In Fortnite today, on January 23, the servers will be down on all platforms (PC, Mac, PS5, Xbox Series X.|S, Xbox One, Switch, Android). Maintenance has been used to upload update 28.10 to the servers.
All Patch Notes for Patch 28.10
Rocket Racing brings 2 new tracks: With update 28.10, Fortnite brings two new racetracks for the Rocket Racing mode. The tracks include:
New cosmetic item for your racing cars: In Rocket Racing, Epic Games has now implemented another cosmetic option – the trails. Depending on how you drive, your tires will leave trails in the form of smoke. This smoke can be dyed different colors.
More colors are expected to be brought to the shop and offered for purchase over time. So keep an eye on the shop.
Improved touch control for mobile devices
With v28.10, touch control for playing Rocket Racing on mobile devices has been improved:
- Both the D-pad and the buttons for accelerating, turbo, flying tilt, and jumping have been visually and functionally improved.
- Automatic acceleration is now enabled. It can be turned on and off.
- To stop, you now have to hold down the brake button. Once the speedometer shows 0, you will start driving backwards.
Improvements and bug fixes
- The overall processor performance has been improved, especially on slower devices.
- If you remain inactive during a race, you will return to the lobby.
- Collisions between cars now cause less damage. We will further improve this in future updates.
- Flying tilts now have a smoother landing.
- Are you a bit nervous before a race? Then shake and swing with the camera before a race now!
- The “Reverse Steering” setting, which reverses steering when the vehicle is upside down, now remains properly activated after being changed.
- A bug has been fixed where players got stuck after a race.
- A bug has been fixed on Android where changing the language caused issues.
New item for LEGO Fortnite – The launch pads: With update 28.10, you can now build launch pads in Fortnite to jump from one place to another. If you jump on such a pad, you will be catapulted into the air and can use your glider.
All updates at a glance:
- When placing buildings, small bushes, stones, and plants that are in the way are now removed.
- You can now build more reliably on slopes.
- Want more building pieces? Floors, walls, and roofs have been given a variety of new sizes and styles, making it easier for you to fill gaps and have more options when building!
- You can now cancel an unfinished construction process. All already placed parts will remain in place, and the parts displayed in preview in blue will be removed, allowing you to still adjust your creation afterwards.
- It is now easier to see if you are currently using alignment mode, and we have added more alignment points to the building pieces so you can connect them more easily.
Village happenings:
- Bush rangers, cattle thieves, and tomato heads can now appear as potential villagers to join you!
- Villages can now be quickly removed with the village square option “Remove village”. This option can be used by world owners and key holders.
- Does a villager want to leave your village? You can now get rid of them by removing their bed and then asking them to leave.
Other things with updates:
- You can now eat while moving!
- You no longer automatically pick up tools (and no longer fill your inventory with unwanted items).
- Crossbow arrows now fly slightly slower and on a more natural trajectory.
- The ability to ping locations in the game world has been added.
- Items are now stacked when stored in chests. This works even when you drag them into chests and when you use “Quick Deposit”.
- Who’s there? Villagers can now open doors.
- To better fit into their environment, rams have gained more stamina.
- You will now receive the resources from jets, balloons, switches, and wheels back when they are destroyed. (This only works for jets, balloons, switches, and wheels placed after this update. Already placed ones do not drop any resources.)
- Fried eggs are eaten faster.
- We have also adjusted the fried egg recipe and the effects of consuming it.
- The required number of eggs has been reduced from 2 to 1.
- The obtained saturation has been reduced from 8 to 5.
- The obtained hearts have been reduced from 5 to 4.
- We have also adjusted the fried egg recipe and the effects of consuming it.
- Consuming food with a weaker stamina regeneration buff no longer overrides an active stronger buff.
- A bug has been fixed where food did not provide the correct saturation amount in certain game languages.
- A bug has been fixed where players entering your world spawned far away from everyone else.
- A bug has been fixed where players sometimes spawned in or under buildings.
- You no longer spawn on caves if you left LEGO Fortnite while in one.
- The respawn button is now consistently functional.
- A rare bug has been fixed that prevented players from jumping after respawning.
- Chests are no longer displayed as floating in the air when you enter a world.
- Boulders no longer shift position when you enter a world.
- Destroyed workstations no longer sometimes reappear when you enter a world.
- Attacks now hit and damage enemies more consistently.
- Sheep, cows, and chickens no longer go over fences.
- Nearby creatures are no longer unintentionally eliminated when the player is eliminated.
- Items stored in chests are no longer sometimes invisible to other players.
- A bug has been fixed where some players could not discover the supply chest scheme as intended.
- Villagers now actually go about their “smelting furnace” work when assigned to it.
- The village square is no longer inadvertently destroyed when you destroy something nearby.
- A bug has been fixed where stations could lose their processed items during rain.
- A bug has been fixed where players in grassland areas near the drought valley or frostlands became too warm or too cold.
- A bug on mobile devices has been fixed where you could not eat after picking up a crate.
- A bug has been fixed where some cacti did not drop resources upon destruction.
- A bug has been fixed where you could not deal damage to certain tree stumps.
- When you start a new world, color bombers or cuddle agents will now follow you to the camp if you walk around the area. They will now also appear as intended every time you start a new world.
- Players will no longer be thrown too high when performing a jump attack on a geyser.
- A bug has been fixed where you could not sprint sometimes.
Stability and performance
- The frame rate when looking at water has been improved.
- A new message has been added stating that your world is being closed and restarted (if you leave a world too quickly and re-enter).
- Stability has been improved, reducing the likelihood of crashes.
- A bug has been fixed where players could get stuck on the loading screen when loading a world.
Physics
- Supply drops now fall in a more natural way and no longer get stuck in the air.
- Large structures are now more stable and collapse less easily.
- A bug has been fixed where large structures could fall through the ground and disappear when parts of them were destroyed.
- A bug has been fixed where dynamic foundations sometimes moved backward when pushed.
- A bug has been fixed where dynamic foundations could not be moved sometimes when re-entering your world.
- It no longer happens that dynamic foundations are out of sync for other players in the game world.
- A bug has been fixed where wheels moved away from their attachment point or disappeared when moving through the game world.
- When moving large distances with balloons and jets, parts no longer unintentionally break off.
- A bug has been fixed where moving objects wobbled and flung players away.
- Pushing objects like logs is now more predictable and the objects stutter less.
User interface
- You can now delete shared worlds from your “Shared Worlds” list.
- There is now a button that allows world owners to remove other players from their world and/or remove their keys.
- Several mobile device user interface screens have been adjusted to better layout the design and button sizes for touch control.
- More icons for using certain items have been added to the HUD on mobile devices.
- The “All Items” menu is now more accessible in sandbox mode.
- A problem with the village user interface has been resolved where the wrong village level was sometimes displayed.
All leaks for Patch 28.10
What’s happening today in Fortnite? Epic Games is taking down the servers for Chapter 5 Season 1 to upload a new update. According to some teasers from well-known YouTubers like Ali-A or SypherPK, famous Iconic skins are now getting LEGO variants (via x.com).
If you missed the trailer for Chapter 5 Season 1, here is the video:
Fortnite: Server Down – When and how long are they offline?
This is the morning downtime: The servers are expected to be taken down by Epic Games at 10:00 AM German time. Matchmaking has already been disabled 30 minutes prior, so you won’t be able to search for new rounds after 9:30 AM.
When can you play again? This is a larger update. It is therefore likely that Epic Games could get the servers back up around 12:00 or even 1:00 PM. But this is not confirmed.
When will the patch notes come? Epic Games usually releases a short list of patch notes on their site after the update. If that happens, we will list them here in a short and concise manner.
What content could be released with update 28.10?
Epic Games barely reveals any new information about upcoming content before a new update. However, this time it concerns a larger patch that has already been described by leakers (via x.com). Here’s what you can expect regarding adjustments:
- New cosmetic items
- Battle Pass Superstyles
- Unlocking Solid Snake and his items
- New shop tabs
- Possibly new collaborations
- Reality extensions may return
- Announcement of the Crew Packs for February
- and more!
If you are looking for something to read in the meantime, we have the perfect story for you about Fortnite: Fortnite: 21-year-old Twitch streamer buys a Porsche for €200,000 as payment for the “hardest year” of his life
- The loot in chests has been improved – especially in cases where you previously had to fight enemies or solve puzzles.
- Explosive rollers have left their caves and can now be encountered in the desert. This way, you should have an easier time obtaining explosion cores.
- Speaking of caves: Some now have monsters lurking around – so be careful in there!
- Hermit crabs now attack villagers, who can fight back!
- You can now get rid of unwanted items – like the pickaxes of skeletons 😉 – by throwing them into a campfire.
- We have added a legend to the map showing the respawn and backpack positions of players.
More skins now receive styles:
- Ahsoka Tano
- Finn
- Jack Skellington
- Loki Laufeyson
- Scarlet Witch
- Spider-Man
- Star-Lord Outfit
- Thanos
- Wolverine
- Cosmic Infinity
- Heartbreaker
- Ex
- FFC Spark Plug Artist
- Khari
- Love Ranger
- Skully
- Snowpaw
- Stoneheart
All adjustments at a glance:
- You can now eat while moving!
- You no longer automatically pick up tools (and no longer fill your inventory with unwanted items).
- Crossbow arrows now fly slightly slower and on a more natural trajectory.
- The ability to ping locations in the game world has been added.
- Items are now stacked when stored in chests. This works even when you drag them into chests and when you use “Quick Deposit”.
- Who’s there? Villagers can now open doors.
- To better fit into their environment, rams have gained more stamina.
- You will now receive the resources from jets, balloons, switches, and wheels back when they are destroyed. (This only works for jets, balloons, switches, and wheels placed after this update. Already placed ones do not drop any resources.)
- Fried eggs are eaten faster.
- We have also adjusted the fried egg recipe and the effects of consuming it.
- The required number of eggs has been reduced from 2 to 1.
- The obtained saturation has been reduced from 8 to 5.
- The obtained hearts have been reduced from 5 to 4.
- We have also adjusted the fried egg recipe and the effects of consuming it.
- Consuming food with a weaker stamina regeneration buff no longer overrides an active stronger buff.
- A bug has been fixed where food did not provide the correct saturation amount in certain game languages.
- A bug has been fixed where players entering your world spawned far away from everyone else.
- A bug has been fixed where players sometimes spawned in or under buildings.
- You no longer spawn on caves if you left LEGO Fortnite while in one.
- The respawn button is now consistently functional.
- A rare bug has been fixed that prevented players from jumping after respawning.
- Chests are no longer displayed as floating in the air when you enter a world.
- Boulders no longer shift position when you enter a world.
- Destroyed workstations no longer sometimes reappear when you enter a world.
- Attacks now hit and damage enemies more consistently.
- Sheep, cows, and chickens no longer go over fences.
- Nearby creatures are no longer unintentionally eliminated when the player is eliminated.
- Items stored in chests are no longer sometimes invisible to other players.
- A bug has been fixed where some players could not discover the supply chest scheme as intended.
- Villagers now actually go about their “smelting furnace” work when assigned to it.
- The village square is no longer inadvertently destroyed when you destroy something nearby.
- A bug has been fixed where stations could lose their processed items during rain.
- A bug has been fixed where players in grassland areas near the drought valley or frostlands became too warm or too cold.
- A bug on mobile devices has been fixed where you could not eat after picking up a crate.
- A bug has been fixed where some cacti did not drop resources upon destruction.
- A bug has been fixed where you could not deal damage to certain tree stumps.
- When you start a new world, color bombers or cuddle agents will now follow you to the camp if you walk around the area. They will now also appear as intended every time you start a new world.
- Players will no longer be thrown too high when performing a jump attack on a geyser.
- A bug has been fixed where you could not sprint sometimes.
Stability and performance
- The frame rate when looking at water has been improved.
- A new message has been added stating that your world is being closed and restarted (if you leave a world too quickly and re-enter).
- Stability has been improved, reducing the likelihood of crashes.
- A bug has been fixed where players could get stuck on the loading screen when loading a world.
Physics
- Supply drops now fall in a more natural way and no longer get stuck in the air.
- Large structures are now more stable and collapse less easily.
- A bug has been fixed where large structures could fall through the ground and disappear when parts of them were destroyed.
- A bug has been fixed where dynamic foundations sometimes moved backward when pushed.
- A bug has been fixed where dynamic foundations could not be moved sometimes when re-entering your world.
- It no longer happens that dynamic foundations are out of sync for other players in the game world.
- A bug has been fixed where wheels moved away from their attachment point or disappeared when moving through the game world.
- When moving large distances with balloons and jets, parts no longer unintentionally break off.
- A bug has been fixed where moving objects wobbled and flung players away.
- Pushing objects like logs is now more predictable and the objects stutter less.
User interface
- You can now delete shared worlds from your “Shared Worlds” list.
- There is now a button that allows world owners to remove other players from their world and/or remove their keys.
- Several mobile device user interface screens have been adjusted to better layout the design and button sizes for touch control.
- More icons for using certain items have been added to the HUD on mobile devices.
- The “All Items” menu is now more accessible in sandbox mode.
- A problem with the village user interface has been resolved where the wrong village level was sometimes displayed.
All leaks for Patch 28.10
What’s happening today in Fortnite? Epic Games is taking down the servers for Chapter 5 Season 1 to upload a new update. According to some teasers from well-known YouTubers like Ali-A or SypherPK, famous Iconic skins are now getting LEGO variants (via x.com).
If you missed the trailer for Chapter 5 Season 1, here is the video:
Fortnite: Server Down – When and how long are they offline?
This is the morning downtime: The servers are expected to be taken down by Epic Games at 10:00 AM German time. Matchmaking has already been disabled 30 minutes prior, so you won’t be able to search for new rounds after 9:30 AM.
When can you play again? This is a larger update. It is therefore likely that Epic Games could get the servers back up around 12:00 or even 1:00 PM. But this is not confirmed.
When will the patch notes come? Epic Games usually releases a short list of patch notes on their site after the update. If that happens, we will list them here in a short and concise manner.
What content could be released with update 28.10?
Epic Games barely reveals any new information about upcoming content before a new update. However, this time it concerns a larger patch that has already been described by leakers (via x.com). Here’s what you can expect regarding adjustments:
- New cosmetic items
- Battle Pass Superstyles
- Unlocking Solid Snake and his items
- New shop tabs
- Possibly new collaborations
- Reality extensions may return
- Announcement of the Crew Packs for February
- and more!
If you are looking for something to read in the meantime, we have the perfect story for you about Fortnite: Fortnite: 21-year-old Twitch streamer buys a Porsche for €200,000 as payment for the “hardest year” of his life
