Epic Games Korea (CEO Park Seong-cheol) announced on the 5th that it introduced a new Chapter 4 Season 1 to ‘Fortnite’.
In Chapter 4, 5 new areas have been added, including ‘Shattered Slabs’ where you can get ‘Kinetic Ore’. You can increase your power through ‘reality augmentation’, and you can move or play in new ways, such as mountain biking, rolling in snowballs, and levitating with a shockwave hammer.
Maps such as ‘Citadel’, a castle ruled by Ageless, ‘Anvil Square’, a peaceful village located in the forest, and ‘Frenzy Fields’, an abandoned farm, appear. With ‘Kinetic Ore’ obtained from the ‘Shattered Slabs’ mining facility, you can strategically attack enemies by creating magical effects. Also, in Brutal Bastion, the headquarters of snow-covered warriors, hitting the snow with a pickaxe creates a ‘snowball’, and it is also possible to attack enemies by jumping into the snowball and rolling.
This season introduces ‘reality augmentation’ as a new enhancement element. You can increase your power by choosing one of two reality augments that are presented periodically and randomly during the match. Reality Augment is 22, and you can use ‘light fingers’ that speed up the reloading of small bullet weapons, ‘mechanical archers’ that give you mechanical explosive bows and mechanical shockwave bows, and ‘aerialists’ that let you redeploy your glider for the rest of the match.
A variety of weapons and items have also been added. You can use weapons such as ‘Excalibur Rifle’, ‘Thunder Shotgun’ and ‘Maven Automatic Shotgun’, including ‘Shock Wave Hammer’ that can damage and blow opponents away at the same time. The healing items ‘Slap Berry’ and ‘Slap Juice’ increase effective HP and increase the duration of energy regeneration. Also, if you come into contact with ‘Sky Jellyfish’ floating around the map, you can increase your effective HP. You can ride a ‘Trail Thrasher’, a mountain bike, and perform stunts or use weapons while moving.
The Chapter 4 Season 1 Battle Pass has also been revealed. If you purchase it, ‘Selene’ will be unlocked immediately. Collaboration costumes such as ‘Doom Slayer’ from the Doom series and ‘Geralt of Rivia’ from The Witcher series, as well as Fortnite’s own IP ‘Ageless’, ‘Masai’, ‘Dusty’ and ‘Nezumi’ costumes are also unlocked. can do.
Unreal Engine 5.1, the latest version of Unreal Engine 5, is applied to Chapter 4, allowing users to experience truly next-generation high-quality games. Innovative features such as Nanite, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Map, and Temporal Super Resolution allow millions of polygons to be rendered at 60 fps, and realistic light and shadow to be realized to enjoy next-generation visual quality. It was applied to PC, PlayStation (PS) 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Fortnite Battle Royale for cloud gaming.
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