Fortnite: Patch Notes for Update 17.20 - these are the changes & innovations

Fortnite: Patch Notes for Update 17.20 - these are the changes & innovations

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Fortnite Update 17.20 is available for download. Epic Games has released the new patch after today's downtime: Fortnite was temporarily offline in the morning. Unlike previous updates, this time the developers have at least published an excerpt from the patch notes. As previously reported, Bugha's Late Game is a new game mode in the Battle Royale shooter. "To celebrate that Bugha is part of the icon series, this mode lets you immerse yourself in the middle of the Fortnite competition," write the developers in the changelog.

You land with your trio on the island while the storm is already getting ominously close to you. Epic Games in the Patch Notes for Fortnite (buy now € 34.22) Update 17.20 continues: "We are working with Bugha to create nine unique inventory compilations, which have been divided into three team kits. Each trio gets one of these team kits by chance assigned. " While playing, you earn the exclusive "Hype" resource. If you collect more than 1,500 pieces by July 28th, you will have the opportunity to take part in the tournament. In the tournament version of Bugha's Late Game, the qualified players compete against each other in their respective region in order to secure a share of the prize money of US $ 100,000.

With the 17.20 update, Fortnite also gets a new feature: preferred inventory slots. This allows you to determine your equipment even better. The preferred inventory slots are in the game settings tab. With them you can determine in which inventory slot a certain type of weapon or object ends up when picked up. You can adjust the standard configuration as you like. "Items of the same kind respect your preferred inventory slots even if this is already full, and exchange the weapon when their frequency is higher," add the developers. For example, an epic sniper rifle would replace an unusual sniper rifle.

The patch notes for Fortnite Update 17.20 also list individual bug fixes. For example, the developers fixed a bug that caused objects that were picked up to be equipped automatically in some cases. In addition, zip lines and cracks are now available again. You can find out what changes at Save the World on the Epic Games website. For example, the fourth birthday of Save the World is on July 25th. Attend the festivities to receive birthday llamas, which can include heroes and sketches from all previous seasons. There are also further orders and heroes.





Fortnite 17.20 Patch Notes Include Fixes To Rifts, Ziplines, And More

Fortnite update 17.20 has arrived and as you'll see in the 17.20 patch notes, it's more a bug-fixing patch than a content update. The 17.10 patch added lots of new gameplay features like Abductors and the Mothership, but this time Epic is focused on repairing a few broken parts of the game, such as Rifts and Ziplines, which were both disabled earlier this season. Here's all you need to know about Fortnite update 17.20.


At the top of the list is something that was announced yesterday: Bugha's Late Game, a limited-time tournament that will run between today, July 20, through July 28, offering $100,000 prize pools to different regions of the competition.


Bugha won the first-ever Fortnite World Series in 2019 at the young age of 16, and this week will be immortalized with his own Fortnite skin and tournament. While many will elect not to compete in the Bugha's Late Game tournament, another part of the patch will have widespread implications. Preferred item slots have arrived after being detailed last week.


With Preferred Item Slots, you can trust your newly acquired weapons, throwables, and healing items to immediately be placed where you like them in their five-slot personal inventory. If, like me, you spend some of each match separating your Slurp Juice and Bandages from your Assault Rifle and Fireflies, this new update will automatically do that work for you based on preferences you can set in the game's menus between rounds of battle royale.


You can assign your own preferred item slots in the menus between rounds, or acquaint themselves with the default version of this new feature. The default active configuration for item slots 1-5 is '1) Assault Rifle | 2) Shotgun | 3) Unassigned | 4) Unassigned | 5) Consumable.' Either way, where items go in one's inventory will now be more predictable, which should make it easier to shuffle between weapons and items in the heat of battle.

Sorting your inventory is now simpler thanks to Fortnite update 17.20.Sorting your inventory is now simpler thanks to Fortnite update 17.20.

A slew of bug fixes has also come with the new patch. Here's that in full:

  • Fixed an issue that caused us to disable Ziplines. Ziplines are now re-enabled.
  • Fixed an issue that caused us to disable Rifts obtained from vendors. Vendor Rifts are now re-enabled.
  • Fixed an issue involving items being automatically equipped in certain cases when picked up.
  • Fixed an issue involving the Grimey Outfit’s reactivity not working.
  • Fixed an issue involving the button for Arena Division/tournament details being unresponsive on controller.
  • Fixed an issue involving the ‘Hold Inventory button’ Crafting menu shortcut not working.
  • With Ziplines and Rifts both returning, you can once more move about Apollo in fun and sometimes life-saving ways. Datamines emerging from this update point to two weeks of leaks, which suggests Fortnite update 17.30 may be coming three weeks from now, but we'll know more as we get closer to that time. Until then, update 17.20 is now live on all platforms.


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