Fortnite Season 4 goes live, solves the meteor question for good

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The question on the lips of all Fortnite Battle Royale players for weeks has finally been answered as the servers have come dorsum online after the Season 4 update. Before playing you lot become a little video intro and yous encounter what happens when the behemothic stone falls out of the sky.

Dusty Depot is no more than. Say hullo to Dusty Divot.

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The meteor has wiped out Dusty Depot which is at present a giant hole in the ground, but information technology's not the only new location on the map. Up towards the elevation right is the new Risky Reels, and it looks like Tilted Towers fabricated it out mostly unscathed (there's a pocket-size crater in the middle). The patch notes also reveal a little treat left behind in the various craters across the map.

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The comet has left a scar on the isle... Visit the crater and you'll discover glowing rocks all around. Swallow them and lift off with low gravity!

There's a new Battle Pass, of grade, and everyone gets two outfits this time around as before long as information technology's purchased. Previous Battle Pass owners will become a five-level bonus free of accuse, and again the new boxing laissez passer costs 900 VBucks, with a bundle of the Battle Pass and 25 levels also available.

As always you lot'll first need to buy your VBucks (handy link below for Xbox players) then become to the in-game store and purchase the Battle Pass.

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What Fortnite update would exist complete without new emotes as well. The Boxing Pass has its fair share with Popcorn and some weird trip the light fantastic toe available on the gratis tier and a popcorn emote on the paid tier fairly early on. There likewise seems to be some additional, smaller POIs on the map, such as a new building on the east coast but south of Lonely Lodge.

One thing's for sure, at that place will exist plenty of cosmetics from now until July when Season 4 ends. The level 100 outfit this time around is Omega, a pretty badass looking superhero (maybe villain?). In that location are as well some UI changes which are evident, with the matchmaking screen for solo, duo and squads having a lick of paint.

Fortnite The smaller crater in the middle of Tilted Towers.

There's jump to be enough more underneath, and it's likely servers volition get pretty busy for a while. Notwithstanding, the curtain has been raised, the secret is out and information technology's pretty nice to meet Epic Games treating the Fortnite map as a living object, changing it as time goes by. Check out the full patch notes over on the Epic Games blog.

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