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Fortnite’s 2nd Birthday
Celebrate two years of Fortnite with Birthday-themed Quests and a Hero!


Birthday Llama
Open a Birthday Llama filled to the brim with Heroes and weapons from the past year of Fortnite events!

Missions + Systems

• Quests, missions alerts, and daily login rewards will now grant X-Ray Tickets instead of V-Bucks to players who are non founders. Paid Founders will not be affected by this change. 
• Celebrate Fortnite’s second birthday with these sweet Birthday Quests:
  • Earn the new Birthday Brigade Jonesy Hero by completing a quest to eliminate Cake Sploders in successful missions. Be careful to avoid their exploding pastries!
  • Earn Summer Tickets by collecting delicious-looking birthday cakes in successful missions. This quest is repeatable, so eat up!
• Hero Loadouts have been added as rewards for completing Storm Shield Defense 10 in Stonewood, Plankerton, Canny Valley, and Twine Peaks.

Note: We teased a feature that’s coming over the course of Season 10… Take a look!

Bug Fixes

• Time Cheats will now spawn more reliably in Wargames.
• Traps no longer visually persist after their durability runs out in Wargames. 
  • Bad traps will be cleared every time the Storm Shield is entered. 
• Sound now correctly plays when standing near the edge of a Storm Shield.
• Acid Pools now display correctly when the Acid Pool Mutator is active.
• The Hexed statues in the Hexed Wargames Simulation no longer pop out of visibility. 

UI

• The Event popup menu in the quest tab now scales properly for all resolutions.

Bug Fixes and Adjustments 

• Storage in the Armory now shows 5 items per line again instead of 3.
• The ‘Equip’ button will now display properly on the Backpack screen if using hotkeys to swap out weapons. 
• The inventory screen was showing the wrong item details in some situations.
• Text was flickering in the storm shield menu in some languages.
• Transform keys now display correctly if players have 1000+ keys.
• Fixed an issue when inspecting an X-Ray Llama to show the correct options. 
• Wargame Simulation and Challenge boxes now have scrolling sounds when selecting them while using a controller.
• Incorrect text rewards would display if the skip button was pressed after leveling up on the Victory Screen. 
• The commander xp screen during the mission rewards cycle now properly displays banners on console. 
• Inspecting currency earned from Llamas will now show the amount of currency gained instead of the total amount of currency owned.
• Mission Rewards list arrows were not updating immediately, leading to some cases where it was showing at inappropriate times.
• Removed an extra prompt from some notifications such as friend requests received in zone.
• The top of the scroll bar in the Llama reward screen is now draggable. 

Performance

• Improved performance of the in-game mission objective UI.
• Improved performance when changing tabs in the Schematic menu.

Bug Fixes

• Removed some hitches that were occuring during tutorial dialogs.
• Removed a hitch while going into the Save the World map for the first time.

Heroes

• We’ve added a new birthday-themed Hero!
  • Birthday Brigade Jonesy is all about survival… and cake sprinkles. He seems to really enjoy sprinkles.
  • Standard Perk: Survivalist
    • Eliminations heal you for 39 base Health over 3 seconds. Duration refreshes with additional eliminations.
  • Commander Perk: Survivalist+
    • Eliminations heal you for 117 base Health over 3 seconds. Duration refreshes with additional eliminations.
  • Earn Birthday Brigade Jonesy by completing the new Sploding Husks quest.
• 8-Bit Demo returns to the Event Store!  
  • Standard Perk: Enduring Machine 
    • After ability cast, weapons lose 40% less Durability for the next 2 uses. 
  • Commander Perk: Enduring Machine+  
    • After ability cast, weapons lose 40% less Durability for the next 6 uses. 
  • Available in the Event Store starting July 17 at 8 PM Eastern Time.
• Fossil Southie is now eligible for an item reset.
  • This is due to the issue in v9.30 which caused the Saurian Focus perk to grant the same bonus as the Commander Perk even when slotted in a non-Commander Slot.

Bug Fixes

• The Hero Perks Mad Tidings and Start Up were not properly resetting upon weapon overheat. 
• The Hero Perk Enduring Machine was not working correctly for melee weapons.
• Commander Perks Cascade and Fan of Stars now work correctly.
• Fire sound effects persisted after using Dragon Slash while using the Fire of the Dragon Hero Perk.
• The Fourth of July heroes can be retired and now take up inventory space.

Weapons + Items

• Smash 2nd Year Birthday Llamas to celebrate a year worth of loot!
  • The new 2nd Year Birthday Llama is available in the Loot tab of the Save the World Store for 1000 summer tickets.
  • The Birthday Llama is stuffed with the greatest hits of Heroes and weapons from the 2nd year of Fortnite events!
  • Each Llama contains at least one weapon and one Hero with at least one of those two being a Legendary or Mythic variant.
  • Available for two weeks, starting July 16 and ending on August 1.
    • Summer Tickets will not be converted to Birthday Llamas after the Season ends. Any remaining tickets will be converted into Sci-fi Llamas.

Bug Fixes

• Upgrading the Gammatron 9000 from epic to legendary rarity now works correctly.
• Defenders now shoot the Boom Bow at the correct fire rate. 
• Reduced the Boom Bow's displayed fire rate in order to correct the DPS number shown in the UI. 
  • This will not affect the actual fire rate of the Boom Bow.
• The Campfire trap now correctly heals any nearby damaged Defenders.
• Fixed an issue with traps in Storm Shields not applying their health and healing perks.
• Fixed elemental alterations not showing correctly for the following weapon sets:
  • Flintlock
  • Medieval
  • Military
  • RatRod
  • Scavenger
  • Steampunk
• The banner gadget no longer permanently colors structures blue.

Gameplay

• Corrected an issue with sploder propane tanks rotating back and forth while bouncing.

Bug Fixes

• Defenders will now properly return the weapons they use once a mission is completed. 
• Allow trap cycling when B.A.S.E. is equipped.
• Husks remain illuminatefter being frozen.
• Players should no longer appear in the DBNO state during the Victory Screen.