Players were supposed to be able to download Update 5.30 for Fortnite today. However, as Epic recently announced, that won’t be happening. The challenges for Week 7 will also come later. When will the patch and challenges be available this week?
Completing all weekly challenges in the currently ongoing Week 7 rewards players with the legendary Roadtrip skin, about which nothing is known yet. At the same time, Update 5.30 is supposed to fix a particularly annoying bug.
Traps no longer consistently deal damage and are useless in their current state. Videos of frustrated players giving up a victory at the last moment because their trap didn’t trigger are piling up on the game’s subreddit.
The Fortnite update is not coming today, but on Thursday
When is Update 5.30 coming? As Epic states on Reddit, Update 5.30 will be rolled out on Thursday, August 23. This is actually the day when the new challenges are released.
Week 7 challenges are coming on Friday
Even though the challenges for Week 7 are already known, you will have to wait until Friday, August 24, before you can dive into the fray to activate the legendary Roadtrip skin.
Why is everything delayed this week? In the last Season 4, the legendary Blockbuster skin was leaked two days before the challenges required to unlock it were made available. Epic seems to want to reduce data mining by at least one day.
However, it is also possible that Epic simply needs more time to fix bugs or is even searching for a way to completely suppress data mining, at least regarding such surprise skins.
What else will be new this week? An Epic employee dropped the following hint on Reddit:
Translated loosely, this means: Are you a mobile player? Always carry an escape route in your inventory with this new item in Fortnite: Battle Royale!
Is this a hint at a mobile Rift? Epic is aware of the popularity of the Rifts scattered across the map, which are likely to disappear with the end of Season 5 (similarly to the bounce pads in Season 4). Coincidentally, a concept for such a mobile and one-time use Rift has surfaced on Reddit a few days ago.
The likelihood is high that Epic will announce this new item in-game shortly.
What do you think? What is hiding behind the new item?
