The v10.20 content update patch was shipped on September 3 in Fortnite. It implements the Floating Island on the map, as well as a new item, the Zapper Trap.
WEAPONS + ITEMS
Zapper Trap
- This item is a thrown consumable and occupies an inventory slot.
- On impact, the thrown object deploys a damaging trap on both sides of a building piece.
- Upon impacting terrain, it automatically builds a wall and then deploys a damaging trap on both sides of the wall.The traps shock enemy players who are within a tile of their face.Damage: 50
- The traps have a 1-second deploy time before they can be triggered.
- When triggered, the traps have a 0.5-second delay before firing.
- After the traps have fired, they have a cooldown of 2 seconds before they can be triggered again.
- Epic Rarity.
- Found from Floor Loot, Chests, Vending Machines, Supply Drops, and Llamas.
- Drops in stacks of 2.
- Max stack size: 4.
GAMEPLAY
- The Floating Island has returned and is slowly making its way around the map!
- Though separated from the land below, it can be accessed via its low-gravity vortex.
RECAP
- From hotfix on August 27Removed the overheat sound from the Minigun.This was to address an issue in which the overheat sound would play longer than intended and/or incorrectly represent the overheat value.
- From hotfix on August 28Made changes to Turbo Building. The details of these changes can be found in our blog post.
- From server on August 29Resolved an issue in which the names of POIs would not appear on the map.
- From server on August 31Resolved an issue with the B.R.U.T.E.'s air stomp.
CREATIVE
Prison Prefab
Flush Factory Prefab
RECAP
- From patch v10.20.1: bug fixes. Unmanned vehicles will again trigger damage traps.
- A large shadow no longer appears while in fly mode.
- Resolved an issue in which featured portals would not respect certain settings on certain devices.
- The Music sequencer will play for both the client and server.
- Vehicles will spawn on game start instead of in the warm-up portion.