trying to climb or slide.
• Fixed a bug where players could not edit after leaving and rejoining a session in creative mode.