The latest version of Fortnite has been updated to 7.3.0 bringing with it the new Chiller Grenade and the Limited Time Mode “Solid Gold,” along with bug fixes and performance improvements.
The Chiller Grenade serves as a defensive item as it slides players away from the blast. The Limited Time Mode “Solid Gold” has made all weapons spawn as Legendary and increased the amount of materials received from gathering.
You can read the patch notes for the Limited Time Mode, Chiller Grenade, and Switch related improvements below:
Limited Time Mode: Solid Gold
Summary
All things that glitter are gold in this Limited Time Mode! All weapon spawns are Legendary with increased material gathering. Drop in now and earn that Victory Royale.
Mode Details
- All weapon drops are Legendary.
- Increased amount of materials received from gathering.
Weapons + Items
- Chiller Grenade
- The Chiller Grenade will knock players back, causing them to slide along the ground.
- Allies, enemies, and vehicles hit with the Chiller Grenade will slip around with icy feet/wheels for a duration of 7 seconds.
- Drops in stacks of 3.
- Max stack size of 6.
- Common rarity.
- Can be found from Floor Loot and Vending Machines.
Performance
- Switch Optimization (Battle Royale + Creative)
- Moved to a more efficient memory allocator on Switch; significantly reducing crashes due to out of memory.
- Reduced hitches on Switch caused by garbage collection.
- Improved level streaming performance on Switch, speeding up building load times.
- Increased texture pool size on Switch by 100MB to reduce issues with blurry textures.
- GPU performance improvements for Switch – improved screen resolution.
- Doubled the limit for the number of cosmetics that can be displayed on the screen as we now have more free memory.
The full patch notes can be read here.
Excited to blast enemies away with the Chiller Grenade? How about fighting it out with Legendary Weapons in the new Solid Gold mode? Sound off in the comments.
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