v8.30 Patch Notes

Welcome to v8.30 Patch Notes Update Page! Wanna know what's new in this update check out more information below:

Reboot Van 

Never give up, never surrender! Bring eliminated teammates back into battle with the Reboot Van! Drop-in now and become the here your team needs.

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Buccaneer's Bounty Event

Avast ye mateys...Drop-in and arm yourselves during the Buccaneer's Bounty event! Test your skills in a fresh LTM every single day and collect your very own treasure in the form of in-game rewards by completing free Challenges.

• Buccaneer's Bounty Event
  • A different Limited Time Mode rotates every day from April 10 - April 15.
  • Drop-in and Complete free Challenges to earn in-game rewards.
  • Increased the Spawn rate of Treasure maps for the duration of this event:
    • Floor loot: Increased availability from .25% to .5%.
    • Chests: Increased availability from 1.55% to 3.05%.

Limited Time Mode: Fly Explosives

This mode combines the explosive fun of the High Explosives LTM with the jetpack. Take to the skies and blast everyone else back to the lobby!

Mode Details

• Only explosive weapons can be found in this mode.
• Floor Loot spawners will occasionally spawn Jetpacks.
  • Jetpacks are only available in this mode in Battle Royale.
• Reduced storm wait times.
• Rocket Ammunition capped at 120.

Limited Time Mode: Team Rumble

Mode Details

• Increased Eliminations to win the match from 100 to 150
• Decreased the final circle radius from 20000 to 12500 to promote a more chaotic late game
• Removed one minute from first circle shrink time to force combat to occur sooner
• Increased chest and floor loot spawn chances from 80-90% to 100%
• Increased Assault Rifle spawn chances by 67% in chests
• Decreased Suppressed Pistol spawn chances by 75%
• Supply drops now drop two legendary weapons and two additional consumables
• Increased Compact SMG and shotgun drop chances by 50% in supply drops
• Decreased Rocket Launcher spawn chances by 50% in chests and 67% in supply drops
• Lowered Spike Trap drop chance by 50% (resulting in an increase to launch pads and campfires)

Weapons + Items

• Infantry Rifle 
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  • Damage decreased from 40/42 to 38/40.
  • Fall-off damage at maximum range increased from 26/28 to 32/34.
• Poison Dart Trap damage ticks will no longer cause the camera to shake repeatedly.

Gameplay

• All aspect ratios will have the same vertical FOV on Mac and PC.
  • In the near future, ultrawide monitors will be limited to 16:9 in competitive game modes.
• Added separate controller sensitivities for building and editing structures.
• The Glider Redeploy item is now sorted to the right along with other consumables when"Auto sort consumables to the right" is enabled.
• Added ability to cycle Hotbar items while gliding.
• Hit markers are now server authoritative.
• Fixed sniper damage not causing damaged players to play a reaction animation.
• Adjusted how storm damage is applied so that players entering the Storm will have a set amount of time before damage is applied.
  • The initial instance of damage will start 1 second after entering the Storm.

Performance

• Various level streaming performance optimizations for Switch and Xbox One to reduce cases where players see blurry buildings.
• Improved texture streaming performance and memory overhead on Switch.
• Improved performance for Traps.
• Improved performance of the Challenges UI.

Audio

• New separate in-air audio tell for enemies.
  • More of an "incoming" audio tell that should give more awareness when an enemy drops in on you from above.
• Reduced volume of building audio loops while being structures are being built.
  • This sound is now ducked by enemy footsteps and gunfire.
  • Prevents unnecessary noise when lots of buildings are placed in quick succession.
• Slightly increased the volume of footsteps below the player.
• Increased volume of the landing sounds of enemy footsteps.

UI

• Vehicle controls can now be hidden in the HUD Options.
• Added minimum and maximum values to the in-game FPS overlay and added the option to "Show FPS" on all supported platforms.
• Push to Talk
  • Enabling the menu option for consoles.
  • Defaulting the option to Off for consoles.
  • Wraps can now be applied to most types of weapons, everything that doesn't fit elsewhere is now covered by a catch-all "Misc" slot in the locker.
• The health bar for vehicles has been adjusted to now display the health values of vehicles.

Mobile

• HUD elements such as the menu button will no longer be dragged off the entire screen in the HUD Layout Tool.

Bug Fixes

Weapons + Items

• Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented weapon fire from queuing for shotguns after switching weapons without re-pressing the fire key.
• Fixed an issue where if a Clinger is attached to a player and they entered a Baller that it wouldn't deal damage.
• Fixed snipers rifles playing fire animations twice per shot from the point of view of other players.
• Fixed grenade projectile trajectories lagging behind slightly when moving and rotating.
• Fixed traps not activating if a player blocks line of sight with a structure but then the structure is destroyed.
• Fixed Balloon sound effects occasionally playing when entering a vehicle without Balloons active.
• Fixed an issue with single-shot weapons not reloading properly while in targeting mode.
• Fixed Peppers not granting movement speed while walking.
• Fixed Minigun Rev Up/Down sound effects persisting after boosting on a Drift board.
• Fixed an issue with Ziplines after using a LaunchPad that could cause the player to jump higher.
• Fixed an issue with players getting knocked backward when firing the Pirate Cannon upwards.
• Fixed Pirate Cannons getting stuck in an indefinite horizontal rotation.
• Fixed an issue with Boom Bow not showing up with the Visualize sound effects option.
• Fixed an issue with vehicles shot by Boom Bow not playing hit notification sound effects.
• Fixed an issue with Boom Bow having longer than expected projectile trail effects.
• Fixed an issue with the Boom Bow projectile effects occasionally flying through enemies.
• Fixed a spelling error in the elimination feed with Boom Bow.

Gameplay

• Fixed an issue where players would incorrectly edit structure behind them when backed up closed to a player built wall.
• Players dropping in warm-up will not award eliminations if another player caused them to receive fall damage.
• Fixed Traps being hidden underneath certain floor pieces that don't completely align with the grid.

Performance

• Fixed a source of hitches due to spawning weapon drops.
• Fixed a source of hitches due to replay recording.
• Implemented a fix that should resolve cases of invisible characters after skydiving.

Audio

• Fixed a bug where all offscreen enemy footsteps and weapon switches/reloads would be silent when more than 5 players were nearby.
• Fixed a bug where the Boom Bow wasn't playing the correct vehicle damage notification sound.

UI

• Fixed an issue with the friend list was always displaying a notification symbol in the frontend.

Replay

• Fixed a rare crash that was occurring when loading effects when viewing a replay.

Spectating

• Fixed certain items such as gliders not displaying their count properly for spectators.

Mobile

• Improved stability by fixing GPU crashes.
• Fixed an issue that was allowing touch inputs while using a controller.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing players from using emotes while in build/edit mode.
• Fixed an issue causing items on the quick bar to be difficult to drag and drop.
• Fixing an issue causing players to get stuck in edit mode when entering and confirming edits quickly.
  • Also fixed an issue where players could get stuck in edit mode when alternating between build/edit mode quickly.
• Fixed trajectory line for throwable items always being visible when using a glider on mobile.