Fortnite replace 40.10 launch date, downtime, OG Season 8 Battle Pass and patch notes | Gaming | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Fortnite followers are counting all the way down to the discharge of the primary replace of the newest season, to not point out the launch of Fortnite OG Season 8. Fortnite replace 40.10 and OG Season 8 has an April 1 launch date on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, Nintendo Switch and Android. The replace might be accompanied by a interval of server downtime, which begins at 9am BST UK time and ends at 10.30am BST. Once the replace is downloaded and servers are again on-line, followers can take pleasure in all the new content material.

The information was introduced by Epic Games on X, alongside a preview about what to anticipate from replace 40.10.

“Fingers go pew pew,” reads an Epic Games tweet. “Downtime for v40.10 begins at 4 AM ET (8 AM UTC) with matchmaking ending shortly beforehand.”

The new replace is anticipated so as to add the Chapter 7, Season 2 Super Styles, as nicely extra popular culture crossovers equivalent to a Super Meat Boy 3D Sidekick.

However, the large information is the launch of OG Season 8 and its Battle Pass. You can see the Battle Pass skins on the prime of the web page.

It additionally brings again places equivalent to Lazy Lagoon, The Volcano and Sunny Steps, in addition to weapons and gadgets just like the Pirate Cannon, Treasure Maps, Flint-Knock Pistol and Poison Dart Trap.

Perhaps most enjoyable of all, nevertheless, is the approaching return of the Marvel Endgame LTM on April 3.

Elsewhere, the brand new replace will add options like Text-To-Speech and Speech-To-Text.

“Enable these options in the ‘Communication’ Settings tab and have messages read aloud and use your mic to dictate text chats,” Epic explains.

You can try among the bug fixes and gameplay tweaks within the early patch notes beneath.

Fortnite replace 40.10 early patch notes…

GENERAL

• Axo’s ‘Midnight’ Style could seem with an unintended shirt and visible points.

– Axo’s ‘Midnight’ Style could seem with an unintended shirt and visible points.

• The Overlay Contrail does not seem within the Locker.

– The Overlay Contrail is at the moment lacking from gamers’ Lockers. We’re working to revive it.

• Incorrect “Rewards to Claim” notification within the Bonus rewards part of the Battle Pass

– We’re investigating a difficulty the place a “Rewards to Claim” notification seems within the top-right nook within the Bonus part of the Battle Pass. This is a visible challenge solely—gamers can nonetheless declare any rewards they’ve unlocked whereas leveling up.

• Chaos Reloader Shotgun points with reloading and firing.

– The Chaos Reloader Shotgun could not reload when unequipped. Its reload progress does not present within the Quick Bar. May typically not hearth when holding the Shoot button and swapping to a different weapon on the identical time.

• Morphite weapons could show inaccurate ammo depend on the Quick Bar.

– Morphite weapons’ ammo depend could show incorrectly on the Quick Bar.

• Pickaxes could seem incorrectly after being revived or rebooted.

– After a participant is revived or rebooted by a teammate, their at the moment geared up Pickaxe could seem with lacking textures.

• Season X Umbrella visible results points.

– The Season X Umbrella could trigger grey placeholder textures to cowl the display screen whereas gliding.

• Players could get caught below the terrain when utilizing the Particle Accelerator whereas affected by the Overdrive Grenade.

– Using the Particle Accelerator whereas the Overdrive Grenade impact is energetic could trigger gamers to turn into caught below the terrain.

• Item icons could seem stretched on Vending Machines.

– When standing in entrance of a Vending Machine, featured merchandise icons could seem stretched. This is visual-only; you’ll be able to nonetheless make purchases with out points.

• Zipline close to Latte Landing could knock gamers off.

– Using the Zipline close to Latte Landing could knock gamers off with out fall harm immunity.

• Text chat is at the moment not obtainable in Fortnite OG matches.

– Tapping the Text Chat icon within the upper-right nook doesn’t open the textual content chat field.