‘Fortnite’ Patch Notes: Here Are The Changes In Chapter 2’s New Update

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I’m not sure if this is going to be the policy going forward, but Epic seems to be doing something interesting here in Fortnite chapter 2. We saw this after the first update, and now we’re seeing it again: the developer is declining to release official patch notes, instead just asking people to go forth, conquer, and see what’s new. Today’s update is quite light, so it’s possible that we’ll be returning to full-scale patch notes in the future. So far, however, this season has been a black box as far as what the changes actually are, leaving us to figure things out on our own. Which is kind of interesting! So, in lieu of official Patch notes, let’s check out what sorts of changes

The major thing here is a big XP buff. Epic sold this season as less grindy than before, but people seem to have quickly figured out that it’s actually remarkably more grindy, with a modified experience system that de-emphasizes challenges and requires a ton more gameplay to actually move through the battle pass. Epic seems to be taking steps to ameloriate this: we’re seeing large buffs to medals and in-game actions, which should go a long way towards helping the situation. We’ll need a moment more to figure out what this actually means with how long it takes to level the pass, but so far it’s nice to see that Epic is responding to the situation,

That definitely seems like the big one: we don’t have any major map changes or new items, though it’s possible that the map has evolved in some way that we haven’t yet noticed, but for now Epic seems to want to both slow down the furious update pace from years past and give us time to play around with what we already have in the game. Which is good news: weekly items had a way of flattening the excitement of the game, and now we’re genuinely waiting to see what we get next.

Other than that, there do seem to be some bug tweaks and minor fixes, and likely far more than we’re seeing so far. Fortnite Insider has a run-down on all of that, so go over there to see what’s what.

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