Fortnite v9.30 Patch Notes Released Brings New Chug Splash, Removes Shotgun Swap Delay and More

As announced earlier today, Epic Games have now released the full patch notes for the latest Fortnite update which was scheduled to be available today. The new Fortnite v9.30 Patch Notes is now released and it brings a new item what the calls it as a tasty new beverage called Chug Splash. The new Chug Splash is a new item which you can use to get your health refresh as well as your allies too. It can be used by throwing it on your allies or at your own place to get your yourself refreshed.

The latest Fortnite 9.30 also removes the Shotgun Swap Delay as well as reduces the Combat Shotgun’s long-range effectiveness by 10% to 20%. The update also removes the ability to ride Proximity Grenade Launcher projectiles. For mobile players, the latest Fortnite update 9.30 also brings tons of bug fixes, adjustments and several graphical improvements too.

Additionally, the latest Fortnite v9.30 update patch notes also bring a host of new Bug Fixes and Adjustments to the popular battle royal game. Below you can find the summarised version of the Fortnite 9.30 patch notes.

Fortnite 9.30 patch notes

WHAT’S NEW?

Chug Splash
Refresh yourself and allies with this tasty new beverage.

LIMITED TIME MODE ROTATION:

• Sniper Shootout Duos
  • Sniper rifles only. May the best aim win!
• Trios
  • Classic Battle Royale with Three-Person squads.
• Solid Gold Squads
  • Fight to the finish using Legendary weapons.

WEAPONS + ITEMS

• Chug Splash
  • On impact, this thrown item splashes liquid in a small area. All players within the splash radius will be instantly granted 20 Health/Shield.
    • Grants health unless you are full health, in which case it will grant Shield.
    • Chug Splash can heal allies, enemies, and can extend the duration of the ‘knocked’ state for knocked players.
  • Rare variant.
  • Drops in stacks of 2.
  • Max stack size: 6.
  • Can be found from Floor Loot, Chests, Vending Machines, Supply Drops, and Llamas.
• Shotgun Swap Delay Removed
  • Shotgun cooldowns now only apply when the player is carrying multiple shotguns, regardless of Shotgun type.
    • This is a Quality of Life change to prevent the swap delay system from interfering with players who do not have multiple shotguns in their inventory. As with all changes, we’ll be keeping a close eye on this and make adjustments if necessary.
• Reduced the Combat Shotgun’s long-range effectiveness
  • Reduced damage at medium distances by 10%
    • 2.44 tiles to 4.88 tiles
  • Reduced damage at long distances by 20%
    • 4.88 tiles to 9.76 tiles
  • The Combat Shotgun’s accuracy uniquely enables players to hit shots from longer distances compared to other shotguns. However, the damage at those longer ranges was a little higher than desired..
• Vaulted
  • Boom Bow
  • Dual Pistols
  • Dynamite
  • These Vaults are primarily targeted at adjusting the availability of explosives, putting them more in line with where we think they should be.
• Removed the ability to ride Proximity Grenade Launcher projectiles
  • Due to the faster speed of this projectile, it was causing problems with level streaming. You can still ride rockets launched from Rocket Launchers.
• Added short delay to start damaging players from Storm Flip on entry, to mimic normal Storm gameplay
• Added Storm Flip to Audio Visualizer when it is activated
• Toys no longer will show up in the elimination feed on Starter Island

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

• Players could shoot immediately after using a Rift to Go.
• Supply Drones would sometimes spawn underground in areas with water.
• Adjusted the area of around the Reboot Van that players cannot build to prevent the placement of floors and traps under the Van.
• The Proximity Grenade Launcher was auto reloading while aiming down sights.
  • This is fix makes it consistent with Snipers and will reload once unscoping or after next attempt to fire.
• Adjusted the timing for the effects of consumables to help situations where players would switch away from the consumable before it finished activating.
• Reboot Cards will no longer fall to the ground. They will remain where they spawn.
• Reboot Cards were remaining available on the map even after the timer had expired.
• Campfires could block explosion damage at specific angles.
• The Shadow Bomb double jump ability could be activated while under the effect of a Boogie Bomb.
• Boogie Bomb effects would continue playing on players while they were skydiving.
• Empty Shadow Bombs could not be discarded correctly if eliminated while the effect was active while in respawn game modes.
• Players that had a Rift to Go used on them at the same time they were being rebooted would sometimes not be put into the skydiving state.
• Storm Flip would deal incorrect damage if two were overlapped on each other.
• Storm Flip was able to stop a Supply Drop from falling
• Weapons were showing while using emotes while on a Driftboard

MOBILE

• Increased the size of the auto-pickup radius for items

Bug Fixes and Adjustments

• Graphical Improvements:
  • Lava textures were not appearing properly in the Floor of Lava Limited Time Mode on Android.
  • Resolved HLOD issues that were occurring at Loot Lake on Mobile.
  • Fixed the Quinjet Glider deploy animation on the Google Pixel 2.
  • The collar of the Instinct Outfit was clipping into the hood.
  • The Fiend Wrap and Turbulent Wraps were not displaying properly on certain Mobile devices.
  • The icon for the Wonder Outfit was displaying as pixels.
• The FPS counter was not being properly displayed in-game when enabled.
• While the map was opened, pressing anywhere outside of it was making that press count as if it was the joystick.
• The Cycle Weapons HUD Layouts weren’t visible after jumping from the Battle Bus
• Fixed an issue where the “Require Access to Contacts” prompts was appearing for Mobile players.
• Sound effects and music were not playing properly on the Moto Z2Force and HTC U11 devices.
• Reloading a Shotgun was being impeded when Tap Anywhere was active.
• Using a Bluetooth controller was assigning players to the incorrect matchmaking bucket.
• Player character models weren’t appearing after returning to the Lobby from the Item Shop.
• The Controller UI was appearing on screens even when a controller wasn’t connected.

You can check out the complete Fortnite 9.30 patch notes here.