Fortnite Update: Christmas Save the World Download times, Patch Notes for PS4, PC and Xbox

FORTNITE UPDATE 1

The official Fortnite Twitter account has finally revealed when the upcoming V1.11 update is coming.

Following the reveal of changes and patch notes yesterday, the official account verified that the update will be pushed out later today at approximately 10:00 AM ET

For those of you in the UK, that means the update will begin rolling out at 3PM GMT.

Epic Games official channel for the game also warned that the game will be down "for a short time during the update".

However, it wasn't explained exactly how much downtime would be required to push the new patch through to PS4, Xbox One or PC players.

Equally, it's worth noting that as with all things involving a new patch or update, the downtime can sometimes be extended AND sometimes the update can cause unexpected problems or bugs.

For instance, the last Fortnite update brought with it some major controller sensitivity issues.

So stay tuned for updates and Epic Games roll out the new update to the game.

Epic Games new Fortnite Save the World update is planned to release TODAY, Thursday, December 14 for all PS4, Xbox One and PC users.

This update to the game will roll out with Patch V.1.11, which also includes some changes to Fortnite's Battle Royale mode

However, for this particular story, we're focussing on the changes coming to the games Save the World mode.

“We have a snow-packed update for you in our V.1.11 patch ... we have “The Fortnite Guide to Holiday Survival” Winter Event for Save the World, featuring global inventory, a new questline, holiday heroes, weapons, and an event currency store (hype!),” a message from Epic Games teased yesterday.

The new winter-themed patch naturally contains plenty of bugfixes for the game and small tweaks the overall gameplay, but crucially there's the new Save the World Christmas event.

This new Holiday Survival Event brings numerous updates, including a new Mini-Boss - which is basically a super-tough version of the Husk, Husky, and Smasher - as well as a new Winter survival map, four new hero builds and new Wintery Weapons.

Details of which you can find further down with the games full V.1.11 Patch Notes.

For now, take a look at what some of these new features look like in the gallery below:

Other updates to the game include a new event store, with new items you can purchase using in-game currency.

There's also the ability to play any mission and earn "Seasonal Gold", which can be used to snag some seasonal items. But remember, items rotate weekly.

You'll also be able to access Your Inventory from everywhere, allowing players to manage their storage with the games new global inventory.

Epic advises that players will be able to access their inventory from the menu without having to load into a mission.

Epic Games haven't specified an exact release time for this update on PS4, Xbox One or PC, although we fully expect to hear something from the games helpful Twitter account which shares quite regular updates on the state of the game.

SAVE THE WORLD - SURVIVE THE HOLIDAYS PATCH NOTES

HIGHLIGHTS
The Fortnite Guide to Holiday Survival is here!

Holiday Survival Event

• Help Ray bring the holiday spirit to everyone in the husk-ridden world in this new event questline.
• Earn an avalanche of Snowflake Tickets by participating in the event.
• Players will receive Mission Alert updates for the duration of the holiday event!
• Holiday Survival Llamas are available for purchase (1000 Snowflake Tickets.)
• Be on the lookout for secret holiday-themed activities!
• With the end of the Mutant Storms event, every 1,000 unspent Storm Tickets will be converted to a storm llama that will be available in their loot tab. All other unspent tickets will be lost after this event is over.

Mini-Boss

• These are super-tough versions of the Husk, Husky, and Smasher that have up to four randomized gameplay modifiers attached.
• Mini-Bosses can appear in many different mission types, indicated by new Mini-Boss Mission Alerts that appear on the theater map.
• These new Mission Alerts reward event tickets and up to 10 can be completed each day.
• Note that while Mutant Storms are also present on the map to provide evolution materials, these do not reward event tickets.
• Mini-Bosses will also appear in the updated Survival mode, detailed below.
• There is a new repeatable quest that gives Seasonal Gold each time you manage to take out a Mini-Boss in a successful mission.
• Look for this feature to expand in the future!

Survive the Storm

• We have listened to player feedback and present to you the improved Survive the Storm mode:
• New Winter survival map, with festive trees, snow and a mountain vista.
• Players now have the ability to skip the day by voting.
• There are now two versions of Survival: 3-day and 7-day.
• No voting to extend, just show up prepared to fight!
• New generators
• Vindertech upgraded the traditional generators. They are more resilient but cannot be fixed in the field.
• Generator placement spots differ from game to game.
• New enemies
• Expect a Mini-Boss to drop in the fight on days 3 and 7.
• Adjusted and rebalanced difficulty, resourcing and rewards.
• 3-day and 7-day Survival Mission Alerts award Snowflake Tickets (scaled by difficulty.)
• 3-day Survival Mission Alerts
• Every day, the first three missions grant bonus loot.
• 7-day Survival Mission Alerts
• Every day your first mission win grants bonus loot.
• Snowflake Tickets can continue to be earned during Survival Mode after the Mission Alert quota has been reached but at a much smaller rate.
• Grab yourself a stocking stuffer! Holiday Survival Banners can be earned by completing Survive the Storm event quests.

Holiday Heroes

• Four new hero builds are in town for the holiday event.
• Sarah Claus: Alchemist - Gradually regenerates health through melee combat while wearing down enemies with corrosion.
• Blitzen BASE Kyle: Warden - Heals himself during melee combat, has Hardware weapon boosts, and has a BASE that regenerates the health of allies who stand inside it.
• Snow Stalker Jonesy: Demolisher - Specializes in fighting crowds of enemies with explosive shells and grenades that regenerate more quickly in combat.
• Fragment Flurry Jess: Reclaimer - Fragment specialist with an energy beam equipped TEDDY who can charge their abilities by defeating enemies in combat.
• In addition to finding these heroes in Holiday Survival Llamas:
• Legendary Sarah Claus is available in the Event Store.
• Epic Jonesy, Epic Jess, and Legendary Kyle are available via quests.

Wintery Weapons

Ralphie’s Revenge - A low-damage sniper rifle with a MASSIVE headshot multiplier. Remember to wear eye protection!
Available in the Event Store.
Frostbite - A wintery sniper rifle that deals Water damage and gets a damage bonus after headshot streaks.
Earned by completing Survival mission quests.
Snowball Launcher - Fires snowballs that damage and snare groups of enemies.
Winter storyline quest reward.

Vacuum Tube Weapon Set

In addition to the above, we’re also introducing the Vacuum Tube Weapon Set! These electrified weapons use energy cell ammo and deal Nature damage.

• Sniper Rifle - Fires a long-range high-damage continuous beam of lightning.
• Auto Pistol - A shorter-range lightning beam pistol.
• Revolver - Fires powerful zaps of lightning that damage and stun foes.
• Assault Rifle - A semi-auto rifle with a good amount of impact that stuns enemies.
• Shotgun - Discharges 3 quick short-range bursts of lightning.
• Axe, Sword, and Spear - Heavy electrified melee weapons that stun enemies rather than knocking them back.
• Ball Lightning Launcher - Fires 3 balls of lightning that damage and stun enemies in a large radius.
• All of these weapons are available in the Holiday Survival Llama.

Hero Rarity Upgrades

• Hero upgrading allows you to upgrade your Hero cards to higher rarities!
• Players may notice an outfit change when upgrading Hero rarities.
• A new type of resource called “Flux” is used to upgrade the rarity of heroes. It can be purchased from the Event Store.

EVENT STORE

• All-new store with items available to purchase using in-game currency! This store has two sections:
• The Event section has items available for the current major event!
• The Weekly section has new items to check out every week.
• These items can be purchased with new currencies: Seasonal Gold and Daily Coins.
• Seasonal Gold can be earned by playing any mission. Drop rate scales with difficulty.
• Daily Coins are earned by completing Daily Quests

GAMEPLAY

• Access Your Backpack and Storage before loading into the world!
• Players can now view and interact with their Backpack and Storm Shield Storage via the Armory screen before entering the world!
• Use the Backpack screen to equip weapons and recycle world items.
• Use the Storage screen to transfer items between backpack and storage.
• No more guessing where those quest rewards landed - new item notifications will lead you to them.
• Crafting in the frontend backpack is coming soon!
• You can now complete up to four Mutant Storms per day for rewards.
• The Collection Book now offers rewards up to level 350.
• Removed the following mission daily quests from the daily rotation (if you are already on this mission you will still be able to complete it):
• A Little Van That Could.
• Gate Crasher.
• Data Retrieval.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where players could get stuck in the Save the World tutorial after playing a match of Battle Royale

HEROES

• Raider Nomad - A new shotgun focused soldier hero. Get to level 100 in the collection book to unlock him.

Outlander Fragments

• Outlanders now start with the ability to hold one Charge Fragment, down from two.
• However, both TEDDY and Shock Tower now increase this Fragment capacity by one.
• As a result Outlanders with one Fragment ability have the same capacity as before (two) while Outlanders with both TEDDY and Shock Tower can carry one extra (three).

HERO RARITY UPGRADE

• The 2-Star Hero Evolution nodes (located in the Tier 1 skill tree page) have been updated to also include Hero Upgrades for that class. For example:
• The 'Unlock 2-Star Constructor Evolution' node has now become the 'Unlock 2-Star Constructor Evolution & Constructor Promotions' node.
• If you already owned one of these nodes, then you have also been granted the ability to promote that class of hero.
• Added Tutorial Quest for upgrading a Hero’s rarity.
• Granted after the Supply Run Quest in Stonewood has been completed.

BALANCE CHANGES

• Rucksack soldier perk now grants two extra Frag Grenades, down from three.

Bug Fixes

• 'Adjustable Choke' support bonus now properly modifies critical rate with shotguns.
• Fixed an issue that was causing the Goin’ Commando ability to scale with both Tech and Offense. It now only scales with Tech.

MISSIONS

• Quest Items now drop from props or enemies no matter who destroys them.
• Storm Chest duration timer now starts when the first enemy spawns, this is fairer as it sometimes takes a couple of seconds to spawn enemies.
• Drone Salvage mission now gives 15 more seconds to reach the site and build defenses before it crashes.
• Drone Salvage mission now gives tiered mechanical crafting ingredients in addition to its previous rewards.

Bug Fixes

• The "Clear!" quest will now update appropriately once the Med-bot has been completed.
• Added missing daily discovery quest updates to some parks and parking lots.
• Fixed an issue where survivors wouldn’t spawn on Building the Relay missions.
• Fixed an issue where The Storm Chest wouldn’t complete correctly when only one Mist Monster spawned and was eliminated.

UI

• Characters in pregame and postgame lobbies now have a floor to stand on. No more floating!
• New Hero View Screen where you can spin your selected hero 360 degrees.
• Changed the text on the multi-Upgrade-Llama purchase options to clarify that the Llamas do not have a higher chance to upgrade than a normal Upgrade Llama does.

Bug Fixes

• Stat comparisons have been updated to display Build Cost reductions as a positive rather than a negative.
• When a crafting action fails, the crafting queue is cleared and the ingredient list is immediately refreshed to show refunded resources.
• Fixed an issue where the remaining amount of llamas wasn't being shown to the player on the loot tab screen.
• The Proximity Mine node description now shows “explosion radius” instead of “detonation radius”.
• Fixed rift icons not showing up on the main map until they appeared on the mini-map.
• Reduced auto-scrolling of the schematics list during crafting.
• Fixed the Goin' Commando weapon showing up in inventory during use.

AUDIO

• New suppressed pistol sounds.
• Transformer zap sound updated to use new electrical sounds.

PERFORMANCE

• Removed unnecessary collision work on the server to improve server performance.
• Reduced number of objects updating each frame to improve performance.

GENERAL

• Added support for 21:9 displays and any other ultrawide resolutions.