Mobile end of week update

Hello Fellow Fortnite Players!

Today’s post is going to be an update on where we stand on some mobile concerns this week. I want to start out by responding to a few concerns that have been raised since the release of patch 6.20. The currently reported issues that are new this week that we are tracking are:

• Long load time
• VOIP Audio is low

These are the two newest issues that have come up this week since patch 6.20. Issues that we are tracking since season 6 launch are the above plus: *NOTE NOT EVERY ISSUE WILL BE LISTED\*

• Matchmaking 201 error
• Textures appear blurry
• Storm effects persisting after leaving the storm
• Battlepass and other cosmetics ( including emotes) not displaying correctly
• Use the horn on ATK and Quadcrasher
• The camera becomes “jerky” in some cases

Those are just some of the issues we are tracking. Now I will go over a few points that players think are “Bugs” but are actually not bugs at all.

• Edit button not showing

  • The new HUD has removed the 2nd edit button. This is by design and allows the player to move 1 button and have it show in combat, build, and edit mode.

• Dedicated fire button cannot be removed from combat mode

  • When you select dedicated fire as your choice you will see the 2nd button on your right-hand side that allows you to fire and place buildings. Right now the design is that this dedicated fire button is always shown and turns into a placement button. You can not remove the visibility for this button since the dedicated fire was chosen. You can, however, remove it from being visible by moving it off your HUD into the “extra” button section. This also removes it as a placement button and only allows the left-hand side button to be used.

• Edit “Bug”

  • After reviewing reports it seems there is a miscommunication on our part to explain how editing works. Here is an example: You build a wall and edit the 3 tiles to create a walkway out. You then run through it and want to undo the edit to the wall so the other player can not chase you. In order to do this or re-edit any edited structure, you need to be looking at part of the structure that has NOT been edited. Meaning to return the wall to a full wall in my example, you need to look at the top right or left part of the wall that your crosshairs can hover over. This will allow you to use your edit button and edit the wall any way you like. I hope this explains how editing works, as this is the case on ALL platforms.

• Crouching in build mode

  • So you want to crouch while in build mode? Well, you can not right now :( BUT we are working on it! No hard ETA but this was NOT a bug. It was a design choice as other platforms also lost the ability to crouch while in build mode, but the ability to toggle a setting on allowed them to now do so and we are working on the same for mobile! This is more of an issue when going against cross-platform players since they would seemingly have an advantage as no one on mobile could crouch while in build mode. In a mobile-only lobby, it was much less of an issue.

• Quick building “bug”

  • This is something I was a bit worried to put in here but I know it is needed. I have seen the videos of players sending me that there is a bug where placing a wall while holding down the placement/fire button down. I have been testing this over and over again based on all of the videos I have seen and CAN NOT get this to happen to me. I am trying to see what the issue could be here. How I have been testing this:
    
    • Grab a weapon such as AR or SMG and gather mats
    • Hold down the fire button on the weapon and while shooting press my wall button then switch back to the weapon. The result for me has been shooting bullets---wall is built---moving around while holding the button down walls are still built---- switching to ramps, they are still built while holding the button---switch to the weapon while holding button--- weapon fires.
  • As you see I have tried to get turbo building to not work while switching between combat and build mode but have not yet had any issues. Please continue to send me videos if this is happening, as I am monitoring this issue and will try to keep on reproducing the issue for the team. Also if you have this happen PLEASE REPORT IT! Use the feedback button and report the issue as the subject, “Turbo Build” then describe what happens in the body text box. Reporting the issue gives us your player logs for that game and allows us to get a more detailed report.

One last thing I would like to point out is how much as been done since Season 6 has launched for mobile nearly 20 bullet points in patch notes have been added in Season 6 with a lot of fixes that the team has been working hard on here are just a few of the big ones:

• Interaction bug fixed
• Custom HUD
• Resizeable buttons
• Players can now edit structures while in combat mode while holding any weapon.
• Memory improvements mobile
• The first weapon you pick up will now auto-equip itself on mobile.
• Touch control input now has smoothing enabled.
• Tapping selected buttons on the build quickbar will once again build the selected build piece.
• All elements in the Mobile HUD should now be placeable/movable in the HUD Layout Tool.
• Updated visuals for independent Quickbar slots in the HUD Layout Tool.
• Drag and dropping on the Quickbar will no longer select the thing you drag. Players can now adjust their inventory without interrupting other actions.
• Fixing edit button visibility issues when crouching on Mobile

Ok, so this was a long post! Thank you for reading all of this and my goal is that this was helpful for you all to not only see what we are tracking but also maybe gain some knowledge on how the game mechanics work. I think weekly or bi-weekly updates are something I may do a bit more often to better keep you all in the loop. I also hope that this shows just how far mobile has come in Season 6! The goal is to continue to give players an amazing in game and social experience when playing Fortnite.

Thanks for being an awesome community,

FreightTrain

Submitted October 26, 2018 at 04:52PM by FreightTrainUSA https://ift.tt/2Sm1oO0 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J